tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37765500138859648982024-03-08T01:40:53.719-08:00Robert S. Wilson, author of Shining in Crimson and The QuietThe official website of Robert S. Wilson, Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor and author of the Empire of Blood series including SHINING IN CRIMSON (A FREE Dystopian Vampire Novel) and the Ray Garret/Lifeline series including the July 2013 Thriller of the Month from e-thriller.com EXIT REALITY.robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-78446844482107069192021-01-26T12:01:00.000-08:002021-01-26T12:01:44.833-08:00My First Nonfiction Piece is Out, It Gets Personal AF, and It's Free to Read!<p> After nearly a decade of being a published fiction author, <a href="https://folks.pillpack.com/how-adult-adhd-helped-me-successfully-fund-three-kickstarters/" target="_blank">I have finally gotten my first piece of paid nonfiction published</a>!!! Previously I'd only written one nonfiction essay as an introduction to my 2013 anthology <i>Blood Type: An Anthology of Vampire Science Fiction On the Cutting Edge</i>, and a couple of short political pieces for nonpaying websites that have long since disappeared with the dusts of cyber time. And thank goodness too because they were published long before I had any idea of how to craft prose etc. In order to save time, I'll share with you the post I made on Facebook about this piece and what it means to me:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>My first piece of paid nonfiction, <a href="https://folks.pillpack.com/how-adult-adhd-helped-me-successfully-fund-three-kickstarters/" target="_blank">"How Adult ADHD Helped Me Successfully Fund Three Kickstarters,"</a> is live over at <a href="https://folks.pillpack.com/" target="_blank">Folks</a>, a magazine focused on people, wellness, and overcoming health issues. </i></p><p><i>I'm a bit nervous about this. Both because it is my first paid piece of nonfiction and because, as I said last week, within this piece is some of the most honest and vulnerable writing I've ever put to virtual paper. I talk candidly about the positive and negative effects of ADHD on both my personal life and on my fundraising campaigns. More candidly than I have before. </i></p><p><i>Part of me worries some folks may see me differently or feel like I'm not worthy of their trust or support as a result. But, I'd rather be honest so maybe other folks can learn from my mistakes or maybe even realize that there may be a bigger reason that they are struggling. That maybe they're not just lazy and they're definitely not worthless like their mind constantly tells them they are.</i></p><p><i>And maybe, just maybe, some people will see just how real and devastating those four capital letters are for folks whose struggles they've taken for granted or laid the blame solely on their shoulders when they didn't choose for their brain to be wired differently. </i></p><p><i>When they didn't choose the static that constantly bombards their brains, the neurochemical gremlin that continually derails their best intentions and manipulates their empathetic tendencies so they feel obligated to say yes to everyone and then feel incredibly worthless when they get overwhelmed and shutdown, accomplishing nothing.</i></p><p><i>The inescapable trap door that perpetually leads them down a daily avenue of impulsive decisions and even sometimes dangerous choices (like leaving a television plugged in while trying to repair it).</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>There was a tidbit more but that was more related to where I was putting the link since stupid Facebook throttles the shit out of anything you post that has a link or image that doesn't go viral within two seconds these days etc. Anyway, do check it out and share if you enjoy it. And if you recognize any of the symptoms I've mentioned here or in the article, definitely talk to your doctor but in the meantime also <a href="https://youtu.be/cx13a2-unjE" target="_blank">check out Jessica McCabe's wonderful YouTube channel How to ADHD</a>! It is an absolutely wonderful resource for folks with ADHD and their loved ones trying to understand, navigate, and help each other with ADHD and the obstacles it can present in their lives. Anyway, that's all I've got right now. Take care, folks!</p><p>Bob </p>robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-27513951602635829582020-12-02T21:58:00.037-08:002020-12-02T22:13:55.741-08:00A Battle Cry Against Against Fascism<p style="text-align: justify;">So... Here goes. I'm running <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertswilson/diapause-by-dream-static" target="_blank">a Kickstarter</a> right now for a music project that's been in the works (mostly in my head) for the last few years. As of this moment the project is only 29% funded and has only seven days left to get fully funded or fail absolutely miserably. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertswilson/diapause-by-dream-static" target="_blank">fundraiser is for an album called Diapause</a> from my <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3vlqzv9wtfL2sJ3chIYqlz" target="_blank">Dream Static</a> project. Dream Static started out as an instrumental darkwave/synthwave cyberpunk thing but even when I didn't have time to work on it, vocal melodies and ideas kept creeping into my mind when listening to the scant few songs I had created and the project kept evolving in my head into more of a mix of what it already was and many elements of all the other music I love to write/perform: industrial metal, alternative rock, ambient rock/metal, EDM, House, Trance, post hardcore, death metal, triphop, shoegaze, progressive metal, anything intricate and off-time as well, and more. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>di·a·pause</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>/ˈdīəˌpôz/</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>ZOOLOGY</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>noun</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>a period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavorable environmental conditions.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>verb</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>(of an insect or other animal) undergo a period of suspended development.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i> "the eggs diapause over winter, and development resumes after the spring thaw"</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>(<a href="https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/" target="_blank">Definition from Oxford Languages</a>)</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertswilson/diapause-by-dream-static" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brX4saodG4U/X8h9Evg3oxI/AAAAAAAARBw/3EqadM8H0gcGp2Ji3yiNEelXqrjv1HbuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/dream%2Bstatic%2B5%2Bv1.