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Ho ho HOLY CRAP! I have been dreadful at posting lately!! A thousand apologies.
Life does get in the way. I have a lot of illness and worry in my family these days, and my energy is better spent elsewhere.
Writing DOES continue apace. I have a new, true ghost story just out in Jeff Bennington's CREEPY 3 anthology. Christmas is the traditional time for ghost stories, and there are some nice spine-tinglers in this collection. Check out mine: 'The Watcher in the Woods' about an apparition I saw just after my own near-death experience. http://www.amazon.com/Creepy-Collection-Stories-Series-ebook/dp/B00AKYD120
Another ghostly short story turned into a fourteen thousand word novelette! 'In Sarah's Room' is a period piece... a creepy slow-burn of a ghost story in the tradition of M.R. James. This anthology (tentatively entitled TREADING CLOSE BEHIND) was also aiming for a Christmas release, but the consensus of the authors means that we'll likely be releasing it through a small UK publisher instead, hopefully not too far into 2013. Look for great dark stuff from B.L. Lloyd, Shalini Boland, V.R. Christensen and myself, to name a few...
Meantime, if you're doing your holiday shopping, books are always a good choice!
BASE SPIRITS is perfect to read whilst shivering by the fireplace...
In paperback- US: http://www.amazon.com/Base-Spirits-Ruth-Barrett/dp/1453643001 Also in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Base-Spirits-Ruth-Barrett/dp/1453643001
In e-book format- Kindle US (but also everywhere else where Kindle is marketed!) http://www.amazon.com/Base-Spirits-ebook/dp/B005L38G8E
All other e-book formats at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/84640
I have received Scrivener ( http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php) as an early Christmas gift, so I'm hoping it will help streamline my fiction writing process. I aim to have the first book of THE DEAD DRUNK mystery series IN THE BAG done over the winter. There's not much else to do in Stratford over the snowy months!
I wish one and all the very best of the season and a brilliant 2013. May you be surrounded by love, abundance, and good health. Enjoy every minute with your family and friends. Make merry. The rest is just so much noise.
Near death experience>? I was off FB for a while, what did I miss?
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The near-death experience (that time!) was in 2008. I've had three due to medical problems: two during a battle with blood clots in my lungs, and the latest was at New Year's of 2011 when the flu nearly killed me. I'm not so on the edge these days... thankfully!!
DeleteI will have to get Creepy 3 as a gift to myself this year haha. It sounds like you are plenty busy enough to deserve some time off from the blog. I just recently got back into the groove of my own blog writing a series of military survival, end of the world style stories. They are working out pretty good, well at least I am having fun writing them anyway! Have a great Christmas and keep on writing.
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