Wednesday's Writing Update: Nightmare Ever After and Ten Tales available, plus a Halloween treat

 

Happy Halloween!!

I'm still catching up on things from my five-day weekend last week, but I'm almost there in time for NaNo tomorrow!

Nightmare Ever After and Spells: Ten Tales of Magic are both available!

 

A Horror Novella 

The Sequel to Once Upon a December Nightmare 

Almost ten years have passed since that fateful December night.

But the monster is hungry again.

As the killings start again New Haven, Virginia, FBI Agent Timothy “Tim” O’Conner sends for the lone survivor from the ’02 murders to help him catch a killer. Cassie Richards wants nothing to do with the monster that killed her friends or the agent’s investigation, but she can’t forget the night that has haunted her nightmares. She returns to Virginia in search for closure, but will she be able to catch and kill a legend in time? 

Some reviews of Nightmare Ever After: 

“Get ready for another terrifying ride as you turn pages to discover the killer’s identity and who he’ll pick as his next victim.” – Cher Green, author of Escape to Love  

“The mystery haunts the reader through the pages, slowly unveiling the horror. The story has a definite X-Files feel.” – Christine Rains, author of L’il Gal Al and the Zombies of Amarillo   

To Purchase: Amazon US / UK / DE / FR / ES / IT / JP  Smashwords  Nook  Kobo (forthcoming)  iTunes (forthcoming) 

Add on Goodreads

 

Ten fantasy stories by ten authors.

1. SYSTEM, MAGIC, SPIRIT by T.D. Edge
Will Ambrose betray his magic system just to save an idiot prince?

 2. OBSESSION by Pamela Turner
Some questions are best left unasked. 

3. LADY BARD by Cherie Reich
A love song may be the only cure for a cursed prince.

4. THE FINAL SPARK by CJ Burright
She couldn't afford to fail again.

5. ST JAKE OF THE FUNHOUSE by Douglas Kolacki
For Edward, the 'saint' part was the scariest.

6. BARNABAS by Jeff Hargett
Sixty years, Barnabas has searched for his magic. Will he finally find it in Matilda’s Magic Shop?

7. BY YOUR OWN FREE WILL by Rayne Hall
What price would you pay to get your heart's desire?

8. A MAGICAL MELODY by Ciara Ballintyne
In a world where magic is in the music, Avram must settle the score before it's too late.

9. BRAINS, SEX OR MONEY? by Tara Maya
What would you choose?

10. THE WHITE RAVEN'S FEATHER by David D. Levine
Ibude is a warm-weather wizard held hostage in a frozen land, but his troubles can still get worse.

Some of these stories have been previously published in books, magazines and ezines. 

To Purchase: Amazon US / UK  Smashwords 
It's forthcoming on Nook, iTunes, and Kobo! And if you would like to read and give an honest review, please let me know, and I can hook you up with a copy. 

For a special Halloween treat, I am offering free copies of Once Upon a December Nightmare. If you would like a free copy, then in the comments please answer this question: "What is your favorite part of Halloween?" Also leave an email or some way for me to contact you to send you a coupon code for a free copy. 

And can you believe November 1st is tomorrow? It's time for NaNoWriMo, and even though I'm rewriting a novel, I don't feel all that ready for it. So much left to do!

So are you participating in NaNo this year? Ready for it to be November? Are you doing anything special for Halloween? 

Gravity: The Complete Trilogy now available!

Hello, everyone! I have exciting news today. Gravity: The Complete Trilogy is now available. At the moment, it's only in ebook format, but I'm getting the print proof on Friday, so I hope to press "publish" on Monday after I've gone through the proof.

Ebook Cover

A Space Fantasy Collection including DEFYING GRAVITY, FIGHTING GRAVITY, and PULL OF GRAVITY

Three alien couples in three space fantasy novelettes fall in love in this complete trilogy.

A Persean and a Medusan crash land on a post-apocalyptic Earth and must escape their prison cells in DEFYING GRAVITY. An Earthling and an Aresian flee their vicious peoples and fight for the right to live and love in FIGHTING GRAVITY. A Cupidian and an Earthling can't ignore the pull of love while they battle to save their home in PULL OF GRAVITY.

Each print version includes information on how to get a free ebook of GRAVITY: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY. 

To Purchase the ebook version: Amazon US / UK / DE / FR / IT  / ES  Smashwords  Nook  Kobo 

Add on Goodreads, click here.

