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Treat the kids with these Halloween reads! Picture books, Chapter Books, and YA. Find their new favourite today.

It’s Halloween night, it’s dark and it’s spooky. The children of Shadewood School are dressed to scare. Dare you Follow the class on their Halloween parade? Jessica Witch loves helping her friends but sometimes magic doesn’t go quite to plan. Join Jessica and her friends as they puzzle, colour and play to fix the spells gone wrong

Horror short story tetralogy with values to learn. Spooky and fun, giving the readers absolute cliffhanger and entertainment! These thrilling tales of Filipino folklore will keep the readers involved in each scene and plot that will keep them want to know and read more.

All proceeds from Lucy Lombo’s books , aide a school foundation in the Philippines, to strengthen its reading program, (As well as any others from the Authors Site)https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Lazareto-Lucy-Lombos-ebook/dp/B094XT14C1/

Join Edward D’Ammage at his table for quite possibly the scariest dinner party you have ever had. Listen as he regales you with six tales of the macabre and the spooky, that are filled with humour, mirth and fantastic cooky illustrations. Join the genial host Edward D’Ammage of Interesting Tymes fame, as he invites you into his curiosity shop, where everything is paid for with a story.

Join Edward D’Ammage at his table for quite possibly the scariest dinner party you have ever had. Listen as he regales you with six tales of the macabre and the spooky, that are filled with humour, mirth and fantastic cooky illustrations.

When Niko and his friends go on a school trip to the Science Museum, they find more than anyone expected when they sneak into the closed Physics wing. A bizarre creature needs Niko’s help, sending him on a rescue mission across the city. Will Niko succeed in helping his new friend? Or is something more sinister going on?

BOWIE SUCKS
Being sixteen and in high school totally sucks.
But you know what sucks more? Being a freshly turned vampire. It’s hard trying to figure out my new immortal life while trying to maintain a social life.
So when my sire, Maksim, warns me about a new big bad in town, I have to change almost everything about my life.
Why can’t I just enjoy my friends and go to prom like every other girl?
Why does my family’s history have to ruin everything? Halloween kids host a get-together, to create their own haunted house. But they are unaware that a creeping stranger is watching them through the window. On All Hallow’s Eve… a night when supernatural entities roam free. Read ‘Hallowmas’ today! Charley Cooper’s social calendar is already full on her birthday weekend with the town’s annual Halloween Festival, her new scatter-brained owl familiar, and a cantankerous old ghost. She had hoped the latter would be the first and last spirit to haunt her, but she’s not that lucky.
Finding a body behind the library, she’s determined to find out what happened. But the new ghost isn’t much help as all he does is mutter about “pumpkins” and try to pull his hair out. Seventeen-year-old Josephine is used to new towns, the same bullies, and being a loner.
Until they move to Lilith Falls, where her world gets turned upside-down. Here she suspects a creature that can not possibly exist, just might. Throughout history, every witch, and warlock, has a Familiar—a spirit animal to guide and comfort them.
Hazel spends her days studying magic, and her nights with friends. Until one morning she wakes and her faithful Cat, Azriel, is missing. She soon discovers all the Familiars are gone.
Hazel and her friends turn the situation into an adventure, only to learn they no longer have magical powers. On a regular day this might not be a big deal, however, the disappearance of the spirit animals wakes a Dragon from its centuries long slumber.
As it breathes fire across the sky, they are all asking the same thing:
How can they fight a fire-breather without magic?
What happened to the Familiars?
Will they ever return?
Find out in the action-packed adventure; Unfamiliar Territory.

