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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!

Hey everyone, it's time for another round of updates. And let's start with the big one, the fourth short story in The Last Witch Series, The Broken Princess, is now released in ebook form. I will post all the details down below.

While Fran and Brian travel through the mountain pass, the cold gets the better of them. Brian's father falls ill, and is soon knocking on death's door. That is until a knight shows up out of nowhere. The knight claims he's from kingdom close by. He sees that Brian is a witch, and makes him an offer. They will save his father, if Brian can save the princess. Brian is hesitant, but accepts the offer. Once welcomed into the castle Brian learns of the princess, who has the strangest illness he had seen. She is frozen to the bone. Her presence chills the air around her. Frost clings to her ghostly white skin. He's told she has demon inside of her and needs an exorcism. But to Brian, too many things don't add up.

It is available for purchase for $0.99 as an ebook Amazon
and is free with Kindle Unlimited.

It can be found  @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YK6CYGT


Also the first part of a new audio story is posted. This time its the cute little fantasy called Socks & Fluffle Puffs. The link is down below.
 
Socks & Fluffle Puffs Part 1: https://youtu.be/WJW-VolLUw0

And remember if you enjoy this, you can support two ways. You can:
- Go to the ebook page @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RPLH1WP and purchase the ebook version, or flip through the Kindle Unlimited version (That helps as well).
-Or go to the patreon page for Project Stories @ https://www.patreon.com/user?u=10411921 and make a donation. I'm not asking you to subscibe to anything monthly like the Patreon model suggests. A one time donation to show your support is fine.

Beyond that my focus is on the final tale in The Last Witch Series, The Abyss. It still needs a cover sketched out and then brought into photoshop for finalizing. The actual story needs a final review, which I am about to begin soon. The story is shorter, around the length of Old Hobbs, so it shouldn't take nearly as long as The Broken Princess.  It's my goal to get this out before the end of the year.

Also the short In the Land of Gods is partially recorded into audio form, with my read out loud review process. It's fairly short, so that should be soon.

But after those two things, what is next? I have a half edited book that has been abandoned sometime back in 2015 because of college, called Finding Elodie. I want to get back involved in Scribophile writing community and workshop to get the rest of that cleaned up. I think that will be my new main focus, with a short story or possible side project here there to break up the tedium of working on one project all the time.

And that is all I have to share this week. If I have more stuff to share next week, I will be posting again. I hope you have a great week everyone!

Hey everyone. There is some exciting news this week. Meteor City is done and is out in the wild. It should have been out a lot sooner. But it was a little tough to polish up for release, and took a long time do because of a lack of motivation. This is because its one of the darker stories I ever wrote, and the world just really sucks right now. After losing my job in a collapsing economy in a COVID-19 hot spot when civil unrest and corruption is everywhere, I did not want to continue to polish a story about a journalist in a quarantined city where a horrific pandemic mutates individuals, but I was determined to finish it. Despite the fantastical nature of the horror story, it hit really close to home, and I had to take many breaks as I polished it. It literally was nearly finished mid February before the world went insane. That is how long this took. And it might be my last horror story for a while. Months ago I did originally want to proceed and work on On All The Good Times in Boston after this, but that is a fantasy horror about the apocalypse. But I don't want to think about the end of the world and really want to focus on more light hearted stuff as I need to remove my focus on anything that parallels to this craziness happening in the world right now. But if you're handling the world better than I am, feel free to check it out. I will post the synopsis down below.



"Decades ago, a meteor shower hit a metropolis shattering homes and lives of many. With the meteors, the storm also brought a deadly disease that tortures and mutate those infected. As it spread, the walls were put up around the city to quarantine it from the rest of the world. And as the years went on the city, now known as Meteor City, was ignored and willfully forgotten by the United States. But it somehow continued to thrive.

Jo is a photographer within the walls of Meteor City. She goes through the dirt and muck to get shots for the front page of the local paper. She specializes in shots of the most horribly mangled infected in the city. She's brash, spunky, and her luck has run out. After cashing in on shots of an infected serial killer known as the Bloody Man, her home in broken into by a new meteorite afflicted individual. It’s a fight she barely survives, but not all in one piece as she becomes infected herself. Hoping the doctors can stop her terrible fate, her world start falling apart around her. Kidnappings are happening over the city, and she may have to risk everything to save someone she loves."


