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January 14, 2022
Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters Series #paranormal #scifi
With the new year, it's back to a favorite paranormal-sci fi series I loved reading last year.Finally got the new one, The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley by Mercedes Lackey and glad that so far it sounds as good as the past ones. Yes, it opens with some abuse as a young girl is beaten by the Wolf family (yes, shape-shifting wolves) who took her from the foster care facility, but she manages to
January 4, 2022
What I'm Reading, January Reading List #horror #zombies
A New Year, so time to get posting again, right? I'll try to be more regular about it, I hope.That means it's time to talk books for the new year.The ClassicsOne thing I'd like to do is read and reread the "classics" and books by classic authors.To start, one book that's been staring at me from my bookshelf for a while is Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Funny, that I always liked
December 14, 2021
New Mysterical-E #Mystery Column
Late, but the new Mysterical-e issue and my mystery books Author Snapshot column is out! Some great free fiction, too!See issue: https://mystericale.com/current-issue/ Author Snapshot column: https://mystericale.com/article/some-...
November 28, 2021
Lizzie Borden in Pop Culture #zombies #musical #books
Somehow I missed this!! Lizzie Borden's hometown paper, The Fall River Herald News, ran a story on August 4 - the anniversary of the murder of her father and stepmother in 1892. The story, 11 ways pop culture took a whack at the legend of Fall River's Lizzie Borden, included all kinds of interesting ways Lizzie has been immortalized and includes Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter. Check it out here.
November 8, 2021
Mischief Maker: A Loki #fantasy Blog Tour
From the lead designer of ElderScrolls V: Skyrim comes an epic journey into Norse Mythology. What if Loki was never the bad guy?Loki, once a god, now nothing more than a stage magician in modern-dayChicago……his enemies from athousand years ago have long memories.Victors wrote the history, and Lokiwas blamed for the sins of the Norse gods. They can’t let him live in peace.He has to
October 30, 2021
Happy #Halloween Spooky Reading List! #zombie #monsters
Bwaaaahhhhh! What's lurking in the deep recesses of those bookstores for your scary reading pleasure?? Let's see what we can find to scare the bejeebers out of you! LOTS of good reading here! (And I've been adding more as I find them until this was published!)Read with the Lights ON! haaa!Ghosts Ghosts of Brookhaven, Jack Wallen - During its heyday, the Brookhaven Asylum suffered a steady
October 28, 2021
A Prophecy of Wings Blog Tour #fantasy #fairytale
Welcome to today's guest, Jane McGarry, author of A Prophecy of Wings . See giveaway below.About the Book:Abetrayal, a prophecy, a kingdom in the balance. Sixteen years ago the evilDahlia overthrew the kingdom of Roshall Grove, the heart of the Fairy World.Aprophecy foreseen by Edwina, a powerful enchantress, remains the only hope totopple her iron-fisted rule. Now, Lina, a simple
New #Zombie Anthology and new story! #halloween #horror
New Zombie Anthology!Run From the Dead: A Zombie Anthology features a dozen new stories with layers of horror and the depths some people go for survival. BONUS: A world scavenger hunt! Each stoiry contains a certain set of words. Can you find them?In my story, "Of Life, Death, and the Krieg," a man "wakes" to a new, nightmarish world amid a horde of zombies. Is he alive... dead... or something
October 22, 2021
Fantastic New Story News!
I'm cross-posting since I have different audiences on my two blogs.Some Big News!Recognize this logo??Well, I just got word, my short Christmas mystery titled so far - "Killer Christmas Cookies" was accepted in Woman's World Magazine! (You know, the newstand mag?!!) It's kind of a cute, funny, quirky story.... Hey, I don't write dark and zombies all the time. ha!So far it'll be in Dec. 20, on
October 20, 2021
Today's #Halloween story: The #Dollhouse
Flash of Halloween!!* Enjoy a fun, spooky, even scary Halloween story every day in October! Thanks to author Jack Wallen for organizing this! Oh, you had to know that I would somehow figure out a way to include a creepy dollhouse in a story! ** My new story, "The Dollhouse," will be up (check after 7:30 a.m., central time) today, Thursday, Oct. 21 here - https://monkeypantz.net/the-dollhouse. **
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