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NOS4A2 Review
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I can honestly say that this is one of the best books I have ever read. It was magical, never boring and something I could pick back up and immediately start over. I’ve been a fan for a while but this one simply floored me; I was already picking out who I’d want to play the parts in a movie and a movie is surely something that needs to be made. I’m almost sorry that I’m done with it because it was just that awesome.
A New Project
This is a little different from what I usually do on here. I have a project open to create a book on the Abandoned Gulf Coast. I have it up on Kickstarter right now and I have a website that I run as well. If you want to be a part of this project please help back it. Backing starts at as little as $1 and even if you can’t do that, please share the news by tweeting, sharing on Facebook or to anyone you know that might want to become a part of it.
Here is the link on Kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1650093491/a-book-on-the-abandoned-gulf-coast/widget/card.html
It’s not like it’s not free
I found a cute search term in my site stats tonight. A couple of people looked up the term “klein’s peaceable kingdoms twist” and I guess it led them to my blog. I found it cute that someone took the time to actually look up the twist but the story is free on Smashwords. Why not just download it? I guess I should be honored that someone took the time to try and find out the twist in the first place. It’s kind of like when you go on Amazon and type in Shauna K and my name pulls up. It means others have searched for that name. Not a bad thing I guess. But seriously, if you want to know the twist, get the story. Either buy it on Amazon or download it and then let me know what you think. 🙂
Making Friends
I’m trying to keep this as real as possible for those of you just like me. Maybe you have a story or two or even a book, you work a regular job and don’t have many connections, and so on. When I first got on Facebook I made friends with some of the authors I admired. Now in my opinion there are three groups of celebrities on Facebook:
- Those that just have a fan page. These people don’t interact much or maybe just once in a while.
- Those that friend you and that’s the last time you hear from them. Nothing wrong with that and at least they added you, which is pretty cool.
- Those that go out of their way to be as nice as possible. These people are awesome. They friend you, they talk to you and they genuinely treat you as a friend.
One of the first people I met as an author and a friend is Ray Garton. Nicest guy you’ll meet and if you love horror you should totally check out his work. We don’t always agree on everything but he has always been more than polite about it and I hope I’m allowed to call him a friend even if we’ve never met in person. Some of my other author friends I actually play games with like Words with Friends. I mean really, how cool is that?
My point is, many authors are like you and me. They’re nice, they play games, they have viewpoints you may not agree with, they have problems like you and me and they have incredible talent. I only hope that one day someone wants to add me as a friend because they loved what I wrote.
I Wish I’d Written That
Have you ever read a story and thought about how you wish you’d thought of it yourself? I just read one in the book The Gate 2: 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair. The story was from Daniel Pyle and and it’s called Night Night. The ending blew me away and since I love twist endings, I wish I’d written it myself. There are also a couple of stories in there by my pals, David McAfee and David Dalglish. So I guess I’m pimping out this awesome book of short stories. Well, at least so far it’s awesome.
My point is that sometimes you think of neat things and want to write about it but there are times you read something spectacular by someone else and wish you’d written it yourself. That’s how I feel about this book. Great job Daniel and I can’t wait to read the stories by the two Davids.
Hello world!
Yes, I kept the “hello world” title for this post. It’s almost 4:30 am and I really need to get to bed but before I go…
….this blog will be about what it’s like to try to get known in the horror world. While I only have a couple of short stories right now I’m very proud of them. Later I’ll post where they’re at and all that cool stuff but for now I just want to get this started and take my Kindle to bed where I can read some other person’s awesome horror work.
Good night and I hope to see you all here when I can really delve into how I feel about what I’ve done, who has read it and what it’s like to try to break into a genre that has some of the best writers ever.