Print Cover

I will mentioned the print links as soon as it is available in print. Right now, the print version will only be available on Amazon, Amazon Europe, and CreateSpace. I considered doing the Extended Distribution, but it costs $25 and if you upload a new version of the book, then it's another $25 each time. Plus, I want the print book to be reasonably priced at $7.95, so that means I would get $0.17 per copy sold through Extended Distribution, so for now, I'll stick with what's free. 

The individual ebooks (Defying Gravity, Fighting Gravity, and Pull of Gravity) have also been updated to include their respective epilogues. If you purchased the copy for Smashwords, then I believe you just download a new copy. For Kindle copies, I'm notifying Amazon in hopes they will notify people who have purchased/downloaded copies that a new file has been added. I'm not sure what the other retailers do. If you have purchased the individual ebooks and want the newest version, please contact me and I'll send you a Smashwords coupon code to get the newest version.

Now Available - Stories for Sendai!

Today is our official release of Stories for Sendai. If you are planning to buy a copy, we would appreciate it if you did it today, so we can rush the Amazon charts. Click here to buy the paperback version (e-version forthcoming).

Plus, if you buy a copy, you can be entered in to win prizes. Click here to find out about it. Contest ends July 15th.

A description of this charity anthology: A collection of inspirational short stories loosely themed around the strength of the human spirit. All proceeds will be donated to GlobalGiving in aid of victims of the earthquake and tsunami. GlobalGiving will disburse the funds to relief organisations and emergency services on the ground, including International Medical Corps and Save the Children. But that's not all! Aside from raising funds to support aid efforts, we also hope that our combined messages of strength in the face of adversity, of silver linings in storm clouds, will shine a light in these dark times, providing a brief respite in a time of crisis.

The Contributing Authors and Their Stories: 

Population 1 by Philip Allen Loring

Water Child by Julie Christine

Obaachan by Davin Malasarn

The Children of Sendai  by Lorraine Leo

The Last Geisha by Bat-Ami Gordin

A Place to Start by Gale Massey

Kansai Oniisan by C.N. Nevets

The Memory Box by Heather Parker

Tommy's Legacy by J.C. Martin

It Just Seemed the Thing to Do by Roland D. Yeomans

Floating House in the Fleeting World by Kirsty Logan

Thread by Michelle Davidson Argyle

Folding Hope by Cherie Reich

After the Floods by Sushma Joshi

If My Parents Don't Love Me (I'll Go Live With My Rats) by Stephen Conley

Kartar Singh's Birthday by Damyanti Ghosh

Final Solution by Lucy Cripps

Moving the Mountain by Aron White

A View of Fujiyama by J.R. McRae

Messenger by Jake Henegan

Wednesday's Writing Update: Anthologies, Submissions, Vlog, Acceptance, and More

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

It seems like the past week was busy. First, look to your left on the blog. Yep, I have over 300 followers. Wow. Thank you. I'm so humbled by this. You see, I started the year out with less than 50, so I'm still trying to process having so many followers.

Second, I had two short stories come out this week.

The first one is "Folding Hope" in Stories for Sendai. The paperback version is now available on Amazon here. The Kindle version should be coming shortly. We're having the official launch on June 30^th, so if you are planning to purchase a copy—you really should...it's great—then purchase it on the 30^th, so we can increase the exposure of this anthology on Amazon. 

The second one is for my "Phantom Kisses," published under my pseudonym Cherie Wolfe. It's a paranormal erotic piece published by DFE Quarterly in their Erotica Quarterly, Vol. 1 Issue 3. To purchase a copy, you can click here. It will soon be on Amazon and other distributors soon. 

I submitted three short stories on Monday to various anthologies, and I have ideas for about three more I want to write and submit within the next month. Of course, I'll have short stories for Raven and the Writing Desk, which has my part II of our three-part story up now. 

Of those three short stories, I heard back from one Tuesday night. My horror story "Wishes" finally has a home! Wicked East Press accepted it for their Under the Stairs anthology. 

I'm working on Virtuoso again, but it's been slow going to find time. I have review books to read and review, questions to write for interviewees, and the general blog posts here and there and other things. I still hope to get a lot done this week and over the long holiday weekend. *crosses fingers* I will also pick up more editing assignments after the holiday weekend.

By the way, did you see my first vlog entry yesterday? If you did, what did you think? I know the sound/picture didn't mesh well, but we'll blame it on my webcam. I might eventually do another one. Also, if you don't have time to watch the entire thing, you can watch the first couple minutes and hear how I pronounce my name and the inspiration behind "Folding Hope."  

So, what has been going on with everyone else? Anything exciting? Mundane?