Horror reads for October

Brian has survived for ten years beyond the end of the world, but he’s not sure why. He’s not even sure if he cares anymore.
When the dead began strolling around and eating people, society was certain to collapse. Brian never realized how lonely a guy could be in a world with six billion hungry zombies hanging around. Or how empty a life of just surviving could be.
Meeting survivors in Brian’s world is dangerous. Living with survivors is almost suicidal. Zombies like large groups of people: the more, the merrier. Caring about people in Brian’s world is insane. How often can someone lose every person they’ve ever known or loved before they just quit trying?
When he hooks up with a new group of survivors, they all find a way to…well…survive together. After so many years, surviving is easy part. The real challenge: can they find a reason to live? To love? Can they find a reason to hope? Can they remember how to laugh when so much of the world is dark and despairing? Diabolique is a mashup up of horror fiction, bending the boundaries of indie horror with disturbing, grotesque features that leaves you only wanting more when it’s over. Take a devouring transformation, masked power, deranged surgeons, punk noir killers, supernatural and a touch of BDSM, toss it into your rib cage beside your heart and squeeze tightly. You’ll begin to perceive, partake and savor the stories within and gasp after each page. The debut collection from Scottish writer John Paul Fitch is a horrifying mix of cosmic measures, body horror and transgression fiction. Freddy Luccio was once a well respected artist in Hollywood. Whether it be for storyboards, posters, character designs, or logos, studios would often call on Freddy. But before long his luck changed. Lost, broke, and with nowhere else to go, he has no choice but to move back to his home town of Everett Falls, New York, to live with his aunt. Now in his late twenties, he is depressed and lonely and by all accounts, a failure. But he just might be the only person who can stop a brutal murderer. Valerie just arrived at Doctor’s hidden utopia for what was supposed to be a weekend of wellness.

A weekend of eating fruits straight from the farm. Of screaming hula hoop yoga and dynamic meditation to expel toxins Valerie knew were holding her back. A retreat where she’d attain the energy needed to return home and set new personal records at the gym. To land her dream job.

And of course, she’d finally have an appointment with Doctor, the naturopathic yogi guru who discovered the healing powers of drinking blood. He’d cured cancer. Leaky gut. Hashimoto’s thyroid and more.

But it turns out the blood-drinking wellness craze that swept the coasts isn’t too popular in rural Pennsylvania.

Get ready for sex, yoga, and blood.

Lots of Blood. Take a terrifying tour of the US in Scares Across America Vol 1. From women in white, to carnivorous clouds, and everything in between, this first volume of modern twists on local lore will have you itching to load up the car for your next road trip. Don’t forget to stop and try the local cuisine! Just don’t ask about the secret recipe…

A hair-obsessed serial killer…
A flesh-eating motorway pileup…
A grotesque holiday illness…

Forget what you think you know about the human body. In Rob Ulitski’s debut short story collection, get ready for a thrilling, gut-churning ride through death, disease and destruction.

Boasting thirteen unique stories and a whole host of brutal bodily afflictions, ‘Fleshed Out’ explores the fragility of flesh and blood, and the gruesome ways our bodies can twist, contort and transform into our worst nightmares. This 21-page collection of short horror and speculative stories is composed of seven 100-word drabbles, and four extremely short stories. Some stories within may include sexually explicate depictions, unwarranted sexual advances, death, disfigurement, and mental health. Or Scenes that some may find offensive.

If you post a photo of you holding up Composite, you will be entered in my Halloween raffle to the new illustration

5 top tips to start marketing your product like a PRO

TBM Horror Digital Marketing

You know I don’t like introductions because when I’m looking for a cake recipe and click on a link that says “cake recipe”…. give me the recipe! I’m sure I’m not alone.

So let’s dive in.

1. Quality

This one seems obvious, but you’d be surprise of how often I see graphics out there which are blurry or poorly edited, also blurbs and taglines with errors and typos. This pushes away any possible client or customer.

Nowadays, there are plenty of software apps that you can use, like Canva or Grammarly to make sure your texts and images look great. They all, normally, have a free plan, which may be more than enough for a good looking content.

2. Who are you talking to?

Know your audience. It’s not the same to adress an agent than a fantasy fan. Even, between genres, it’s different. Action looks adrenaline; fantasy looks for…

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Are you ready for cooler air, crunchy leaves and scares?

We are, with this new anthology coming Oct 24 2022 #FearForge

Presented by Horrorsmith Publishing the pages will be filled with this stellar line up of talent! Don’t miss out, get your pre-order and be prepared to be scared.

Not another free book!

Yup! I’m celebrating the last five days under the thumb of KDP by giving the world, The Cleaner (detective Gagon book 2), for free. From July 31 to Aug 4th get your copy.

