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February 3, 2019
Amazing things happen when you say YES
Writing a novel is an arduous task. Then you have to add marketing and publishing on top of that. I am writing two novels at the same time, this has become a common practice for me, plus I have the blog and the day job.
Yada-yada, you all know the drill.
I’ve also been asked to attempt some new tasks that were quite frankly, scary. I took a deep breath and said YES! I mean what’s the worst that can happen? It’ll turn out to be crap and we’ll all move on.
So what’s the task you ask?
October 22 2017, I was approached by my friend Lisa Crawford, she wanted to know if I would be interested in writing a 15 minute horror script for a film festival.
I’ve never written a script before, I don’t even know what that looks like. And I said, “I can try.”
I googled “HOW TO WRITE A SCRIPT” and then I wrote it.
On October 23 2017 I sent her the first draft, and she loved it.
Films, even short ones, take time. On Feb 1 2019, we had the first “unofficial” wrap party. The film is in editing and will soon be submitted to many festivals. That means I can’t share with you all – YET – but I can share the progress along the way.
A trailer will be coming soon, and then you all can watch out to see where it will be playing.
Now imagine if I said, “No, I can’t do that.” None of the above would exist.
It’s okay to try and fail, it’s not okay to be non-existent.
You can follow Death Game Film on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deathgamefilm/?tn-str=k*F
Twitter: https://twitter.com/deathgamefilm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deathgamefilm/?hl=en
You can also join the demon, where new postings list, calls for future stories will happen and more #Brimorie https://www.facebook.com/demonoftechnology/
DEATH THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT on google play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.technocannons.DeathGame
I must give shout out to my amazingly strong, beautiful, intelligent, and supportive friend Jackie. She has been beside me, there for me, and cheered me on from the start of my journey. Thank you xoxo
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What have you done that scared you but you did it anyway?
January 26, 2019
Writing and your health
Migraines – millions of us get them – there is NO writing for me during those.
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Oops you got the poops! There’ll be many pauses, but shouldn’t interfere with writing too much.
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The blues? Sometimes writing helps alleviate it, sometimes you can only curl up and hide away.
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A common cold – usually you can struggle on – perhaps a bit dopey on cough syrup – might lead to interesting stories.
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I have a virus ( not treatable with meds, lucky me) that is affecting my sinus’s/inner ear, so I get woozy and dizzy spells. Tons of fun! Therefore it’s taken me nearly two hours to write this simple blog. The novel’s going to be a blast this weekend, but I feel fine so I’ll write during the calm, and rest during the spins.
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How do you cope with illness and your writing? Push on or take a break?
Check out my books here: https://theresajcbs.wixsite.com/authorpage
January 19, 2019
Fake it til you make it…or so they say
As described in wiki:
“Fake it till you make it” is an English aphorism which suggests that by imitating confidence, competence, and an optimistic mindset, a person can realize those qualities in their real life.[1][2] It echoes the underlying principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as a means to enable a change in one’s behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_it_till_you_make_it
But what does it look like?
This From Dec 2015 – Nov 2018
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Novels
Cataclysm
Kept
The Used Novellas
Sudden Death
The Cimmerians
Wife N’ Death Anthologies
Shrouded Voices
Things only the darkness knows
My other friends & more stories
100 Word Horrors
A world unimagined Indie Writers Review Issue 13 Kids Books
The lonely leaf
Puddle jumping Poetry
Spewed thoughts Self-Help Writing 101
The price of all that!
Costs $7900.00 Earned $975.00
Working hard to get those tables to flip.
Plus the hours…
Mon – Fri 9-5 job. 7 days a week every waking moment writing.
I’m not looking to be famous, I only want to live my dream life:
Continue to be able to met author friends, to have the freedom for more book signings, for my books to be in the big box stores, and to spend my days doing everything I love – WRITING!
About author in Pic one, Lucy Lombos: http://www.lucylombos.com/
I’ll save up to be at Frightmare in 2019: http://frightmareinthefalls.com/guests/
Coming this winter : (so far)
What does your FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT look like? We feel less alone in the struggle when we share
January 11, 2019
2018’s Horror Paperbacks
This year has been a very… intense one.
Due to my job, amazing (thank you so much) authors have sent me the paperbacks of their books.
I love paperbacks, and I love these authors. I still haven’t finished them all though, but I will, I will
January 5, 2019
Why blog?
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It’s practice.
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A way to meet different people. Not everyone wants to read a novel
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Share Poetry
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Tell people about new releases, maybe they will want to read this one.
Share other authors successes
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Teach what you learn
https://authortheresajacobs.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/making-book-video-promos-2/
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Take a new path and share how you did it.
https://authortheresajacobs.wordpress.com/2018/01/28/box-store-book-signing-why-you-should-do-it/
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Share a short story
Be Mine.
Jane tucked her newly acquired decorating books against her hip as she fished into her purse for her car keys. A voice came out of the darkness, startling her. Jumping, she almost dropped the books and pulled them tighter to her side as she turned.
