A haven of magic, myth and mayhem! Blog stops, books, reviews, interviews and more. The site of fantasy author, poet and blogger A. L. Butcher.
I haven’t used the Draft to Digital audio production service, but my author friend Barb is venturing on that journey now.
My Patreon Page is live again, yay! Feel free to peruse and check it out!
Audio update: Chose my first narrator at Findaway Voices. It’s going to be tough. Even listening to a less-than-5-minutes audition was “painful” for me. Oh, well… production underway, in a week I’ll see how it goes… Sigh!
Now waiting for male narrators to pick and choose…
Have a wonderful Sunday! 🙂
Awesome series being promoted
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Author name: Ann Stratton
Some of my other stories include:
A Note From Santiago
A Burning Rainbow Man
Crossroads
Ayesha and the Teaching Woman
A Soldier Travels
Monday is Winter
Freak Sanctuary
Delta City
Gutter Ball
Close Encounters, a collection of short stories
Mistaken Identities, a collection of short stories
My Little I, a collection of short stories
Loose Marbles, a collection of short stories
Interested readers might check with Smashwords or Draft 2 Digital to see what else I’ve published. Ignore the craft and cookbooks. My namesakes are busy (and creative!) women.
Harvey Stanbrough, one of our semi-local professionals who was getting into e-publishing at the time, convinced me to give Smashwords a try, and later Draft2Digital.
The publishing end. I’d prefer to just write, but to get my work out where someone else can read it requires spending way too much time on the Internet.
Pantser, definitely. Any other method makes me over think to the point of paralysis.
Just write the story. Follow the characters and write down what they say and do, and otherwise stay out of it.
Since I’ve only gotten one review, good or bad, I can’t really say… But I’m gonna do my very best to stay away from them.
Great characters
Good plot
Awesome world-building
Technically perfect
Pretty much my entire life has been research. I use my own learning and experience to base my stories on. Everything I see and hear and experience becomes reference material.
Other than that… I may do some side reading on whatever I’m writing about at the moment. I enjoy the sciences as a tourist – I window shop but don’t buy, especially the human-related ones.
Just write the next word. Just do it.
Anything the little voices in my head tell me. We won’t get into that.
It’s our front spare bedroom, used as an office. It’s a cluttered mess, as I also use it for keeping my craft stash, and the whole assembly just might fall on me someday, like Fibber McGee and Molly’s closet.
It appears to be a coming of age piece, as the heroine travels the world finding her destiny. I can see three options and I won’t know which one will apply until I get to the end of it.
At the immediate moment, her pants have split and her shoes have fallen apart, and some idiot keeps poking her with a stick.
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Here Be Ghosts Bundle
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Myth, Monsters and Mayhem Volume 6
Who are they? What are they? The souls of the long departed, or wicked manifestations of sin?
Tales of ghosts and spectres have enthralled us since time began. From ghostly servants, spectral possession, a space-going ghostbuster, to Halloween horrors, wicked toads and missing children these tales bring chills and thrills.
Ancient horrors, long-dead rockers, family secrets and helpful murder victims join them in providing the shivers and the quivers.
Dare you venture with the dead-walking.
13 tales of spooks, lost souls, and weird adventures.
Communication Breakdown – Dayle A. Dermatis
Alfred Lets Loose – Linda Jordan
Seventh – Debbie Mumford
Crossing the Naiad – J.M. Ney-Grimm
Full Circle – Kate MacLeod
Roadside Ghosts: A Collection of Horror and Dark Fantasy – Steve Vernon
The Palace – Leah Cutter
A Burning Rainbow Man – Ann Straton
The Whole World for Each – Kate MacLeod
The Queen of Toads – Joe Bonadonna
Ghosts and Ghoulies – Deb Logan
The Secret of Blossom Rise: A Ghost Story
The Popcorn Thief – Leach Cutter
via It’s About Time for Sophie E Tallis
Check out the post for this very talented illustrator
Only fools fall in love, and hell is filled with fools. Our damned lovers include: Christopher Marlowe and Will Shakespeare, Napoleon and Wellington, Orpheus and Eurydice, Hatshepsut and Senenmut, Abelard and Heloise, Helen and Penelope, Saint Teresa and Satan’s Reaper, Madge Kendall and the Elephant Man, and more . . . — all of whom pay a hellish price for indulging their affections.
Shakespeare said “To be wise and love exceeds man’s might,” and in Lovers in Hell, the damned in hell exceed all bounds as they search for their true loves, punish the perfidious, and avoid getting caught up in Satan’s snares. In ten stories of misery and madness, hell’s most loveless seek to slake the thirst that can never be quenched, and find true love amid the lies of ages.
Featuring stories by:
Janet and Chris Morris
Nancy Aspire
Joe Bonadonna
S.E. Lindberg
Michael E. Dellert
Michael H. Hanson
A. L. Butcher
Andrew P. Weston
HELL WEEK 2018…. Coming soon…. so get your pitchforks ready.
You have been warned.
Good Advice
Great article, and it’s always good to get feedback. Also knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses can really help.
Slow start with the new project, hopefully I’ll catch up in the weeks to come. But I also wrapped up Nightly Bites Volume 2 and it’s now available for pre-order (goes live on Friday) as e-book and available in paperback as well! I am very excited about this volume 2, I think it’s actually better than volume 1!
Well, at least my story is. The one I wrote on the fly, inspired by the chosen cover. So the guy on the cover is Alain, Bran’s latest fledgling, and you’ll see more of him probably in the next novel that will come out in November as usual. Not the first time that I write inspired by an artwork (photo/painting/drawing/sculpture) whether I did it or someone else did it.
The other stories are also awesome and you should check it right now! It’s been already presented on Library of Erana and I…
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Interesting. I love words!
Why do we say tonight in English? When you think about it, it’s fairly unusual. Last night makes sense, and so does tomorrow night. But tonight? Where does that come from?
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Here’s my latest author interview – enjoy:)
Please be aware some of Alex’s novels are 18+ rated.
Both! I have fibromyalgia so some days I don’t have the energy to do much of any use. I try and write everyday (and don’t always succeed), but some days, if I feel OK I get a total buzz from the writing. It’s satisfying to create something, and the feel-good is worth a lot. On the other hand the non-writing days make me feel a bit rubbish. It does depend on what else I have done that day. I work full time, so writing is usually limited to the evenings, weekends and holidays. I enjoy it though. When it becomes a burden I will stop.
Gaming and the internet. I am easily distracted. I’ll just go online for half an hour before I write… just 30 minutes…. Who am…
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Library of Erana 