At 6 this Saturday evening, June 22nd, I’ll be discussing my books with Dr. Ashley Lawson at Alexandria on Main (Elkins, WV). Please join us! Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at Alexandria on Main’s website. $8 for adults, $5 for students. Get them now, and see you on Saturday!
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LITTLE ONE on sale for Kindle — 99c this week only
“The heart-racing mystery will keep readers wondering who to trust and how the story will end.” — Publishers Weekly
Kindle owners, rejoice: this week, my ghost thriller, Little One, is discounted on Amazon down to only 99 cents in the US and UK for a few days. That’s right, just one dollar for hours of snowy hauntings, delivered hot and ready to your Kindle. That’s cheaper even than the Dollar Tree these days!
So what are you waiting for? Click the book below to start reading today. And why not give me a follow over on Amazon?
These are tough times. We all need more scary books to get us through.
🌻 So turns the Yellow Carousel 🌻
It was a warm September evening in High Point, West Virginia, when Silas first saw the Yellow Carousel.
Early September is upon us—summer’s last gasp, anticipation of autumn, maturing sunflowers… And, for a certain retired surface miner and his wife, the Yellow Carousel’s arrival.
Though squash vine borers have decimated my wife’s acorn squashes, zucchinis, and delicatas this year (still holding out hope for a couple of pumpkins that look okay), it’s been a good year for the rest of the garden, including our sunflowers.
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Sunflowers are my favorite flowers. I’m big on Russian Mammoths, but we tried some new ones this year to add more color and variety in size. Can’t help smiling whenever I see them. How can those big, bright petals bring a person anything but joy?
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Say a giant sunflower-shaped carousel sprouts suddenly in your back yard. Weird, sure. But would you really think it such a bad thing? You can forgive a lonely old guy like Silas if he’s not overly wary when it happens to him. But beauty is often as dangerous as it is alluring.
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If you haven’t yet read my story “The Yellow Carousel” (Cosmic Horror Monthly #35, May 2023 – read online for free), September is the perfect time. Take it out on the back porch after work, while the evenings still have a touch of late summer heat. If you have a sunflower garden like me, plop your chair right there among their heavy heads nodding in the breeze. Maybe make yourself a cup of tea to sip as you read, to fight off that chill when the sun goes down behind the pines.
And if something strange appears in your lawn, or in the playground across the street, or your neighbor’s backyard…
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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Silas and Emma have settled into a quiet retirement in High Point, West Virginia. There’s nothing so peaceful as a September sunset painting the pines that edge their field. From this magic twilight emerges the Yellow Carousel, as if planted and grown just for Silas. Why shouldn’t he climb its sunflower petals and mount its undulating deer?
🌻 🦌 Read it now for free 🦌 🌻
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Preorder DEATHREALM: SPIRITS in paperback & ebook
Coming in October from Shortwave Publishing, Deathrealm: Spirits is a new horror anthology edited by Stephen Mark Rainey, who in the 80s and 90s brought horror fans the legendary Deathrealm magazine.
Continue readingRead “The Yellow Carousel” for FREE online at cosmichorrormonthly.com
Recently printed in issue #35 (May 2023) of CHM Magazine, “The Yellow Carousel” is now available on their website to read for free, to give folks a taste of the scrumptious fiction offered in their magazine: https://cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/the-yellow-carousel/
Continue readingTake a spin on the Yellow Carousel in CHM Magazine #35
Silas and Emma have settled into a quiet retirement in High Point, West Virginia. There’s nothing so peaceful as a September sunset painting the pines that edge their field. From this magic twilight emerges the Yellow Carousel, as if planted and grown just for Silas. Why shouldn’t he climb its sunflower petals and mount its undulating deer?
Join Silas’s and Emma’s encounter in my new short story “The Yellow Carousel,” out now in CHM Magazine #35.
Continue readingNew short story in Scare Street’s NIGHT TERRORS VOL. 21
My short story, “What Grows Underneath Ends in Silence,” is now available in Night Terrors Vol. 21, published by Scare Street. These seventeen stories are sure to get you in the mood for spooky season. Buy it now for Kindle or in paperback!
“It’s a major award!” WHEN THE WATCHER SHAKES wins 2021 WV IAP
Cool news! I won something!
My novel When the Watcher Shakes has won Indie Author Project’s 2021 Regional Adult Fiction Award for West Virginia.
My first novel highlighted in the October edition of Publishers Weekly Indie Spotlight
Publishers Weekly just released their Indie Spotlight for this October, featuring When the Watcher Shakes as one of their spooky books to read from indie authors.
Big thanks to Publishers Weekly Indie Spotlight for the shout-out! And click here to see the article to read about other Halloween-worthy books by indie authors like myself!
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Read this Amazon-bestselling ghost thriller for a dollar
I haven’t run a special on my books in a long time. I guess later is better than never…
So, here you go! I’ve slashed the Kindle version of Little One down to 99 cents in the US and UK for a few days!
Click here and buy now (US), or for my mates across the pond, click here for your 99p special.
If you like ghosts, creepy kids, houses in disrepair, and people stranded in a blizzards (you cold-hearted soul), you’ll love this haunted house novel, which in 2018 hit #1 in three different Amazon categories for Ghosts and Paranormal fiction, as well as climbing to #84 overall in the Kindle store. Since then, it’s accumulated over 130 ratings and reviews on Amazon, averaging 4.4 stars. Publishers Weekly gave it a great review, and if you can’t trust PW, really, who can you trust? Your Uncle Carl from Jersey? Yeah? Well, he likes it too, so I guess you’re out of excuses.
Hurry, though. This sale will only be around until, like next Tuesday or Wednesday or something. These discounts are always based on weird time zones that confuse me. If you’re gonna get this book, don’t put it off and trust me to know the exact day it returns to full price. Just get it now while it’s a dollar. You can’t even get a crummy gas station coffee for a buck anymore. This will last you much longer than that, and it won’t make you crap your pants while you’re on the highway. (Unless it makes you crap your pants in TERROR!!! OOooooOOoooOOooo!)
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