Samie Foster's Blog - Posts Tagged "adventure"

Hi there, everyone. I hope you been having a great week. I have been battling a summer cold, so I haven't been able to do much other than my day job. So there is little to update you on concerning upcoming projects. But because I'm sick, it doesn't mean I'm going to break my promises. I said by every Sunday, I will posted a chunk of audio story while simultaneously releasing the same portion on Wattpad and I am holding to that. So here are the links below.

First here is the link the Part 2 of The Island Audio Story
https://youtu.be/FAhi1n2MLJw

And now here it Part 2 of The Island on Wattpad
https://my.w.tt/P7RDm3Vm7O

Along with that, there is the weekly book review I post on Hubpages. This week its on Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling.
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harry...

And if you like the free audio stuff, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small donation to Patreon at Project Stories.  The link is https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy what's here and I hope you all have a great week. I'll be back next weekend with more stuff.

Hey there everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week and not boiling in this crazy heat wave on the west coast. Yikes! Its hot! But enough of that. This is yet another post about the audio project and updates. There's not a lot to update you on. 

I didn't have much time this week, but I did have a couple windows here and there where I could continue my audio projects. I just started reading through the ghost story Late Shift at Pennies and I am about a third through Warped. And wow. Warped is interesting. I know it's one of the first things I ever published right after high school, but now reading through it ten years later, I'm not only finding it as great as I believed it was back then. It it is a bit dull compared to stuff I typically write now. When I started reading it out loud my goal strictly was to fix errors, improve flow, add minor details when needed, and deleting unneeded text.  I did not and still do not want to change the essential story, because it is the product of an entirely different mindset back then than what I would  have written today. If I were to start completely rewriting certain parts of it, I would be rewriting the whole darn thing and it would not be the same story at all. But I'm finding I am cutting a bit more out than I intended. Many are jokes or useless goofy characters that I must have thought was at the time I original wrote it, but I now find very pointless and immature. So I don't know what will become of Warped by the end. This B movie style dinosaur scifi story may end up being a short story by the end of the audio recording re-read, and I may have to re-release it as such.  But again, that is what this who audio project is about. It isn't just about audio books. The audio books is a by product of the revision process. A year after college, I decided to really head back into all my book stuff, and found it was a little bit of a mess, and I am trying to make every thing better and the best they can be. 

But right now what's being posted is Part 3 of the audio version of the Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/eJJUbwJCpQc

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/617148592-the...

And as always, if you enjoy this, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small  patreon. The links are below.

On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And this weekend there was a short story review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.

Harris Bergeron By Kurt Vorrengut
https://hubpages.com/literature/Harri...


And with all that said, I hope you enjoy what's here. And I will be back next Sunday for another post.

Hi there. For the third week in a row, life has kept me quite busy. But I did do a little bit of recording last night for the audio projects in works. (The first time I really got to touch my projects in weeks) I got a little further into  recording the short story Late Shift at Pennies, and in recording Warped. Not a lot of work got done overall, but every little bit of progress counts. But I did post the weekly stuff.

So here is Part 5 of the audio version of The Island, which is posted on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/VlyEtZYXz8c

And the same chunk is posted over on Wattpad @ https://www.wattpad.com/610601836-the...


And as always, if you enjoy this, please support by buying the ebook version or making a small  patreon. The links are below.

On Kindle for $.99 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

On Smashwords for $.99 @ https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

Or support me with a donations at my Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And this weekend there was a book review I posted or on Hubpages, so you can check that out too if your interested.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeere
https://hubpages.com/literature/Annih...

With that said, I hope you all have a  great week, and hopefully I will have more exciting stuff to post in the future.

Hey everyone! I have fun update for today. Mainly, the penultimate episode in the audio version of The Island is up. So I hope you really enjoy that. The links are down below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCJ-...

If you do enjoy, and want to support, please do. You can support by :

Purchasing the ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

Making a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And that is all I have to share this week. I hope to have more stuff to share soon. Have a great week everyone!

Hello there. I hope everyone is doing okay. I hope your safe and not are not melting from the heat wave. But once again there are some fun updates this week. There are two major things.

First of all, Lonesome Town has been revised and is now part of Kindle Unlimited program. So if you have a membership you can read it for free. In case you don't know what it is about I will post the synopsis down below.

