Book Cover Reveal: 'The Boo Brothers'

A vintage Halloween Skeleton Decoration.

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Well, my newest book, “The Boo Brothers: Two Tales of Terror” is somewhere floating around in book limbo. However, my book cover illustration is here in completion. So I decided to do a cover reveal for you today.

I just submitted “The Boo Brothers . . .” this afternoon after going through all the technical procedures and setting it up using the Kindle Creator. Kindle Creator is a new free tool provided by Kindle Direct Publishing that makes it much easier to format your e-book for publication. Much easier, that is, if you know how to use it. Because this was my first time working with it, I was familiarising myself with it for the past two days. But even learning how to use it isn’t that tough compared to other types of software.

So, my book is at Amazon only not live. According to Amazon, it can take up to 72 hours for an e-book to appear in the Amazon store although most of the time that I’ve self-published a book it’s taken less. Either way, my book should be out in time to add to the rest of your good Halloween reads. So I suggest to keep checking Amazon between now and the 31st. You can also visit my Facebook page for updates and where I will definitely announce when “The Boo Brothers . . .” goes live on Amazon. (Kind of sounds like a pop concert, doesn’t it? But just remember, that’s “Boo Brothers” not “Blues Brothers”!)

And now the book cover reveal (illustration only) with synopsis . . .

Two boys trick-or-treating down a sidewalk--one in ghost costume and the other a semi-transparent ghost.

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Synopsis for "The Boo Brothers: Two Tales of Terror"

The Boo Brothers consists of two teen tales of terror. Appearing for the first time in book format is the title story: two boys steal a Halloween decoration from an old, mysterious mansion and pay the consequences. In the second story, "Coming Out", a high school kid discovers himself going through a second puberty and it sucks—blood! These tales come from the deepest fears of that isolated realm that lies between childhood and adulthood. They are sure to entertain with fright.

Let me know what you think in the box below or at my Facebook page. And if you drop by neither between now and the end of the month then I hope you have a happy, frightfully fun and safe Halloween!

Until next time . . .

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