Trailing its fingers across your window late at night comes… CINDER… the book trailer!It’s not scary. Honest. WARNING: This trailer contains flashing images CINDER is available in ebook and print at Click to rate this post!
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CINDER – cover reveal
As promised, below is the cover for CINDER. If you haven’t read the preview yet, then you can do so here. I had two ideas for the cover. I went with this one. The other was a moth that spread across the front and back covers. …
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CINDER – book release
CINDER is a short story of around 8,000 words that I wrote over the past few months. Yes, I wrote that slowly. The tale itself is one of ghostly horror, although I don’t consider it to be horrific. I often find that our senses have …
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Saturday, October 31st, 2015 Dear Diary,I dug deep with the knife, tore out their innards, and carved strange symbols upon their skin… I will cook and eat the guts later. Pumpkins and shadows… my favourite! These pumpkins were given to me by someone from the village (to …
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“Beware!” – a poem from the novella “A Bump in the Night”
This is the poem that comes from the soon to be released novella, A Bump in the Night. Originally, I had intended to release the novella for Halloween. The fact that living in a rural part of the world that exists outside of the US means that …
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13 Monsters (a movie list of bits and pieces)
Monster. The word conjures a multitude of horrors. The original Latin word, monstrum, could also refer to portent or warning. Perhaps that is what they are. We use them to drive home warnings. We have done so throughout history, in song and tale. A classic …
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13 Ghosts (a movie list of ‘clear’ quality)
Never is a season more apt than this for walking hand in hand with the dead. As evening draws close and dying light plays upon withered leaf and branch, we are able, for but a breath, to peer into the realms after and see there …
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Faces of Winter Coming
Here are a few pumpkin carvings that I did for Halloween a week or so past. I would have posted them earlier, but the lack of internet access meant they had to sit and wait.
Nothing at all to do with the release of my book, but pleasant all the same… enjoy.
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Dark and Stormy
“It was a dark and stormy night…” Damn. That’s not right. “It was a dark and stormy morning…” Better. I awoke to find that the heavens had given up the ghost and emptied the left over bath water from an exceptionally dry and muggy summer. …
Read MoreSketches from the Dead Man’s Hand
No news on any publishers or agents with regards to my book. I have been editing my old short stories and have gotten over half of them done so far. Just another ten or so still to do. With Halloween coming up next week I …
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