A Box Set, A New Story and I'm Writing Again
Sep 07, 2024 5:01 pm
It's September!
That means fall and my favourite time of the year.
What's your favourite season?
First good news on the newsletter front, as I sorted things out with SendFox and got their restrictions lifted. I'm still sticking with one newsletter mailout schedule, though.
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Writer Updates
I am currently writing a new short story, an attempted submission piece for a Morgan le Fay themed anthology, and I'm back in my Camelot Immortals world. I don't know if I'll make the submission deadline, but things are going well so far.
It's also rekindled my interest in my Arthurian fantasy series. Those books were something I'd set aside after the disaster of a year that was 2022, but now I'm thinking of revisiting and finishing the series.
More good news!
It's done! Heyward and Andersen #4, Rivalry and Steam Monsters, is finished and back from the editor. Everything's on track for the October publishing date, probably October 10th.
Here's a little cover tease.
(Yes, that is a tentacle in the background)
And since the delivery of the newsletter has been so iffy these last few months, once again here is the blurb and link for The Headless Corpse, Heyward and Andersen #3, for anyone who may have missed the launch.
The dead are rising and walking away from mortuaries…before returning without their heads.
Tasked with investigating, dogged detectives Elspeth Heyward and Lars Andersen must uncover the sinister culprit reanimating the newly deceased and locate the still missing bodies.
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Saga of the Outer Islands Box Set!
It is uploaded and available in my Lemon Squeezy store and on StoryOrigin!
In the Outer Islands, gods and magic rule the ocean.
Come join Captain Rafe Morrow and his crew as they battle ghosts, gods, and sea monster in this complete trilogy of the high seas fantasy adventure. Included is the bonus prequel short story.
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Inside the Book
This month's tidbit is that the story, When Gods Roar (from Visions and Nightmares), was inspired by the noise of an airplane overhead when I was washing dishes. That's the opening scene in the story; a great roaring noise shattering the silence as the main character is washing dishes. Only in her case, it was a monster and not an airplane.
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The Shadows and Ink Podcast
Episode 8 has aired with author Loren Roads and I talking about cemeteries.
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Books To Browse
HorrorReadersList August Sale
Ends October 1st
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HORROR
Necrow by Querus Abuttu
After several days of torrential rains, Chief of Police Judith Ware joins forces with a minister, a physician, a bookstore owner, and a paranormal celebrity to solve the mystery of what is desecrating women’s graves and killing the men in the town.
Overhead, clouds of crows fly in the air while a demonic power grows underground.
Cut off from everything else around them, Chief Ware races to save the town and her two daughters from certain death from an ancient evil before the crow moon rises!
The Residency by Kayla Frederick
1 art residency.
1 chance to leave alive.
Art is pain. Or so they say.
As a struggling artist in New York City, Ira is desperate to get her shot at the big time. When an invitation to a week long art residency on a private island in the Bahamas drops in her inbox, she leaps at the chance.
But something is off about Turquoise Bay and its owner, The Curator.
When Ira and seven other artists end up locked in an underground bunker, the only way out is to play the Curator's games.
Will they survive?
Or will they die for their art?
For fans of Puzzle House and the Saw franchise
Tales of the Doomed by Len M. Ruth
Fourteen tales of suffering and death!
In this collection of nightmares made real, schoolboys tricked by nefarious priests, handsome hipsters drawn in by foul temptresses, and telemarketers coming to grips with damnation remain eternally bound in blood and ink. Dip your head below the wet-slick oily surface of reality and travel with this cast of characters for whom there is no hope.
The Abduction of Philips Corners, Maryland by Troy Young
What happens when a town just disappears?
Simon, fresh from an encounter with a servant of an Outer God, takes some much-needed R&R. However, he finds he can never escape The Other when he discovers something strange in a small town.
A cosmic horror short.
FANTASY
Upon A Kingdom's Breath (Return to Folengower Book 3) by Candy D. Mitchell
Amidst the sea of bloodshed, hope dwindles, but Folengower’s fate lies in the hands of those willing to rise above the darkness and fight for unity even in the most harrowing of times. Will Theodore and his allies have the strength and resolve to shape the future of their world, or will the relentless tides of war wash away all they hold dear?
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That's it for this edition. And I'll return next month with more goodies.
