Catching Up

I decided to do another giveaway for Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume I after doing an author event here in town featuring that book and the other two in the series, plus Medea and Halloween Story, a young adult novel and a young reader book written under my pseudonym Victoria Bell. It's the perfect time of year to read supernatural/suspense stories.

I submitted this year's Halloween story, You Can't Go Home Again, to saugus.net's annual Halloween story contest. In 2014 Blackstone's Menagerie, a story published in Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume I, won second place in the adult category (other categories are high school, college, etc) Blackstone was originally written under Victoria Bell but then I decided to use my real name for my adult fiction and my pseudonym for young adult and young reader books.

Now I'm getting ready for another brief appearance and reading at Russell Atwood's Ghost Stories LIVE on October 29th at Blue Umbrella Books. He's asked me to read from one of my stories, so I chose McCleary's Haunt set in an Irish pub. It's about a ghost that haunts the basement of the pub who likes to pinch the bar girls/servers who have to go down to the cellar to get supplies.

The sequel to Black King Takes White Queen is taking shape. It's maybe half written. I seldom go back and rewrite unless I scrap an entire novel and start over. This one might require some inserts of material here and there, but I won't be entirely certain of that until I do the first read through once I'm done.

NaNoWriMo is rapidly approaching. I have a NaNo novel idea in mind for 2016. It will be a contemporary novel based on a novella in Always Christmas in My Heart called The Winter Solstice Ball. The setting is an old grand resort hotel on the coast of Maine. I have to go t the NaNo site tonight and plug in the info for this year's Novel Writing challenge so I'm ready to go when November 1st arrives!

I love autumn! It energizes me!