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We'll see how well this goes.

I fought it as best as I could, and I'm still not completely sure if I will keep it going. That's right, I finally broke down and opened up my twitter account.

I'm not the most social creature on the planet, so I am not sure how this will pan out. I may end up canceling it just as I did before. So here it is: http://twitter.com/CVHunt

I don't have much to say, but I think I will use it to announce coupon codes.

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Book Review: The Last to Fall by Glynn James

The Last to Fall by Glynn James



My rating: 5 of 5 star
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REVIEW: Fascinating and mesmerizing! The story keeps getting better and better.

Joseph Dean comes from our world, but he has chosen a mission in an alternative world when he finds himself with nothing left lose.

The author does another splendid job of storytelling as the narrator tells his son of his adventures across an invisible thresh hold to another world. These books that Glynn James writes know how to captivate my attention and pull me into the story. He does a fantastic job of painting a vivid picture of strange worlds filled with unusual creatures.

I highly recommend.

ABOUT: In 1926 Joseph Dean was just getting ready to hang himself when the man named Joshua stepped into his cafe and changed his life.
He made Joe an offer - one that would mean travelling through the door to another world to find something that had been lost for nearly two hundred years.
Joe would discover a lot more than that in the years that followed.

The Last to Fall is a Dark Fantasy novella of 20000 words and the first in the series of Joe's travels in another world.

For anyone who has read Chasing Spirits, this is a chance to hear a familiar voice once more.
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Book Review: Chasing Spirits by Glynn James

Chasing Spirits by Glynn James

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
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REVIEW:

The protagonist takes us on a journey of an ordinary life filled with unusual and unexplainable events.

The writer does a wonderful job. This is the second book that I have read by Glynn James, and I am reading another of his work now. He has great way of telling stories in a diary type fashion that sucks you in.

I highly recommend his books to people that love the first person POV like I do, and for those that are looking for a different kind of read.

ABOUT:

There is an old man sitting in a bed on Angel ward, telling stories. He says he has to tell someone, because he is dying. He says he doesn't care if you believe the tales are true or not, because he is not sure that half of them ever happened at all. 

Reg Weldon claims that he has seen things that would make your spine shiver and your skin crawl. 

He claims a lot of things... 

"I was born four seconds before the strike of midnight, on the 31st December 1900. As far as I know that makes me the last person to be born in that century. My mother, god bless her soul, she may well have been the first person to die in the century that followed, because no sooner had I taken my first breath, than she took her last." 

The Memoirs of Reginald Weldon is a Horror Fantasy novel.

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Last giveaway before the sequel is released.

As of yet I do not have a date nailed down for the release of Legacy. I'm sure with the way this are going it will be very short notice. I keep getting asked, but I don't want to throw a date out there and then not meet it. Endlessly got pushed back almost two months from my original release date, and I do not want to do that to the readers again. But I will say this, if you have not had a chance to read Endlessly, this is your last chance giveaway. Good luck to all that enter and have a great weekend.
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Book Review: The Unwashed Dead by Ian Woodhead

The Unwashed dead by Ian Woodhead

My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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REVIEW:

If I could sum it up in one word – meh. It was your average slash and dash zombie book. The content wasn't horrible, but I think the zombie story seems to be the same no matter what book you read. I personally am looking for something different and I just haven't found it yet.

The plus side of the book is that it was action packed. Everything seemed to tumble right along, and I found myself looking at each chapter as if it were a short story. The gore and creativity of killing the undead was good.

The down side for me and my personal tastes: I couldn't get a feel for any of the characters. There was a lack of a physical description for all of the characters, and it kept me from creating the image in my mind that would have me latching on to them. There were quite a few punctuation typos also that bothered me; I wasn't sure if it was just the download that I got or not. It made it difficult to read with missing quotations around dialect.

I think people who enjoy playing video games that pertain to killing zombies would enjoy this. There seemed to be an abundance of overzealous characters celebrating the apocalypse and the justified actions of killing people.

ABOUT:

In a rundown council estate in the North of England strange things are happening. The dead suddenly are not quite as dead as they should be......

A mysterious government body has decided to use the estate as an experiment. Things are out of control & now they need to eradicate all knowledge & existence of the estate

But what happens when a small group of survivors band together? Will they survive the apocalypse & triumph over the undead?

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Book Review: Ivory by Steve Merrifield

Ivory by Steve Merrifield

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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REVIEW:

Everything is not what it seems.

I liked this book. It had a strange and unreal story to it, but it was combined with our reality. Being a painter I could find the obsession in the beauty that Martin had, but I felt his character was sort of distant from the reader. I believe it is because I prefer first person POV.

The story was original, and once Martin is aware of an alternative reality, it gets even better. I've said it before; if the writer can make my stomach churn, they've done a good job. When the final scene was played out it made me queasy.

Good job Steve Merrifield, I look forward to ready more of your writing.

