Sarah E. England's Blog, page 5
January 23, 2016
News for January 2016
My news for January:
Well first I am a member of Authors Reach
- this is a group of 5 authors who have got together to bring our books directly to readers. There is a separate page on my blog: http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo... - and our website is http://www.authorsreach.co.uk
The news is that we met up this week - well four of us did because Catriona lives in Northern Ireland. So Shani Struthers, myself, Gina Dickerson and Richard Hardie finally got together and discussed our plans! Hopefully next time all five of us will be able to meet. This was a first for me, though!
So what's the significance of Authors Reach? Well we are all writers who have been published by various publishing companies and media, but who have ventured into self-publishing and promotion because of the flexibility and autonomy it gives us. Some of us still have some books with small publishing companies and some of us are in the process of self-publishing all of them. The main thing is we are in the process of bringing professional level books to readers and booksellers directly....exciting times!
Occult Horror
Finally, I am cracking on with the sequel to Father of Lies. This is going to be called, 'Tanners Dell' and having thoroughly enjoyed, and been shocked, by the research involved, I am really writing quickly now as I get into it. I'm not going to give a thing away except that it's going to be much darker and a lot more scary...largely because I'm keeping the line between what is happening and what really could happen, a thin one! I'll keep you posted!
Meanwhile, reviews are coming in for Father of Lies, and I am pleased to say that many readers are saying they've been suitably terrified! Underlying it all, is a most serious issue of course, and I hope that I can manage to convey that with the full impact it deserves.
Whilst writing I've been advised to wear a black tourmaline. I also wear a cross.. well, you never know...
Now back to work...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Well first I am a member of Authors Reach
- this is a group of 5 authors who have got together to bring our books directly to readers. There is a separate page on my blog: http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo... - and our website is http://www.authorsreach.co.uk
The news is that we met up this week - well four of us did because Catriona lives in Northern Ireland. So Shani Struthers, myself, Gina Dickerson and Richard Hardie finally got together and discussed our plans! Hopefully next time all five of us will be able to meet. This was a first for me, though!
So what's the significance of Authors Reach? Well we are all writers who have been published by various publishing companies and media, but who have ventured into self-publishing and promotion because of the flexibility and autonomy it gives us. Some of us still have some books with small publishing companies and some of us are in the process of self-publishing all of them. The main thing is we are in the process of bringing professional level books to readers and booksellers directly....exciting times!
Occult Horror
Finally, I am cracking on with the sequel to Father of Lies. This is going to be called, 'Tanners Dell' and having thoroughly enjoyed, and been shocked, by the research involved, I am really writing quickly now as I get into it. I'm not going to give a thing away except that it's going to be much darker and a lot more scary...largely because I'm keeping the line between what is happening and what really could happen, a thin one! I'll keep you posted!
Meanwhile, reviews are coming in for Father of Lies, and I am pleased to say that many readers are saying they've been suitably terrified! Underlying it all, is a most serious issue of course, and I hope that I can manage to convey that with the full impact it deserves.
Whilst writing I've been advised to wear a black tourmaline. I also wear a cross.. well, you never know...
Now back to work...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
January 8, 2016
The Sequel
Well I am now hard at work with the sequel to Father of Lies. And the amazon kindle select countdown promotion of 99c/99p ends at midnight, so I hope that encouraged some new readers and that they're keen for more! I hope so because that's why I do this...that and fascination with the occult, and because there is someone I started out wanting to help.
Here is the link to amazon.com - http://authl.it/4i8?d and the direct link for amazon uk is http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015NCZYKU
So the sequel... ok well if you read Father of Lies you will know that the Father of Lies is still at large. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read the book, but suffice to say I left a few people suffering - so what will happen to them now? My research is now veering away from the medical and towards some pretty evil witchcraft as we get down and dirty with what's really going on in Woodsend Village; so with that in mind the next book will be a lot darker....
I will be back soon, but please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments, and I'll respond as soon as I can. Happy New Year to everyone - may all your wishes come true with sprinkles on!
http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Here is the link to amazon.com - http://authl.it/4i8?d and the direct link for amazon uk is http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015NCZYKU
So the sequel... ok well if you read Father of Lies you will know that the Father of Lies is still at large. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read the book, but suffice to say I left a few people suffering - so what will happen to them now? My research is now veering away from the medical and towards some pretty evil witchcraft as we get down and dirty with what's really going on in Woodsend Village; so with that in mind the next book will be a lot darker....
