Horror Book Fair and 'Bad Apps' Bookmarks

I apologise for having to skip the Book-To-Movie review again this month. Having published "Bad Apps" and now preparing it for print has been keeping me busier than I thought. I've also been doing some promotion swag work for "Bad Apps": bookmarks. I spent the previous week creating the bookmark and then getting it printed at a Kinkos in Davis (CA) near where I live. I had to cut the prints myself which wasn't very hard but altogether was time consuming.

The promotional bookmark for my new book of short stories, "Bad Apps".

I would have left the bookmarks for another time, but I wanted to distribute them at the first Sinister Horror Book Fair which occurred Sunday at a Scottish Rite centre near Sacramento State University. This book fair was put on by the same people who do Sinister Creature Con, a horror movie and TV convention that occurs twice a year. It was the first book fair they did and it seemed to do really well and I hope they'll do it again next year. The horror genre needs more of a book culture these days since it's seemed to be dominated by the film and TV industry (especially streaming TV) for the past decade if not more.

Sinister Horror Book Fair had a lot to offer. There were mostly venders selling their books, of course, many of whom were authors themselves and indie ones at that. I myself didn't have a table for my books because I didn't find out about the event until late. There were several subgenres of horror fiction, including steam punk noir and Western horror, and there were also dark fantasy works. Besides, books, there were crafters who sold their dark-themed jewelry and artwork, and there was even a movie production company, In Media Productions, promoting their feature film-in-the-making--"The Whistle". Their short film that they're developing it from is currently available to watch free at YouTube. 

I recently put in the order for a printable version of the illustration for "Bad Apps"'s book cover. While that's being worked on, I'll be getting the manuscript ready for it's print publication which I'm aiming to release bu mid October. I'll keep everyone updated on that at my Facebook page. 

Be here next Wednesday for another Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop! 

"Bad Apps" is a collection of techno-horror short stories that encounter mobile device apps that are strange, sinister, and deadly. Many of these stories deal with the weirdly scientific, while others go right to the brink of the supernatural. Some blur the lines between reality and virtual reality, others feature handheld devices that connect to parallel universes and alternate timelines. 

A young woman discovers that her computer’s search engine is reading her mind. A teenager downloads to his phone a voodoo doll app and uses it against his enemies. A streaming music video conjures up a demon. These and the many other techno-terror tales in this book show the nightmarish consequences of when technology goes too far on both the programmer's end and the user's.

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