Chad Anctil
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It is estimated that each year about 4 million books are published in the United States alone, between traditional publishing and self-published authors. 4 Million. Doing some quick back of the napkin math, that is about 77,000 books per week, on average. That’s 11,000 books per DAY. And we, as writers, want to climb to…
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I am really excited to announce that my first novel, ‘The Midnight Tree’, has been updated from cover to cover and has been re-released on Amazon, and this time it FINALLY has an eBook version! When I first wrote ‘The Midnight Tree’ over 15 years ago I was only just beginning my writing journey and…
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I know a lot of writers have their writing ‘habits’ – writing in a certain room, or writing with certain music on, or in silence, or only writing in the morning – you get the picture. I’ve never had much of that; when I have something I want to write, I usually sit there with…
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My new zombie flash fiction story ‘Bitten’ has been published in the all new flash fiction anthology ‘Flash of the Undead’ – a fantastic anthology featuring 70 flash fiction tales from an international array of authors, dealing with zombies, mummies, and all the various flavors of undead horror! My story is about a man, bitten…
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My tale of blood and murder, ‘The Mask of the Vampire’, is now published in the all new anthology ‘Masks of Sanity: Hidden in Plain Sight’. The anthology is all about ‘secret psychopaths’ and it looks really great – the cover is terrifying and the stories I’ve seen so far look intense. You can get…
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My story ‘Crimson Moon’ is now available in the new flash fiction anthology ‘Femme Fatale Flashes’ from Wicked Shadow Press. I can’t give anything away, no spoilers in a crime story, but this is an all new genre for me and it was really fun and challenging to write, I hope people really enjoy it!…
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My first published piece of 2024 has officially been released – my flash fiction story ‘The Shoggoths Next door’ is now available in the anthology ‘Flash of the Dead: Requiem’ from the excellent Wicked Shadow Press. This is my fourth piece published through them; they really like my writing and their anthologies have been really high…
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By Chad Anctil I’ve been writing for a long time, let’s say thirty years, give or take. Novels, short stories, flash fiction, non-fiction. I’ve been published, I’ve self published, I’ve been featured in anthologies, made the cover of magazines, I’ve even been translated into Spanish once. I have been professionally edited, I’ve self edited, I’ve…
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With this story I wanted to challenge myself to create a horror narrative in the most innocuous place I could think of – a place always associated with safety; the local library. I think I did a pretty good job with that, I hope you do too. Also included in this story are my 200th Twitter follower…
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Aphantasia – The inability to form mental images of objects that are not present. Before we get started, I want you to try something. Close your eyes and picture a skull (I write horror, remember?). What do you see? For over 90% of the population, you pictured a skull of some sort in your minds’…
Visions of a Dark Horizon 