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But at the same time, it was slowly dawning on me, after many years of inner searching to find what I even wanted to write about other than my own personal issues and struggles, that the state of the nation I live in, the malignancy growing from within that has festered in our presidency and in so much of the Republican party, especially these last four years, the greedy hunger for growing power to the point of <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/11/06/confronting-the-enduring-appeal-of-fascism/" target="_blank">idealizing and getting quite comfortable with fascism</a> in <a href="https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/" target="_blank">the laws they are passing</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dream_static/status/1334348811439894534" target="_blank">the constitution they are ignoring</a>, and the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55153918" target="_blank">rhetoric they use to push the ignorant masses toward violent action against the Left</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When that realization fully hit me, it was like shedding skin and finding new purpose. I had more musical focus than I've had in decades. Hell, I haven't even finished a full album since I self-released <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/458NxyrqGiWyCpXFS9QDND?si=0nKOptYJRCm5zc3HCfaMag" target="_blank">my debut Escape From Saturn album</a> back in 2003! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://escapefromsaturn.bandcamp.com/album/10-million-ways-to-say-goodbye" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXPoHDu3UT4/X8h_kE2aeNI/AAAAAAAARCI/gSDFsIjf2LI0-2cQxgQy2Ylpr4EXEzYIACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/10mwtsg-efs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">The closest I've come to putting out another full length was <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5Mepm2K2bZCVKRxWgWUY6U" target="_blank">my 2015 EFS EP Desolate Landscape</a>. I talked about this project in the context of my recent diagnosis of ADHD and more on Facebook last month and, for the sake of my time, which is very sparse right now unfortunately, I will relay that here by copy/pasting it. That said, if you're at all interested in supporting the Kickstarter, you can <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertswilson/diapause-by-dream-static" target="_blank">read it there instead</a>. Here's what I wrote:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5CTFrNS8G4/X8h6IB0wmSI/AAAAAAAARA0/wyg1XQcn9ooOr3K8y-teLSytKEEJdvGbACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/young%2Bbob%2Bwith%2Bles%2Bpaul.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a5CTFrNS8G4/X8h6IB0wmSI/AAAAAAAARA0/wyg1XQcn9ooOr3K8y-teLSytKEEJdvGbACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/young%2Bbob%2Bwith%2Bles%2Bpaul.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>So, I haven't said anything about this but it's been a month since my last measly $247 check from the state of Tennessee brought my unemployment balance to $0. I applied for the extension and never heard anything. I'm doing some freelance editing work now. But it's going to be rough keeping that consistent enough to keep up with our bills. Really rough.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>So... I've been working on something else as well. Something that's probably just a pipe dream. But at this point... what do I have to lose? I've been a musician since I was 12 years old, when I got my first guitar. I've been a singer and a songwriter since about a year later than that. While I adore editing, publishing, and writing, those forms of expression and creation are mostly relatively cerebral for me compared to my passion for creating and performing music.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWoxp1giiBM/X8h6U4_MCWI/AAAAAAAARA4/65AbWgG_djk27ZBuHxU_1Ia89QrAtXj1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s680/Lift%2Bback%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bday%2Bat%2Bthe%2BEmerson%2Bblond%2Bspiky%2Bhair.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="680" height="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dWoxp1giiBM/X8h6U4_MCWI/AAAAAAAARA4/65AbWgG_djk27ZBuHxU_1Ia89QrAtXj1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h314/Lift%2Bback%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bday%2Bat%2Bthe%2BEmerson%2Bblond%2Bspiky%2Bhair.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>For years now I've set my music aside because every time I would work on it there was never enough time. In some ways because of obligations but ultimately, I knew deep within myself that there was a bigger reason. I knew that, for me, music was a hole so deep that if I let myself fall into it, I would never hit bottom. It's how I've always been. When left to my own devices and the resources to create music, I would probably lose excessive amounts of weight, never wash or take care of myself, or get anything else done in the midst of creating.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I've hurt relationships over music by burying myself so deep in it that I can't come out. People who love me have felt incredibly ignored and I've neglected my own well being and lost jobs because of it more than a couple times over the years.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>So, around 2016, in order to be able to function as a reasonable human being, I effectively muted that part of myself. I think of it more like a kind of suffocation of that part of my being. In my mind I put that deep-seated need, that addiction, that unending hole in me in a dark room and closed the door and pretended it didn't exist. Then I busied myself with enough of everything else that I wouldn't have time to remember what was causing that open wound I was holding shut by pure willpower alone.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I went as far as to mostly not even listen to or enjoy music. When a song played that pulled at my emotions it would only stir that need and cut my wound somehow deeper.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>And then, from time to time, it would resist. And open again, refusing to be held at bay. And I would pick up my guitar or dust off my keyboard, and play something. I would open my mouth and sing. And the flood would come back. Only for me to be buried in too many obligations to be able to spend even a reasonable amount of time working on music. As such I would become angry, miserable. And I made others around me miserable as well.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://escapefromsaturn.bandcamp.com/album/desolate-landscape" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f_Xojun0V-Q/X8h6irnqrZI/AAAAAAAARBA/dGp4P5SJABQMNEwCf8xw_lkkyj28VAXTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/Desolate%2BLandscape.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>In the past six or so weeks, I learned so much about myself. And I know now that that need, that unending hole, while definitely a deeply emotional part of my being wasn't just a curse of my personality. It wasn't just me being selfish and uncaring or unloving of my family or my friends. It was a huge symptom of ADHD. Like a ginormous one. That symptom is called hyperfocus.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>You see, Attention Deficit is a horrible fucking way to describe what's actually going on in somebody with ADHD. A better way to describe it would be Attention Regulation Dysfunction. Or something like that. The exact wording isn't the point. The point is, folks with ADHD don't have a complete inability to pay attention. They have an executive function disorder that impairs their ability to CONTROL WHAT THEY FOCUS THAT ATTENTION ON.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cx13a2-unjE" width="320" youtube-src-id="cx13a2-unjE"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Because ADHD brains aren't wired to choose the smarter or more empathetic option of what to pay attention to. Not because we lack empathy! But because our brains have a deficiency of dopamine and norepinephrine, neurotransmitters that play a huge part in motivation and the perception of time. And as such, our brains prioritize activities and experiences that bring about immediate mental or physical reward.