Its available in ebook for $.99 or Free through Kindle Unlimited @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CKB5GL7

And that is the biggest news this week. And there will be more to fun stuff to share soon. Because let's honest. What else am I going to do in quarantine? Hope all of you are safe and well.

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.

Hello there everyone. I hope you are doing well. I’m back again with another blog. I have some updates and yet another book giveaway, but let’s get started.

So what’s going on? Well this past week has been insane and I have been super busy. If you been following this blog a while you know I work in environmental science and geology, and jobs had been far and few between since the pandemic happened. But this week there was an avalanche of job opportunities and I was running back and forth to so many interviews and meetings. I had six interviews, and then family stuff on Friday so it was absolute chaos. And the chaos bothered me, because I could not work on any book stuff until Saturday.

Saturday was a free day. So at noon I sat down at my desk with some ice tea and started working on finalizing more of Once Upon of Time in Boston. It is really bugging me how long it is taking to get this out. I never had a short story / novella go through so many rewrites, expansions, and just take so long to get out there before this one. So I spent most of the day just working my way through polishing the final draft to perfection. And right now I am proud to say I am 75% done. And hopefully if I get a little bit of free time this upcoming week, it can finished as soon as next week. Which is exciting. I really want to get this out there for people to read.

And then there is the summer book giveaway.
I think, for the sake of father’s day, I will put an alien invasion tale on promotion this week. Why? My own dad loved aliens. I don’t think there was a genre he loved more than scifi alien tales. And he can’t be the only one. I’m sure there’s a lot more dads into the same stuff. So this week the free short story is On The Air with Mike Gypsy & Sacheana Crow. I’ll post the synopsis below.

The day started just as normal as any other for both Mike and Sacheana. The two start the day at their daily jobs as hosts of the radio show "On the Air." Things soon become strange when callers start asking about odd lights and monsters in the sky. Baffled by what they are hearing, the hosts piece together what's going on. But they have no idea of what they are about to confront what is right outside their door.

This short story will be FREE from June 16th to June 20th. Claim your Kindle copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VWCCH6

And that is what I have to share this week. I think there is going to be some real fun stuff soon. But no guarantees. Life can turn into complete chaos sometimes, like it did last week. And that can slow things down quite a bit. I hope you all have a good week!

Hello everyone. It’s been another week and there is another round of updates. So let’s get started.

So what news do I have this week? Well the very old spy story, Sam & Miguel’s Run, has some improvements. It’s been revised. The cover has been reworked. And now it has officially been shuffled on Kindle Unlimited where it can be read for FREE. You can check it out at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7VRFQ6 .


Also there’s one more month of the summer of free ebooks. This week the FREE story will be Lonesome Town. I’ll post the synopsis 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. In her journey she learns Lonesome Town is a very sinister place that preys on its customers.

This is will be Free on Kindle from July 28th to Aug 1st. You can grab your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DHC789L .


And that is what I have for this week. I hope you enjoy what I have to offer and hope you have a great week! Will be blogging again soon!

Hello everyone! It time for a new updates blog. So let’s get started.

So what has been going on? Well first off there have been some interesting developments for The Siren on Berry Ave. The reviews have come in from Scribophile. And aside from a couple plot holes, people universally enjoyed it. But despite all the good reviews I’m going to take a pause to brainstorm a little bit. I feel there is more to explore in this world with these characters and a many of the reviews stated as much. Some were even disappointed that it was just a short story. I have been brainstorming lately about the expanding it into an episodic short story project. This is a method I use with Alice, The Midnight Special, and The Last Witch. They are short story series covering an arc much like any book series just in shorter format. But unlike The Midnight Special and Alice, I do want to try to release these things consecutively if possible. Where The Midnight Special and Alice can be told in any order as stand-alone stories. I don’t think Siren on Berry Ave can take that approach do to the characters and world. So I would like the idea of getting all the stories out in the same way I got The Last Witch released. But that also means, I must have enough material to even take this approach. The other night I feel I finally find my footing and the heart of these sequel stories. So as I’m trying to figure out what I want to do with this project. So The Siren on Berry Ave might be on hold for a while self-publishing wise.

