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Dead Quarantine

Dead Quarantine my zombie apocalypse survival horror novel just got published on Amazon.com. Before I wrote Dead Quarantine I wrote two other novel length horror stories which I didn't publish because they were not good enough. They need a major rewrite and maybe I need to fuse them together into one novel before I even think about publishing them. Maybe this will be my New Year's resolution.

Back to Dead Quarantine; I wrote the story during Nanowrimo, the first draft I finished in two weeks,...

Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you spend a lovely and happy day with your family and friends. My wish for this day and every day after this one is that for each day may be a happy one in which we celebrate life. It would do us good to be festive every single day. Less fighting, more loving.

December 21st, The Mayas, The day I almost touched Wool.

This week I've been (lightly) promoting a free book of mine. First just to get the story out and known to the readers (love you guys) out there, but then when the story placed 90+ in the Short Story ranking on Amazon and I saw Whool ranked second in that category, I got the urge (obsession maybe?) to reach that spot before the alleged end of the world which the Maya supposedly predicted.

I just assume since the Spanish in the far past killed most Mayas and with them all the Maya calendar maker...

Escape (Gone World) Free Short Story

I recently got Gone World copy-edited and updated to address some concerns readers had. This is an improved version and free at Smashwords/Kobo/Amazon.

Description:

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 cor...

"F.C.F. That Within" For Sale.

F.C.F. That Within a novelette of about sixty pages is for sale at Smashwords. You can get it for $0.99 instead of $2.99 saving yourself two bucks.

Promotional price: $0.99
Coupon Code: XR73F
Expires: January 1, 201


What a reviewer had to say:

"F.C.F. That Within is a one-night-read with a vengeful plot and enough nasty bug-mutants to keep your imagination flowing. Alex Rosaria writes with gritty, crisp descriptions that echo the grim desolation of his characters and setting. He delivers on his a...

Nanowrimo + Book Cover

I may have mentioned before that I would do Nanowrimo this November. Well I did and within twelve days I wrote a 50k word novel, two days before my own set deadline. It's not that I write fast, I actually did write very slow. I went at an average pace of 600 wpm. What I did was write a lot each day I wrote like 83+ hours in 12 days. I did most of my writing early in the morning and in the evenings, averaging around 4k words a day.

Sure the first draft wasn't ready yet. I spend an additional 16...

Touch Typing

A long, long, long time ago, when I was barely a teenager. My father bought me and my brother our first Gateway PC. It came in a cow pattern box. It was a neat thing. My brother about two years older installed everything, He could read a manual very well. I don't do the read manual thing. Anyway in the package we got an Encarta Encyclopedia, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, and some other stuff I forgot about.

I wanted to learn to type. So I tried. I tried for a week and gave up. I developed my ow...

Update: Escape (Gone World)

I've recently made a new cover for Escape (Gone World) and I made the short story free on smashwords.

New cover:



Link to free ebook on smashwords:

Escape (Gone World)

Udate: Escape (Gone World)

I've recently made a new cover for Escape (Gone World) and I made the short story free on smashwords.

New cover:



Link to free ebook on smashwords:

Escape (Gone World)

Damnation (Maiden-At-Arms)

 Lady Christine D’Ang just turned sixteen, and tired of her privileged life she desires something else, something forbidden to her—love.

Despite her father's order, she leaves the castle in search of a young man she's smitten with, but instead of him, she finds herself accosted by Eadric, a young knight and suitor to her elder sister, Lyna, and she meets an eccentric stranger.

Her pursuit for love and happiness leads her to disappointment, followed by betrayal, and ends in a decision that...