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Because of which our brains will tell us over and over again, when we're doing something we get that immediate reward from, just a few more minutes. What's that? It's time to go to work? Just a few more minutes and I can stop. Or just a few more minutes and I'll be done with this. Or this will only take me ten minutes and I don't have to leave until that very moment so I have just enough time.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>This plays out in our relationships as well. Jen will ask me to do something and I will say sure. And I mean that sure. I really do. I mean to do that thing. And then hours later I'll have either started the task and only managed to get 10% of it done or, if I'm hyperfocused on something, anything, not just music, I will have completely forgotten what I was even supposed to do or that I WAS even supposed to do something.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>This plays out with my work. It's caused me so many many problems with obligations I've made, Nightscape tasks I've started or set out to do, favors I've agreed to do for friends, house chores, you name it.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nightscapepress.pub/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="1344" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRrYdvXHFhw/X8h7iUn6QuI/AAAAAAAARBY/-YQvaKXvX1ILtDErk_0l0DN0zp6WRsDSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/backlogo2.png" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But give me that instant reward, that dopamine burst and I will latch onto whatever it is mindlessly and all else will fall away to the blurry outlines of my peripheral. And then get swallowed by the darkness of the deep pit at the bottom of my broken memory.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Because, yeah, that's another thing that's affected by all this. Memory. And now that I'm on medication that's helping to produce those neurotransmitters I need to be reasonably functional, all those legions of obligations and tasks I've lost track of are returning from that dark pit and the mountain of work that's been looming over me is finally visible to my newly open eyes and it. Is. STAGGERING.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But I digress (a lot. All the time. Like a narrative pretzel. That's another huge ADHD symptom). Music has always given me that instant reward. From the moment I first learned to fret and strum a chord, to the first time I played music with other people, to the first time I recorded a song, to the first time I sang on stage in front of hundreds of people. Every moment of it is instant reward. Instant dopamine. Even when it doesn't go well. Even when I'm just tinkering or testing out a new instrument.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyChORCwCkVC8pLgaWG5oIam6UKxlg7tjHZoFO_g1BGbjKCWtpKCpGyeLihL7aJfhNK0ysw9CfYZtiZun9-lA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>So, around the same time that I realized I had ADHD, that hole opened up again. And this time, with the meds, I'm way more able to manage my behavior. To get other things done. I'm not perfect at it. But I also have four years where I was literally only working on music maybe 100 hours or less a year to make up for. So, I think, under the circumstances, staying up into the middle of the night working on a song after getting some work done last night was a step in the right direction compared to the past. But it's not something I can or will do all the time.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>So, this brings me to now. And what I've been working on. I've created a number of solo recording projects over the years of various genres and styles. And while it's never gotten as much interest as my live bands did back in the day, some folks have enjoyed my Escape From Saturn alternative/progressive/industrial metal project.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Several years ago, though, I started a dark synth instrumental project called Dream Static. Dream Static was heavily influenced by my love of 80s dark synth soundtracks like Bladerunner etc. But I also mixed in a lot of other influences. But in the last couple of years, I've dreamed about doing a lot more with it. Making something new. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Something that takes the dark synth music I've been making and throws in all the elements I love to create in music. Something folks can enjoy both with and without vocals.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>A melding of progressive metal, industrial metal, dark synth, EDM, post hardcore, melodic rock, alternative, and more. Everything I've ever done with music and then some. So, I've started working on a new full length album. And it's not just going to be a way to give myself that instant reward. It's going to be very much about the world as it is right now. About the fight we struggle with as humans now and the struggle of being an American right now in this moment and in the fight to come.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>It's about stagnation. Not just now and in the recent past but in the entirety of the history of the United States. It's about waking up from the American Dream into the fully visible nightmare that is the American Experiment for anybody who isn't white, straight, and cis. It's about our imaginary borders past and present. It's about the lies we've been raised to believe about a great and glorious nation under God, with liberty and justice for the rich and the righteous and the privileged few.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The album will be called Diapause. And it's going to be my battle cry. Against fascism. Against the current administration. Against the status quo and the propaganda that I was raised on in school and in the media.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-anti-fascism-180975152/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="274" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--RNAG_1xdhc/X8h8nHjSkxI/AAAAAAAARBk/7HRxVsthZ0QpI2Zgx_uWMSjkyh_dL2IygCLcBGAsYHQ/w365-h400/Destroy%2BFascism.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><p> </p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Diapause is my battle cry against the growing spread of fascism in America.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I suspect a lot of people will think I'm crazy to do this, but I'm going to do a Kickstarter for this project. A short one with what I feel is a modest goal. Just enough to cover what I need to make the album. Which isn't a ton.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I have most of the equipment I need. I can record and mix it myself. I just need to cover the cost of a mastering engineer and the production cost of a small CD run and a limited vinyl run. And if I'm lucky, maybe I'll raise a little extra to help, along with my freelance work, to pay some bills this next couple of months. It's a way way smaller goal than my Nightscape Kickstarters have been.