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Credit: the blogger Halloween is upon us! And I've been busy doing writing-related projects in relation to the holiday. One is the Halloween edition of my free author's newsletter, "Night Creatures' Call" which is now out. Be sure to check your in-boxes if you haven't done so. If you're not subscribed the newsletter, you can do so here .    Also going on now through the Halloween/Day of the Dead weekend is a sale on my books! You'll find more about that below. But first, I just wanted to share with you a comment of mine to a YouTube video I watched a while back about the extensive commercialisation of Halloween. This time of year offers plenty of opportunity to make a sale (as with my discounted books listed below), but we must remember that the hallowday is primarily about the community, both living and dead.  Blogger's Response to Video,  'Halloween is Dying'   (I encourage you to watch the video at the link above to get a better understa...

James Earl Jones ("Star Wars", "The Lion King"), Jan. 17, 1932 - Sept. 9, 2024 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons I got a late start writing this post, so it will be a short one.  I don't really have a lot going on this week to talk about as far as any updates in my writing projects go. In science fiction news, James Earl Jones, who did the voices of  Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy and Mufusa in the original animated feature of "The Lion King", died on September 9th. He was 93. Mike Glyer down at his blog, File 770, has a short but nice article that pays tribute to him.  As of this writing, I'm almost done proofreading one story for my upcoming short fiction collection, " Bad Apps ".   I'm about two pages away from completing the proofreading which is mostly for grammar and mechanics. The other story I'm currently working on for the collection, I'm about halfway through in revising the main character. ...

Credit: Pixabay In my previous blog post , I had said the newsletter, “Night Creatures’ Call” would be coming out in another week. It's now been over a week in which I apologise for.  My explanations for the delay have been writer’s burnout and others. Much of those others are due to myself trying to cram several writing projects into a limited amount of time. That time is limited by not only my day job of four days a week, but by the two-hour public transit commute each way every day. Right now, I have three projects going on: my upcoming short story collection, "Bad Apps" ; my single short story book, "The Trespassers"; and of course, the newsletter.  For "Bad Apps", I'm currently working on two short stories both of which are in the revision process. For the single short story book, I'm in the process of adding an author's bio so I can send the manuscript out for formatting. For the newsletter, I had recently been working on the Book-In-...

Be a rebel, support indie authors!   Credit: Wikimedia Commons This is going to be a short post because it's Fourth of July weekend here in the US. So, for those of you who celebrate, I don't want to keep you from family outings and celebrations, including your communities' firework shows. Also, yesterday was a long one and I need a little bit of a break myself. But I wanted to make sure that you have another outlet to celebrate freedom and independence. That is, the freedom to read the works of independent authors, also known as self-published authors. So, be a revolutionary and shop for books by indie authors at Smashwords' July Summer/Winter Sale ! The sale includes both seasons because at this time of the year it's winter in the southern hemisphere and, being an online distribution centre for books, Smashwords caters to customers from all over the world.  Books from from 75% to 100% Off the Original Price Credit: Pixabay.com That said, I’ve discounted my books  ...