I will be back soon, but please feel free to leave your thoughts and comments, and I'll respond as soon as I can. Happy New Year to everyone - may all your wishes come true with sprinkles on!
http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
January 2, 2016
Happy New Year and Enjoy a 99c/99p Spooky Read!
Happy New Year! I hope 2016 brings everyone reading this a happy and healthy one...with a little stardust thrown in.
To start off the year I have set up a kindle countdown on my supernatural horror novel, Father of Lies. It is 99p or 99c on Amazon for the first week of January, starting today.
http://authl.it/4i8?d
Father of Lies is a very dark read. It is set in an asylum on the bleak moors of northern England and includes satanism and witchcraft...not for the faint hearted! 25 reviews on Amazon UK and 17 on Amazon US, it was launched 3 months ago and a sequel is underway. Enjoy! Oh.. and best not read alone... :)
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
To start off the year I have set up a kindle countdown on my supernatural horror novel, Father of Lies. It is 99p or 99c on Amazon for the first week of January, starting today.
http://authl.it/4i8?d
Father of Lies is a very dark read. It is set in an asylum on the bleak moors of northern England and includes satanism and witchcraft...not for the faint hearted! 25 reviews on Amazon UK and 17 on Amazon US, it was launched 3 months ago and a sequel is underway. Enjoy! Oh.. and best not read alone... :)
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
December 22, 2015
Creepy Christmas!
Fancy a darkly different paranormal horror to read?
Here is an extract from Father of Lies, which is set in an asylum on the bleak moors of northern England. If you would like to read more extracts then please click on my blog link to find more!
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Prologue
Something woke him. His eyes snapped open. Heart slamming against his ribcage.
Beside him, Jack’s wife slept deeply, silently.
His ears strained into the darkness. Who or what was there?
Seconds passed. Nothing. It had been nothing. He slumped back against the pillows. A bad dream, then? Just a nightmare, that was all…thank God. Nothing to worry about.
Once more, sleep dragged him down into heavy-limbed oblivion, and he began to sink gratefully into its depths. The warmth of the bed. The lead of exhaustion in his bones.
Then came a tiny tap - barely discernible, but definitely there - perhaps simply branches scratching against the bedroom window, though? Yes, that would be it.
He kept his eyes shut, not wanting this, a tiny part of his brain on alert: should he get out of bed? Just to make sure? What if one of the kids was wandering around? If only his dead legs would move. So tired…
God, it was unbelievably dark in here. Was it usually like this? Such blackness? Like a porthole ripped into the night - the entry to an eternal abyss - with no air. Sweat clotted on his skin. November. Should be cold, right? Maybe he was ill? Had a temperature?
High on the wall above him, the time glowed in digital green. It was 3 a.m.
http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
Father of Lies3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Here is an extract from Father of Lies, which is set in an asylum on the bleak moors of northern England. If you would like to read more extracts then please click on my blog link to find more!
****
Prologue
Something woke him. His eyes snapped open. Heart slamming against his ribcage.
Beside him, Jack’s wife slept deeply, silently.
His ears strained into the darkness. Who or what was there?
Seconds passed. Nothing. It had been nothing. He slumped back against the pillows. A bad dream, then? Just a nightmare, that was all…thank God. Nothing to worry about.
Once more, sleep dragged him down into heavy-limbed oblivion, and he began to sink gratefully into its depths. The warmth of the bed. The lead of exhaustion in his bones.
Then came a tiny tap - barely discernible, but definitely there - perhaps simply branches scratching against the bedroom window, though? Yes, that would be it.
He kept his eyes shut, not wanting this, a tiny part of his brain on alert: should he get out of bed? Just to make sure? What if one of the kids was wandering around? If only his dead legs would move. So tired…
God, it was unbelievably dark in here. Was it usually like this? Such blackness? Like a porthole ripped into the night - the entry to an eternal abyss - with no air. Sweat clotted on his skin. November. Should be cold, right? Maybe he was ill? Had a temperature?
High on the wall above him, the time glowed in digital green. It was 3 a.m.
http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
Father of Lies3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
December 20, 2015
Christmas is different on the dark side...
Like spooky supernatural horror? Here is an extract from Father of Lies, set in an asylum on the bleak moors of northern England. Christmas really isn't the same in the land of supernatural horror...
