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Self Published Bestsellers for the week of June 17th

Amazon

  1. Forever Too Far – Abbi Glines
  2. Conquer Your Love – J.C. Reed
  3. Surrender Your Love – J.C. Reed
  4. Before Now – Cheryl McIntyre
  5. Beauty from Surrender – Georgia Cates

B&N

  1. Forever Too Far – Abbi Glines
  2. Don’t Leave Me – James Scott Bell
  3. Return to Paradise – Carol Grace
  4. Mine to Take – Cynthia Eden
  5. Conquer Your Love – J.C. Reed

Smashwords

  1. Beauty from Surrender – Georgia Cates
  2. Jocomo – Timothy Cohorst
  3. Salvation – Erica Stevens
  4. Forged in Blood I – Lindsay Buroker
  5. Elysian – Addison Moore

Apple

  1. Forever Too Far – Abbi Glines
  2. Forever Black – Sandi Lynn
  3. Forever You – Sandi Lynn
  4. Fallen Too Far – Abbi Glines
  5. Never Too Far- Abbi Glines

Peace and luv!

IndieBound bestseller list

IndieBound bestseller list (Photo credit: bookavore)

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Winners at Bram Stokers Awards

Signature of Bram Stoker

Signature of Bram Stoker (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Congratulations to all that won at the Bram Stokers Awards. In case you were not there or had no clue who won yet, here you go.

Novel – Caitlin Kiernan – The Drowning Girl

1st Novel – L.L. Soares – Life Rage

YA Novel – Jonathan Maberry – Flesh & Bone

Graphic – Rocky Wood/Lisa Morton – Witch Hunts

Long Fiction – Gene O’Neill – The Blue Heron

Short Fiction – Lucy Snyder – Magdala Amygdala

Screenplay – Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard – The Cabin in the Woods

Anthology – Mort Castle/Sam Weller – Shadow Show

Fiction Collection – Mort Castle – New Moon on the Water

Nonfiction – Lisa Morton – Trick or Treat

Poetry – Marge Simon/Sandy Deluca – Vampires, Zombies and Wanton Souls

 

Peace and luv!

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Why reading the same genre will improve your manuscript

If you’re a writer you are a reader, at least I hope so. How can you be a writer and not be a reader? Even Steven King said that’s impossible. Currently I’m working on two novels at the same time, yeah I said it – 2 novels simultaneously. I’m in grind mode, seriously. Hope you are too. But in the midst of it all I still read. Both novels are thrillers actually the novel I’m editing is a psychological thriller too. So I’m reading thrillers to get a feel for what the elements are; currently The Reaper by Steven Dunne has my attention. Why is it important to read similar genres while writing?
Keeps you motivated. Sometimes I get frustrated and want to stop writing in an unfamiliar genre. But if I’m reading the genre that I’m writing in it gets me excited all over again and words just flow to no end. Use that to fuel you!
Get great ideas! I get ideas even when I’m talking to someone. It doesn’t have to be relevant to what’s been said; my brain just goes. How do you get ideas? Reading can be that portal to your next hot scene or next hot novel. So read, read, and read. If you can read as much as you write do it. Imagine reading in the same genre and getting a great scene stealer for your own novel.
Know the logistics! Don’t copy, that is not what I am saying. There are way too many fan fictioners out there. But instead similar to #1 be inspired and learn from the logistic side of the story: plots, characters, etc. usually thrillers use the same format, and horror and chic lit and so forth and so on. Try to pick it up and blend it in with your style.

Always be willing to learn. Look back at your old writing and compare it to your present work. Is there growth? If not pick up a book and start digesting.

Peace and luv!

Posted from none other than your favorite writer’s favorite writer Ms Talia

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What Makes the Oxford English Dictionary?

I have heard it all. Guess what word has made it into the Oxford Dictonary?

Geekery.

And we wonder why our children are not right. I’ve never heard anyone say this word, either thru social media or in real life. Have you? Geeked, yes. Geekery, no! What does it mean anyway? According to Wikipedia Geekery means,

One who is obsessed with one or more things.

Wow that really narrows it down for me. Pretty much everybody has geekery in them if that’s the case right? Who makes these lists up? They seriously should be fired.

Peace and luv!

