Rayne Hall's Blog: Rayne Hall, Fantasy and Horror Author, page 3

Twitter, anyone?

I follow back readers (and writers, publishers, illustrators).

If your Twitter profile says something like 'bookworm' or 'avid reader', I'll follow you back.

https://twitter.com/RayneHall

Would anyone like to read&review "Thirty Scary Tales" before it's published?

"Thirty Scary Tales" will be out next month, and I'm looking for reviewers.

Basically, it's a bundle of Six Scary Tales Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. These are horror stories of the quiet kind - creepy, atmospheric, disturbing.

They're not the violent slash&gore type horror, though there is some violence, and I wouldn't recommend it for young readers without parental guidance.


I'll send you the ebook free if you want to review You can review it anywhere - on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Booklikes, GoodReads, Facebook, your blog, The review can be honest, simple and short, just say what you personally liked or disliked about the book, which story is your favourite, that sort of thing.

Rayne

Six Scary Tales Vol 1Six Scary Tales Vol 2Six Scary Tales Vol. 3Six Scary Tales Vol. 4

I'm waiting for JK Rowling to admit...

that she wrote Storm Dancer.

Storm Dancer

Cover Reveal: Six Historical Tales Vol. 2

Here's the beautiful cover for my latest short story collection, Six Historical Tales Vol. 2.

The cover art is by Nadica Boskovska who has painted several book covers for me. You can read an interview with her here:
http://livrancourt.com/2013/07/six-hi...

Six Historical Tales Vol. 2

Cover Reveal: Six Quirky Tales (Fantasy Stories)

Featuring art by Xteve Abanto.

Read more about the cover here: http://waywarddrui.com/2013/07/08/six...

Six Quirky Tales Vol. 1

Would anyone like to host my cover reveal on their blog?

Would anyone like to host a cover reveal on their blog?

I have three (yes, three!) book launches coming up very soon, with lovely covers. I don't have a blog of my own, that's why I use other people's. ;-)

The genres are fantasy, historical and horror. The publication will be some time this month, possibly next month, depending minor things that still need sorting.

If you like, you can interview the artist. (Or I interview the artist and send the ready-written interview ready for you to upload.)

Here are the URLS to some recent cover reveals other authors have hosted for me:

http://madelinedyer.co.uk/cover-revea...
http://nerinedorman.blogspot.co.uk/20...
http://www.claredavidson.com/blog/108...
http://cheriereich.blogspot.co.uk/201...
http://waywarddrui.com/2013/02/15/13b...
http://pauldail.com/2012/12/07/cover-...

Yay! "The Bridge Chamber" can be read again, at last

I often get asked about my short story "The Bridge Chamber" which was published years ago in the horror anthology Read by Dawn Vol. 1.

At horror conventions, people would come up to me and say "Are you the Rayne Hall who wrote The Bridge Chamber?"

They told me that the story scared them like no other. Years after reading, it still frightened them. 

Unfortunately, the publisher went out of business, and since they owned the rights to the story, I could not publish it elsewhere. The only way anyone could read "The Bridge Chamber" was by tracking down the book in a used bookshop.

This was vexing, because it's a good story and it deserves to be read.

Now there's good news. Someone else has bought the rights to the out-of-print Read By Dawn anthologies, and they've given me permission to publish "The Bridge Chamber" in my own collection.

So here it is, published in Six Scary Tales Vol. 4. 

It's a good story. Scary. I scared myself when I wrote it. 

RayneSix Scary Tales Vol. 4

I've Entered Storm Dancer for a Cover Contest

Just for fun. I love the Storm Dancer cover - but then, I'm biased. :-)


http://authorsdb.com/book-cover-award...

The Trailer for "Seers: Ten Tales of Clairvoyance" is Ready

I enjoy trailer making so much. It's my favourite form of procrastination. :-)

You can watch it here. It's short. http://youtu.be/gnnqZbPsVasSeers: Ten Tales of Clairvoyance

These Are The Authors I've Selected for the "Seers" Anthology

APRIL GREY's urban fantasy novel, Chasing The Trickster, is published by Eternal Press.Her short stories have been published in such anthologies as Demonmind's Halloween 2010, The Best of Everyday Fiction 2, Northern Haunts, Ephemera, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry. Many of these stories can be found in her collection, The Fairy Cake Bake Shoppe available through Amazon.