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>But, regardless of what people think. I need this. Now more than ever. All this discovery of late has been emotionally complex to say the least. The past four years have been emotionally complex as you all know for so many of us. Some way more than me. But I feel so much of what everyone feels. And I have so much of my own with my own family. The struggle for trans rights for Sera and so many of my lovely friends. The struggle for women RIGHT FUCKING NOW in the mid st of a supreme court packed against their best interests. Packed against all of our best interests.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>I'm getting so much done that I was struggling so much with before. And I'm learning to delegate the Nightscape tasks I can't get to on my own. For the first time in my life, even with a staggering workload, I know I can finally juggle my music and everything else. So I am damn well going to give it my best to try. And who knows. Maybe I can make something that other people enjoy and can be proud of. Maybe Diapause can be their battle cry too.</i></p></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertswilson/diapause-by-dream-static" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6GzlgGqu4XI/X8h9Ux56yzI/AAAAAAAARB8/aRhpXm_gORcEJ09Y4CLcVBkO05Q-sRJTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/Dream%2BStatic%2BProtest%2BFascism%2BPromo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>So, if you're still with me... if anything I've ever created has moved you or has inspired you, please consider backing this project or spreading the word about it to anyone you think might even be remotely interested in it. I would very much appreciate that. Either way, thank you for taking the time to read this and dear fucking Christ I hope next year is better for all of us. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sinerely,</p><p>RSW</p><p></p>robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-40103135054646917782020-03-19T21:40:00.002-07:002020-03-19T21:40:26.564-07:00The Robert S. Wilson 2020 Social Distancing Survival Kit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't know how much value this will be for anyone, but I wanted to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o2sbvbluwbetjnv/AAAHZVY5ksiipUOBqzRKuF3Aa?dl=0" target="_blank">share some of my books in electronic format for anybody who needs something more to read through this whole social distancing period of 2020</a>. Four out of five of these are the things I've written that I can share and that I hate the least. Take that as you will. </div>
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The list includes my dystopian vampire trilogy Empire of Blood, my novellas Dream Static and Exit Reality, Part 1 of my serial Hex: A Novel of Cosmic Horror, and my otherwise unavailable short story collection Where All Light is Left to Die. I've never been one to stick within one genre, but it's safe to say that if I've written it, it's probably at least a little on the darker side. These are provided in mobi, ePub, and PDF editions. Feel free to share this page with others. I hope you are all as comfortable as you can be and that you are taking every precaution you need to in order to stay safe and sane through this crisis.</div>
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RSWrobertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-64016713555990286072019-12-23T16:50:00.001-08:002019-12-23T16:50:27.928-08:00My 2019 PublicationsI never do these, but in the spirit of trying to do better here goes. The following are my 2019 publications in order of publication date:<br />
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1. <a href="https://perpetualpublishing.com/product/dark-moon-digest-35/" target="_blank">"Tongues of Fire" (short story, April, Dark Moon Digest, ed. Lori Michelle)</a><br />
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2. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01429-7?utm_source=twt_nft&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=futures" target="_blank">"Brick City" (flash fiction, May, Nature/Nature Futures, ed. Colin Sullivan)</a></div>
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3. <a href="http://bit.do/noxpareidolia" target="_blank">Nox Pareidolia (as editor, anthology, October, Nightscape Press)</a></div>
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4. <a href="https://vastarien-journal.com/issues/" target="_blank">"Pavement" (short story, November, Vastarien: A Literary Journal, ed. Jon Padgett & Matt Cardin)</a></div>
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5. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/1nzaom7wg0" target="_blank">Horror For RAICES (as editor, anthology, December, Nightscape Press, co-edited with Jennifer Wilson)</a></div>
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First of all: Happy New Year, folks! I hope you've all had a great start to 2019. Life has been hectic for me of late. I'm running behind on a number of things but I'm starting to get caught up bit by bit so there's that. I'm now doing a series of limited chapbooks color-illustrated by Luke Spooner over on my Patreon. Luke did the interiors for the first chapbook in my Hex serial novel last year and I'll be continuing that serial. In between each part of Hex, though, I'll now be putting together a chapbook consisting of either a standalone novelette, a novella, or a short collection. Like with Hex, each will be signed by myself, numbered, and illustrated by Luke Spooner.<br />
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My weird novelette Through the Mindhole will kick off this year's subscription. The formatting is complete, though I'm still trying to decide between two different versions. Then I'll be immediately having copies printed off, so if you want one of these, you can <a href="https://www.patreon.com/join/robertswilson?" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">join my Patreon</a> at the $10 tier and I'll ship yours out. And Hex 2 will be coming up immediately afterword!<br />
Here's the cover and some illustrations all by Luke Spooner:</div>
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Here's the tentative schedule I have in mind (if you <a href="https://www.patreon.com/join/robertswilson?fbclid=IwAR213rYHPDXzYwtZt3X3cInnc8F5wuXjynIqh9fq1IWoARiFXb3udFUu3ew" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">sign up for my Patreon</a> at the $10 tier or higher and don't have <em>Hex Part I: The Eye of the Hexagon</em>, let me know and I'll ship it along with the other two January chapbooks!):</div>
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<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>January: Through the Mindhole (Novelette), Hex Part II: The Mouth of the Hexagon</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>February: Exit Reality</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>March: Hex III: The Flesh of the Hexagon (serial novel)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>April: A Light That Could Only Shine On the Dead and Other Weird Tales (short collection)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>May: Hex IV: The Blood of the Hexagon (serial novel)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>June: The Quiet: Reimagined (new re-imagining of my 2011 short novella. There is a chance this will turn into a novel, if so, I will publish the first part and this schedule will change quite drastically)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>July: Hex V: The Mind of the Hexagon (serial novel)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>August: Flashes in the Dark (flash fiction collection)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>September: Hex VI: The Light of the Hexagon (serial novel, final part)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>October: The Orloge (Currently unfinished novelette/novella)</em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>November: Dead Synapses: A Collection of Bleak Science Fiction (short collection) </em></li>