Detective Gagon is called to the sewers of Toronto, an unusual location for a homicide. In less than 24hrs, another person is murdered miles away, inside their home. Both victim’s eyes were removed, connecting them regardless of the distance. Needing to focus on the case at hand, she’s distracted by secrets she’s keeping from her girlfriend, Dr. Krista Jones, Toronto’s lead coroner. Meanwhile, a young police cadet offers his help, and she gets him involved in a way that risks her own career. On a race to stop a serial killer, and desperately trying to help Dr. Jones shed her past, Gagon traps herself in a web of deceit. Overworked and stretched thin, ultimate choices have to be made before more people die.
Can she solve the case, help Dr. Jones, and keep her career intact?
Ride along with Detective Marcy Gagon and find out.

Keep up with all the news, updates and freebies on my site https://theresajcbs.wixsite.com/authorpage

Book Sale, under $2!

Summer sale on Smashwords. Available ebook formats: epub mobi pdf lrf pdb txt html.

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SPECTURES POSSESSIONDEMONSSCI FIGARGOYLES CHILDRENS

You can now find me being silly, giving advise, and sharing great reads on #TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@authortheresajcbs

Google Audio for readers and writers!

I recently learned about google play allowing authors to upload for audio FREE. So I thought I have nothing to lose, and I did it.

There was a small learning curve, not too bad. Upload your book in EPUB (you can convert free online if you need to) fill out the blurb, price, all the fun stuff and get your bank account verified.

Bingo-Bango 2 days later and I have two books on e-read google play, or audio! And for listeners they are set at $2 to $4 a book, depending on country. That is a massive discount compared to Amazons Audible.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=theresa%20jacobs&c=books

I plan on uploading all my books, slowly there is work to it, but why the heck not??? And because I can’t post video here, you can click through and hear a sample above

Deadly Envy – Readers’ Favorite Accolade

Author’s new book receives a warm literary welcome.

Readers’ Favorite announces the review of the Fiction – Crime book “Deadly Envy” by Sarah Stuart, currently available athttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XZ3L5C1.

Readers’ Favorite is one of the largest book review and award contest sites on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the “Best Websites for Authors” and “Honoring Excellence” awards from the Association of Independent Authors. They are also fully accredited by the BBB (A+ rating), which is a rarity among Book Review and Book Award Contest companies.

“Reviewed By Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers’ Favorite

DCI Gerald Croft’s Crime Thriller world is featured again in Sarah Stuart’s Deadly Envy. DCI Croft returns from a well-earned holiday with his family to find his house has been burgled. Several unsolved burglaries are already on file and, for now…

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FREE EBOOK MAY 7-11 (Psychological Literature)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Z8NF4X1

Abandoned as a baby, Harlow spent her life asking unanswered questions. Who was she? Where did she come from? And why was she plagued by dreams of drowning?
As she matured, the torturous dreams lessened.
Becoming a reporter, Harlow is sent to the deserted towns bordering the Salton Sea. Upon her arrival, the unwelcome dreams awaken, drawing her into the toxic water.
Something in the depths yearns for her.
But when secrets about her past start coming to light, she can’t leave until she finds the answers.
Will she be able to piece together her lost history before it’s too late?
Or will the Salton Sea be her undoing?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Z8NF4X1

You’ve waited long enough!

I’ve been talking about my new book Into the Salton Sea for nearly a year!
It finally dropped today!

Get your copy now, no waiting…

BLURB:

Abandoned as a baby, Harlow spent her life asking unanswered questions. Who was she? Where did she come from? And why was she plagued by dreams of drowning?
As she matured, the torturous dreams lessened.
Becoming a reporter, Harlow is sent to the deserted towns bordering the Salton Sea. Upon her arrival, the unwelcome dreams awaken, drawing her into the toxic water.
Something in the depths yearns for her.
But when secrets about her past start coming to light, she can’t leave until she finds the answers.
Will she be able to piece together her lost history before it’s too late?
Or will the Salton Sea be her undoing?

paperbacks and expanded distribution coming shortly.