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Stephen D. Sullivan to release Dr. Cushing’s Chamber of Horrors with Walkabout Publishing

After a lifetime of traveling with their father to collect bizarre and “spooky” artifacts, twins Opal and Topaz Cushing are finally looking forward to a summer at home in their fixer upper Victorian mansion on the outskirts of London. That is, until strange things start happening in their wax works exhibit, and they soon find out the truth about that which goes bump in the night.

Stephen D. Sullivan brings back the thrills and chills of the old horror movie culture, in the latest title to be added to his prolific career, Dr. Cushing’s Chamber of Horrors.  This horror fantasy is set to release August 30, 2020 with Walkabout Publishing.

“Dr. Cushing is easily Sullivan’s best creation to date! Mixing the roller-coaster thrills of the Universal monster rally films like House of Frankenstein with the moody sexiness of Hammer’s 1960s gothic horrors, he throws in more monster fun than anyone has a right to expect! I’m ready for the sequel—now!” — Rodney Barnett, film scholar and co-host of the NaschyCast horror podcast

Sullivan’s latest release will be available at all major retailers as well as select indie bookstores upon release. His availability is limited to virtual signings, cons, and interviews until the current national pandemic crisis is contained.


Dr. Cushing’s Chamber of Horrors!
Stephen D. Sullivan

Print Length: 437 pages
Publisher: Walkabout Publishing (August 30, 2020)
Publication Date: August 30, 2020
Language: English
ASIN: B08F13XKQG

About the Book:

The monsters aren’t only in the museum!

Despite a lifetime of traveling with their father to collect strange artifacts, twins Topaz and Opal Cushing have never fully believed in monsters or the supernatural. Oh, sure, they share an eerie psychic connection, and their tarot card readings often come true, but… 
Werewolves? Vampires? Living mummies? None of those could be real. Those legends are just for rubes. Right?

Since the girls’ father has been away, though, strange things have been happening in the family’s little exhibit—and in the waxworks studio that shares their dilapidated Victorian mansion on the outskirts of London. Now, the twins’ dreams of a fun, romantic summer season are turning into a nightmare, and the monsters are running...


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About the Author:

Stephen D. Sullivan has over sixty published titles to his name and helped create more comics and games than he can either list or remember.

A Scribe award-winner for “Best Novel Adaptation, 2016” with his book Manos: The Hands of Fate, Sullivan lives with his wife in a small town in Wisconsin.

You can contact him via Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, or on his website: www.stephendsullivan.com

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Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life by Roxanne Rhoads

Bring your Halloween party theme to life with these quick tips and tricks!

Pumpkins and Party Themes features ten unique party themes with five do-it-yourself pumpkin designs for each theme. The pumpkin projects have a variety of decorating ideas that include carving, painting, and mixed media craftiness and easy-to-follow steps on each creation. Author Roxanne Rhoads also includes quick ideas on how to bring the theme to life through décor, costumes, and activities. These fun party themes range from gothic elegance to Edgar Allan Poe, under the sea, let's get literary, and more!

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Pumpkins and Party Themes 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life By Roxanne Rhoads
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Pumpkins and Party Themes 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life By Roxanne Rhoads

Pumpkins and Party Themes 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to LifeBy Roxanne Rhoads
Paperback: 176 pagesPublisher: Skyhorse Release Date: August 11, 2020ISBN-10: 1510751165ISBN-13: 978-1510751163
Book Description:


Bring your Halloween party theme to life with these quick tips and tricks!
Pumpkins and Party Themes features ten unique party themes with five do-it-yourself pumpkin designs for each theme. The pumpkin projects have a variety of decorating ideas that include carving, painting, and mixed media craftiness and easy-to-follow steps on each creation. Author Roxanne Rhoads also includes quick ideas on how to bring the theme to life through décor, costumes, and activities. These fun party themes range from gothic elegance to Edgar Allan Poe, under the sea, let's get literary, and more!
With beautiful full-color images to illustrate the tools needed, steps to follow, and final products, this book makes for the perfect gift for Halloween enthusiasts and party hosts alike!