<li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>December: The Knowing Inside John Part I: Beasley Hollow (serial novel) </em></li>
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And for those of you who don't already know, mine and Jennifer Wilson's company <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/" rel="nofollow noopener" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Nightscape Press</a> now has a number of <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/test-store.html#!/Charitable-Chapbooks/c/31121361/offset=0&sort=normal" rel="nofollow noopener" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Charitable Chapbooks</a> coming out this year. Last year's The Broker of Nightmares by Jon Padgett sold out and raised $1,000 for the ACLU! <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/test-store.html#!/The-Broker-of-Nightmares-by-Jon-Padgett-Charitable-Chapbook-1-eBook-edition-pre-order/p/115212355/category=0" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">The eBook edition of Broker</a> is available for pre-order and will be coming out soon! That edition will give 40% of its proceeds to the ACLU. These new upcoming chapbooks will raise money for a variety of charities. And we'll be venturing into full length books with our new charitable model starting this year as well. And if you missed it, my anthology <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/anthologies.html" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Ashes and Entropy came out in eBook format in December</a> and has started garnering some great reviews. The paperback is available for pre-order in three different cover designs and literally just went to the printer finally and should be ready in about a week or two. We also have some other fantastic projects forthcoming like <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/test-store.html#!/Secret-Gateways-A-Leeds-Dunnstown-and-Beyond-Limited-Hardcover-Box-Set-Pre-Order-by-Jon-Padgett-and-Matthew-M-Bartlett/p/126187566/category=0" rel="nofollow noopener" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Secret Gateways (A Leeds/Dunnstown and Beyond Limited Hardcover Box Set) by Jon Padgett and Matthew M. Bartlett</a> and <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/test-store.html#!/Registration-for-the-2019-Nightscape-Press-Caribbean-Cabal-Charitable-Writers-Retreat-with-special-guests-Laird-Barron-and-John-Langan/p/127219361/category=0" rel="nofollow noopener" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">the 2019 Nightscape Press Caribbean Cabal Charitable Writers Retreat (with special guests Laird Barron and John Langan)</a>!<br />
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And speaking of events, Jen and I will also be going to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/211717783047838/" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019</a> in Atlanta in March, and <a href="http://scaresthatcareweekend.com/" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Scares that Care </a>in Williamsburg, VA in August, and <a href="http://necronomicon-providence.com/welcome/" text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank">Necronomicon Providence </a>in August as well (We'll have my books and Nightscape books at all of these of course)! So, quite a lot of cool stuff and events are coming up this year. Anyway, that's all I've got for news right now. Hoping 2019 treats you all very well!</div>
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Just a quick update on some various things. In my last post I shared a snippet of Chapter 1 of HEX: A Novel of Cosmic Horror which I'm currently serializing <a href="https://www.patreon.com/robertswilson/posts?tag=Hex" target="_blank">for free on my Patreon</a> and <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/story/144232033-hex-a-novel-of-cosmic-horror" target="_blank">on Wattpad</a>. Part I: The Eye of the Hexagon which consists of the first six chapters and about 12,000 words is completely available to read in both places for free and is now also <a href="http://mybook.to/hexpart1" target="_blank">available for 99 cents for Amazon Kindle</a> and <a href="https://robertswilson.bigcartel.com/product/hex-part-i-the-eye-of-the-hexagon-limited-edition-signed-and-illustrated-chapbook-preorder" target="_blank">for preorder in a lovely limited chapbook edition</a>. The three pieces of interior artwork shown in this post were created by the immensely talented <a href="http://carrionhouse.com/home-page" target="_blank">Luke Spooner of Carrion House Illustration</a> for this chapbook and are half of the included pieces.<br />
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There will be six parts in total, each with six chapters (chapters 1 and 2 of Part II: The Mouth of the Hexagon are already up on Patreon and Wattpad, actually), and each will have its own Kindle eBook and limited edition chapbook once all of its chapters have been unveiled online. The plan is for a new chapter to go up every week until the entire book is up. Then I might do a single volume limited edition hardcover. I haven't decided yet.
I've also been <a href="https://www.patreon.com/robertswilson/posts?tag=short%20fiction" target="_blank">posting short fiction and novelettes on my Patreon</a> and will be including more as time goes on. Almost everything is freely available but I plan to post some Patron-only material soon including a revamping of my series on fiction writing called <a href="https://www.patreon.com/robertswilson/posts?tag=The%20Subtle%20Balance" target="_blank">The Subtle Balance</a>. <br />
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In other news, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nightscapepress/" target="_blank">Nightscape Press</a> is in the process of relaunching. Our first new title is Tim Waggoner's new short fiction collection DARK AND DISTANT VOICES and it's absolutely lovely and exquisitely bizarre. It's currently <a href="http://http//mybook.to/darkanddistantvoices" target="_blank">available for Kindle</a> and <a href="http://mybook.to/darkanddistantvoices-tp" target="_blank">in a trade paperback edition</a> on Amazon. Each story includes a gorgeous illustration also done by Luke Spooner. Here's the cover copy:<br />
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<i>"This is every card in the horror deck, played by someone who knows the game better than most of us ever will."—Stephen Graham Jones, author of MONGRELS, AFTER THE PEOPLE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OFF, and THREE MILES PAST</i><br />
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<i>"'Hell is other people,' Jean-Paul Sartre tells us. 'Especially the one we see in the mirror,' implicitly says Tim Waggoner. Both give us the theme of Waggoner's splendid Dark and Distant Voices. Our children we don't quite recognize, colleagues not all that collegial, ghosts who silently speak the Truth ... They're all here and more in Waggoner's brilliant story collection."—Mort Castle, author of THE STRANGERS and CURSED BE THE CHILD</i><br />
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<i>They come to you at night.</i><br />
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<i>Spinning tales of blasphemous wonder, terrible wisdom, and unspeakable truth.</i><br />
