Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Self Promo Stories: Authors’ Boldest, Cleverest & Wackiest Strategies to Sell their Books By Valerie Estelle Frankel

Self Promo Stories: Authors’ Boldest, Cleverest & Wackiest Strategies to Sell their Books
By Valerie Estelle Frankel has jest been released on Smashwords and it is absolutely free to download.  Authors share their experiences with what worked for them when they were vendors pitching their books. Kyle and I have a story in this.  We shared our first experience signing books at Rad Coffee.  You can download the ebook and read my story here.



"Looking for wonderful advice on self-promotion? This book has it all: silly hats, theme candy, sandwich board costumes. There's also plenty of up-to-date social media advice -- Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogging, KDP days, and more." 


Friday, November 25, 2016

Artist for Diary of a Sorceress!

The amazing talent that is Steve G Santiago has agreed to do 10 b&w interior artwork and a colored cover for my forthcoming poetry collection, Diary of a Sorceress!  I am so stoked!!!  What better combination than art and poetry??  He and Derrick Hussey are currently coming to terms and Steve hopes to start at the beginning of 2017 when he finishes up other projects.  I cannot wait to work with him!  If you are unfamiliar with his work, you can check out his gallery here.

Here are some of my favorites.


Yog-Sothoth illustration for The Gods of Lovecraft book. Sept 2015


1 of 3 interior illustrations for "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile" published by Dim Shores


1 of 3 interior illustrations for "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile" published by Dim Shores.


Revised Nyarlathotep illustration.


Original tribute art of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.





Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Weridbook #33 by Wildside Press Arrived!


I have just received my contributor copies of Weirdbook #33 by Wildside Press!  My poems, Bathory in Red and Blood Siren's Alcove, can be found within.


Table of contents


Fiction

The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56
Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight
The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook
Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller
Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone
Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose
A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank
The Owl by S. L. Edwards
Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses
Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses
The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman
The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman
The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman
Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer
NOCTUARY OF SFATLICLLP by Frederick J. Mayer
SFATLICLLP'S GHOUL by Frederick J. Mayer
NILE LAMIA RECALLS by Frederick J. Mayer






Thursday, November 10, 2016

Project (Mini)

I have assembled roughly 55 poems to be in another collection.  This is more of a side project that will contain poems written in my teenage years.  I picked the poems I think are the best of that time period and the ones I think are salvageable and can be edited and polished.  This will be a strictly horror collection.  I created 4 sections: Nature, Supernatural, Psychological, and Physical (Body Horror).  I spent all day yesterday creating the sections and organizing the poems fittingly.  Now to edit them....  

Friday, November 4, 2016

Ravenwood Quarterly




I have just received an epic package containing issues 1 and 2 of Ravenwood Quarterly along with both Ordo Silentiums and an awesome patch.  I am glad I snagged one of the remaining issue 1's for I was unfortunately unaware of this publication when it just started.  My poem, Scarlet Autumn Aurora, appears in issue 2, which is a badass Halloween issue.  My poem is more autumn themed than Halloween themed.





These issues look absolutely amazing and I can't wait to delve through them.