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Curse of the Pigman
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August 2020 Group Read #2 with Guest Author, Asher Ellis
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Welcome Asher, congratulations on your book and looking forward to reading it myself.
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Thanks for joining us and for the Kindle Unlimited book choice!
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I hope you all enjoy the book, and if you have any questions (or just want to chat!) don't hesitate to ask. Happy reading! 🐷
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I read this a couple days early cause I couldn't wait. I love it! Absolutely "scrumptious" in the horror sense. My review is available but didn't spoiler, so beware.:)
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Kasia wrote: "I'm on page 27 and the creep factor is delicious."Only a horror writer would take "delicious creep factor" as a compliment!
Kenneth wrote: "Asher, can you tell us a little about how you became a writer and who your influences were?"Like many, my road to writing was long and winding, and it stretches all the way back to my childhood. From "Scary Stories to tell in the Dark" to "Goosebumps" to Stephen King to Leisure Fiction, my fate was pretty much sealed ;)
The influence of ol' Steve is often apparent in my work, Pigman being (I think) a shining example. I am also a screenwriter with a deep love for cinema, so often my prose stories are structured like films, even if that wasn't my conscious intent while writing them.
A more thorough answer to this question can be found in my interview on the Horror Show w/ Brian Keene, which is available to listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqKt_...
This is so fun. Some of the grotesquerie was simultaneously telegraphed and still impactful. Really impressive work, and I love the pig-man image that separates sections. Hilarious.
https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Pigman-A...