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<i>You try to shut them out, try to get away, but you can’t.</i><br />
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<i>For the voices you thought were coming from so far away… they’re inside you.</i><br />
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<i>Nineteen stories of the bizarre and fantastic from the mind of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner, “horror fiction’s leading surrealist” (Cemetery Dance Magazine).</i><br />
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Nightscape Press will have two novels out this year, THE COMING by Bryan Hall (an incredibly creepy novel of unorthodox demon possession!) and TALONS OF THE GREEN by Jonathan Templar (fans of Jonathan's <a href="http://mybook.to/angelofshadwell" target="_blank">THE ANGEL OF SHADWELL</a> will be delighted to know this is the first Inspector Noridel steampunk horror novel!), before we transition into our new charity publishing model which... speaking of...<br />
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<a href="https://jonpadgett.net/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R1HgmIq4ly4/WwelkAkqtoI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/u-UyXTF4w0oBc2ecHklceoqsWJpCwEKEgCLcBGAs/s320/reg-and-I.jpg" width="320" /></a>If you missed them on my Facebook page, another couple of big Nightscape Press announcements were made. This summer we'll be publishing a brand new Dunnstown-based novelette by one of my absolute favorite new writers, <a href="https://jonpadgett.net/" target="_blank">Jon Padgett</a>, called <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.pub/p/test-store.html#!/The-Broker-of-Nightmares-by-Jon-Padgett-Charitable-Chapbook-1-Pre-order/p/112868664/category=0" target="_blank">THE BROKER OF NIGHTMARES</a> in an illustrated, signed trade paperback edition and later on in a Kindle edition as well. This will be the debut release in our new charity limited edition line of books and will contribute a significant portion of its net sales to the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/" target="_blank">ACLU</a>.<br />
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If you haven't already, you owe it to yourself to read Jon's groundbreaking horror collection <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Ventriloquism-Jon-Padgett-ebook/dp/B01N0YB19V" target="_blank">The Secret of Ventriloquism</a>. I highly recommend <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/The-Secret-of-Ventriloquism-Audiobook/B06X6BVFXB" target="_blank">the audiobook</a> as Jon reads it himself and is also an incredibly talented voice actor and one of those rare writer/narrators that enriches his material greatly in the way that he breathes life (or in this case something far darker) into his own material. I would easily put him up there with Gaiman and Ellison in this regard, but with a bleak and creepy result.<br />
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The second piece of NSP news is that we'll be opening to new submissions for our charity novel line in September of this year. Some more details about both <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bobbyshanewilson/posts/10156640595156435" target="_blank">can be found on this post</a> and more details are still to come.<br />
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That's it as far as news goes for now, folks! But remember... #meatbleedsrobertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-76879219469414862822018-04-05T21:24:00.001-07:002018-04-05T21:24:35.868-07:00Hex: A Novel of Cosmic Horror Chapter 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #052d49; font-family: america, sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-line;"><i>I hope we find his corpse floating in orbit. </i>Tahlia imagines Jason tumbling among the rocks and ice within those vast majestic rings, those beautiful hazel eyes staring out at nothing behind a transparent face shield. Her fury chills to anguish and then freezes into a deep heavy guilt. She shields her eyes from a bright glint of sunlight reflecting off of Ring F.
The sight of the planet takes her breath away and she lets her eyes wander to the giant hexagonal-shaped storm that crown's the gas giant's north pole. A living dynamo of gas and wind and gravity. The subject of her life's work. She smiles. She's really here.
She subdues any sign of outward excitement. They're not officially here for science, much as that hurts deep inside her. They're here to find out why Zazel went silent. If the crew is alive or dead.
Her own crew of five sit silent as the tiny dot of Zazel grows steadily closer in the viewscreen. Adrenaline and anxiety swirl into one another and Tahlia has to fight to keep from holding her breath.
"Still no sign of radio activity," Brothers says into the empty silence.
Ahmed turns to Tahlia, a flash of pity in his otherwise emotionless face. A nervous swallow. "On course for docking. We should make contact in 56 minutes and 27 seconds."
Tahlia nods. "Brothers, any other signs of activity?"
David clatters away at the keyboard in front of him, face scrunching with focus and then he shakes his head. "Power's on and life support is running but nothing independent."
Minutes stretch into eternity and then the dot resolves itself into a sleek tiny shuttle floating just along Saturn's western ring plane. White base, wings covered in golden solar panels, cockpit glowing yellow with inner light. There's nothing visible in that glow. It's still too far away. Tahlia taps her fingernails against the console in front of her. A collage of moments floods her memory.
Jason lying naked in bed, watching her dress in front of the mirror, a sly smile arching up the side of his mouth, black hair tossled at the top of his head.
Holding hands under the stars on the hood of his newly restored bright cherry red '57 Chevy, cold metal sticking to the small of her back.
Getting lost for hours, hiking in the autumn-colored trees of Lieber State Park.
The blinding afterglow of her laptop screen after reading the recovered emails Jason deleted between him and Johanson.
Nearly breaking her hand beating on the door of his apartment, screaming for him to let her in.
The clean-typed formal letter from Brizen Aerospace Command informing her that she had been "dismissed" from the crew of Zazel, Jason's familiar signature scrawled at the bottom.
Watching Zazel launch from a nearby parking lot, fingernails digging into her palms and drawing blood.
Focus, Tahlia.
She exhales, letting the poison in those memories leak out of her in one long release, fixes her stare back on Saturn. Something big begins to overtake the left side of the screen. Ahmed gasps as Zazel's payload doors crack open. "Uh. I didn't initiate the docking procedure yet." He looks back at Tahlia with a mixed expression of excitement and... fear?
Tahlia nods and Ahmed turns back to his terminal.
"Brothers, anything?"
He shakes his head. "Nothing. I've had the hailing beacon on repeat ever since we first made visual." The doors continue to stretch open in one long flowery bloom. Zazel's docking arm slides gently into the gap between them.
Her petals fully extended, the docking arm rises to meet Perseus. For the first time in weeks, their vessel makes a very loud noise and shimmies unsteadily for a moment as the docking arm attaches itself to the ship's hull. "Docking complete. The ships' computers are talking to each other." Ahmed looks up from his terminal, a disquieted look on his face.
