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  Credit: The author I know, I said last weekend that I would not be doing a blog post because I was taking the time off for Halloween. However, I had to let all you ghoul guys and ghoul gals know that my YA dual short story book of terror, "The Boo Brothers', is now available for purchase at Smashwords ! I also wanted to let you know that you can get it for free if you sign up for my newsletter, "Night Creatures' Call" ! I'm offering a coupon for a free copy of "Boo Brothers" in the October edition of the newsletter which is now out. If you want the free copy, I strongly suggest you sign up now because the offer ends  November 12, 2021! Synopsis:  The Boo Brothers consists of two teen tales of terror. These tales come from the deepest fears of that isolated realm that lies between childhood and adulthood. They are sure to entertain with fright. Now available at Smashwords ! Have a scary and safe Halloween! Until next time . . .  Credit: The blogge...

Credit: Pixabay Warning: This review may contain spoilers. It's the fourth weekend of the month and so time for another Book-To-Movie review! In a Book-To- Movie , we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. Tonight, we are reviewing H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "Dagon", and its movie adaptation. (That's right, Dagon-it!)  Like Poe, Lovecraft has become a pop literary icon for Halloween. When Halloween comes around as it is now, avid horror readers start recommending reads fitting for the season and many of Lovecraft's books and stories end up on the recommendation lists. Even Lovecraft himself published a Halloween poem that he wrote called "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" . Like Poe, his stories contained gothic settings such as secluded mansions and towns. Unlike a lot of Poe’s horror stories, the horror in Lovecraft’s was often from natural causes yet monstrously alien and so he combined science fiction elements with gothic horror o...

Credit: Pixabay I'm running late with the October issue of my author’s newsletter, “Night Creatures’ Call”. I've been loaded with getting the short story collection, "Bad Apps", together. I meant to release the collection this month but am going to have to push it to next month or maybe even December. There are still several more stories for it to put through critique and revise and I want to do a beta release of it as well. But it hasn't been so much the book that has put me behind in this month’s newsletter than myself.  October’s Issue of ‘Night Creatures’ Call’ I purposefully put off this month’s newsletter because I want to include in it an offer for a free book that I’ve already had out. But to do that, I have to publish the book to Smashwords because Amazon won’t let you offer discounts or free books if you don’t participate in their Kindle Select program in which I no longer participate. In order to participate in it you can’t have your books at Smashwords...

  It's the first Wednesday of the month and so that means it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG)  post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. My challenge this month has been the book of short fiction I've been currently working on. One of the stories I’ve been revising for it has been my most difficult yet since it involves parallel universes and quantum mechanics, an area of science that I’m not good at explaining. So having to revise and re-edit it several times has kept me at behind. I keep telling myself and everyone that it's going to be out in the next month. But when that next month comes I still have several of the book’s stories to revise. I will get it done though. Once I start something I really care about and I tell other people that I’m doing it for them I finish it.  The October 6 question is: In your writing, where do you draw the li...

Credit: Pixabay I've been behind on putting together my book of short fiction, "Bad Apps", but am seriously trying to make progress with it so I can release a collection of tales that everyone will enjoy. I've been trying to get it all done by this month and so in time for Halloween, but it’s requiring more work than I anticipated. I'm still revising one of the short stories that’s been my toughest ever and so I’ve been working on it for the last couple months. This story is in the latest stages of the revision process and so I’m almost done editing it. However, just yesterday, I changed the surname to one of my characters in honor of the late editor, Forrest J. Ackerman. Forrest “Forry” J. Ackerman So, who was Forrest J. Ackerman? Also known as “Forry” Ackerman, he was the editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine, a publication that ran from the 1950s, when he started it, to the 1980s (and it would be revived by other editors after that a few ti...