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About the Author:
Roxanne Rhoads is an author, book publicist, mixed media crafter, and lover of all things spooky.
Her books include the Amazon Bestseller  Haunted Flint  and  Pumpkins and Party Themes : 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life .
She is the owner of Bewitching Book Tours, a virtual book tour and social media marketing company. She operates a Halloween blog- A Bewitching Guide to Halloween and sells handcrafted jewelry, art, and home decor through her Etsy store- The Bewitching Cauldron.
When not reading or writing, Roxanne loves to craft, plan Halloween adventures, and search for unique vintage finds.
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Music Playlist for Caught by Kimberley Cale #fantasy #mermaids

Caught Playlist
Soundtrack for the Pirates of the Caribbean-Pirates Montage - Hans Zimmer
Into The Unknown -Aurora
Soundtrack for Never stop Dreaming - Crescent Music
A Thousand Years- Christina Perri
I ‘m Gonna Be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers
Say Something- Christina Aguilera
Let Her Go - Passenger
Wake Me Up Inside- Evanescence 
The Fighter- Gym Class Heroes
Seo Linn- Oro Se do Bheatha Bhaile
This version of the song is about Gráinne Mhaol/Grace O'Malley, an Irish pirate queen who was imprisoned by the English after raiding their ships and faced hanging. This song is about her people welcoming her back after her return. It was used as a rebel song in the 20th century when the Irish people were fighting for independence from English rule. 
CaughtSea Temptress SeriesBook OneKimberley Cale
Genre: Fantasy romanceISBN: 978-1-7772821-0-3ASIN: B08D7T8YSKNumber of pages: 155Word Count: 58127
Cover Artist: Sharko Studios cover model Taylor Walker
Tagline: She was just supposed to be a myth. He was just supposed to be a stupid pirate. Who knew?
Book Description: 
A vengeful pirate…
Ruthless pirate captain Quinn O’Connor is bent on getting revenge on the creatures who wrecked his ship and killed his crew. When he claims their leader as his captive, he doesn’t expect the scorching consequences that come with being stranded with her on a mysterious island.
A beautiful sea temptress…
Lorelei, a daughter of Poseidon, is willing to bargain with the dangerous pirate who captured her in order to save the ones she loves. He believes the worst of her and her kind, and when he drags her onto dry land, turning her beautiful tail into a pair of unsteady legs, she’s not sure if she’ll be able to return home—and soon she starts to wonder if she really wants to.
Magic and mayhem bring them together…
With each smoldering kiss, each heated touch, their desire blazes higher. Can they overcome misunderstandings and monstrous enemies seeking to tear them apart? Will a mermaid challenge her fate for the love of a pirate? Will the vengeful pirate give up his revenge and take on a god to save his mermaid?