Posted from none other than your favorite writer’s favorite writer Ms Talia

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Magazines that Wants Your Work

Getting into literary magazines has this stigma that it is very hard and daunting work that needs to be accomplished in order to get into their publications. True you must know what their publication is about and you need to know exactly what they want but it is not as much of a headache as you may think. Here are two that might interest you and at the same time pay for your work too.

Spark is a high quality publication featuring established professionals and fledgling writers. They pay all of their contributors. One cent per word and for reprints it is two cents per word and they retain the rights for a year before letting you have it all. They publish poems and traditional narrative any genre based short stories and will accept simultaneous submissions. They DON’T however publish erotica and profanity filled stories. Must be between 400-12,000 words. Give them about 2 months to respond.

Punchnel is a general interest web magazine written for a smart audience. All articles from music to news, poetry, fiction and memoir. They do accept simultaneous submissions between 400-1200 words. Pay is $10 per article.

Peace and luv!

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Bram Stoker Awards Nominees:

The winners will be announced this Saturday June 15th. Good luck!

Novels

Bottled Abyss – Benjamin Etheridge
NightWhere – John Everson
The Drowning Girl – Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Haunted – Bentley Little
Inheritance – Joe McKinney

1st Novel

Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino
Wide Open by Deborah Coates
The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief by Charles Day
A Requiem for Dead Flies by Peter Dudar
Bad Glass by Richard Gropp
Life Rage by L. L. Soares

YA Novel

The Diviners by Libba Bray
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Flesh and Bone by Jonathan Maberry
I Kissed a Ghoul by Michael McCarty
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
A Bad Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand

Graphic Novel

The Sixth Gun Vol. 3: Bound by Cullen Bunn
Rachel Rising Vol 1: The Shadow of Death by Terry Moore
The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone by Raui Thornton
Behind These Eyes by Peter J. Wacks and Guy Anthony De Marco
With Hunts: A Graphic History of The Burning Times by Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton

Long fiction

Thirty Miles South of Dry County by Patrick Kealan Burke
I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McGee
Lost Girl of the Lake by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty
The Blue Heron by Gene O’Neill
The Fleshless Man by Norman Prentiss

Short Fiction

Surrounded By the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston
Bury My Heart of Marvin Gardens by Joe McKinney
Righteous by Weston Ochse
Available Light by John Palisano
Magdal Amygdala by Lucy Snyder

Screenplay

The woman in Black by Jane Goldman
The Walking Dead by Sang Kyu Kim
American Horror Story by Tim Minear
The Hunger Games by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray
The Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard

Anthology

Shadow Show by Mort Castle and Sam Weller
Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations by Eric J. Guignard
Hell comes to Hollywood by Eric Miller
Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology by Mark C. Scioneausx, R.J. Cavender and Robert S. Wilson
Slices of Flesh by Stan Swanson

Fiction Collection

Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories by Jonathan Carroll
New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle
Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand
The Janus Tree by Glen Hirshberg
Black Dahlia and White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates

Non Fiction

Writing Darkness by Michael Collings
The Annotated Sandman by Les Klinger
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton
The Undead and Theology by Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips

Poetry

Dark Duet by Linda Addison and Stephen M. Wilson
Notes From the Shadow City by Bruce Boston and Gary William Crawford
A Verse to Horrors by Michael Collings
Vampires, Zombies and Wanton Souls by Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca
Lovers and Killers by Mary A. Turzillo

Peace and luv!

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The untitled: Rant & Muthafuckin Ravin’

To work feverishly as if you’re on your deathbed.

To write until your fingers are numb and indents are worn deep in the crevass between the thumb and pointer finger and on the side of my middle finger.

Ironic it should be there because I don’t give a fuck, I’m writing. Bitch don’t kill my vibe!

I have to succeed because I have no plan b.

I eat, breath and believe in myself. You have no choice but to believe in me too because that is how assured I am.

My intelligence and imagination should be in prison for its murderous ways. Don’t hate, suck your ugly teeth or roll those eyes…well go ahead, I’m not paying attention anyway.

My eyelids may waiver shut but my hand keeps writing, it’s incohesive with my mind. They got this!

I have so many stories to tell so many needing to be told so be patient lil ones, they’re coming!

Peace and luv!

Posted from none other than your favorite writer’s favorite writer Ms Talia