I’ll start with at few lines about what’s going on with me. My short story collection, Monroe’s Paranormal Investigations, published by The Living Dead Press, is on sale at Amazon.com and on Barnes and Noble’s webpage. You can get it in trade paperback or on Kindle or Nook. Monroe’s Paranormal Investigations is a collection of stories about Mike Monroe, an ex military paranormal investigator and his ultra hot partner, Roxanne Delany. Mike calls her Roxy. They battle werewolves, vampires, zombies and other creatures that go bump in the night. If you like your horror fiction with a little sex and humor mixed in, then this might be the book for you.
My science fiction novel, Tale Spinner is also available at Amazon.com, on Barnes and Noble’s webpage plus other places on the internet. Otherworld Publications publish it. Tale Spinner is the story of, Brandon Merryweather, a timid young New York accountant that likes to read. One day Brandon steps out the front door of his Manhattan apartment, hears a clap of thunder, sees a flash of blue light and closes his eyes in fear. When he opens them, he finds himself in Greedy Gulch; the 1880s boomtown from the Western novel he’s been reading. Brandon must learn how to survive in this new savage land. By the end of the tale, Brandon bounces back and forth, transported from New York, to the old West, to outer space and Los-Angeles of the 1940s. Each place he lands in the world fiction, the people call him the new Tale Spinner and expect him to finish the tale. The final confrontation takes place when the characters from the land of fiction come to his world for a show down. If you like good science fiction, then this might be the book for you.
A few days ago, I sent off a submissions package to Otherworld Publications for the first book in a new science fiction series titled The Battle for Europa. It’s about revolution in the twenty third Century. I am also planning a men’s action adventure series. I finished the first book, Thunder Road and I am trying to get an agent to handle that one for me. I just finished the rough draft of a biker short story and I am getting ready to start my next novel.
I’d like to say a little bit about the process. My writing process, that is. I work the evening shift, so when I get home from work, about 11:30PM, I log onto the internet, check my email, face book and other sites that I go to and after I am done with that, I write. When I finish whichever project I am working on, I set it aside for a while and move on to something else. When I go back to a project for editing, I check for things such as spelling, repeated words and parses and grammatical errors; I add details and description. I might remove a scene or add another one. I keep working on it until it is the best that I can do. Then I have my wife proof read it and see if she can find anything that I missed. Only then do I send it in for publication. My advice to people seeking publication is simply to write. Set aside a certain time block each day to write. You can read all the how to books you want, but you learn to write by writing. Being a constant reader also helps. To be a good writer, you have to love to read. Words should become your passion. That’s about it for now, but feel free to send me any questions or comments you may have. Until the next post, just keep on writing.