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Excerpt Two for CaughtQunn ran his hand over his face. When he’d gone to the ridge for her and found her skin red and her lips dry and colorless, he’d told himself sternly he’d not grant her freedom. When her scales had loosened and fallen like teardrops onto the sandy ground as he trotted down the ridge, he had to remind himself of her treacherous nature. When he stood with her in his arms at the edge of the beach where the sea met the shore, while she’d lain lifeless, all that lovely fire gone, he’d bit his tongue and resisted the urge to carry her into the sea and let her go.He’d been imprisoned once himself, years back. Wrongfully, in that instance—not that he hadn’t deserved it for other offenses—but in that particular case, he was innocent. So when he was questioned for the name of his accomplices, it wasn’t loyalty but ignorance that had stayed his tongue. As no amount of threats or beatings had worked, his jailors—frustrated and tired of blooding their knuckles—had thrown him into a pit to rot. Slop had been thrown down to him when they thought to feed him. It hadn’t been the shivering cold, nor the gnawing hunger pains that had been the worst of it. It had been the unrelenting anxiety that had clawed its way into his heart—the fear of being forgotten and left to die.He didn’t know how long he’d been locked away in that muddy hell, but he was two stones lighter when his captain and crew had finally snuck in and sprung him. If Captain Black Jack and the crew of The Devil’s Own hadn’t had his loyalty before that night, they’d earned it in spades thereafter. When he’d escaped that prison hell, he’d thought he’d gotten over it. There’d only been the odd night terror to bring him back every now and again.Quinn looked out at the endless ocean with nothing but the sound of the tide washing against a deserted shore. Unease closed in on him. He was alone here in the middle of nowhere—isolated—again. That same sick dread tried to crawl its way back into his head. It was humbling to know he had nothing but this mercenary mermaid in his arms to keep his demons at bay.He looked down at her, even the thought of setting her free left him with that edgy, jittery feeling. His fingers felt twitchy with need for a bottle of rum, just like the times when unwanted memories of the pit came back to haunt him.One minute he was determined that if he had to keep this wild sea creature here to help him keep his inner demons at bay, it was the least she could do for her crimes. But looking at her now, he decided he’d only give One Ear’s word on the matter consideration for only a wee bit longer.Maybe it was because for all her treachery, she reminded him of his beloved sea—wild and untamed. Maybe she couldn’t be expected to act in any way other than what was in her nature. Whatever the reason, the thought of her death gave him no satisfaction at all. If she worsened, he knew he’d find himself carrying her back to sea. His mood darkened at the thought, and he couldn’t ignore the rush of relief that loosened his tense muscles when her long, dark lashes fluttered open.“Ugh, it’s you pirate,” she said, her voice was a mite better but still a little raspy. He liked it. “I thought you were naught but a bad dream.”
“No, wee siren,” he grinned. “Lucky for you, I’m not, because I brought your scaly arse some food.”
About the Author:
Kimberley Cale writes fantasy romance and is the author of the Sea Temptress Series and the epic Tales of Terraron. She has been a reading addict for as long as she can remember. While she enjoys reading anything and everything from historical, paranormal to contemporary novels, she has found her passion bringing her feisty heroines together with their bad boy heroes and adding a spark of magic to create fantastic page turning romance.
After visiting over half of the United States, Mexico, The Dominican, Europe and parts of Canada, she can honestly say the experience has broadened her perspective on other cultures and enlivened her already overactive imagination.Her family will tell you that from the time she was a child she has rarely been without a journal in hand building worlds for her characters to live in and exciting obsoletes for them to overcome.
With a few college and online writing courses under her belt, Kimberley is constantly learning how to improve her writing craft online, While she worked for an insurance company, part of her job involved writing letters to claimants. These were sad tales that should have started with sorry for your loss. Later she worked in the safety industry and wrote many a safety manual for different companies. Unfortunately not one manual included an ounce of romance in it. Finally after years of research, which involved reading a great variety of romance novels well into the night, she decided to pursue her writing passion.
Kimberley’s other loves besides her awesome family include, trying unsuccessfully to keep the weeds out of her garden. So far verbal threats and hand gestures haven’t worked; still it’s a war she intends to win. She’s also obsessed with a streaming cup of hot chocolate; well chocolate of any kind really, there’s been talk amongst family and friends about an intervention. When she’s not writing you will find her snuggled next to her hubby searching Netflix for the latest epic movies.
More than anything else she loves hearing from her readers and makes it a priority to respond to any and all who are willing to take the time to send her a line.
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The Unburned Island by Auden Johnson #darkfantasy #horror

The Unburned Island
Other Investigator Series
Book One
Auden Johnson

Genre: Dark Fantasy HorrorPublisher: Aubey LLC
Date of Publication: April 2017
ISBN: 9780996423427
ASIN: B06XX2RSBY
Number of pages: 148 pages
Word Count: 30,000
Cover Artist: Auden Johnson

Tagline: A haunted island. An unusual demon. Can this team of magical investigators solve the mystery of the Unburned Island? 

Book Description:


