The Legend of Beacon Swamp, is the third book that I wrote. It was always supposed to be a novella, but I think I ended up rushing it out and didn’t tell the story that I wanted to tell. Which is why, over the course of the pandemic I started to rewrite it. And I thought I’d share the new cover here for ya’ll to look at because it’s above and beyond better than what I had before.

I’m a procrastinator by design, I don’t mean to be but it’s hard for me to break. This mean’s that when I sat down to write I like to try to look up different writing methods that can help me get the most out of my writing time. One of my all time favorite writing methods which I’ve used for many of my projects is the Lester Dent Pulp Fiction Writing Method which is all about putting the most action in a short piece as possible. With a little messing around you can make it work for novels and longer pieces as well. I think it’s a great tool to…

The Eigteenth issue of Serial Magazine is now out and can be purchased at Serial Pulp. This issue features the fifth and final installment of Elysia: The Wasteworld and the ninth installment of The Unsettler.

The success of Goosebumps spawned a lot of similar series when it first came out, and it’s also helped inspire a new generation of middle grade authors to write there own series. I know that it’s monster of the week style has inspired my own work even though I don’t write for young audiences. And for those of you like me that are always looking for new books to read and have been bitten by the Goosebumps bug, here are 6 series that I’m sure you’ll love. 1) FrightVision This is probably the newest series on this list but in my humble opinion it’s the best one in terms of…

Yesterday, I posted what my favorite Goosebumps books were and while looking up different links and such I came across this really neat documentary style video on YouTube which goes talks about the history of Goosebumps from the beginning to now.

The best part of quarantine is that I’ve been able to go back through memory lane, especially when it comes to things I love about the horror genre. Like a lot of kids who grew up in the 90’s and early 2000’s my introduction to horror books came through Goosebumps. There was absolutely nothing else like them on the shelves at the Scholastic book fairs. Recently I also made my first foray into YouTube which I will post later in the week when the editing is done, in the video I talk about the first Goosebumps book I ever read which is also the book that started it all Welcome…

If you’re looking for something to read during your time at home you should check out the exciting 17th issue of Serial Magazine which is out now. We’ve got several exciting stories in this including a fantasy story called Steel by Comhghall McKeating. Where the son of an elderly warrior fights to save his fathers life. Then there’s the Cowboy’s Curse by John Adams where a cowboy falls finds themselves falling victim to an old family curse. I’m a sucker for weird westerns so this one was right up my alley. There’s even more stories in there too. You can pick your copy up here: https://www.serialpulp.com/shop/issue-seventeen