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Much to do...

So revision, revision, revision, and plenty of New. End of next week I’ll be releasing Godhead Fell, which I think will be a bucket of Fun, and getting the (hopefully) final version ready for my beta readers today. The cover is on its way, courtesy of Aaron Spadaro at Bifrost Designs, which should be all sorts of fantastic.

Other than that, it’s been work on For the Loss of a Rose, which is somewhere between fantasy quest, and post-apocalyptic cyberpunk dystopia, but not really either.

It makes sense.

I swear.

Just read it when I get it out.

I’ve been getting a craving for short fiction lately, too. Maybe I’ll write some more stuff for anthologies, or magazine submissions. The novella length work lately has been awesome, but there’s a appeal to working under ten thousand word that I’m developing a nostalgia for lately.

Things seem to be moving along now…

Things seem to be moving along now…

"The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs,..."

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…”

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Stephen King (via mylifethroughaplasticlens)

THIS. ALL OF THIS.

The first gets the reader’s attention, the second keeps them reading, and the last keeps them nervous after they’re done.