“Jeepers Harold, you scared me.” Jane shifted her hands under the books to spread some weight.
Harold’s voice was hushed and breathy as he slid out from between his Taurus and a cement pillar. “I’ve been reading those books about manifesting what you want. You know the Tim Robbins and Andrew Carnegie books.”
Jane curled her lip, even from three feet away she could smell stale tobacco on his clothes. “Yeah, and how’s that working out for you?”
“You’re here aren’t you.” His left eye twitched rapidly.
“What do you mean?” A chill danced up her spine. She felt her nipples harden under her bra and rounded her shoulders, now longing for the cable-knit sweater that she thought was too hot to wear.
Harold stood straight, his brown stained teeth too jumbled in his small mouth appearing rat like as they peeked between his dry lips. “I’ve been visualizing you and me together.” His worn Keds shuffled the dusty cement as he moved imperceptibly closer.
“Uh,” Jane took a step back and hugged the books up to her chest. She took a quick glance beyond Harold and into the gray depths of the cold parking garage, noticing now how cavernous it felt. “Sorry Harold,” she mimicked checking her watch, never truly taking her eyes off him, “I’m in a bit of …”
Suddenly a shadow rose from behind a sleek black SUV. A swift motion of darkness that blended with the rest.
The shadow moved so fast that Harold didn’t get to turn his head before the steel pipe connected with his temple. His arms flew straight out towards Jane, as though reaching for an embrace, his body lost control and tottered sideways.
Jane gasped. Her eyes widened, dropping her books, she turned to run. Her foot slipped on the smooth cement. She instinctively put out her arms to catch herself, but her fall was halted by an unseen force, and she found herself wrapped in a granite embrace.
Jane felt the heat of the man’s body penetrate her chilled skin. Trying to look back and see who it was that held her, she never got the chance. A giant hand blocked her mouth and nose, holding her head firmly forward.
Her lungs had not had time to fill from her fright, and she attempted to suck in air through a wall of thick skin. Jane wiggled, kicking at solid thighs.
A soft voice that did not match the monster, whispered, “You were not his to take.”
The humid breath caressed her ear, her body involuntarily shivered, and she wet herself, as the voice finished.
“You are mine, Jane.”
Whatever you can imagine you can share with the world. What are you waiting for get blogging!
December 29, 2018
Nonconformist or just bat-crap-crazy?
I don’t believe in New Years Eve!
Okay that’s that factually inaccurate. I know it happens, I see everyone celebrating, heck I’ve even been to many parties over the years. Though each time when midnight struck and people whooped and kissed, I’d be trying to find the best place to hide so I wouldn’t have to fake enjoying that moment.
I never got it.
I don’t follow any religion and time was invented by man to make life easier. So why do we need one night to be the catalyst to launch our changes?
If you want to lose weight, do it when you think it.
Want to work harder, work harder right now.
Need a major change in your life, what’s wrong with April or July?
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January 1st is no different that any other 1st of the month, it’s another day to pay bills, cook dinner, take out the trash. Alright, I do enjoy not having to work for the man because it’s a holiday, but that’s how I treat every holiday.
Social media makes these times hard on people with troubles, depression or losses, and it just annoys those like me. I’ve already had to play the happy wishes card. Dec 31 – Jan 1 will be the worst.
I play along because I’m polite, and I do care about peoples well-being, only I care EVERYDAY! Not just once a year.
Now that my peace has been spoken, you can still read all my books FREE, click below and enjoy!
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/theresajcbs
Facts if you want:
New years beginning
In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. As a date in the Gregorian calendar of Christendom, New Year’s Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus, which is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church.[2][3]
December 25, 2018
Find all my books FREE here for the Smashwords End of Year Sale! December 25, 2018 – January 1, 2019
Get your Free books here for a limited time from Dec 25th at 12:01 PST to Jan 1st 12:00 PST
Just add to your cart and check out is FREE – grab them all! And please be helpful and leave reviews.
THE USED
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/908671
[image error]607 people go missing every single day without a trace.
Jeremy Samuelson an ex Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent is one of them.
Four months after his mysterious disappearance, Jeremy reappears, but in his mind no time has passed.
The government fear another country had taken him to use against Canada. They worry he’s been implanted with a devious plan deep in his psyche, to active as needed. Through forced hypnosis he begins to remember things.
Strange otherworldly things, that neither himself or the government can believe, and other people. People who he remembers he cares about, and who he will need.
Jeremy sets off , against the governments wishes, to reunite his amnesic friends and bring back their memories, to prepare them for a fight to save the entire universe.
WIFE N’ DEATH
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/893826
I do have Free Codes for Wife N’ Death amazon -USA – comment if you want one.
[image error]THE DEAD LIVE ON
Angelica committed murder/suicide to end her troubles. What came next was worse than her tortured life. In purgatory, she is stalked by the one she killed with no way out.
Until one day, something beyond her control changes.
Crystal runs from her past to a new house, in a new town, in a nice neighborhood. She believes this will be the best new beginning for her little girl. Not long after moving, her daughter begins to act out of character and Crystal blames herself for the change.
