Happy Friday!

WHO THE HELL CAN BELIEVE IT’S ALREADY OCTOBER!!

Well – everyone who is excited for Halloween!

I’m gonna keep this short and sweet like past weeks!

If you’ve been following me lately, you’ve seen a number of acceptance tweets/posts. Lately, I’ve really focused on drabble submissions and seem to be connecting with the editors. I have three I can fully share and another that is out now.

Kevin J. Kennedy Presents 100 Word Horrors 3.

This release is out now in ebook and paperback! I have two drabbles in here, but look at the table of contents! Chad Lutzke, Mark Matthews, Evans Light, Andrew Lennon, The Sisters of Slaughter, RJ Roles, Justin M. Woodward and excitedly – Ron Davis’ first published works!

If you haven’t – snag a copy!

 

Reanimated Writer’s Presents: 100 Word Zombie Bites.

I have two drabbles in this one, which will be up for ebook preorder on the 24th and releasing on the 31st!

Forest of Fear: Volume 1

Another one where I’ll have two drabbles featured! This one has such a great cover.

I’m stumped at the moment for when this will release, but I’ll keep you updated!

Japanese Fantasy Drabbles from Insignia

I actually just received my acceptance this morning for this release. I’m not 100% sure of the final title yet and haven’t seen artwork! Once both come around, I’ll share!

 

Additionally, I’ve been involved in the ongoing author novel from Don Gillette. This was a book that he’s putting together that has 30 authors each write a chapter and we see how the story unfolds. There are only a few chapters left, so we’ll be finding out how this saga ends and then what the plans are for release after that. I contributed chapter 3 and it was a lot of fun.

Finally, and yes this is vague tweeting, but I was able to cross off a bucket list item for writing recently. I can’t wait to share what this is and once I get the go ahead to announce it, OH BABAY!! WILL I EVER!

Ritual

Of course I want to give a huge thanks and shout out to everyone who has already snagged Ritual and read it. To those who’ve reviewed is as well – THANKS!

It’s a perma $0.99US ebook and paperback is live, so if you want super dark, depraved and horrific in your life – go get it!

 

Music:

As always, I’m all over the map!

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Walls

I’ve always been a massive Tom Petty fan. I’ve started devoting some time to a novel that I’m co-writing with David Sodergren and Mr. Petty and The Heartbreakers is perfect mood music.

 

Madeon – All My Friends

Really love the sunshine of this song. Makes me smile and feel happy when I hear it.

 

The Ghost Inside – Engine 45

After their stunning live return after all of their injuries, surgeries and trauma, to see them announce they will be doing some more live dates is absolutely amazing and frankly, this should be the music story of the year.

 

Nine Inch Nails – Wish

I’m currently working on a brutal short story for possible submission. Nine Inch Nails Broken EP has been the back bone for all of those writing times.

 

What I’m Reading;

Been a bit since I’ve done this!

One by One – D.W. Gillespie

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48270279-one-by-one

50% into this and just stunning. Gillespie is setting this tale up to be a scare fest. Really loving it and the Alice character really shines.

7 Sins of the Apocalypse Anthology

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48252559-7-sins-of-the-apocalypse

I’m buddy reading this with my pal Becca (my first buddy read ever!) and the first few stories were a bit lacking for me. It’s definitely picking up and hoping to see how strong this finishes!

A Place for Sinners – Aaron Dries

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45433777-a-place-for-sinners

I was kindly sent this digital ARC from Poltergeist Press and I’ve neglected it. I’m 20% in and need to buckle down and get rolling. So far it’s been good, but I’ve heard Dries turns this into great in short work.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42175983-wolf-land

As most of you know, I do almost all of my reading on my Kindle. I still like to have one physical book on the go now and I snagged this beauty on Flametree Press’s Fourth of July Mega Sale! I have maybe 20 pages left to get through so hopefully I can finish that this weekend, but so far I’m loving this werewolf story!

 

All right! I’m done!

See you all next week!

Steve