New Releases, yes I do release my own stories

Since August ends on Monday and this weekend is a holiday I decided I would release the three stories I had been holding onto.   Three different tales from three different series
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ETCI3OK Not Just Another Morning of Business, Guardians of the Gate City side story 1:  Sheldon is one of Harry’s friends, a dragon who deals in information.  He is not having a good morning.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ETP6812 Now and Forever (Mythos of Love, #3): Sometimes the pledge you make to your Lord is not what you expected
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ETCIRKU The Pest House, Death Walks Through 9: Pest houses are where they took those very contagious to get better or die but not everyone taken there were sick.

Now these are obviously only the most recent of each of these series.  I have really started to like writing in my series.  My tales are short so it helps keep me on track.

I have been spending the past week trying to come up with a new title for my upcoming horror stories.  While they are not as dark as more horror stories they are darker than my other stuff.  Most mental horror stories I guess.  I am hoping I can come up with something good.  I have tossed around things like Twists of the Mind or Dark Dreams but I will come out with something.  There are six tales in the works that will fall into this short stories series.  Yes more short stories in the works!

Making book covers on your own

As a independent writer I have to do a lot of what publishers used to do.  Years ago a writer got to just do the writing.  Editing, marketing and things like book covers and even book trailers was done by your publisher.  People who have read my posts in other places know that the two small press publishers I have did none of that for me.

The editing and marketing parts bothered me quite a bit as I can only do so much editing on my own and well marketing is a skill, a well paid one.  I have little to no idea how to market my work and I am very glad to those who have taken the plug to read my work.

Even more I have a huge thanks for those who have beta read some of my work and have pointed out where I need to fix something.  When you are a starting writer with no money you have to hope to have wonderful friends who can help you.

But one thing I have enjoyed is making covers for my work.  Many of the covers have come out of my photography hobby.  When you have a few thousand nature shots it is easy to find something that will work.  I keep searching the web for fun fonts and play around in photoshop to make them better.  While most of my covers don't have half naked images I think they are okay.

Now that I have started trying to do painting I thought I would try doing one of my short story covers as a painting.  I wrote a short called The Pest House, which is a Death Walks Through short story.  It is based out of a story I read on the Nashua, NH facebook group.  Pest houses were the places that people with contagious diseases were taken to back in the 1830s.  Most of them were places for them to go and die.  So it fit perfectly in my series.

Going through my little paintings (yes I do small paintings) I decided this painting just might work well for the cover for this tale of a ghost

So should I use this or not?  Any suggestions?

writting really is a full time job

Yup I keep forgetting this little blog...what with four over on wordpress and doing my writing I get behind.  So I am just a little too busy right?

I have a lot of new releases to talk about here though.  What with the Writer's Stuff anthology going live I am really happy

The Writers stuff anthology

The story I have in here is one of my Death Walks Through short stories and speaking of those i have another one that I put up for people to enjoy.

Under the Black Bridge This short story is set back home in Nashua...a fun little read.

I'm working hard on the new series, Myths of Love.  I decided that Knight Protector would be the first of those tales

The Knight Protector these are my more romantic fantasy tales.  I have another finished and ready for release next month and I am working on two more as you read this.  One is titled Now and Forever, a sad tale and the other is Singer of the Blood song.  My romances dont always have the happily ever after but there is love and romance and occasionally a bit of sex.

So with everything else i will try to remember to post over here too

I keep doing it! Forgetting to comment over here!

Well I will have to reorganize all my links so I can post here too!

I have been very busy since my last post back in January.  I put out Revenge finally.  For those of you reading this and not in the know that is the second book of the Saga of Loralil Greyfox.  The first book has been reviewed with a solid four star ranking so far.  People think that is it dark..and well yeah it is.  Revenge is also but in a different way.  I can only hope that the readers of Endings will be looking forward to reading the longer and better written sequel.

Yesterday I put up a new story in the Death Walks Through short story series.  The story is titled The Red Ghost Rides and it is a short short but still a fun retelling of an old American south western legend.  I hope people will look for it where ever they buy ebooks.  There will be a fifth story in that series up once I get my butt in gear and make a cover.

I have also made two new book trailers.  Endings can be found both on youtube like all my trailers and it is the first of my trailers up on viveo.  You can see it here.

https://vimeo.com/61005423

I am about halfway through my next novel. The Traveler is a lighter (for me) fantasy novel.  This one might just fit in the YA category, or so I hope.  After all that is a huge market right?

I have also started putting up my really short short stories over on Wattpad.  These will be freebies to let people see how I write.  The first one, In Space No One Can Hear You Scream, was written as part of a Halloween short story contest on amazon's Space station discussion group.  It was so much fun that I have written two more that will go up, you guessed it, when I make covers for them!.  I plan on posting a longer story too, A Bargain with Fur.  That is a retelling of a Japanese folk story inspired by a filk song I have.  While I could probably sell it I don't feel right doing so but I hope people will enjoy it.

Now I thought I had put Sins of the Father up on Wattpad but I was wrong.  That fan fiction greatest hits (for me) is up over on Goodreads.  Anyone who wants to reread (or read for the first time) my most popular story you can find it there.

Finished writing one on to the next

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