WHEN IN NOLA, TAKE A HAUNTED TOUR

   Few things are as much fun as a “haunted tour” in America’s most haunted city, New Orleans.  A quick check with TripAdvisor will show you that the largest, and sometimes most visible, ghost tours aren’t always the best.  For master story tellers, an easy pace, careful research and just plain fun, it’s hard to beat French Quarter Phantoms walking tours.  They offer a variety of tours and most begin at Flanagan’s Pub, 625 St Philip Street in the French Quarter. 

   Strange True Tours is another favorite, with great cemetery tours and a new bicycle tour. 

I’ll be returning to French Quarter Phantoms on Father’s Day, June 16, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. to sign books and I plan to take more tours with both companies while visiting New Orleans.

L'immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen to haunt New Orleans' Hotel Monteleone Next Month

The Hotel Monteleone is known for its ghosts and its writers, so it is hardly surprising that this hotel was picked  for the 2013 Horror Writers Convention, which, this year, is also incorporating the World Horror Convention. The  HWA/WHC weekend runs June 13-16, culminating with the gala presentation of the 26^th annual Bram Stoker Awards.

The Hotel Monteleone is designated as an official literary landmark by the Friends of the Library Association. Writers who often stayed at the hotel include Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemmingway.  John Grisham, Stephan Ambrose, Eudora Welty, Anne Rice and numerous other popular authors have also been guests.  Truman Capote once claimed (jokingly) to have been born there.   

According to the International Society of Paranormal Research, at least a dozen ghosts haunt the Monteleone, the best known of which is a child ghost who has been lingering in the hotel for over a century.  Just a mile down Royal Street from the haunted Lalaurie Mansion, Hotel Monteleone is the ideal setting for a meeting of horror writers, and I will be there daily at Table #5 (Nonius LLC  Press) in the dealers room (La Nouvelle Orleans West). Stop by and say hello.

L'immortalite is New Orleans' most haunting Easter legend and is available on Amazon and at better Indy stores, like Bucket of Blood in Chicago.

Heartfelt thanks to Marion Lavato http://sammythesupercat.blogspot.com/ for nominating this blog for the Reality Blog Award. 

 

Here are a few facts about me:

Resided in Duluth, MN, Milwaukee and West Allis, Wi, Boxborough and West Acton, MA and Tucson, AZ

Own two cats

You can't tell from my last name, but I'm mostly Irish

Am working full time for a mission society operating orphanages and projects for homeless, abused, abandoned and at-risk children

L'immortalité: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen is my first book

Spirituality is an important part of my life

Took 18 months doing the historical research New Orleans and the infamous house on Royal Street for my book

TV's Haunted Collector John Zaffis addsT R Heinan's L'immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen  to his collection

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Dark-John-Zaffis/dp/0595325092/ref=pd_cp_mov_0

http://www.amazon.com/LImmortalite-Madame-Lalaurie-Voodoo-Queen/dp/0615634710

Watch the new season of Haunted Collector.

Runaway sales at the Tucson Festial of Books

T.R. Heinan will be signing books this weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books, booth 158, and in June at the World Horror Convention in New Orleans, Table 5. http://www.amazon.com/T-R-Heinan/e/B009LEIE5E/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1