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Number 1

I’m very pleased to announce that days after its release, Paranormal Eyewitness has gone to #1 on the supernatural category on Amazon UK. Note that Your Haunted Lives is at #5 too….

Thanks everyone!

 

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Paranormal Eyewitness – A New Series of Terrifying Kindle Short Episodes

I have launched a series of Kindle short books as of yesterday. Each book will be 99cents (pence) and will be a short but focused collection of stories, experiences, and thoughts around certain supernatural phenomena. The idea is to build a library of Kindle shorts through 2017 all under the collective Paranormal Eyewitness brand.

The first book – Episode 1 – was released yesterday with a focus on Black Eyed People.

[image error]About Paranormal Eyewitness Episode 1 – The Black Eyed Demons Are Coming

Black-eyed children are an urban legend of paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 20, with pale skin and black eyes, they are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.

The black eyed kids are a frightening phenomenon of people having strange encounters with seemingly normal human beings. Everything about them is normal… until you notice their eyes are entirely black, and they insist upon entering YOUR vehicle or home. These ‘people’ seem to ooze an overwhelming sense of fear and panic. As editor of the popular website “My Haunted Life Too” I’ve recieved hundreds of encounters with the black eyed kids, and I am fascinated each time, so I searched through all the sumissions– hundreds of them to bring you the most compelling. These were by far the creepiest.

A GLOBAL STREAM OF CONSCIENCE is being awakened about these “creatures.” It’s time you educated, and protected yourself, from these dangerous entities.

Inside this book you will read TRUE accounts of interaction with BLACK-EYED KIDS. Do not read this book if you are easily scared, or suffer from a nervous disposition.

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Fake News and The Fight For Reality

When I wrote The Last Observer, I never imagined that a real fight for reality would actually happen. However, inundated with information, we are subject to all sorts of reality creating content – some of it fake and much of it it twisted. Be aware that there is a battle going on for your mind and this battle isn’t what it seems. You see your mind is a powerful reality creating device and if someone can hijack your mind and get it working in a certain way, they can use you to create the reality that they want. The media and politicians, religious zealots, and others have always used this technique but today, the tools to do so are easy to obtain.

We tend to surround ourselves with reality reinforcing content. We already have a viewpoint that has been developed or programmed into us and we seek to reinforce it with viewpoints and people that agree with it. If we think the world is flat, we can find plenty of evidence to maintain our view. Fake news is real news if we want and chose it to be.

I find the acid test is not to mind think but heart think. What does my heart say? Is it right to treat a certain set of people terribly because they have a particular religion or political viewpoint? My head might say Yes but my heart will always tell me the truth and the truth is No, it is not correct.

The next time you log onto Facebook or some other social media platform, look at your news feed. It is reflecting you back…..

Do you like what you see?

Is it what is in your heart or do you need to balance your news with an opposing point of view?

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New Compilation Available!

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Come Down

Come Down is a lovely melodic track with a theme on the guitar.

The Sun is out today

Shining like the star that it is

Even I could never say

That my life is wasting away

Come down to me

Be the person you aim to be

Come down to me

Let me touch

Let me see

The Moon is in the sky

Reflecting the light of life

I look and I stare

But in the end I’m not sure I care

You are the Sun, the Moon

You are the stars that shine

You are the one who came to stay

Never to leave me anyway

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Saying No

Many of the people that I am attracted to are people who know how to say No. You see, I don’t.

My biggest issue in life is wanting to me loved. Wanting to be wanted. I don’t know where this came from – certainly not my childhood as I was both loved and wanted. I was, it seems, simply born this way. I am therefore, a giver. I give and I give and I give. I avoid conflict whenever possible and I keep on giving and saying yes until I am simply taken for granted and abused. Someone in my past once told me that I don’t love myself. I’m not sure about that but certainly, I have a deep seated sense of insecurity. The funny thing is however, that I have a healthy dose of confidence! I enjoy a challenge, new things and achieving the ‘impossible’. Perhaps, these traits are two side of the same coin?

My constant struggle is how to balance what others want of me with what I need for myself. How do you balance selfishness and being a good person?

