Harvey’s Comments (group member since Dec 14, 2013)

Harvey’s comments from the Literally Aspiring group.

The Kindle edition of The Bad Box will be just $.99 until 10/03.

Sarah Temple hopes to find a bit of peace and quiet when she leaves her abusive boyfriend, but instead she finds a world of horror. It’s bad enough that a sadistic serial killer and another maniac are both trying to murder her, but what’s worse is the mysterious Solitary One who controls both of them, a malevolent entity that the serial killer describes as a living darkness, a man and yet not a man, something that’s alive and yet not alive, something that wants to appall the world.

Trying to flee from the two killers, Sarah finds herself running deeper and deeper into a deadly supernatural trap, a place where people are buried alive, where ghastly apparitions mutter in the dark, where demented killers prowl, where a crumbling haunted house can drive its victims mad with terror, and where something buried for a very long time may walk again.

My new novel, Demon Frenzy, just came out on Kindle and will be $.99 for a limited time. If you enjoyed The Bad Box or The House of Worms, I'm sure you like this one too.

Sometimes going home again is a lot like going to hell.

Demon Frenzy Searching for her lost brother, Amy Jackson returns to her isolated hometown in the Appalachian Mountains. But Blackwood has changed. Now it’s run by a mysterious drug lord who has something more lethal than guns to protect him. He has demons—more vicious, venomous demons than even Hieronymus Bosch ever dreamed of—and after Amy witnesses an unspeakable atrocity he unleashes all the frenzied furies of hell against her. Soon she is stalked by snakewalkers, herky-jerkies, toadfaces, listeners, harpies, centicreepers, and the sinister crying man, who weeps while he torments his victims.

Jim wrote: "one opinion is as good as another."

I can't agree. Some reviews are thoughtful and intelligent, and some reviews are simply idiotic. Writers need to have thick skin, of course, and while I agree that we can learn something worthwhile from some reviews, some others are of value only as toilet paper.

THE HOUSE OF WORMS will be .99 in the UK from 1-10 through 1-16.

Dexter Radcliff’s elderly great-aunt owns an ancient Native American artifact called the Talking Horn that allows one to speak with the dead, and when Dexter’s carelessness causes the Horn to be stolen he is plunged into a nightmarish struggle with the Lost Society, a vast narco-terrorist network of occult assassins led by a dead sorcerer. But Dexter’s problems have just begun—soon he will have to contend with parasitic brain-eating worms, sinister Longevitals who can live a very long time thanks to a hermetic treatment, a “Twisted Zoo” containing among its horrific exhibits Dexter’s murderous atavistic twin, “spectreholes” that open spectral doorways to other worlds, and a hellish monstrosity older than mankind that is preparing to return to earth and return earth to primordial chaos.

This grisly novel is not for the timid. The first chapter entices the readers like a bloody fishing lure, and each following chapter drags them deeper and deeper into a swirling maelstrom of horror.

The House of Worms

Hope you will give self-pubbing a try, Brittney.

I participate in threads that interest me and I always reply when GR friends send me messages. Sometimes private messages will turn into a lengthy conversation, sometimes not. My GR friends are much like my FB friends: some of them like to keep up a fair amount of private conversation and some don't. I belong to several groups and, like GG, I read a lot of posts in those groups but don't always join in. I haven't seen any overly aggressive self-promotion in any of those groups, but maybe I haven't been paying attention.

I need privacy, relative silence (no TV!), coffee if it's early in the day, sour mash bourbon if it's late in the day, and some ideas that excite me all the way to the marrow of my bones. Unfortunately ideas aren't quite as easy to come by as coffee.

Hey, Courtney, thanks for the invite. I have self-pubbed a couple of horror novels in both paperback and Kindle formats, and I'm learning that self-pubbing isn't an easy road to fame and riches. I have a couple other more-or-less finished books sitting around here that I'll probably self-pub as well, though neither one is horror so I'm afraid they may confuse the (few) fans of my horror novels. One of them is a children's book, and I need to find a good illustrator before I send it out to meet the public.

I have an exciting (to me at least!) idea for a new horror novel, but I'm going to have to wait until this holiday confusion is over before starting it. It takes me a long time to write a novel because I work through many revisions and rewrites before I'm satisfied, so the new one may take the better part of a year before it's ready.

If anyone's interested, here are the two I've published:

The House of Worms

The Bad Box