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Blog postTired of starting your sentences with the same word over and over? Today I’ve got 8 tips that can help your writing.
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Blog postMy short horror story “Ten-Year Photo” is now live on The NoSleep Podcast! You can follow the link below to the streaming page on NoSleep’s website (story starts at 25:50 mark): https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s15/15×23
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“A page-turning tale of Faustian bargains.” —Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger
A TOWN DIVIDED. A DEMON MADE WHOLE.
When rock guitarist Ash Hudson suffers a career-ending hand injury, she seeks out the only thing that can heal it--her hometown's darkest secret.
For decades the residents of Hollow Hills, Pennsylvania, have offered their diseased and injured body parts to a creek demon named Snare. In return, Snare rewards its Traders with healthy replacement parts. There's only one catch: if Traders leave town, their new parts vanish forever.
Ash wants a new hand, but living in Hollow Hills isn't an option. Not when her band is one gig away from hitting the big time. Desperate, she bargains with Snare, promising to help the demon complete its organ collection in exchange for both a new hand and the freedom for everyone to leave town.
As her band's show rapidly approaches, Ash teams up with her estranged father in a last-ditch effort to recruit new Traders. But not everyone trusts Snare's offer, and Ash soon learns how far her neighbors will go to protect their precious parts.
With her family in danger and her band waiting, Ash must find a way to help Snare. But even if she succeeds, there's no telling what Snare plans to do with everyone's bad parts.
Fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, and Blake Crouch won't want to miss this gritty, fast-paced, supernatural thriller.
Grab your copy of Bad Parts and start reading today!
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BAD PARTS:
“Bad Parts asks the intriguing question, ‘What would you give up to make your body whole again? Can you put a price on your dreams?’ A page-turning tale of Faustian bargains, bad choices, and hard lessons.” —Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger
“A non-stop thrill ride! The twists keep coming tighter and darker as the novel races toward its grisly, unexpected, and thoroughly satisfying finish.” —John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and The Devil’s Equinox
“One of the most original horror novels in recent years. It reads like Needful Things if it had been written by Richard Laymon.” —Tom Deady, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Haven
“This heavy metal love song about a deal with a unique kind of devil hits all the right notes as it flies by. McNulty delivers a tight, high-octane small town horror story that will literally grip you from beginning to end. It’s everything you want: an awesome book featuring unforgettable characters and plot twists by a must-read new author.” —Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Grave Markings
“Brandon McNulty is a master of his craft.
“The entertainment value, and the hints of even greater revelations about the past of the iconic characters, and the world, make me very interested in how Howard Andrew Jones continues the story.”
— TOR
“Kaaron Warren proves that horror fiction can do more than just deliver disturbing imagery and violence. It can also compel us to confront our own assumptions and moral principles, to look outside the ordinary.” — LOCUS
“Lancelot Schaubert’s words have an immediacy, a potency, an intimacy that grab the reader by the collar and say, ‘Listen, this is important!’ Probing the bones and gristle of humanity, Lancelot’s subjects challenge, but also offer insights into redemption if only we will stop and pay attention.”
— Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl
ABOUT:
Once more, my friends and colleagues and I have banded together to compose literature connecting astronomy and mythology: to write Of Gods & Globes II. Each one of us chose a name that connected astronomy (science fiction) and mythology (fantasy) such as “Janus” and wrote forth.
But why on Earth — or off Earth — would we do such a thing?
Well for starters, in his introduction to Bernard Silvestrus’s Cosmographia, Winthrop Wetherbee III (which, let’s be honest, is a doozy of a name but PERFECT for anyone destined to study and teach Latin) said that the thinkers of the classical and middle ages offered up:
The idea the events of earthly life were governed and predetermined by the orderly disposition and activity of the heavenly bodies and could, in part, be foreknown through the careful analysis of celestial phenomena… Adelhard of Bath, in the De eodem et diverso, extols the power of the Arts to guide the soul in its earthly journey; they teach her to recognize her special relation to the rest of creation, to know the nature and intuit the divine pattern of the universe. For the soul’s basic affinity is with the divine rationes of things…
Man, like the universe, lives and moves through the interplay of rational and irrational forces… which evokes preoccupation with the archetypal implications of myth and the themes of classic literature.
We had such a successful launch last time that we decided to come together and write even more stories around this theme. We have continuations on a couple of new universes, hilarious new additions, heartbreaking horror stories, and flirtatious little romps.
In the spirit of drawing on themes of myth and classic literature and of the tidal influence of the constellations, I rounded up sci-fi and fantasy writers to write about cosmic influence. The fantasy writers took a more mythological approach, speaking of the symbolic (or perhaps godly) Mercury and Mars and Neptune. The sci-fi writers tell you what it’s like to live on Jupiter and Uranus. All of them, though, speak of the influence of what one writer called “the music of the spheres.” These are stories Of Gods and Globes. They’re quite the ride: I enjoy each of these stories differently. They made me laugh and cry and chilled me to the bone with terror and one of them made me long for a home that… well for a home I don’t think I’ve ever been to before.
Come fly with us. Let’s fly. Let’s fly away.
Or, if you prefer, to appeal from Sinatra to Sinatra:
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars.
The teenage daughter of a killer.
“Kevin thinks he’s a millionaire. This jar of pennies weighs a ton, so Kevin thinks he must be rich, but there’s no connection between weight and value. Kevin’s father is proof of that.”
What happens when Santa threatens to put Kevin on the naughty list?
A divorced dentist. A former prostitute. A retired cop. An escaped convict. The daughters of a drunk. These are just some of the characters who bare their souls in this issue of Spinetingler Magazine. How does unimaginable loss redefine a teenager’s life? What does it take for a mother who’s barely coping with life to learn to appreciate her son? What could cause fifty-year-old secrets to surface?
What truths will surface when our diverse cast of characters faces their defining moments? Join us on journeys fascinating and unforgettable.
Issues of Tomorrow explores the ultimate question of science fiction writers everywhere: what if? What if we had affordable faster than light drives? What if we had unlimited clean energy? What happens when a pivotal moment or idea changes the world? In this anthology, some of today's hottest indie authors tackle these what ifs with twenty short stories that address the fictional realities we are already beginning to experience. What if AIs became more creative than humans? What if robots could experience the feelings of love or despair? The future will soon be upon us. What if...?
Mia has plenty to be worried about but nothing to put her mind at ease. That is, until her mother sends her a package of Guatemalan worry dolls. According to legend, putting the dolls under your pillow at night can take your worries away. But when Mia tests them out, they take away more than just her nagging thoughts.
Ten horrific tales, including:
Servile Spirits to Invent by Julie Frost
Gull Tender by Ken Goldman
Worried About by Brandon McNulty
Anna Belle’s Return by Jay Seate
The Product by Bruce Memblatt
The Suicide Club Membership Drive by Stephen L. Antczak
Creekmore by Jeff Barr
Scarecrows and Devils by Kevin David Anderson
The Green Lady by Jay Caselberg
Under the Boardwalk by Robert Hart
Presented by DigitalFictionPub.com
"Nigh" by Eric Del Carlo
"The Endless Flickering Night" by Gary Emmette Chandler
"A Considerate Invasion" by Mark Patrick Lynch
"A Rather Different Sort of F-Bomb" by Marty Bonus
"Moving Past Legs" by Jamie Lackey
"Wruyian Sands" by Jessica Payseur
"Zombie Limbo Master" by Rosemary Claire Smith
"Worried About" by Brandon McNulty
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"Vines" by G. J. Brown