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Ruby’s singing tailed off as she turned to look at Becky with a puzzled expression. Then abruptly she faced the window again and began to hum - a loud, monotonous, ‘mmmmmmmmm’ - which rose in volume and tone, along with an increasingly violent rocking motion, so that her head kept hitting the wall behind with a sickening crack.
Working herself up again, Becky thought. God, what on earth had made this woman this way? Somehow she’d functioned in the outside world for over twenty-five years before she’d put herself on the radar with an attempted murder charge, and made it to the unit. Now twenty-seven, and sometimes as rational as the next person, it was clear she’d been seriously damaged at some point in her life. But who could help her if she wouldn’t talk? And with no known relatives and no identity, it was all the more a mystery. Who was she and where had she come from?
But to ask…again…and risk the wrath of the raging monster within…well not today! And definitely not alone. Best to try and calm her down before she did herself an injury. Becky’s hand hovered over the panic alarm she kept on her person at all times: if she touched Ruby in an effort to stop her from harming herself, the situation could escalate in any number of ways and she’d need help.
Outside, the insidious mizzle from the moors had darkened the evening to a foggy gloom, reflecting the women’s ghostly faces in the window; an oblong of buttery light bathing the sodden lawn. Ruby’s rocking was escalating, the humming reaching jet-engine proportions.
Becky kept her voice low and even. “Ruby? It’s Becky. Would you like some tea? We’ve got chocolate digestives today! Come on, love, you’re hitting your head. There’s a good girl.”
The humming ceased unexpectedly.
Ruby swung round. The stare blank. Eyes dead.
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If you would like to know more, please visit my blog today! http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays, and remember to keep the lights on when you go to sleep...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
December 8, 2015
Supernatural Horror!
Following the launch of my first supernatural horror novel, Father of Lies, I now have a blogspot, a website, a facebook author page and a google page with a new streamlined look. I hope you like it.
Blog - http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspot - this will have the links to all the other pages too... plus an excerpt and a book description.
Currently I am working on the final part of a mystery serial for My Weekly magazine, that hopefully will be out in January or February. And I'm also working on the sequel to Father of Lies. Father of Lies was my first solo project and as such has had amendments made to it. If you enjoy chilling, thought-provoking paranormal fiction, then I hope you will be suitably terrified by this one!
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
November 20, 2015
Happy Holidays! Extract post from creepy new supernatural novel 'Father of Lies'
Extract from Supernatural Horror Novel, Father of Lies by S. E. England
It was only four o’clock but the light had faded to a purple dusk. Becky waited at the bus stop. The wind whipped sharply round her legs, cutting into her back through the thin jacket she wore. Behind her, miles of barren moor land. To each side, a grey and empty highway; and in front - the lights of Drummersgate Hospital: a galley ship in the rolling fog of a November afternoon. It had been a long and draining day.
The fog was closing in now, quickly enveloping her in its squally mizzle. She stamped her feet, trying hard not to recall the ghost stories they’d all laughed about in the dry warm safety of the staff room. Circles of ethereal children seen dancing on the highway, faces ravaged with bubonic plague....
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Father of Lies is set on the bleak Derbyshire moors in northern England..where a highly disturbed psychiatric patient is hypnotised as a last resort - with horrific consequences for the medical team...
More on my blog: http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
And download is just £1.99 or $2.99 on amazon select ..
'...boy did this pack a punch and scare me witless...'
Father of Lies
It was only four o’clock but the light had faded to a purple dusk. Becky waited at the bus stop. The wind whipped sharply round her legs, cutting into her back through the thin jacket she wore. Behind her, miles of barren moor land. To each side, a grey and empty highway; and in front - the lights of Drummersgate Hospital: a galley ship in the rolling fog of a November afternoon. It had been a long and draining day.
The fog was closing in now, quickly enveloping her in its squally mizzle. She stamped her feet, trying hard not to recall the ghost stories they’d all laughed about in the dry warm safety of the staff room. Circles of ethereal children seen dancing on the highway, faces ravaged with bubonic plague....
***********
Father of Lies is set on the bleak Derbyshire moors in northern England..where a highly disturbed psychiatric patient is hypnotised as a last resort - with horrific consequences for the medical team...
More on my blog: http://www.sarahenglandauthor.blogspo...
And download is just £1.99 or $2.99 on amazon select ..