When Kaylee dumped Jake she didn't know what he would do. She didn't know he would mope around in self pity and then take off to the mythical place called Lonesome Town, where broken hearts can be mended. But as Kaylee becomes increasingly worried about her friend she goes to find him. I her journey she learns Lonesome Town is a very sinister place that preys on its customers.

Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHC789L

It's free with Kindle Unlimited and $1.00 for Purchase.

The second thing I have to share is the grand finale of the audio version of The Island is now posted. So check that out if your interested. The link will be down below.

https://youtu.be/ahkhMTxtfG4

And remember if you enjoy these audio stories, please help support. You can do so two ways.

You can purchase the ebook version for $1.00 @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

or

You can head to my patreon page and make a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921


And that is what I have for this week. I hope to have more fun stuff to share soon. I hope everyone has a good week!

Hi there. It's been a busy two weeks with my day job and just general bad luck. So I apologize for not sharing anything last week. I just didn't have the time to post or a lot to share. But I do have a little something to share this week. The first two parts of the Audio Story version of Alice: Winter's Tale are now posted on youtube. So if you want to listen to a fantasy about a gunslinging Alice in a dark Wonderland then check this out.

Youtube link for Alice: Winter's Story Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE5op...
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Youtube link for Alice: Winter's Story Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13k6j...
 
If you do enjoy, and want to support, please do. You can support by :

Purchasing the ebook
@ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KRF9KWQ
or

Making a donation @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

And that is all I have to share this week. I hope to have more stuff to share soon. Have a great week everyone!

Hey everyone! I have some news to share. In the last week, I got a few things accomplished.

First of all, The Midnight Special: Bishop has been revised and has been enrolled into Kindle Unlimited. So if you if you are a member, then you can read it for free. What is it about? I'll post the synopsis below:

"Life in a traveling side show can be complicated one. Especially when every member has some sort of supernatural baggage. At a stop in a North Dakota town, mind reader Bishop finds that death is near when a close one passes away. In a desperate attempt to live on, he ventures into a dangerous vampire bar for a cure."

This short is available in ebook @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7YN9S6
Free on Kindle Unlimited and $.99 for Purchase.

Second, the audio story project is back in progress. I have found a new software that allows me to get the audio into MP4 again. And now it is picking up right where it left off a few weeks ago. You can listen to The Last Witch: The Broken Princess Part 4 @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGzHD....

And remember if you like these things, there are a few ways to support:

1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

2) By Purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YK6CYGT

3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.

Then lastly, I'm deciding to continue the free book promotions. This week from June 9th to June 13th, the scifi story, The Island is going to be free. I will post the synopsis down below.

"In the middle of the second world war, scientists start vanishing all over the world. When Lily's husband is snatched away, she teams up with her brother in law to unravel what is happening to all the world's geniuses. After a year of traveling the world looking for clues, they are led to a mystery island in the eye of a never ending storm. A place that holds more danger than they ever expected."

From June 9th to June 13th this tale will be free @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VXB4MY

And that is all that I have for this week. I hope there is something you might enjoy here. And I hope to have more fun stuff to share in the next few weeks. Have a good week everyone!

Hey there everyone. The heat wave has passed through the pacific northwest. My place is no longer an oven. My computer does not feel like its going to catch on fire. And being still unemployed, I am back at work on my book projects hoping I can make some cash until I'm able to snag a job. I haven't too successful so far, but I am really trying and that must be worth something.

So what do I have to share? I am currently working on a getting a new short story collection out. I finally revised enough of short stories to package together in a collection that is going to be called Meteors & Monsters. But I still need to format it and finalize the cover at the moment. So until then, I wanted to run an promotion on the first short story collection, Flying Pigs & Witches for $0.99. I will post the synopsis down below.

A woman finds a fallen science utopia carries dark secrets as she searches for her husband. A gun slinging Alice is looking for a way out of a dark Wonderland. A cashier must take the late shift in a haunted retail store. Siblings encounter an evil witch in the woods. A teenager learns his uncle is a wizard. A little girl races into another world to get back her favorite socks. A runaway becomes cursed and must find a way to stop it before she loses all her memory. An isolated teen falls in love with a odd girl who fears water. This is a collection of eight short stories that stretch across the genres horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

This collection includes:

-The Island

-Late Shift at Pennies

-Socks and Fluffle Puffs

-Somewhere Beyond the Sea

-My Name Is...

