Gabriel Maestas's Blog
January 28, 2025
There's a new book giveaway this month!!
Double Blind by Gabriel Maestas was a runaway hit! And the next book in the series will be available very soon 😲 This means it's a great time to enter to win a Kindle copy of Double Blind and be ready for the new release!
How do you enter? Click the link below and submit an entry! Winners will be notified via email. Good luck, it's a popular read!
https://gabrielmaestasreads.com/double-blind-universe
How do you enter? Click the link below and submit an entry! Winners will be notified via email. Good luck, it's a popular read!
https://gabrielmaestasreads.com/double-blind-universe
January 12, 2025
What are some of YOUR favorite Vampire/Werewolf...UM...contents?
Vampires...Werewolves...oh my! They are two of the most popular and celebrated monsters of all time, and the question IS, which are your favorite kind/trope/origin and or history?? 🤔 It's a broad question, but after the launch of Dark Chronicles I said to myself, "What a good time to take a look at and celebrate this fun genre!" 🤓
Dark Chronicles Volume One
Modern storytelling has brought the two groups together, resulting in a lot of fun. One of my all-time favorite storylines (which is minus the hell-hounds) is Salem's Lot and the ageless tale of the undead taking over a small town. It's truly frightening stuff, and it helped bring much life a group of bad guys that has horrified us for centuries!
’Salem’s Lot
So, what are your favorite vampire/werewolf elements? ☺️
Dark Chronicles Volume One
Modern storytelling has brought the two groups together, resulting in a lot of fun. One of my all-time favorite storylines (which is minus the hell-hounds) is Salem's Lot and the ageless tale of the undead taking over a small town. It's truly frightening stuff, and it helped bring much life a group of bad guys that has horrified us for centuries!
’Salem’s Lot
So, what are your favorite vampire/werewolf elements? ☺️
August 12, 2024
Who's clicked the link??
Scientist restore pig brain cells but without consciousness by Sharon Begley https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/...
In the book Double Blind by Gabriel Maestas, there is a brief yet prominent reference to an article from 2018 covering cellular restoration. Or, at least, the concept of scientific capability as of the publication of the fiction book. And the first thing that’s critical to emphasize is the FICTICIOUS nature of the story.
Many Double Blind book reviews have a dominant theme: ‘This COULD happen?’ With that being said, who’s clicked the link to read the article? 🤓
Double Blind
I think the most crucial element to remember is the importance of the cautionary tale and how horror/thriller fiction novels can perform the scary art of blending multiple themes into a frightening lesson of ‘let’s not go there.’
Sharon Begley's article touches on our modern, powerful scientific reality (driven by computing power and a wealth of knowledge accrued over the centuries) and a new window of possibilities. But what would happen if those with less-than-humanistic goals foster ideas and imagination harbored by new technology? It’s hard to say.
Countless technological advancements stemmed from military and wartime applications, which made their way into a ready and willing private sector that has since saved/changed millions of lives. One of the most notable examples is anti-biotic medications, which received so much attention during the Civil War that their advancement became the cornerstone of infectious bacterial treatment. This has been incredibly positive, and without those wartime decisions, it simply would have been less likely to have occurred.
But what of the risk of something known as ‘blowback’ regarding scientific advancement during wartime? What are the effects of technology brought to bear from times of tragedy into times of peace? Well, sometimes there isn’t any… immediately. But as time passes, the effects of all things can turn a darker corner. Anti-biotic treatment is one example of this dynamic, in a manor.
What happens when medicinal intervention progresses so far that it presses microbial organisms to adjust to an environment that makes their survival more challenging? This is what anti-biotics do, and the result is the strengthening of known bacterial bugs into the frightening ‘superbugs’ resistant to anti-biotic intervention. We have two options: take a closer look at what we are doing and how we can tailor those actions into safer patterns, OR we can avoid the topic discussion and focus on something else.
But again, for the purposes of the horror/thriller fiction genre, we might look at the articles, read the books (because life is short), and say, ‘Damn. If that actually happened, it would be FRIGHTENING…”
Keep it scary,
Gabriel Maestas
In the book Double Blind by Gabriel Maestas, there is a brief yet prominent reference to an article from 2018 covering cellular restoration. Or, at least, the concept of scientific capability as of the publication of the fiction book. And the first thing that’s critical to emphasize is the FICTICIOUS nature of the story.
Many Double Blind book reviews have a dominant theme: ‘This COULD happen?’ With that being said, who’s clicked the link to read the article? 🤓
Double Blind
I think the most crucial element to remember is the importance of the cautionary tale and how horror/thriller fiction novels can perform the scary art of blending multiple themes into a frightening lesson of ‘let’s not go there.’
Sharon Begley's article touches on our modern, powerful scientific reality (driven by computing power and a wealth of knowledge accrued over the centuries) and a new window of possibilities. But what would happen if those with less-than-humanistic goals foster ideas and imagination harbored by new technology? It’s hard to say.
Countless technological advancements stemmed from military and wartime applications, which made their way into a ready and willing private sector that has since saved/changed millions of lives. One of the most notable examples is anti-biotic medications, which received so much attention during the Civil War that their advancement became the cornerstone of infectious bacterial treatment. This has been incredibly positive, and without those wartime decisions, it simply would have been less likely to have occurred.
But what of the risk of something known as ‘blowback’ regarding scientific advancement during wartime? What are the effects of technology brought to bear from times of tragedy into times of peace? Well, sometimes there isn’t any… immediately. But as time passes, the effects of all things can turn a darker corner. Anti-biotic treatment is one example of this dynamic, in a manor.
What happens when medicinal intervention progresses so far that it presses microbial organisms to adjust to an environment that makes their survival more challenging? This is what anti-biotics do, and the result is the strengthening of known bacterial bugs into the frightening ‘superbugs’ resistant to anti-biotic intervention. We have two options: take a closer look at what we are doing and how we can tailor those actions into safer patterns, OR we can avoid the topic discussion and focus on something else.
But again, for the purposes of the horror/thriller fiction genre, we might look at the articles, read the books (because life is short), and say, ‘Damn. If that actually happened, it would be FRIGHTENING…”
Keep it scary,
Gabriel Maestas
