Out Friday from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social! Thank you, @patrickbarb.bsky.social for the kind words! Preorder and add to the goodreads at the links below!

Cover art for One Lash to Kill, by Clint Reno, featuring John Lash in a chair with a handgun and a lovely lady slipping off the strap of a dress.

I'm interrupting this Indie April experience (I hope you're digging it!) to say that a firm decision hasn't been made to leave D2D yet, but this week does have a pre-planned sale for One Lash to Kill!

25% off! $2.99! You can get it on Bookshop right now!

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Feeling good and trying to enjoy the process!

My constant struggle is always to slow down, put finishing out of my mind, & live in the current scene rather than the next. I used to struggle with the last 1/3, but I now divide the book into 6 parts, with a roughly equal word count for each, and that helps me stay focused and paced

Rider in the Widow Lands: A Sword & Sorcery Short Story A Short Tale of Sword & Sorcery A forgotten age when g…

"Rider in the Widowlands" by Coy Hall is beautifully written (as you would expect from this author), deeply imaginative, and has a wonderful horse (I love Hall's animal characters).

There is so much in this short story. A satisfying, and inspiring, read.

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Thanks, my friend!

With today’s writing session (1200 words), the first draft of my new novel is 1/3 complete!

The Italian Connection (1972). Two hitmen (Woody Strode & Henry Silva) chase a pimp (Mario Adorf) across Milan, but the small timer proves hard to kill. Mean & suspenseful to the last minute. Adorf is stellar in this one from Fernando Di Leo.

He’s great. Physically imposing and quietly intimidating in this.

A sizable role for Strode too. Not his usual cameo appearance.

The Italian Connection (1972). Two hitmen (Woody Strode & Henry Silva) chase a pimp (Mario Adorf) across Milan, but the small timer proves hard to kill. Mean & suspenseful to the last minute. Adorf is stellar in this one from Fernando Di Leo.

Three copies of All of Me, with a blue cover and red title, lie on green grass.

Margaret was unhappy with her life. Overweight, overlooked, and unfulfilled.

A gift from a neighbor promised to answer all her problems.

Except now there are three of her, and none of her are happy.

“All of Me” - a modern body horror fairytale.

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📢📚 #Horrorsky #IndieApril

It's on Tubi, but the music that is used by Red Rocket (!) Media is annoying. I finally muted it since it's a silent movie.

‘Alright, Baal, show us what’s behind step number 6!’

A stack of books resting on a stone surrounded by grass and bright yellow dandelions.

It was sunny today so I took my books for a walk.

If you like zombies, modern fairytales, animals, and Christmas, you might like to check out my books!

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Seven Footprints to Satan (1929). An interesting watch. Old dark house type melodrama with tongue firmly in cheek. Benjamin Christensen (Haxan) directs this adaptation of A. Merritt’s story. See Satan’s gameshow stairs at the right.

Image of a muddy graveyard in the rain. Three men struggle with a coffin.

Some graverobbing in Sergio Corbucci’s The Hellbenders (1967).

‘You’ve gotta respect the dead.’
‘I don’t even respect the living.’

Image of a muddy graveyard in the rain. Three men struggle with a coffin.

Some graverobbing in Sergio Corbucci’s The Hellbenders (1967).

‘You’ve gotta respect the dead.’
‘I don’t even respect the living.’

So I dropped D2D, but I found people only picked up ebooks through them on Kobo and Overdrive/Libby. So I cut out the middleman! Ebooks 99cents to $1.99, Kobo, Overdrive, and Libby: shorturl.at/rA59f

Collaborative anthology.
ETA: June 22nd.
Short stories with:

Elford Alley, Jen Bernardini, Brian Bowyer, Bill Davidson, Holly Rae Garcia, Nicholas Gray, Adam Hulse, Cindy O'Quinn, and Yolanda Sfetsos

Sci-Fi, Horror, Dark Fantasy, and more.

Ebook for reviews/blurbs. One month before. DM me.

My wife would agree with you. She prefers TNG. One of our first bonding moments was arguing Kirk vs Picard on our second date 🤣

15 Years of Great Interviews on the House of Mystery Radio Show on NBC

Coy Hall
Switchblade Svengali

Full Interview:
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It’s a slow mover. Densely written and descriptive. Just in the ‘okay’ range so far. I’m limiting my self to 2-3 a year so I don’t run out. I could start with some Next Generation novels, but they don’t hit the same. The characters in TOS are unmatched.

5 crime novels read so far this year. Ranking from favorite downward:

The Chill (1964)
Laura (1943)
Pop. 1280 (1964)
A Private Venus (1966)
The Grave’s in the Meadow (1959)

A Star Trek novel titled Deep Domain

Current read. I don’t overindulge, but periodically I have to engage with my favorite thing.

Cover for Born to Lose, by Marek Z. Turner, featuring a cartoon rendition of Gigi standing tall and proud among the streets of Turin, with a blue and yellow color scheme.

#indieapril26 book 17.

Born to Lose, by Marek Z. Turner.

Gigi is a born loser. A small-time thief in 1970s Turin, he can barely make ends meet and his criminal endeavors usually end in disaster. But he keeps on trying. And in this collection of short fiction, he will keep on failing as well.

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Right hand side shows Harrowfield cover. Left hand side is BFS Voting Is Now Open flyer. Voting period 16-3rd May and links given. Link is included in main bsky post.

The British Fantasy Awards are now open for voting!

And I have an eligible entry in the Horror novel category with my folk horror, Harrowfield. Vote for the path of green and gold! 😁

Check out the full list of SFFH works available here: britishfantasysociety.org.

That's so sad. I didn't know he passed. I remember him well.

Completely bowled over by Teresa Brock's review (@fullybookedinky.bsky.social) of Kansas City Breakdown on Insta ... my head's on fire, lol! www.instagram.com/p/DXHSKt-jfth/

Collage from a while ago.

#collage #art #pastels #portrait