In the meantime, I might dig up something else to work on. I have a Transylvania monster mash like story I could post for beta readers to review and then edit. I could finish the horror tale Nowhere. It has pretty bad reviews so far, but with all the feedback, I think I can clean it up into something nice. I also have a couple more Alice tales sitting on my desk top as well a couple science fictions and fantasies laying around as well. So there’s plenty of other stuff sitting around on my desk top and in notebooks to try to get out instead.

Also with Sam & Miguel’s Run out of the way, I’m going to dedicate more time to revising Palm’s Inn.


And of course the summer of free stories are still continuing. It’s the final three weeks! This week the story is a romantic highs seas fantasy, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. I will post the synopsis below.

Davey has been trapped on a rock of an island his entire life building a glass castle with his father for the king. He feels as though he is prisoner with no contact with the world beyond the island. Then one day during a storm, an odd yet captivating girl washes up on shore. She says she's from somewhere beyond the sea, but Davey's new friend is full of more mysteries than he ever expected.

This story will be FREE from August 11th to August 15th. Grab your copy at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C7X0D90


And that is what I have for this week. It’s not a lot new stuff, but it’s a lot of updates on the works in progress. Also there is new free story as well. I hope you all enjoy it. Have a good week everyone! I will be blogging again soon.

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. It has been a little while since the last post. And I’m happy to say I made quite a lot of progress. So let’s discuss it.

The main thing is Rainy Day Hotel is done. It’s finished, polished, formatted, and I actually finished the cover art for. Well, mostly finished the cover. I still may tweak it a little bit. But it’s ready to upload to KDP and thrown out into the world. And I have been enjoying blissful feeling of being done after a year of rewrites, and chaos! But the question now is, when is it going to be released? Well….I’m trying to figure that out. In the past, I kind of just threw things out there. Then I used Twitter to push things harder, and the result has been not the greatest to okay. So I’m just taking a moment to see what I can do to promote it. Should I do a giveaway? Maybe a pre order countdown thingy? Push on multiple social media outlets instead of just one? Because let’s face it. Twitter is not nearly as useful as it should be in the marketing department. Should purchase a digital ad service? Or maybe to do physical giveaways? I think because it’s only gonna be 70ish page story, it would be relatively cheap to produce paperbacks for a giveaway. But that would require a lot of courage that I’m not sure it at the moment. And I’m toying around with the thought of making a book trailer to coincide with the release. I do have audio files from reading the story out loud in the final polishing phase. One part in particular would be perfect to coincide with some sketches and a nice guitar rift. It’s something that I can do given a bit of time. But anyway, that is what is going on. I’m just brainstorming about how to go about this release at the moment, and will have a release date news soon.

Beyond that, I still need to decide what to work on next. I actually been busy with life, Rainy Day Hotel, and sick lately so it’s taking a longer than I wished. But the other night I printed out some rough drafts of a trio of stories. They include the science fiction Grey Matter, the dark fantasy Witches in the Castle (Working title for now), and the horror fantasy The Curse of Kiera White. As I go through them, I will make my final decision about what I will focus on next. I am dying to get something else closer to publication.

And that’s all I got for now. Sure it this might be a more dull update than usual, but I am quite happy that with the progress that is being made. And when I do finally release Rainy Day Hotel, I hope that some of you will give it a chance and enjoy it. I did work really hard on this.

Hey all. I wanted to share another one of these update blogs, or newsletters, or whatever the heck you want to call them to let you all know what is going on. I think it’s been three weeks (or month maybe) since the last one so I wanted to share what’s going on. So what has been going on?

Well…. I have a confession to make. I’ve been distracted. After finishing the final draft of Rainy Day Hotel I just didn’t want to do anything with it for a while. I just wanted to enjoy the bliss of being done. And in that break I joined a local writing group at a book themed cafe which is incredibly lovely. And then in those sessions and during writing at home I returned to something I started around last September. It’s a wintery mountaintop horror, dark fantasy. I am making so much progress on it, and I am just reminded how storytelling is so much fun after crawling out of the sea of editing, beta readers, formatting, proofreading and blah blah blah. I’m having a really good time writing it, and I am looking forward to the day that I can share it with you in the future. But that is miles away.

