PR: McFarland and Medallion to Publish Lamberson Books

Duane

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

McFARLAND AND MEDALLION TO PUBLISH LAMBERSON BOOKS
CONTACT: Greg Lamberson, glamberson@roardunner.com

April 1st, 2008 – Over the next seven months, Buffalo based author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson (Slime City) will see two books released by different publishers. First up is Cheap Scares! Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets, which McFarland & Company will publish in hardcover on June 29th. Then Medallion Press will publish Johnny Gruesome, his zombie novel, as a mass market trade paperback in the fall.

Cheap Scares! is a comprehensive look at low budget horror filmmaking and features in- depth interviews with filmmakers J.R. Bookwalter (The Dead Next Door), Roy Frumkes (Street Trash), Larry Fessenden (Habit), Brett Piper (Shock-O-Rama!), James Lorinz (Swirlee) and Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), as well as up and coming filmmakers Devi Snively (Trippin’), Justin Channell (Die and Let Live), Justin Wingenfeld (Skin Crawl) and screenwriter Robert Craig Sabin (Rex Miller’s Chaingaing).

“Cheap Scares! is a huge book,” says Lamberson. “I wanted it to be genuinely useful and inspiring to low budget filmmakers without misleading them about the reality of the current state of the marketplace for micro-budget films. There’s literally enough information in it for two books.” In addition to insights offered by Lamberson and his filmmaker subjects, the book features guidance by an entertainment attorney (Jerry Gold), a horror DVD distributor (Stephen Biro, president of Unearthed Films), and a marketing executive (Paige Davis from POP Cinema).

Lamberson’s second novel, Johnny Gruesome, about a murdered high school student who becomes a vengeance crazed zombie, is currently available as a Limited Edition hardcover from Bad Moon Books. Medallion Press will publish the novel as an affordable trade paperback which will be available in bookstores nationwide this October, with a new cover by popular tattooist Dan Plumley.

“Medallion is really behind Johnny Gruesome,” Lamberson says. “This is probably the first time that a company with a significant marketing budget has pushed one of my projects. Their art department has gone all out in creating an interior design for this book that will floor horror fans. More important, for the first time readers will be able to walk into almost any bookstore and buy one of my novels.”

Medallion will debut Johnny Gruesome at BookExpo America, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center May 29th – June 1st, and Lamberson will appear as one of the publisher’s featured authors. Medallion will also publish Lamberson’s first novel, Personal Demons, as a mass market paperback in October, 2009.

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