All eyes are on Tahlia now. "Anything about who set up the docking procedure? Why we're not hearing anybody on the radio?"
Ahmed shakes his head. "Nothing yet. The ship's log data is transferring now. I can search through them once they're fully downloaded."
Tahlia stares out at the open cargo hold of Zazel and lets out a long sigh. "I suppose we had better take a look. Ahmed, stay here and keep monitoring the data transfers. Brothers, Melton, Chambers, you'll suit up with me... Someone is in there. Has to be." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/hex-novel-of-1-17975439">Read the rest of Chapter 1 for free on my Patreon page (new chapters will be posted there every week).</a></span></span></span></div>
robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-8252917232775803132017-10-20T06:25:00.000-07:002017-10-20T06:25:38.952-07:00This is HALLOWEEN! MOTHERFUCKING HALLOWEEN!...and you know what that means! KINDLE EBOOK SALE! Wait, you were expecting me to talk about Fall, leaves, comfy flannels, fluffy hats, hot pumpkin spice lattes, jack O' lanterns, bobbing for apples, maybe? Hahahahahahah! No! I mean, yes, those things are awesome and part of Halloween. But for the sake of I have limited fucking time right now, I'll have to discuss those at more length another time. Alas, no, today I come to you to talk of sales and schedules and pretty bookly things.<br />
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I have free stories and 99 cent deals this month:<br />
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<b>ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY FREE SHORT STORIES, NO STRINGS ATTACHED:</b><br />
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/alightthatcouldonlyshineonthedead" target="_blank">A LIGHT THAT COULD ONLY SHINE ON THE DEAD: 10-21 through 10-25</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/whathappensinvegas" target="_blank">WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS: AN EMPIRE OF BLOOD SHORT STORY: 10-21 through 10-25</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/mindlink" target="_blank">MINDLINK: A LIFELINE BINARY (collection/mosaic novel): Today (10-20-17) through 10-26-17</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/wherealllightislefttodie" target="_blank">WHERE ALL LIGHT IS LEFT TO DIE (collection): Today (10-20-17) through 10-26-17</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/Longshadowsvolume1" target="_blank">LONG SHADOWS VOLUME 1 (long fiction boxset): <span style="font-size: 12pt;">10-27-17 through 11-1-17</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://mybook.to/empireofbloodboxset" target="_blank">EMPIRE OF BLOOD (novel trilogy plus two bonus short stories): 10-26-17 through 11-2-17</a></li>
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So, yeah, there you go. If you like cheap/free books, feast ye hungry bibliophile. Now back to apple bobbing and what not!robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-647523354219897952017-10-09T06:25:00.002-07:002017-10-09T06:27:56.483-07:00Dream Static Now Available as an Audiobook!My latest novella DREAM STATIC is now available as an audiobook through <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Dream-Static-Audiobook/B076597PXG/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1507555305&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Audible</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Static/dp/B07659V4TY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1507555381&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/dream-static-unabridged/id1293849160" target="_blank">iTunes</a>. Maye Henley narrated this one and she did an exquisite job of it! Here's the details:<br />
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<i>When successful environmental prosecutor Angela Bane goes in for her annual synaptic backup, she's just as reluctant as always. After all it's just a routine procedure. Until she wakes up 22 years later in a chaotic surgery room, disoriented and unable to speak.</i><br />
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<i>As she slowly recovers from the Resus operation and learns about her fate, she struggles to deal with a world that's gone on without her. Her father's dead, her fiancé, Jordan, has become an old man in her "absence", and her body hasn't aged at all since the day it was littered with bullets.</i><br />
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<i>With no memory of her murder and no bearings in this place and time, Angela begins both physical and emotional therapy to try and adjust. Unable to deal with the chasm of time that's opened up between them, she sends Jordan away determined to suffer in solitude.</i><br />
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<i>Then the dreams begin. A dark parking garage, a close colleague, and the obscured face of a man lifting his gun and pointing it in their direction. Could she actually be remembering something that happened after her backup?</i><br />
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<i>Before long, someone comes to visit her in the hospital. A dark brooding presence, Maddox was the original detective assigned to her murder. And now that she's alive, maybe, just maybe she holds the key to bringing the man responsible to justice.</i><br />
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<i>Over time, the dreams bring Angela closer and closer to finding the identity of her killer. As her heart draws her closer and closer to Detective Maddox.</i><br />
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I intend to post something other than just the typical promotional post about sales and news and blah blah blah, but unfortunately... today is not that day! There are two big sales going on right now and I figured it might be a good time to share them here on the dusty old blog and clue you folks in on some big news for the future.<br />
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First of all, right now <a href="http://mybook.to/empireofbloodboxset">I'm running a Kindle countdown deal through Sunday May 21st for the entire EMPIRE OF BLOOD trilogy for Amazon.com for only 99 cents!</a> Many of you already own copies of these books and I apologize for boring you and that you weren't able to get in on this deal but it's time the series got a larger readership, and this is one of the only ways to do that now a days. So, please, please, please share the news on your Facebook, your Goodreads, your Twitter pals, with your neighbors, with their dogs, with their dogs' doggy friends, with your dentist (God knows that fucker likes blood!), with your friends who read, maybe even your mailman if you're not too afraid of him shunning you for the rest of existence.<br />
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Same goes for the other sale I've got going and many of you DON'T have that one! AND IT'S FREE! <a href="http://mybook.to/mindlink">Today and tomorrow, you can get my cyberpunk/noir (with a dash of horror/weird fiction) mosaic novel, MINDLINK (includes EXIT REALITY, KOADIE'S MONSTER, SOULSERVE, and SELF-AWARE) for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL!</a> I just ask that you share it, read it, and seriously consider leaving a review on Amazon (Same goes for the trilogy for those who have read all three novels, it is in desperate need for reviews!).<br />
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Now for the big news! Yay, news!<br />