'...boy did this pack a punch and scare me witless...'
Father of Lies
November 1, 2015
Halloween Weekend - 3am and Wide Awake
3am and Wide Awake is a collection of tales from the darker side of life... find out what happens to the girl who took 'The Last Bus Home' (omg there's something wrong with the driver...) or the woman who took online revenge on a work colleague...and why is a top surgeon haunted by a dead woman..is he losing his mind or is she real?
There is some bad language in 'The Extractor' but then I'd defy anyone not to swear in the circumstances!
Mostly though, these are stories that will lead you into the darker part of the woods...and hopefully creep under your skin...sleep tight!
Oh - bit of factual info - the collection is on kindle countdown for a week so just 99c or 99p - starts today. Most of the stories have been previously published in various magazines or anthologies, and some are new. I hope you enjoy dipping in and out of these little horrors anyway...
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Father of Lies
There is some bad language in 'The Extractor' but then I'd defy anyone not to swear in the circumstances!
Mostly though, these are stories that will lead you into the darker part of the woods...and hopefully creep under your skin...sleep tight!
Oh - bit of factual info - the collection is on kindle countdown for a week so just 99c or 99p - starts today. Most of the stories have been previously published in various magazines or anthologies, and some are new. I hope you enjoy dipping in and out of these little horrors anyway...
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Father of Lies
October 29, 2015
Horror for Halloween at 99c
Well there is one more day at the special launch price of 99c and 99p on amazon kindle for brand new chiller 'Father of Lies' - now in the top 20 in horror/occult.. chance to try? Let me tell you a bit more...
Father of Lies was launched just a month ago and is now in the top 20 in its genre of horror/occult on amazon in the USA and the UK.
The price of 99p and 99c was for a one week promotion and ends at midnight... so it's a good chance to download a horror/occult novel from an author you probably don't know about...
I have been writing for many years but this is my first novel in this genre - and I really had to do it! Why? Well I have a background working in psychiatry, an unhealthy interest in the occult, and I met a lady with multiple personality disorder who broke my heart with her story...
It's set in the bleak Derbyshire moors where I spent most of my life... and I've been told it is gripping and chilling...
Like to hear more? Please see my page and books with all the links right here on goodreads... thank you so much and happy Halloween! Sleep tight....
Oh - and if you pop over to our Scary Dip facebook event you could win a copy of '3am and Wide Awake'...
https://www.facebook.com/events/16446...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Father of Lies was launched just a month ago and is now in the top 20 in its genre of horror/occult on amazon in the USA and the UK.
The price of 99p and 99c was for a one week promotion and ends at midnight... so it's a good chance to download a horror/occult novel from an author you probably don't know about...
I have been writing for many years but this is my first novel in this genre - and I really had to do it! Why? Well I have a background working in psychiatry, an unhealthy interest in the occult, and I met a lady with multiple personality disorder who broke my heart with her story...
It's set in the bleak Derbyshire moors where I spent most of my life... and I've been told it is gripping and chilling...
Like to hear more? Please see my page and books with all the links right here on goodreads... thank you so much and happy Halloween! Sleep tight....
Oh - and if you pop over to our Scary Dip facebook event you could win a copy of '3am and Wide Awake'...
https://www.facebook.com/events/16446...
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
October 18, 2015
Scary Halloween Dip starts today!
https://www.facebook.com/events/16446...
Starts today!
A Scary Halloween Dip - that's a rafflecopter over 2 weeks. 5 Authors are hosting a 2 week giveaway of a prize a day - either a paperback in crime/fantasy/supernatural horror/paranormal or YA Detective ......
Or... a mini book necklace on a ribbon.. each day will be a surprise! So why not join and then just dip in and see if there's something you'd like to win each day. From now to Halloween!
This is also a chance for readers to connect with authors of all genres and we'd love to see you!
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
Starts today!
A Scary Halloween Dip - that's a rafflecopter over 2 weeks. 5 Authors are hosting a 2 week giveaway of a prize a day - either a paperback in crime/fantasy/supernatural horror/paranormal or YA Detective ......
Or... a mini book necklace on a ribbon.. each day will be a surprise! So why not join and then just dip in and see if there's something you'd like to win each day. From now to Halloween!
This is also a chance for readers to connect with authors of all genres and we'd love to see you!
Father of Lies
3am and Wide Awake: 25 Tales from the Dark Side...
