Latest Newsletter; Halloween BOOk Discounts; Zombie Fest

A cartoon depicting three old witches carving pumpkins.

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I apologise for posting so late. I was busy all weekend putting together the Halloween edition of "Night Creatures' Call", my free author's newsletter. If you're not subscribed to it, then you can do so here. In the newsletter, I talk about writing project details that normally are not discussed here. I also offer discounts on books that you'll often be the first to know about like the case has been with the latest edition of the newsletter with my current subscribers. Speaking about discounts, I was busy putting together those as well. Afterall, it's my Halloween treat to you! So, be sure to check that out below. But first, some highlights of a zombie fest that I attended over the weekend.

Davis Zombie Bike Parade

This past Sunday, I attended the Zombie Bike Parade in Davis California, home to UC Davis. In its sixth year, one of the event's hosts was the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Davis, a lodge chapter. Although I didn't make it in time for the parade itself, I saw some really neat stuff at the booths located at the parade's starting/ending point. There was a bat booth where some really nice bat conservationists exhibited their live bats. They even had a genuine bat skeleton on display. A DJ played electronica from inside of an giant octopus, an inflatable one that is.

Then there was the Yolo County Library Davis Branch's booth run by three really friendly zombies (library reps in costume and makeup). At that booth they had a wheel of "misfortune", as I call it. However, it really was one of fortune. That is, it was one of the fortune of literacy! (No, there was no corpse or skeleton hanging from it, as much as that would've enhanced the living dead theme.) When I tried spinning the wheel, I struggled to pull down on an appendage to the frame that held the wheel, until one of the two bloody (literally, well, as far as fake blood goes) stopped me and said that I have to do it from the pegs. Dang, I hadn't realized that it had been that long since I've spun one of those things! Did I feel dumb! The prize it landed on was a book mark with a psychedelic design print that you can colour in. I don't do colouring books or sheets, but I can always use book marks!

There was also a zombie sky dive show, but, unfortunately, I wasn't able to stay for it . Here are some pictures of the fest:

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A photo of three young people dressed as zombies.

The Davis living dead librarians!

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Halloween Treat: BOOk Discounts!

Here's some Halloween discounts on my books, some that are marked down so low it's frightening!

From now through November 2, 2024, Day of the Dead, you can get my books for as much as 100 percent off the regular price! Yes, most of my ebooks will be free during that time, including my newest one, "The Trespassers"! "The Fool's Illusion" in ebook format is normally $4.99, but you can have it for nearly half that price! And the print version is marked down more than $3 dollars off the regular price of $9.24 (Amazon only)!

So, go to these links to take advantage of this ghoulish deal at participating online stores:

Circa Sixty Years Dead

The Boo Brothers: Two Tales of Terror

The Fool's Illusion

The Fool's Illusion (print version)

What Halloween events have you attended or will be attending this year?

Everybody have a safe, scary and Happy Halloween!

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...

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