Only Angelica knows the truth; that these women should not be in her house. Now she must find a way to stop what she started, to save the innocent and break her own bonds.
Or is it already too late?
THE CIMMERIANS
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/899016
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***Note special free short “The Followers” at the end of the book, approx eight pages. This story can be read before as a prologue, or after for fun.
When Emersyn fled the big city for a quieter life in the Midwest, she left all her troubles behind – or so she thought. She quickly discovers her quaint new home has a past of its own. Ten years prior a young woman killed herself inside the front door. Since that fateful day, the locals avoided the house. Not one to believe in the supernatural, Emersyn, along with a new friend, take it upon themselves to conduct a seance for answers.
They get much more than they bargained for when they awaken an ancient evil. The same evil that haunted the past resident.
Now they must scramble with little time to stop it. When Emersyn’s past comes back to haunt her, and innocent people get hurt, she has nowhere to turn. Until a police officer inserts himself into her life, together they will do what they can to put an end to the deadly shadows forever.
Can evil this powerful ever truly die?
KEPT
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/756993
[image error]THE HORROR OF ENTRAPMENT
Twelve massive ships leave the dying earth, heading into the great unknown, seeking new life among the stars.
One of the ships, GAIA, crashes on Kepler, which is already inhabited.
Now at the mercy of the alien race, the humans are held in an underground cavern. Would they still have gone knowing that they would be stripped of all humanity?
Under the constant eye of the aliens, a few men discover there may be a way out of the cavern.
But to where?
How will they escape and what will they encounter if they succeed?
CATACLYSM
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/596600
[image error]CREATURE FEATURE
A small Rocky Mountain community is plunged into fear when their sweet old librarian is found mutilated. She was alone in a locked apartment, with only her cat as a witness.
Her death is only the beginning.
It’s up to Chief Salinger to solve the crimes. With the help of a hot new reporter and some tough local kids, they discover something more terrifying than a murderer.
When the medical examiner cannot comprehend the state of the body, he ships it off to Vancouver for help. That triggers the Army to step in and take over.
Will Chief Salinger be able to save his town from a force beyond our comprehension?
Or will the Army destroy it to keep a secret from the world?
Are you afraid of who is locked in your house with you at night?
You should be.
SUDDEN DEATH
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/685316
[image error]CAMPY HORROR
Death.
There’s An App For That.
When James’ roommate vanishes, he begins to investigate.
After finding his friend’s phone, frozen, locked in a mysterious game loop, James elicits the help of fellow students to uncover the mystery.
They soon discover that this is no regular game.
What they find is more than a game. Much more
Whatever you do, don’t click ‘download now’, or you’ll be next.
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December 15, 2018
Street Lit Author’s Corner
Of course you have! And this wonderful project set up by some amazing people at the Patagonia, Arizona library are giving us authors this very opportunity. I joined in the summer, and it’s been a wonderful experience. You have nothing to lose. It’s free advertising, and you may gain a new fan or two. [image error]
Click below, check out their new blog, and join the fun!via The Project
December 8, 2018
SOCIAL MEDIA ANGST. SHORT & NOT SWEET
1. Groups that have a bazillion stupid rules. You can only post book sales Tues at midnight and blog Sunday before noon. Don’t post any links, only write in the thread. You can’t write in the thread, only in comments. Don’t share your new releases…
WHY?
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Do you have any clue what a writers schedule actually looks like?
Most of the time I don’t even know what day it is, never mind which group allows me to post when –
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2. OR when I post a blog link, or a link to a sale, or to a friends page and admin has to jump into the comments and say “tell us about your post instead of just dropping links.”
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I’m on this end of my computer saying, “SERIOUSLY!” The links tells you exactly what it is! So now I have to waste more time writing up a write up to a write up – yeah I said it and I’m sticking to it.
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3. Writer admins that non-stop comment about writing structure. They continue to insist that you can’t write without plotting and planning first. Many of them are down right insulting about it as well.
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Well guess what, unless you are going read my books, still insist I need structure and then offer to edit for FREE, I say shut-up! I have a way and you have a way and Jo-Bob has his way – so there are other ways. It’s called art for a reason.
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And I wont even get into the fake accounts or Perverts! We’ve all seen it and just don’t get the point.
Share your tales with us too.
December 2, 2018
Making book video promo’s
MIA from home page, so reblogging to see if it fixed the bug
When I first decided to make a “commercial” for my debut novel, I searched and searched for free options. I tried a few and found them lacking.
Then I discovered Animoto. I liked the ease of use and the amount of options to play with. However using for free left me with their branding. It wasn’t too obnoxious, but some people didn’t like it.
Over the last couple of years, they’ve taken away many of the best features, moving them to the paying only options, and it became harder to create a simple ad.
Some great people in a writers club told me the Windows Movie Maker was good, and watermark free!
I checked it out, it did cost me $40.00 – but that’s for life. Which is worth it in the grand plan of becoming a famous author.
I’ve made many commercials over the past couple of months and…
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