Friday, April 28, 2023

GOOD NEWS! VIDEO WATCHDOG DIGITAL SALES WORKING AGAIN

Since Donna's untimely passing last October, this website has been stumbling along in disabled order. I've been able to continue fulfilling physical orders, however - for reasons unknown - customers purchasing our digital goods were unable to open them.

A couple of months ago, I hired a service to identify and repair the problem - which required me to identify various affiliates I didn't know we had and the various usernames and passwords that Donna used to interface with them. This has taken an eternity to do. 

Today I was notified today that all of our known issues have finally been resolved.

To the best of my knowledge, I've refunded every PayPal order that reported inability to access and make use our digital products. Please let me know if you're still having any problems with the present set-up. I can be reached at tim@videowatchdog.com.


Monday, April 17, 2023

THE BOOK OF RENFIELD Returns... in a Newly Revised Edition


If that new RENFIELD comedy from Universal has left you pining for a more serious treatment of Bram Stoker's classic character, my 2005 novel THE BOOK OF RENFIELD: A GOSPEL OF DRACULA - which incorporates material from Stoker's DRACULA, making it technically the first-ever "mash-up" novel - is finally back in print, but in a form its readers have never before enjoyed.
Though the novel has always enjoyed a very high readers' rating at both Amazon and Goodreads, I've returned to the original text and corrected a number of things that didn't sit right with me, revising not only wording and language, but rearranging some content and also adding some passages I had deleted from the first edition. It's now a longer, smoother and, in my opinion, more satisfying telling of this terrifying and heart-wrenching story of how and why R. M. Renfield was chosen by Dracula to serve as his vanguard at Carfax Asylum.
In addition, I've written a lengthy Afterword that tells the story behind this book, and I'm proud to note that my friend STEPHEN R. BISSETTE has also contributed a most wonderful Foreword to the package.
This new edition is published by Riverdale Avenue Books, and as such it represents my reunion with publisher-editor LORI PERKINS, who was my literary agent for both this novel and my first, THROAT SPROCKETS. She tells me that the book's first-ever HARDCOVER printing will be available for ordering very shortly; however, the DIGITAL edition is available NOW through Amazon! (Here's the link.) An AUDIO BOOK edition, another first, is also forthcoming...