Tuesday, May 7, 2024
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Author Ania Ahlborn answers 7 Deadly Questions about her dark thriller SEED

by R. A. Evans: 1. In your debut novel SEED, you follow the plight of Jack Winter as he tries to keep one step ahead of a darkness that has haunted him since his childhood. When this unseen entity trains its [...]

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Pawns

Pawns: The Cage (a short story)

Written by Zombie Theology His world awakened in blurry shadows and nonsensical sounds. The throbbing in his head was gradually lessening from a jackhammer to a rubber mallet, and a strange, sweet smell attacked his nose and lungs with every labored [...]

Arts and Literature
Eyes

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR FRIENDS?

Written by Richard Jay Parker Title of this week’s blog sounds like a strapline for a movie about body snatching pod people but I’m actually curious about other writers and how they road test their material. Nobody immerses themself in a [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Independent Authors vs $$$

Written by Benjamin Jones Let me start by saying…. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, just had to scream and get that out. Now that that’s out of the way, for us unsigned/independent authors, especially those like myself who have spouses and children to support, [...]

Arts and Literature

Alice in Zombieland

by Zombie Theology: This book includes illustrations by Sir John Tenniel and Brent Cardillo. Synopsis: Alice and her sister are playing in a graveyard when Alice follows a Black Rat. She falls into a grave and lands in a wonderful world of [...]

Arts and Literature

Seed

by Rebecca Treadway: The beginning of this novel definitely piqued my interest. A family heading home down a dark, Louisiana street – the father, Jack – spotting the luminescent eye shine of  ‘something’ on the road – the car flips over, and [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

Using Research for Harder Fantasy

Written by staticsan Amongst the works of Science Fiction, there is a significant subset called Hard Science Fiction. You may have heard the term. Works in that sub-genre usually have science that works, or is at least plausible, and little if [...]

Arts and Literature
Apostate

Apostate: How many bullets are in your gun? (a novel excerpt)

Written by Zombie Theology I drew back and hit the man as hard as I could in the side of his head with both fists. At this point, I did not care that he had recently been in an accident, and [...]

Arts and Literature
Dark Writing

First Forays Into The Dark

Written by ElshaHawk I don’t often write dark fiction, but when I read stories (especially on a website that I collaborate and write on), I want a twist, a villainous discovery, or a nasty end to a character. Sometimes the twist [...]

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