‘Circa Sixty Years Dead’ Now In Paperback!

Well, finally it’s here! “Circa Sixty Years Dead” is now in paperback format. If you’re like me, and prefer to read books in their physical forms instead of on a screen where you can’t even feel the pages that you are reading or where you can’t even put it on your (physical, not virtual) bookshelf to show your guests that you’ve read it, then now you can have the full literary experience of “Circa”.

To celebrate its print release, I’m offering the paperback edition of my short fiction story at a low price. After all the challenges and frustrations of navigating through self-publishing technology, it feels great to see that your book is available for purchase, let alone that it has been published—self-published at that. So I’m selling the print edition for the low price of $3.89! But this bargain won’t last long, so if you are interested in purchasing a copy or, better yet, several copies then head on over to Amazon now. In fact, as part of this celebration, I’m going to get a little narcissistic and take advantage of my own offer. Yes, I am going to purchase a copy myself!

Okay, part of the reason for doing that is that the Kindle Direct Publishing service does not offer author’s copies at a discount, unlike Create Space (which Amazon also owns) who I had self-published The Fool’sIllusion through a few years ago. If they did, then I’d probably only have to pay the same price as I would the e-book version which is 99 cents. So, we can take advantage of this offer together then!

If you do purchase and read “Circa”, please leave a review saying what you liked or didn’t like about it. Those reviews help us authors learn what we can do better in our next work to please you the readers and make our stories worth your time and money. If you are just tuning in for the first time here at the Fantastic Site, then take a look at the synopsis below to find out what “Circa Sixty Years Dead” is all about!

A book cover depicting a six-armed goddess statue with a decayed face.

Now Available in Print at Amazon!

Dr. John Jacobs is a young, eccentric archaeologist on an expedition in the Chinese-Indian border region. But then he sees a centuries-old statue of a goddess uncovered by a neighboring expedition. All he wants is to take a picture of it to forever capture its beauty. He could easily do it if it weren’t for those rigid, international regulations—regulations he is willing to go against. But Jacobs will soon find out that his own lust for the colossal artifact will result in a consequence more terrifying than any earthly penalty.

If you like Saturday matinee archaeological adventure or late night horror movies about cursed tombs and the undead, then you will like this tale by Steven Arellano Rose.

(From the back cover of “Circa Sixty Years Dead”, paperback edition)

Until next time . . .

Book-To-Movie: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat'

Credit: Wikimedia Commons It's another fourth Monday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie review! In a Book-To-Movie (BTM), we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. A few years back, we had a BTM for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and its movie adaptation. However, the movie we reviewed was actually a segment in Roger Corman’s anthology film, "Tales of Terror", which features three of Poe's short stories, including "Black Cat". And I'll tell you now, I liked that version far more than the version that we're going to review today which is the 1934 Universal adaptation starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. I like Corman's version better mostly because it stays more faithful to the original short story than Universal's does. However, even though Universal's "Black Cat", directed by Edgar Ulmer, strays (excuse the pun) far from Poe's short stor...

Book-To-Movie: ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’

Both the 1959 and the 2008 movies based on Jules Verne's novel, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", feature terrifying monsters such as the ones here in this illustration from an early edition of the book. Credit: Édouard Riou/ Wikimedia Commons Warning: This review may contain spoilers. As I said last post , I’ve postponed the month’s Book-To-Movie review from last week to this week. For those of you who are just tuning into this blog, a Book-To-Movie is when we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. And this weekend’s review is of Jules Verne’s novel, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and its movie adaptations. There have been several movies based on this novel that was originally published in Paris in 1864 (as “Voyage au Centre de la Terre”). However, most of them have been either made for TV or video. Because I believe movies are best when made for the big screen, I am going to review the theatrical films in which there have been two: the 195...

Book-To-Movie: Stephen King’s 'The Raft'

Credit: Pixabay.com It's the third Saturday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie ! In a Book-To-Movie we review a book and its movie adaptation. One of the reasons I as a horror fan don’t read a lot of Stephen King’s work is because most of it consists of novels that go more than 400 pages. I have a short attention span when it comes to reading, ironically since I consider myself an avid reader, and so I normally won’t read a work that is much more than the equivalent to a 350-page mass market paperback. The other reason why I don’t read a lot of King’s work is that, as literary scholars will tell you, a lot of his writing is poor. However, he does have some good writing in his works, especially his earlier stuff, including his short horror tales. So if I read anything by Stephen King it’s usually his short stories or novellas. One of his collections I’ve read is Skeleton Crew which includes some of his good, or at least...

A Far Out Fantastic Site

Search This Blog