Bring a Brother Home

Hey check out my new short story, Bring a Brother Home.  You can read Part I at Piker Press.  It is the cover story for this month.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think.  Peace Out! Bring a Brother Home.

My Writer's Blog.

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.   

Useless Knowledge!

Check out my article on writing at Useless Knowledge titled, "You Can Do It!"

You Can Do It!

A good review!

Below is a good review of my short story, Border War, which first appeared in Night of the Wolf: A Werewolf Anthology, published by the Living Dead Press.  Innsmouth Free Press reviewed Night of the wolf and here is what they had to say about my story.

Supernatural detective Mike Monroe and his sidekick, the ultra-hot Roxy, star in “Border War”. They quickly discover that even the U.S. Government doesn’t know what to do when a pack of werewolves crosses the border and begins to feast on the Americans in a small, southern Californian town.


You can find Border war along with all the rest of my Roxy and Mike stories in Monroe's Paranormal Investigation.  Go to Amazon.com to order.

What's New With Me!

Hello Everyone.  I just thought I would put down a few lines to let everyone know what's new with me.  My science fiction novel, The Tale Spinner is now available on Kindle at Amazon.com.  Get your print copy at Otherworld Publications  My short story collection, Monroe's Paranormal Investigations is still available at Amazon.com, Barns and Noble's webpage plus other places on the net.  Check out my author webpage if you get a chance.  David Donaghe's Author Webpage  That's about it.  Right now, I am working on my next novel and enjoying life.  Peace Out!

Excerpt From Monroe's Paranormal Investigations.

Below is an excerpt from Monroe's Paranormal Investigations

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  I was fresh out of the service and looking for a job, so I decided to put some of the skills I learned in the Army to use.  I attended night school, obtained my private detective's licence, and opened up my own agency.
   My name is Mike Monroe, and I own Monroe's Paranormal Investigations. Most of the stuff I did in the military was covert OPPS: weird stuff that you wouldn't believe, and most of it I can't talk about because it's classified.  Most of the work I do is freelance work for the government, or private  clients who have a problem that the police or military can't, or won't handle.  If it's too weird or strange for the military they call me-I specialize in weird.
   Remember all those stories you heard when you were young about ghost, vampires, zombies and werewolves?  The one your mother said weren't real?  Well, your mother lied.
   It was about six months after I opened the agency, on a warm summer evening.  I was down at the office,  things were slow and I was getting board.  The Dodgers were loosing, so I switched off the radio and stepped out of the front door of my office.
   I thought maybe I'd stroll down to the liquor store, buy a six-pack and then head home.  The warm summer heat hit my face, making me sweat.  Here it was 9pm and it was still hot.
   At least I don't live up on the high desert, somewhere like Barstow, I thought to myself as I strolled down the sidewalk to the liquor store on the corner.  The temperature up there on the high desert could be brutal in the summertime.
   I heard the sound of shoe leather scraping the sidewalk behind me.  I started to turn, and that was when I felt a blunt object come crashing down on my head.  Pain shot through my skull, my vision went white for a fraction of a second, and I succumbed to darkness.

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Hello Everyone.

Hello everyone.  I'm new to Blogspot so here's a little INFO about me.  My name is David Donaghe and I writ short stories and novels.  I live up on the high desert of Southern California with my wife and family.  My short story collection, Monroe's Paranormal Investigations, published by The Living Dead Press, is now on sale at Amazon.com and on the Barns and Noble webpage.  My forthcoming science fiction novel, published by Otherworld Publications is now available for pre-order at http://otherworldpublications.com  It's release date is April 22nd 2011.  I am looking forward to networking and meeting new people on Blogspot and look forward to comments by anyone.