writing
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‘Halloweenthology: Friar’s Lantern’ is now available in ePub and illustrated paperback from Wicked Shadow Press. My story ‘The Black City’ is featured, and I really love this story – I feel it’s true weird horror along the lines of ‘The Mouth of Madness’ and similar tales of otherworldly terrors that lurk in the darkness. Follow
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Friends and readers, I am trying something new! I am publishing my horror anthology series ‘Chapters in the Nameless Book’ on a new platform, ‘Kindle Vella’. Vella is an Amazon platform that is designed for serial storytelling, with short episodes being released on a regular basis, weekly in the case of my story. EDIT: As
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This is an anthology I have really been excited for. The New England Horror Writers have been putting out excellent anthologies for years, and I have a story in this, their tenth anthology, ‘Wicked Abandoned’. My story ‘The House of Horrors’ is a terrifying tale of two young urban explorers delving into the depths of
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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 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 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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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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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 