A. Rosaria's Blog, page 10
January 20, 2012
Website Offline
My website www.alexrosaria.com is not accessible. I sent a ticket to my host provider to resolve the issue. I hope to be online soon again.
I noticed it being down because I wanted to update my site with my just published short story "Death's Given Chance".
I noticed it being down because I wanted to update my site with my just published short story "Death's Given Chance".
January 16, 2012
Book Review: The Congregation by Aric Mitchell
About the Author:
Aric Mitchell is a young man with a love for horror fiction, and writer of the novel "Bearcats All the Way" a high school football fable inspired by a real life tragedy. The congregation is his first full length horror novel.
You can find more about him on his own site.
My review:
One drawback of reviewing a story a long time (About a month) after reading it, is that you will forget a lot of what happened in the story. (Heck I even forget stories I wrote myself) The congregation...
January 6, 2012
Gone World
What we feared happened, World War III happened, Nuclear war happened.
In its aftermath the world has been left in rubble, with pocket of resistance fighters still fighting the good fight against the invaders, the Sino-Russian Alliance.
Nick and Tina, two rebels, just having escaped an ambush, need to find a way to escape the area cordoned of by the invaders.
Will they get out? Will Nick and Tina, manage to do deal with the hopelessness of it all, surviving in a gone world?
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I released my shor...
January 3, 2012
2012 A new year, new beginnings.
A belated Happy 2012. :D
I've been so busy that the passing of the year been a blur to me. I almost slept into the New Year, if not for my wife waking me up at 2357 hours. It was a blur, a blur, of our dog howling and barking, us drinking non alcoholic champagne and eating snacks. It was fun (not so for the dog), but within the hour I was sleeping again.
The days before I've been writing like crazy, I did 8000 words in two days, finishing a short story. Since then I've been revising the story t...
I've been so busy that the passing of the year been a blur to me. I almost slept into the New Year, if not for my wife waking me up at 2357 hours. It was a blur, a blur, of our dog howling and barking, us drinking non alcoholic champagne and eating snacks. It was fun (not so for the dog), but within the hour I was sleeping again.
The days before I've been writing like crazy, I did 8000 words in two days, finishing a short story. Since then I've been revising the story t...
December 26, 2011
New Short Story: ABSENTIS
I released my short story Absentis on smashword. It's the first completed for my challenge to write 20 short stories in a year time.
As promised, I've made it available for free to followers of my website, blog, and twitter for a period of 7 days.
With this coupon code you can get a copy:
Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: CQ23A
Expires: January 1, 201
I would appreciate it if you left a review on Smashwords, Amazon, or your own blog.
December 22, 2011
December 9, 2011
Book Review: Vs. Reality by Blake Northcott
About the Author:
Blake Northcott is a young woman, with a variety of interest, a few are comic books and writing. You can get all the details about her from her website.
A while ago she gifted her e-book Vs. Reality and I managed to get a copy. The least I could do in return was write a small review, I wanted to write a longer one but I felt I would give away too much about the story and that would be a shame.
My review:
The story is action packed, well written, and sure it does have its cliches...
October 30, 2011
A CHALLENGE
I regularly read Dean Wesley Smith's blog. His blog is great to get a better understanding of the publishing world, it helped me immensely with choosing the path I'm following in my own writing career.
He set a challenge for himself, and here follows a quote from Dean Wesley Smith on his blog about his challenge for 2011
"The challenge I have set for myself is simple: 100 new stories written from titles and put up electronically in one year."
I got thinking about this challenge and thought that ...
He set a challenge for himself, and here follows a quote from Dean Wesley Smith on his blog about his challenge for 2011
"The challenge I have set for myself is simple: 100 new stories written from titles and put up electronically in one year."
I got thinking about this challenge and thought that ...
October 20, 2011
Vacation Time
Finally my family succeeded in convincing me to go on a vacation. I'll be in Portugal for a few days.
Being in another area is the ideal moment for creativity to flourish, with everything new around I expect it to go naturally. I'll take advantage of this fact (well maybe it only applies to me) and will write a short story, and maybe if time allows, a chapter or two of a new novel I'm writing.
On my return I'll have an announcement to make.
Being in another area is the ideal moment for creativity to flourish, with everything new around I expect it to go naturally. I'll take advantage of this fact (well maybe it only applies to me) and will write a short story, and maybe if time allows, a chapter or two of a new novel I'm writing.
On my return I'll have an announcement to make.
October 3, 2011
Walk the devil dog
I walk my dog (well more my wives dog) every evening at sunset. He can be a real sweet dog, attentive, nice, and in my wives words; cute. Not when I go walk him, he becomes a little compulsive obsessed adrenaline filled dog, that doesn't understand that when leashed he can't go beyond the line. If you are not careful he will carry you to every bush and tree to pee at it, even if he is out of urine to pee. He pees air, this dog raises his leg and pee air. He'll stand like that wasting ten seco...
