Well, I'm happy to say that we've sold out of our former special item, a VHS copy of the 1999 indie film I did with Leo Evans, Cafe Purgatory. Yep, all those babies are pretty much out of here now, so it's time to get some other wildly fantastic bargains going on this page.
    With that in mind, we present not one, not two, but three new offers. Consider it an overstock sale, even if what's overstocked isn't exactly a giant warehouse, but the bookshelf in my office that holds extra copies of my stuff. We've got a few too many copies of the following three tomes, so we're offering them at deep-discount prices.

    First, it's Old Fears, my debut horror novel, which I co-wrote with Ron Wolfe back in the early '80s. It went through a hardcover and paperback printing from a couple of New York heavyweight publishers, and then the acclaimed mystery-thriller novelist William Bernhardt (of the New York Times bestseller list and www.williambernhardt.com) came along and made it one of the three reprints he used to launch his publishing house, HAWK Publishing Group back in 1999. The edition offered here is the original HAWK trade paperback.

    The story of a man who returns to the town where he spent several summers as a youth, only to find that the fantastic things that scared him then are starting to come true, Old Fears was optioned by both Paramount Pictures and Wes Craven back in the day, and just got a new movie option from Brian Witten, a former vice president at Paramount with tons of pictures to his credit.

    The second offer involves a book the great exploitation-filmmaker David F. Friedman called "The best genre-movie book I ever read." It's Hot Schlock Horror, originally released in 1992, an in-depth look at more than 40 films from the drive-in-movie era of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, mixing in commentary, pressbook quotes, and interviews. From Lost Women to Satan's Black Wedding, The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave to the Wizard of Gore, Hot Schlock Horror is a wild celebration of lowest-common-denominator horror-exploitation cinema in one big 8 1/2 by 11-inch volume. This is the original 1992 printing, not a reprint.

    And finally, the perfect gift for anyone eyeing a career in the spotlight. It's by the legendary entertainment impresario Jim Halsey - with an assist by yours truly - and it's received accolades from all over. Titled How to Make It in the Music Business, it's chock-full of insider information and sage advice for singers, songwriters, musicians, bands, and those who - like Halsey, a man responsible for propelling the careers of such superstars as Roy Clark, Hank Thompson, the Judds, Reba McEntire, and the Oak Ridge Boys, whom he manages to this day - are attracted to the behind-the-scenes segment of the business. The principles of salesmanship and advertising Halsey reveals here can help just about anyone - he even had a dentist tell him how reading How to Make It in the Music Business helped him start a successful practice!

    How to Make it in the Music Business, published in 2000, is available as a 366-page hardcover book in dust jacket, or as a set of three CDs.

    If you'd like to avail yourself of any of these opportunities, here's what it'll cost you:

                        For Old Fears (retail price $13.95): $7.50

    Postage and handling is included in the price, regardless of how many books you buy.

    I also have a few copies of How to Make It in the Music Business without dust jackets, available for $10 each.

    If you would like to order through Paypal, please be my guest. Otherwise, send payment (personal checks are fine) to:

John Wooley

Box 133

Foyil, OK 74031

    And we'll get that order right out to you.

    Of course, any of these swell tomes will make delightful gifts, and the fact that you paid a reduced price for autographed copies will be our little secret. Be sure to let us know if you want the inscription personalized, or if you want no inscription at all (as we refer to it sometimes, "one of the rare un-autographed copies.")

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