-Alice: Winter's Story

-Secrets of Charles Mahogany

-Vanity


The Kindle ebook is for sale for $.99 from August 4th to August 9th. It is also free if you are a Kindle Unlimited number. You can purchase and download at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KREO7C0

Beyond that the audio story project is continuing. This week it is on third part of The Abyss. The post is posted down below.

https://youtu.be/LAbDvMcDBKA


And remember if you like these things, there are a few ways to support:

1) By making a small donation thru Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921

2) By Purchasing the ebook version @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZN72RQQ

3) Or if you are a Unlimited Member, download the title and flip through the pages. There is pay for every page read according to Amazon's algorithm and every little bit helps.


And that is what I have this week. I will try to get Meteors and Monsters out next week. But I am kinda on call for freelance geologist for wild fire sites, and if I get a call everything will be on hold for a couple weeks. I have to take it to make some money, because there is not much else out there now. I hope anyone following this blog understands that. And with that said, I hope everyone has a good week. Please stay safe out there.

Hey everyone! It’s time for another round of updates and I actually had some fun stuff to share this week. What is it? Well it’s the fact that a new anthology is published in ebook form. It’s called Nightmares & Dragonflies. It’s a collection of the last of the old short stories alongside a couple new ones. It will be the last one for a long while. I will need to have at least eight works to have for a new anthology. And I’m a little slow at getting new stories out there to have a collection any time soon. I will post the synopsis down below.

Mya is a dreamwalker and must take one more job her husband's soul. A teenager with super powers must journey through the frozen Alaskan darkness to save his sister. A young nurse learns her boyfriend is a vampire. Texas cop Trudy Dallas has the job of hunting zombies. A scientist dares to tear apart the fabric of the universe to return home. Two journalists rush into a city as it is being attacked by giant dragonflies to get the story of the lifetime. A traveling freak show must stop the apocalypse. A girl must save her friend after he is magically pulled into a book. Its collection of short stories stretching across all genres.

This collection of eight short stories includes:
- Ordinary World
- The Tall Man
- The Emergency Patient
- Trudy Dallas & the Walking Dead
- Alice: Khoza's Tale
- June Bug Vs The Dragonflies
- The Midnight Special: To Hell & Back
- Into the West

This ebook is $3.99 or FREE on Kindle Unlimited, Check it out @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XB783LP

Beyond that, the revision of Nel & the Tower of Spirits is making some progress. I’m a third of the way through. So hopefully in a month’s time, the tale will be completely revised and the new cleaner version will be enrolled into Kindle Unlimited.

And that is all I have to say share for this week. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer and I hope you all have a great week!

Hello there everyone! I wanted to update you all about what is going on.

First off, I am slowly working my way through polishing the final draft of the dark fantasy Once Upon a Time in Boston. And I am also revising an old silly spy story Sam & Miguel’s Run and a horror book Palm’s Inn for Kindle Unlimited enrollment. And all of this will be done when it’s done. Right now, I am working on all of this book stuff when time allows. Life has been very busy lately.

But beyond that, I wanted to do something to help advertise my stuff. Last summer I did weekly free short story promotions, and over the course of those months I gave away 111 short stories total. And I thought, “Why not do that this year again?” It may help me get some reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. And also, I have to honest here. I don’t make any money with these things. I wish I made more than pocket change and could make a living off of storytelling. But there is no sign of that ever happening in the near future. So why not run a bunch of free story promos so that people can have a chance to read them? It certainly couldn’t hurt.

Last week, I ran a promotion on the dark fantasy tale, Alice: Winter’s Story. And I think I will continue the promotions for the Alice series over the next couple of weeks. This week, the free short story will be Alice: Stone’s Story. It’s about a different Alice set in the same dark Wonderland. I will post the synopsis down below.

Alice: Stone’s Story
Wonderland is broken, and every Alice who stumbles in is trapped in a nightmare world. Some Alices become fighters. Other becomes con artists scrapping by. Alice Stone is a coward. An ex card soldier for the Red Queen, who is running from her captures hoping to find somewhere safe. But when she reaches Diamond City, the last free city of Wonderland, she will have to find her courage to survive.

This story will be FREE on Kindle from May 26th to May 30th. You can find it at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0776MR6CC

And that is what I have to share this week. I hope you enjoy this news. And I hope you all have a great week. I will be back blogging more soon.