KATRINA JOYNER who painted the clairvoyant on the bookcover is a freelance artist and formatter. She lives in the USA. You can see more of her art here http://spearcarrier.deviantart.com/


RAYNE HALL lives in a dilapidated English seaside town of former Victorian grandeur where she writes horror and fantasy fiction. Her short stories have been published in many magazines, e-zines and anthologies. She has had more than 40 books published in several genres under several pen names, including the dark epic fantasy novel Storm Dancer. Her editing experience in the publishing industry spans three decades. She is also the editor of other books in the Ten Tales series. You can follow her on Twitter @raynehall and her website is http://sites.google.com/site/raynehal....

JEFF HARGETT is a grandfather from North Carolina with an imagination full of magic and dragons. He stays young and fit by dining on epic fantasy whenever possible. He’s had a couple of short stories placed in competitions, but prefers his fiction in novel-length doses. He is currently writing an epic fantasy series that he hopes will be published while he can still wield a pen. He’s a firm believer that when this world doesn’t suit you, you should write a world that does. He enjoys interacting with readers and other writers and spends far too much time loitering around his blog http://StrandsOfPattern.blogspot.com/.


FREDERICK LANGRIDGE enjoyed a varied career as an engineer, scientist, manager and teacher. Now in semi-retirement he has turned his writing skills to projects much more exciting than worksheets and textbooks. His short stories have appeared in compilations produced by the Panocticon Writing Group, of which he is a founder member, and in his own collection: Short Stories to Read on the Bus.
He has previously contributed to a published science teaching course and several textbooks, and currently works part time as Associate Tutor in Science Education at Edge Hill University.

DOUGLAS KOLACKI began writing while stationed with the Navy in Naples, Italy, published numerous stories in San Diego, and recently completed a cross-country trek to his new home in Providence, Rhode Island. His short story credits include Weird Tales, Dragons Knights & Angels, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic and Big Pulp. His published novels are Elijah's Chariot and On the Eighth Day, God Created Trilby Richardson.

TRACIE MCBRIDE is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 80 print and electronic publications, including Horror Library Vols 4 and 5, Dead Red Heart, Phobophobia, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and Horror for Good. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2008. She helps to wrangle slush for Dark Moon Digest and is the vice president of Dark Continents Publishing. She welcomes visitors to her blog at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.....

CAROLE ANN MOLETI lives and works as a nurse-midwife in New York City, thus explaining her fascination with all things paranormal, urban fantasy, and space opera. Her work has appeared in a variety of speculative fiction venues including Lightspeed, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Tangent Online, The Portal, and The Fix. Other stories set in the world of her novels are featured in Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft and Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires. Follow her on Twitter @Cmoleti, Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carole-...) or her blog (http://caroleannmoleti.blogspot.com).

JACK NICHOLLS lives in Melbourne, Australia, where on most nights he cannot see the stars at all. He is a graduate of Clarion West 2011, where this story was written. It was first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies 101.His other fantasy fiction has appeared in Aurealis 54 (link: http://www.aurealis.com.au/issues.php...) and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 56 (link:http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/asi...).

MOHANALAKSHMI RAJAKUMAR is a South Asian American who has lived in Qatar since 2005. Moving to the Arabian Desert was fortuitous in many ways since this is where she met her husband, had a baby, and made the transition from writing as a hobby to a full time passion. She has since published five e-books including a mom-ior for first time mothers, Mommy But Still Me, a guide for aspiring writers, So You Want to Sell a Million Copies, a short story collection, Coloured and Other Stories, and a novel about women’s friendships, Saving Peace. Most recently, From Dunes to Dior, is a collection of essays related to her experiences as a female South Asian American living in the Arabian Gulf. After she joined the e-book revolution, she dreams in plotlines. Learn more about her work on her website at www.mohanalakshmi.com or follow her latest on Twitter: @moha_doha.

DEBORAH WALKER grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog: http://deborahwalkersbibliography.blo... Her stories have appeared in Nature's Futures, Cosmos, Enchanted Conversation and in The Year's Best SF 18.