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The Last Legend map

Here is a map of part of Skalar, the main continent in my fantasy novel The Last Legend. Click on it to enlarge, right click to save image.

Kickstarter Project for Billy Barnaby's Twisted Christmas: The Movie

I've begun a 30-day Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of a movie based on my book Billy Barnaby's Twisted Christmas. Please check out the project page and if you can contribute financially, thank you very much. If you can't, contributing by tweeting the page, linking it to your Facebook page, or anything you can do to help spread the word is greatly appreciated.

By pledging, you can get all eight of my novels in ebook format for free. You can be a background cartoon character in the ...

Book Trailers - Good Idea or Bad?

Book trailers - good idea or bad?

I think book trailers are probably a bad idea. At best, they're probably an ineffective marketing tool.

Your ultimate goal in marketing your book is to get people to read your sample. If they like it, hopefully they'll buy the whole book. So all your marketing efforts are basically intended to make potential readers aware of your book and entice them to read the sample. Once they find your book's page on Amazon (or wherever), the main tools to drive them to rea...

Snowybrook Inn: Book Two

Just published Snowybrook Inn: Book Two for Kindle.



Book Notes: Demonspawn

I'm going to start writing notes on each of my books. This first post is on my novel Demonspawn, which I think is one of my better novels.
I wrote Demonspawn waaaay back in 1998. It took me about nine months total to write, working at a lazy pace, taking a few days and sometimes even weeks or months off at a time.At the time I was writing it, I was really into "The Book of Words" series by J.V. Jones. In Demonspawn, I think I actually was trying to sort of match Jones's writing style. It's...

Joke

Yes, that last blog entry, "Awesome Space Adventures," was a joke, in case anyone wasn't sure.

Awesome Space Adventures: (Read this one first since its part one)

Inspired by Moon People, reviewed on The Huffington Post, I have begun work on a new series. Here is the first installment.
AWESOME SPACE ADVENTURES: (Read this one first since its part one) by Scott Reeves
            Because I decided to write a new short story, so here it is. It has gotten a really cool space battle near the end, so you should stay tuned. There's aliens too.            She said she had wanted to go to the store, so he took her. Afterwards, she put her panties back on and...

Very early short story - Mickey and the Thing Under His Bed

This is a really short story that I haven't published anywhere else before today. I wrote it in 1985, when I was 17.
MICKEY AND THE THING UNDER HIS BED
"Mom! Dad!" Mickey Charles sat up in his bed screaming. He clutched his covers close about him. "Come quick! There's a thing under my bed!"His bedroom door flew open and his parents came rushing in."Hush!" yelled his father. "Quiet down!"Mickey shut up, but he didn't stop shaking. He was scared to death."Now what's all this about, young...

New Novel Published

My latest novel, Inferno: Go to Hell , has now been published, available exclusively on Kindle for the next several months.

My 2012 writing plans

Here are my writing plans for 2012:

Near the end of January or early February I will be publishing a novella, Scruffy Unleashed, adapted from my screenplay of the same title.

In February, I will be publishing a new novel titled Inferno: Go to Hell.

After that, I'm going to write a few more Snowybrook Inn short stories, then begin working on another novel.

I plan to write at least 1,000 words a day. Sounds like a paltry word count, I know, but that's 365,000 words per year. Since most of my nove...