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It’s on! Head on over to Amazon and download your free copy of Hometown! Learn the truth about the Belford Incident on its twenty-fifth anniversary!
While you’re there. check out the rest of the library!
The Hometown Labor Day Sale begins tomorrow!
While you’re there, take a look at the rest of the library! Perfect holiday reading!
The Hometown Labor Day Sale is coming up in just a few days! Here are a few of the characters you’ll meet and scenes you’ll read if you download a free copy:
First, let me introduce you to Vicki & Val – Vicki Powers, one of our heroines, is the redhead on the right. Her best friend Valerie Robard is the brunette on the left. They’re two of the bad girls of Belford High, and you can find out more about them here.
Here we have Kara Sauer and Jason Olsen, our other heroine’s best friends. They’re a bit busy just now. Kara tried to punch above her mystical weight class, and it isn’t working out well. For a bit more information, see here.
Kara and Val. The situation…isn’t as happy as it looks.
Kara and Val at the last. Also not as happy as it looks…and I know it doesn’t look happy.
And finally, our heroines. Angelina Santos-de la Cruz, and you’ve already met Vicki. Here they stand – as best they can – at the end of everything. More information here.
To learn more about these characters – and the scenes you’ve glimpsed – download a copy of Hometown during the Labor Day Sale from September 1 to September 5.
All of the artwork in this post was by the marvelously talented MJ Barros.
It’s been twenty-five years since the Belford Incident, and still no one knows exactly what happened that terrible Fall.
All anyone knows is that in the Fall of 1994, the fog rolled into this small factory town in central New York, and someone or something came with that fog. People died. People disappeared. People claimed to see things in that fog. The entire town was gripped with terror and a mysterious form of mass hysteria that has never been seen before or since.
Only one author claims to have the answers for the unexplained things that happened twenty-five years ago in Belford, and his answers have never been substantiated.
In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Belford Incident, that author now offers his book free for download at Amazon between September 1 and September 5. See that book’s page on this site for further information.
How could I forget to post this one for so long! The book trailer for Dreams of the Boardwalk is now up in the Book Trailers archive! But just in case you don’t want to go that far, here it is right here!
If that makes you interested in a copy of the book, just head on over to Amazon!
The picture above is he latest draft of my novel-in-progress, City of Dreams. What do you think? The young woman above is Aislin Rourke, heroine of City of Dreams, but I’m afraid you’re not going to meet her in today’s passage.
Today’s passage is the second half of the story of George Fuller and his accidental journey into the Dream of Coney Island, begun in this post last week.
George’s story is an illustration of the classic advice to writers: “Murder your darlings”. George’s story is intended to be an interlude in City of Dreams, but it’s more than forty pages long. You can’t have an “interlude” that’s 10% of the total length of the book. That means that you, the readers of this blog, are getting to read an uncut version of this story that will not and cannot make it to the final book.
So join me for the story George Fuller, Sally, and their last day at Coney Island.
Beware. NC-17.
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Continue reading “Excerpt from City of Dreams: George Fuller’s Last Day at Coney Island – Part 2″One of the classic pieces of advice for authors is “Murder your darlings”. You have to be willing to sacrifice any individual part of the story – any scene, any character – for the greater good of the story as a whole, no matter how much you love them.
This passage is a classic example. This story – and the second part, coming next week – are intended to be an interlude between chapters in my Novel-in-progress City of Dreams. They tell the story of an old man who accidentally crosses over into Dream when such a thing shouldn’t be possible, and illustrates that Dream can be just as dangerous in its way as Nightmare (though you do die happy). Between the two sections, this “interlude” is more than 40 double-spaced pages long. Clearly, some darlings need to be murdered and some serious trimming needs to be done before the final draft of the book. You can’t have an “interlude” that’s 10% of the total book. But I love the story of George Fuller, Sally, and their summers at Coney Island. So I’d like to share it with you in its uncut form for perhaps the one and only time.
Beware. NC-17.
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George Fuller sat on a bench on the Coney Island boardwalk and looked out at the ocean.
Continue reading “Excerpt from City of Dreams: George Fuller’s Last Day at Coney Island – Part 1″
The picture above is our first look at Aislin Rourke, heroine of City of Dreams, the novel I am currently writing. What is our heroine getting ready to fight…and why is she looking UP to do it? That would be telling.
City of Dreams is a sequel to Dreams of the Boardwalk, or rather, Dreams of the Boardwalk is a prequel to the series of books that I hope to begin with City of Dreams. In any case, it is a story of the worlds of Dream and Nightmare, and the Dreamwalkers who protect the one and strive against the other…which is which depends on the Dreamwalker.
With that in mind, I decided that instead of starting with Aislin’s very first scene, I would start with her first experience in Nightmare, so I can introduce both at once.
Rated R.
PS – As with all the covers for my major works, this cover is being drawn by the marvelous Ruben de Vela.
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Continue reading “Excerpt from City of Dreams: Aislin Enters Nightmare”
Here we have our introduction to the titular Dreams of the Boardwalk, and our first glimpse of the dangers beneath the surface.
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Continue reading “Excerpt from Dreams of the Boardwalk: First Visit”
Dreams of the Boardwalk got a review at Trail of Tales!