What about now? I am shifting focus back to Rainy Day Hotel, and I am sure you want to know what is going on with that. So this is the tentative plan. I’m shooting for a March release. I’m gonna do a social media push with a free book giveaway during the first week, so that it can get some real reviews and get it in the hands of a lot of people at first. So there will be a press release and notes on Substack about t beforehand. I’ll release a newsletter on Goodreads. Threads and Twitter writing communities are going to hit with a bunch of ads. There will be an announcement on Scribophile. And quite possibly I may try to boost it with Freebooksy. I have looked into Amazon Ads, and the general feedback I heard is they aren’t as good as they appear to be. Booktasters seem good, but a tad shady. I would like to do more research before doing anything with them. And maybe Bookstagram.

Here me out. This is my Instagram, or Bookstagram as writers call it, idea I get my account going. I am constantly posting nature and hiking photos from my outdoorsy trips on Twitter and Threads already. So I’m thinking about making a paperback of my shorts, or longer projects (Or hardbacks of those said stories. Might hold up better in backpacks now that I think about it) and setting them up in really pretty places and taking a snapshot to promote my stuff. I don’t know how long it would take to a get physical copy made and delivered. It has been a long time since I used Print On Demand. But if it can be done in a timely nature, then I may do that as part of a promotion gig as well for Rainy Day Hotel. It’s just an idea. I’m not sure if it the idea will work overall, but it’s worth a try. And starting with almost no followers with Rainy Day Hotel? Why not give it a try? If nothing else, it might be a fun way to start a Bookstagram account and get a following.

Also, I am working on some other things sporadically. I am editing some rough drafts of some other stories, trying to figure out what I want to add to the editing block next and put on the route to publication. I’m also revising an older horror book called Hollows. I’m just smoothing it out of any mistakes I may have overlooked because I didn’t know about ProWritingAid at the time of the release. It’s never too late to go back and revise your work. I have a become so thorough in my editing process in the years since, that it is worth the effort to do so.

Also, one other thing. My book covers, especially on my older shorts, are quite shabby. So I really wanna redo some of those. Especially now that I have a professional art tablet. It all should be so much easier now.

But that is what’s going on. Like always, it is constant chaos. But things are getting done. Maybe it’s all done in a scattershot, almost seemingly nonsensical fashion. But a book is coming out. Writing is happening. New projects are on the way. I will have more news for you in future posts.

Hello everyone! I hope all is going well. Things are going on well my end. Finally got Rainy Day Hotel out. I just submitted the final version of the hardback version to go live on Amazon, and am looking forward to getting clean copies for some marketing ideas. Also, there’s this certain wintery mountain top horror story that I have been writing for the last three months or so that I finished! I finish the first draft the other night. So everything moving forward is brand new. And what is new stuff? Well, some of it is giveaways.

Indie April is coming up, and I hoping to do a giveaway away a different novella every week. I say hoping, because I am going hiking in the woods and mountains on an weeklong outdoorsy vacation. But first three weeks. Those are happening for sure.

And the first one up is obviously Rainy Day Hotel. I really wanna get this in the hands of people. And if people get a chance to check it out, hopefully I’ll get some reviews. I worked so hard on this. I really want people to read it.

The scifi horror thriller novella will be free from April 3rd to April 7th. You can grab your copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXSH9FC2

And in case you forgot what it is about. I’ll post the synopsis down below.

Life is simple on Imber. There may be months of acid rain, but in the research base nicked named by the crew as Rainy Day Hotel, it’s pretty easygoing. At their own pace, they collect samples, do lab work, compile the results and wait for their employer to pick them up in a few months. But things turn sideways for the crew when a couple members run into alien life on what they thought was a desolate planet. And the worst part of it is, it followed them. The base is locked down, as the creatures dwell outside their doorstep. But all is not well as they wait it out. The crew that returned is injured and sick. A parasite was brought inside with them. So with monsters outside and a contagion inside, they must find a way to survive.

And that’s what I got for this week. I hope you take a chance on my novella. And have a lovely week.