ABOUT:

Martin Roberts has made a successful career from painting, but is finding that his creativity is slipping away - stifled by his family life. That is until he is responsible for running a teenage girl down in his car. Miraculously the girl survives, but stranger than her lack of injuries is her striking physical appearance; stark white hair and skin, and jet black eyes. Being mute her condition and background remains a mystery, but when a black blind man arrives to collect her from the hospital Martin learns that she is a prostitute and that he is her pimp. It should have been the last Martin saw of Ivory, but he finds that he is haunted by her look, she has stoked the embers of his creativity and he realizes he must paint her. He seeks her out in London's streets of vice, facing dangers of this world and another, pursuing an obsession that he learns has led to the deaths of countless others before him.

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The first chapter of Legacy now available to preview.

O.k. Endlessly fans, I have posted the first chapter of Legacy. I can not stress it enough: There are HUGE spoilers in Legacy's first chapter. You can view it at these two links:

http://authorcvhunt.blogspot.com/p/legacy.html

or

http://www.wix.com/scarycarrie1/legacypreview

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Skype interviews now available.

I kept putting this off, but it's finally here. I have bought a web cam and have set up a Skype account for anyone that would like to interview me.

I have done an online radio interview. I was also approached to do a television interview, but the station was in Florida. I live in Ohio. You see the problem. I thought to myself; If I had a Skype account I could have done an interview with that method for their show. So I have finally broke down and bought a crappy web cam with microphone to do so.

If you are interested, be patient with me I'm still learning how to use it. You can contact me at verloren@authorcvhunt.com to set an interview up if you like. Just remember, I sort of live on the graveyard shift.

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Doubt.

     The following is just some random musings from me. It's just a little something for those of you that like to get inside of the author's brain.      The topic of my jumbled thoughts today is: Doubt.       What a horrible monster Doubt is, he's always hanging on you and eating at your confidence. He ranks right up there with Worry and Stress. If you really think about it, I believe Doubt is the child of Worry and Stress.      I find it slightly humorous that my husband has become my confessional coach. I tell him about my monster Doubt during my confessionals. Last night, this was my confession:     "Someone will approach me, and they'll ask, "Hey, are you the girl that wrote a book?", and in that moment, I regret that I ever wrote it." I said, hanging my head.     "Why do you say that?" He asked, looking concerned.      "I don't know. It's just… I've worked so hard, and taken every bit of advice, and pushed everything out there and I'm not getting a response. It makes me think that it's not that good.     "(Name protected) says that if you're good, they'll come to you. (Name protected) says their first book has been downloaded over 75000 times, although the download was free.     "Then I read an article that says people are reluctant to buy a book from a first time author, so I pushed up Legacy, even though I said I wouldn't publish it until I broke even with Endlessly. I'm still in the hole, and now I'm digging that hole deeper in the hopes that I still might break even. I never expected to become rich, I don't want that. I don't want to be famous; I just want to break even. I knew the odds going in weren't good. I didn't set the bar high because I didn't want to hit my head when I didn't even come close to clearing it.     "But there's a point where I'm asking myself – Is it really worth it? I mean… Legacy will happen, I already paid for it. There's no sense in not going through with it.     "I don't get it I guess. How can (Name protected) write a great review, stating "Better than (Name protected)" and still no one is reading it?     "It makes me think that it's not that great, and I'm starting to wonder if it's worth the trouble."     He replies. "(Name protected) buys his car parts at (Name protected); I've only bought one thing from them. You know why? Because I've never heard of them, I don't know what kind of warranty they have, or if they stand behind their parts. People don't know you; you need to get your name out there."     I sigh. "I know, but I've tried everything that I can think of. Facebook, a blog, forums, I spent (?$) mailing out all those book marks to book stores, and still nothing. They (the book stores) probably get crap like that all the time and throw it in the trash without even looking at it. I've done all that I can think of online, and I can't afford to advertise."     "Who would throw away a free book?" He asks.      "I didn't send any books," I replied. "Just the book marks. That's an idea though; they get a free book and 100% of the profit. They probably have rules about soliciting though, that's why I sent the stuff to mom and pop shops, but still…. I didn't send books because it costs me so much out of pocket to give away books, but then you add postage on top of that…and all the advertising in the world won't do any good if the book sucks."     (A reminder: to this day my husband has never read anything that I have written and I don't want him to. I really don't like for people I know to read the story, because I'm afraid they will lose respect for me if they don't like it. But, people that I know seem to be the only ones interested in it.)     "You just need to give it more time." He said. "All it will take is for the right person to read it."     "If I'm lucky." I respond.      "You should wrap it in Christmas paper when you mail it to reviewers."     I laughed, "Christmas paper?"     "Well hell yeah. If I got a bunch of packages every day, and I saw one wrapped like a present, I would open that one first. I would be like, "Holy cow, I got a present."     I laughed again, "I don't think it works that way."     (This is the monster Doubt that I am sure that most independent authors battle constantly.)     With this little clip of my life, I will add an update. It looks as though I will be getting some of the first few chapters of Legacy next week. I will post the first chapter as soon as I have reviewed it and given it a name. I don't name the chapters until after they have been edited.     Oh yeah, I added a page to this blog that contains my paintings. Enjoy.
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