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The Covenant Sacrifice, LGBTQ Horror, Available for Review

Lee Allen Howard’s The Covenant Sacrifice melds cult horror with gay romance, examining conservative family values from an LGBTQ perspective.

JAMESTOWN, NY, USA, June 5, 2023 — Lee Allen Howard, MFA, announces pre-order availability for The Covenant Sacrifice (on sale date: July 14, 2023). Howard’s sixth novel from Three First Names examines religious homophobia, spotlighting one LGBTQ individual’s struggle to accept their orientation because of family and society’s religious persecution.

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I’m seeking seasoned reviewers for The Covenant Sacrifice, horror/gay romance due out this summer.

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The novel is now available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Slated for release on July 14, pre-order a copy now, and it will...

The Covenant Sacrifice Available for Pre-order Now

The Covenant Sacrifice is available for Kindle pre-order on Amazon. Slated for release on July 14, pre-order a copy now, and it will be delivered to your Kindle on the official publication date.

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Excerpt: The Covenant Sacrifice by Lee Allen Howard

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The Covenant Sacrifice, horror/gay romance by Lee Allen Howard, will be published summer 2023.

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Cover Reveal: The Covenant Sacrifice by Lee Allen Howard

At last! The cover art for my forthcoming horror/gay romance, The Covenant Sacrifice, is complete (well, almost). Here’s the cover reveal (keep scrolling).

Designed by artist Francois Vaillancourt, the cover uncannily reflects the dark atmosphere and mood of my novel, due out in ebook and trade paperback this year. (As soon as I graduate with my MFA.)

Here’s the back cover copy…

When the dead return to abduct the living, the living turn into monsters…

Jarod Huntingdon wants more than an...

How Story Coaching Can Help You Write a Better Story

Are you in the planning stage for a new story? Maybe you’ve started a first draft, but you’re stymied by some aspect of plotting or writing. Wouldn’t it be great to have a sounding board to discuss your ideas, options for structure and plot, POV choice, narrative tense to use, and so on? It can’t hurt to get an educated opinion about your approach before you begin writing or during the writing process. That’s where story coaching comes in.

What is story coaching?

Story coaching is consulta...

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Guest post by Anton Cancre

We’re all professionals here. We’ve fought through pain and fear and so dang much rejection to stand where we are. And we’d like to have a little cash in our pockets as well as a few books under our belts for the trouble.

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Why Dark Fiction Writers Need Proofreading

You’ve made the wise decision to have your dark fiction manuscript line edited and copy edited. Is it ready for submission or self-publication? Not quite. If you want to polish your prose to perfection, you’ll hire a proofreader.

What is proofreading?

Editing involves major changes to your story, its structure, and language, but proofreading is the final stage of the editing process, when a skilled proofreader fixes minor misspellings, typos, punctuation mistakes, formatting issues, and ot...