I am an indie author. I hardly make any money at all from sales. I work my ass off to ensure my books are seen by the public. I have NEVER solicited a review from someone so why do you keep removing my reviews?! You have this new rule where if you are friends or family members that you can’t leave reviews. It even gets to the point where followers, fans of authors who have been graciously accepted as a friend by the author cannot leave their opinion on the written work that drew them into that author. Why do you find it necessary to remove reviews? Your friends and family are your hardest critics. So if there is a 3 star review by them, you can bet your ass they meant it. How are we expected to excel at this thing called writing and publishing if you keep putting us down and removing what would help someone decide to buy our book or not. If Stephen King, EL James, Anne Rice, Stephanie Meyer, and all of these other big named authors can have their fans leave reviews, then us little authors should be able to as well. Stop censoring us! Stop discriminating against us! We deserve every review our fans leave. We worked hard to give them the book! Let them leave their opinion about the book in their own words.
One day, there will be a platform out better than you, and you will lose so much business from the little guys. You can bet your ass I will be one of them.
Coming this October from Darkerwood Publishing Group!
When one of my authors came to me with this anthology, I was honored to have been thought of. A couple writers had dropped out, and they needed to fill the space back in. I would have never imagined myself to be compared alongside of some the authors in here as adequate and someone worth asking to contribute. I am very proud and very grateful for my submission being accepted into this wonderful anthology of female horror writers. I may run a company of my own, but it’s nice to know your writing skills are noticed and appreciated among the horror community. Thank you, David Owain Hughes, for asking me to contribute. It may have been a rushed, one-day written submission, but it made it in!!
The Man Behind the Mask, an anthology that celebrates women’s voices in the horror genre, is coming! Are you ready to sleep with the lights on? (Don’t know what happened, but I lost the cover shots when I added to this post, added to the comments.)
The ‘80s brought us the horror genre’s golden period: the best films, directors, cheesiness, soundtracks, and the sexiest scream queens. We especially held the women of those films close to our hearts. Still do.
Featuring all-female contributors, stories in The Man Behind the Mask anthology will include ‘80s-style clichés: masked killers, peepers, perverts, toolbox killers, killer clowns, window-watchers, sister-touchers, geeks, cheerleaders, big-breasted women, men with big knifes (to compensate for the size of something else), and, most importantly, heroines.
This one’s for you, ladies. It’s a thank you for all the great contributions you’ve added to the beloved horror genre over the years, and it’s sure to be a prick-teasing wet dream for the geeks of yesteryear.
The best part? All proceeds will go to breast cancer research!
Bolt the doors or run screaming into the woods. The man behind the mask is back, and his chainsaw is revving.
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Linnea Quigley
Audrey Brice ( Stephanie Connolly Reisner ): Heart’s Desire
Dani Brown : Movie Star
Alice J. Black : The Travelling Circus
Carly Holmes : Club Cruelty
Jaime Johnesee : The Best Damn Revenge
Lisa Lane : Black Rose
Stevie Kopas : Camp Counselors Wanted
S.L. Mewse ( Stacey Mewse ) : The Harvest
Dawn Cano : Bag Lady
Debby Dodds : Killer Times at Ridgeway Mall
Michelle Garza & Melissa Larson : Rock, Paper, Scissors
D.m. Slate : 24 Lone Pine Lane
Fox Emm : Broken Rules
Crystal Jeans : Hot Sauce
Suzanne Fox (Sue Pass): Original Sin
Rose Garnett : Love Will Tear You Apart
Charlotte Ros: Ambush
Christine Elise McCarthy : Dinner
Christinna Viruet: Prom Night
Alessia Giacomi : Slumber Games
Kasey Hill : Scream Campers, I Know What You Dreamed Last Bloody Halloween
Briana Robertson : Bloodbath
Delphine Quinn : This isn’t the Breakfast Club
Kindra Sowder : Courtesy Call
K.M. Cox : Laugh out Loud
Rachel Nussbaum : It Takes a Lot of Guts
Tamara Fey Turner : Birthday Face
Florence A Marlowe : Clown Guy
THE WASTELANDS OF OZ Somewhere…down a wrong road…under the sea…across the desert…by earthquake, tornado, hurricane, and magick… exists the Land of Oz. But it…
There is a war going on between angels. It isn’t a war as one would think that is inscribed and written down in various religious texts throughout the world: angels versus demons. No, this war is much bigger than that. Demons were a creative word enlisted by God. No this war is purely between angels and the fallen angels. God has wiped out the existence of the Divine Mother after she, not Satan or Lucifer, took the fall for darkness out of love not hate. She took half of her children with her, half of the angels of the Summit, that selflessly went with her, and they all fell.
Even though the fall stripped them of their light, it did not strip them of their grace. They are still angels until they let the darkness of the universe seep into their heart. God, whose chosen name is Alpha, had hoped that this would happen sooner rather than later to all of the fallen. He deceived humanity over their existence. Once she was erased from the minds of mortals, the Dark Mother, Lilith, and God come to a compromise of who the Garden of Eden shall belong to.
Every 1,000 years an angel will be sent to earth from God to go to the family designated as the Guardians. This family holds the secret to the Garden of Eden and the angels are trying to swindle away the knowledge for God. Lilith and her army of fallen angels are devising a plan to return to heaven to receive their light back the fallen ones were stripped of when they selflessly fell with their Dark Mother. Lilith sends her own fallen angels to protect the family.
Every 1,000 years, the same soul is reincarnated, Sophie, a soul of an angel that gave up her true love, her twin flame, Incaendiel, to get them back into heaven. Sophie leads a normal life from birth until her 18th birthday where she finds out the stories her grandmother had told her growing up were true. She battles throughout the story to hold on to the feelings she feels for Incaendiel, even as she has memories of her affair while locked away from all the angels while in the Summit. Incaendiel battles what he has for millenniums, whether she will love him before her 19th birthday, or if she will fall for the angel sent from Alpha. He grapples with her human form falling for angels other than him and then has to deal with her angelic soul falling for another angel as well. The darkness is consuming him, and if it succeeds, they will both be lost to the light forever.
Each reincarnation pulls her further away from his love and closer to handing the Garden of Eden over to God. The love these two share outrank the love and power held by God himself. The consummation of their power is the only key to reaching the Garden of Eden, which is the only gateway for the fallen angels back into heaven.
Love, power, and vanity all come together in this novel as we see the showdown between angel and fallen angel, God and Goddess, brothers and sisters in arms fighting against one another. We see the power of love and the power of brotherhood as those angels of the light fall to help their forsaken brothers. In the end, love will banish and conquer the evil God of Creation and return the light back to the fallen, which was rightfully theirs to begin with.
