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Tag Archives: Horror
Bookshelf: It Came from the Great Salt Lake
Anthologies generally don’t make a writer lots of money. Instead, their best functions are networking, marketing, and validation. Participation in an anthology introduces you to the writers and editors involved. It can also introduce your work to the readers of other … Continue reading
Twisted
The Victorians took photographs of the recently dead. Dressed ’em up nice, posed ’em on chairs or in coffins or surrounded by the living. That fact plays a role in Michaelbrent Collings’s most recent, Twisted. And it’s the least creepy … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Chain of Evil
I sat down with a .pdf copy of this book, annotation functions turned on, intending to highlight the tidbits I imagined I’d glean from Dr. Collings. Collings is, after all, a master of the horror genre as novelist, as commentator, as poet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalypses, Chain of Evil, Horror, Michael R. Collings, Vampires, Werewolves
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Free Books!
Today and tomorrow (August 1 and 2), I’m at Salt City Steamfest, doing convention stuff. To celebrate, today and tomorrow, I’m giving away free ebooks. Liahona is part the first of City of the Saints, my western steampunk … Continue reading
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Tagged City of the Saints, Free Books, Hellhound on My Trail, Horror, Liahona, Rock Band Fights Evil, Salt City Steamfest, Steampunk
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Exacting Essence
My friend James Wymore has a new book out. It’s called Exacting Essence, and it’s a YA adventure-horror tale in which James tackles the most evil force the universe has ever known. That’s right: clowns. To celebrate Exacting Essence, James, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clowns, Exacting Essence, Fantasy, Horror, James Wymore, Steampunk, YA
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SPACE ELDRITCH
BOOK BOMB! Howard Tayler breaks out of comic space opera and writes horror. Michael Collings throws his visions of terror into outer space space. Brad Torgerson and Carter Reid combine to create something darker than the sum of their parts. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthology, Book Bomb, Book Launch, Horror, Lovecraft, Science Fiction, Space Eldritch, Space Opera
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Rock Band Fights Evil
So I’ve been working on this project for several weeks now, which makes this “launch announcement” strangely timed. Still, the project now has mass and momentum, and I want to formally announce it. Rock Band Fights Evil is my pulp … Continue reading
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Tagged Hellhound on My Trail, Horror, Pulp Fiction, Rock Band Fights Evil, Serials, Snake Handlin' Man
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Writing to the Punchline (Bonuses: Horror and Dialect!)
The thing had eyes now, one in its forehead and one in its cheek, each formed by a dull silver Pennsylvania shilling and each spluttering and emitting a foul yellow smoke as the silver burned its way into the clay … Continue reading
Posted in How to Write, Writing Sample
Tagged Clay Monsters, Dialect, Horror, Witchy Eye, Writing Visually
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