The entire island was on fire yet only one schoolhouse burned. Everyone disappeared. Several tried taking it over but were never successful. People no longer talk about Unburned Island. It was left to rot.
Years later, Kiran, En, and a team of magical investigators travel to the island to banish whatever haunts an old building. With En acting strange, they knew this wouldn't be a simple job. Kiran develops a second ability, making their investigation both easier and harder.
 It takes them no time to realize the building isn't the problem. The island is. They never anticipated the terrible secrets hidden within the school’s campus. Maybe some of the residents deserved their fate.
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Excerpt 1:She pulled the band off her wrist and tied back her bushy hair. Of course, it didn’t all fit in the tie. At least it wasn’t in her way now. Rather than use magic or chemicals to straighten her hair, Kiran usually kept it short. It was time to cut it again. She rarely let it run wild like this but work got in the way. Kiran liked her hair wild and long but it wasn’t practical. She needed to dye it again. The dark blue wasn’t as vibrant. Why was she the only one drawn to this area? She usually saw more spirits than most but tests showed Kiran wasn’t sensitive. Maybe the other people wandering the grounds were human and she hadn’t paid much attention to that.A terrible smell rolled in. Like old garbage and rotting corpses. Then the odor was gone. The smell returned. Then it was gone. It pulsed like a heartbeat. Kiran followed it. From the small glances she got through windows, the interior appeared sturdy despite being abandoned. The school was clearly old but not nearly as worn as she had expected. Pieces of the stone exterior were chipped, probably due to age or weather. Thick green vines climbed up the building and through windows. She couldn’t see much of the roof from this angle. She understood why someone wanted to use this place. The island was a short ferry ride away from the mainland. From Kiran’s first look, it seemed the land was large enough to fit a small village, the perfect location for an experimental campus.This close, the old school no longer felt like a monster despite the oppressive air. Maybe the building wasn’t the problem. Maybe it sat between worlds. Most believed Others’ ancestors came from different worlds and settled here. No one knew why they ran away from home. Grass rustled. Kiran stopped. A figure jerked as though it wasn’t used to its body. The head turned at impossible angles. It twitched like the broken hands of a clock. It clicked as though each step towards her snapped a bone.Kiran spread her feet shoulder length apart. She made sure all the lines of her body were straight so power could flow freely. She lifted two fingers and drew a level one ward symbol—a circle with a simple X in the middle. Nothing happened. She tried level two— an X with a line down the middle, from the sky to the ground.Nothing.She hit level five with no results. Symbols at higher levels took longer to create. Knots twisted in her wrist and side. The thing was close now. The smell was so bile she could taste it. She didn’t want to inhale and get more of that stuff in her. Kiran needed to breathe. If she wasn’t calm, the spell wouldn’t do what she wanted. She stepped back, making sure to keep her body straight. This was taking too long. Hopefully, level ten would work. She made the ward sign. The creature shattered.Kiran hit the ground. She couldn’t hear the clicking of bones anymore. Some magic had a strong recoil. Wards were dangerous. You felt the effects only after the enemy was gone. Kiran’s limbs trembled. That was about all the moving she would do for a while.
About the Author:

An artist at heart, Auden Johnson loves photography, graphic design, and writing beautifully dark stories. She has published 13 dark fantasy stories featuring diverse characters with powers and questionable morals. She enjoys taking her camera on a long hike and photographing the scenic views. Most of her landscape photos are on sale online. Auden has a Masters in Publishing: Digital and Print and a Masters in Information and Library Science. She lives in Brooklyn with her writing buddy Oreo.
Website: https://www.audenjohnson.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/audendj
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audenjohnson/
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7183504.Auden_Johnson

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Guest Blog The Warrior’s Progeny by Jeny Heckman #PNR #FantasyRomance #guestblog

Who wouldn’t want to find out they are the direct descendant of a Greek god?  If you love the paranormal and fantasy genre, as I suspect you do, you probably already have an incredible imagination! It’s like Harry Potter finding out he’s the offspring of wizards, or Brianna Randall Fraser MacKenzie discovering she could fall into another time dimension, and meet her ancestors in the 1700s, face to face.     I have thought about this a lot! I have one side of my family that were quite the prominent explorers. We can trace that clan back to the 1500’s and there are several notable characters including: A man that founded part of Massachusetts, one that invented a component of the Singer sewing machine, a land baron, and waaaay back we have the bastard son of Jane Seymour’s brother, in King Henry VIII’s day. I have spent COUNTLESS hours thinking about my ancestors and what they were like, what they lived through and what they’d think of us today! Personally, I think all of our ancestors would be fairly disgusted with the lot of us, but I digress. I’m Swedish primarily, then English and Irish. At the times my relatives lived in these countries, amazing events in history were happening. It’s one of the reasons I love the gifted writer, Diana Gabaldon, because she wrote history like it happened, not the romantic idea, clean version of it.
When I started thinking of the Heaven & Earth series, I loved the idea of the Greek gods having modern-day descendants who didn’t believe in them. After all, history does have a way of inflating one’s importance, and embellishing small things into grandiose adventures and achievements. Most people live/lived really basic lives, and even people of note were, in fact, regular people. They stressed about their children, their communities, how to pay their bills and how to feed their families, and they did so in filthy conditions without real medical contributions, and they had to go out and kill their food before they ate it. The idea of those people coming into contact with our heavily blessed lives, full of vaccines, ease and indoor plumbing, would be like going to another planet full of aliens and trying to understand their concept of life.
So, I’m posing some questions for you today…
1)    Where are your ancestors from?
2)    What do you think they would think about YOUR life?
3)    If you could go back in time and live in their life for one day, would you do it?
4)    If someone either mythical or real came to you and said you were their direct descendant, who would you want it to be and why?
I’d like to thank you so much for joining me today! What a true honor! Have a fantastic rest of your day!