All things in life need to be balanced but balance is not static. Balance moves around depending on the situation and circumstances. It is like trying to hit a moving target.

In the end, I feel manipulated and abused. The answer, I am told is just to say No. Isn’t that being selfish?

I find myself going places and doing things I don’t want to just to keep people around me happy. My perception of their happy though, perhaps not theirs. Perhaps they’d be happier if I didn’t do these things?

I find I cannot explain this dilemma. Perhaps because everything is relative?

However, when I look at people I admire, I find it is because they say No. They know their own mind and they are comfortable following through with actions that I actually deem to be selfish on their part. The funny thing is, these people have charisma. People like them for saying No. I can’t quite get my head around that and yet I like them too. For the same reason.

So, I am going to try to start saying No more often. I will try to follow my heart in this and say No when I feel I need to. It’s going to be difficult but I simply need to learn how to say No and feel not guilty about it.

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Changes

Many, many years ago as I sat in my student residence accommodation, I came across a sequence of picked chords that I really liked. For several months I had no idea what to do with them and then it clicked. I wrote a song that sounded like a heavy rock song. The lyrics were written in a jiffy and the song ‘Changes’ made its debut at a couple of ‘gigs. That was that.

Of course, Changes was one of the first songs I tried to record for The Early Years. To be honest, it was a real challenge and I don’t think I did it real justice. Consequently, it is my least favorite song on the CD. Perhaps, one day, I will have another go because it really has potential. It needs a bit more differentiation between the quiet and loud sections and it needs a bloody brilliant guitar player to rip out a fantastic lead break – that isn’t me but perhaps my son Paul….

Anyway, here is Changes. What do you think?

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Is it – Just Me – Listening?

Just me was another track where I found a nice chord progression and recorded it. I needed some kind of a bridge and change in tempo to make it work I thought and I came up with quite a heavy faster bridge that I thought worked. As is usual, the lyrics simply fell out towards the end… The vocals are triple tracked with one an octave lower and some harmonies.

You never really tried

No, it was just me

You never really loved me

No, it was just me

You see

Here I am now

Sitting, looking out of my window

And what do I see?

I see a reflection of me

Here I am again

Sitting alone in my bedroom

And what do I see?

Another bloody reflection of me

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Was it – Something I Said?

Something I said

Something you said

Gave me pause for thought

Something I read

In mind

Something in red

Something we do – in bed

Something I thought

Never mind

It’s all gone pear-shaped

It’s all gone strange

It’s all gone upside down

I’m moving around

I’m here, I’m here

Now, I’m here

Not everyday

Can I say

What I want to say

Not every moment

Note every second

Not every minute

of every day

This one also started with the music. It started out set to be heavy metal but somehow morphed into a catchy rock song I guess. A combination of power chords and picked chords with a driving bass line punctuated by a tempo change and a sort of melodic lead guitar at certain points provided for an interesting backing track. As usual, the lyrics fell out as I listened to the track. The vocals were triple tracked with one track being harmony and the other being an octave lower than the main melody.

Give it a listen

Now, I actually went back and re-recorded the harmony and some guitar with the intention of improving it. And I think I did. However, come time to load it up and I inadvertently chose the prior version…. So the improved version will wait for another occasion……

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Life

This track started life (!) as a very melodic riff that I had been playing with for years. I overlaid a picked guitar sound and a slow bass line to get the sound I wanted. I asked my daughter Deni to add her voice to the backing vocals which is her and I going ‘oooo’. She had fun doing that and her voice adds sweetness to the song in my opinion. As usual, the last thing was to record the vocals and write the lyrics. Also as usual, the lyrics simply fell out as I listened to the track…

Don’t despair

Don’t give up

It’s all we have

And this is our life

Life is passing me by

But it’s too soon to say goodbye

So much to do yet

So little time

I’m working harder

To succeed

Life is hard

Life is tough

Life is strange

But I can’t get enough

I triple tracked the vocals – twice normal singing and once an octave lower. I then added some harmonies which I rather like actually.

The finished result is very melancholic… take a listen.

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