The Warrior’s ProgenyThe Heaven and Earth SeriesBook TwoJeny Heckman
Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy RomancePublisher: The Wild Rose PressDate of Publication: 07/27/2020ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-5092-3219-2ISBN (Digital): 978-1-5092-3220-8ASIN: B089PZQJ34Number of pages: 424Word Count: 102,620
Cover Artist: Debbie Taylor
Tagline:  If love dies, can it be reborn…only stronger?
Book Description:
Colton Stone is a newly traded tight end whose reputation is as battered as his football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates, he accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon, and doesn't know what to think.
A widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends' wedding. When she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love she took for granted. Lilly struggles between letting go of her perfect past for an uncertain future.
Strange events occur, out of the realm of normal consciousness. When black energy touches their world Colt and Lilly become the pawns of the immortal Greek gods. Is the love developing between them natural, or part of a larger prophecy?
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/zy5nbMGQoCg
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EXCERPT 1: (244 words)Colt’s body temperature heated until his helmet, now that of a Trojan, melted and became part of his skull. Painful, thick, fire plumes ignited from the sides of his head and curved toward the sky, until they solidified in a solid line down the middle of the helmet. Black snake-like smoke wafted up from the earth and encircled his ankles and wrists, locking him into place. The smoke turned into bindings and massaged tentacles over his chest and phallus.
He looked over at Lilly, who now knelt helpless as her skin became dusky, then turned a brilliant shade of blue. However, the color became an iridescent hue that reminded him of something just outside the confines of his mind. Her skin bubbled, separated, and formed into thousands of compact hairs. Small points protruded from her shoulders and down her arms until they freed themselves from the surface of her skin, as she screamed. Several long, hollow shoots grew, lengthening into the elegant, arching rods, as more buds sprouted from them and turned into thready feathers. As the feathers lengthened, green and blue eyes opened in intervals. At a screech of transformation, Lilly turned into a peacock, whose tail plumed out in a perfect fan. A feathered diadem lifted from her skull and the beautiful eyes all blinked at him. He wanted to mate with her, devour her, possess her, and bellowed out an unearthly warrior battle cry. Breaking his bonds, he charged at her.

About the Author:
Award-winning author, Jeny Heckman, was born in Bellingham, Washington, and was the youngest of two daughters. She met her husband, Jeff, in August 1992, and eloped three months later, at Magen’s Bay, on St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
She wrote her first book, the Catch, in a few short months but took several years before she gained the courage to self-publish it at her son’s urging, and her love for writing began.
In 2018, Jeny knew her next project would be a series that showed adults could have adventures in the paranormal-fantasy genre too. So, she created the Heaven & Earth series, a story of doomed Greek gods and their only salvation, their modern-day descendants. Her first book of the series, the Sea Archer, was immediately picked up by the New York publishing house, the Wild Rose Press, and won, “Best in Category” from the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards.
In the year 2020, Jeny released, Dancing Through Tears, a short story from the anthology, Australia Burns: Volume Two, highlighting the Route 91 massacre from the perspective of one family at the concert, and at Mandalay Bay. She also intends to release, the Warrior’s Progeny, and Dee’s Cornucopia, in 2020, continuing the Heaven & Earth Series.
Jeny lives in Washington State with her husband of over twenty-eight years.
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