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A lot of development has been happening for several books I've been working on for a while now. I've made some huge leaps for the sequel series to Empire of Blood as well as a couple of standalone novels I've been working on.<br />
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First of all, for you Empire of Blood fans, there will definitely be a new trilogy and here's the scoop on that:<br />
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Introducing APOCALYPSE OF BLOOD: AN APOCALYPTIC VAMPIRE TRILOGY!<br />
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The series will consist of the following three novels:<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35017009-rise-of-the-plague">RISE OF THE PLAGUE: APOCALYPSE OF BLOOD BOOK I (click the link to go to the book's Goodreads page! And maybe if the spirit so moves you, add it to your to read list.)</a><br />
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RISE OF THE DEAD: APOCALYPSE OF BLOOD BOOK II<br />
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FALL OF THE WORLD: APOCALYPSE OF BLOOD BOOK III<br />
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Here's the work in progress synopsis for book one:<br />
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<i>Diana's life is strange. She's part human, part... something else. Raised by vampires and sick of her diva twin sister who also happens to be the vampire hive queen, she ran away from home to lead a normal life at the age of twenty-two. </i><br />
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<i>But the visions followed. Vivid and terrible and recurring since birth, they were bad enough when they were only about her dead father but now...</i><br />
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<i>They show her something new... </i><br />
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<i>Bodies pile in the streets, hospitals turn away once-human withering husks, their blood all but dried up in their veins. The Blood Plague is born and it hungers. </i><br />
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Now, for you folks who have never read EMPIRE OF BLOOD, this series will stand on its own. You will not need to go back and read EMPIRE OF BLOOD, though with the sale going on today, it might be time to give it a shot anyway (amirite?!?! ((I fucking hate that one but I couldn't resist using it here!). So there's that.<br />
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I'm on course to finish ORIGIN OF BLOOD, my collection of EMPIRE OF BLOOD origin stories in time for a December release and then you should expect a flood of news about APOCALYPSE OF BLOOD. My projection for release for book one is December 2018 but don't be surprised if it doesn't happen sooner as this one is practically already writing itself.<br />
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Also, keep an eye out for other new stuff. I'm still working on the sequel to MINDLINK which will be called MINDCORE, though I've slowed drastically on it lately. I've also made gigantic strides with development on a little standalone novel I've been working on the past two years initially called DEVIL'S CREEK, then renamed to BEASLEY HOLLOW, and now potentially about to be renamed to something else entirely. We'll see. Suffice it to say that it will be a massively different novel than my vampire stuff. A supernatural horror/weird fiction tale about crows who are a bit too big for their britches, marital separation, bisexuality, teenage cutting, missing persons, and strange, unearthly phone calls in the middle of the night. So, keep an ear out for more details on that one.<br />
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Anyway, I'm really excited about all of these and I hope you are too. With all that unleashed, it's time for me to go and do the day job thing. Take it easy, folks!robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-69435357114524313722017-05-02T17:18:00.002-07:002017-05-02T17:18:20.641-07:00THE NESTING PLACE Now Available as an Audiobook!My 2014 novella THE NESTING PLACE is now available as an audiobook on <a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Nesting-Place-A-Novella-Audiobook/B071RPDG1F">Audible</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Nesting-Place-A-Novella/dp/B071NJFX6Z">Amazon</a>, and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/nz/audiobook/the-nesting-place-a-novella-unabridged/id1232339090">iTunes</a>! <a href="http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_pd_Sci-Fi_c2_1_narr?searchNarrator=Scott+MacDonald">Scott McDonald</a> did the narration and he did a wonderful job bringing the story to life. Here's the book's description:<br />
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robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-35897643237634962152017-04-25T06:21:00.000-07:002017-04-25T06:30:25.717-07:00Release day and more!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My newest novella <a href="http://mybook.to/dreamstatic" target="_blank">DREAM STATIC is now available for Kindle and in bound together dead tree slices! </a>This one is sort of a sci-fi, noir, romance mashup, a bit of a departure from my typical in several ways and clocks in at about 24,000 words. Here's the cover copy:<br />
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<i>When successful environmental prosecutor, Angela Bane, goes in for her annual synaptic backup, she's just as reluctant as always. After all it's just a routine procedure. Until she wakes up twenty-two years later in a chaotic surgery room, disoriented and unable to speak.</i></div>
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<i>As she slowly recovers from the Resus operation and learns about her fate, she struggles to deal with a world that's gone on without her. Her father's dead, her fiance, Jordan, has become an old man in her "absence," and her body hasn't aged at all since the day it was littered with bullets.</i></div>
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<i>With no memory of her murder and no bearings in this place and time, Angela begins both physical and emotional therapy to try and adjust. Unable to deal with the chasm of time that's opened up between them, she sends Jordan away determined to suffer in solitude. </i></div>
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<i>Then the dreams begin. A dark parking garage, a close colleague, and the obscured face of a man lifting his gun and pointing it in their direction. Could she actually be remembering something that happened after her backup?</i></div>
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<i>"It's called Dream Static. Sometimes the old brain tissue still retains bits of memories and, upon reanimation, those synapses can connect and reincorporate with the ones that were backed up."</i></div>
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<i>Before long, someone comes to visit her in the hospital. A dark brooding presence, Maddox was the original detective assigned to her murder. And now that she's alive, maybe, just maybe she holds the key to bringing the man responsible to justice.</i></div>
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<i>Over time, the dreams bring Angela closer and closer to finding the identity of her killer. As her heart draws her closer and closer to Detective Maddox.</i></div>
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Now, for those of you who are down on your luck financially who still want to read this one, I'm actually giving away e-copies in exchange for honest reviews, so if you're interested, simply <a href="http://eepurl.com/cMqakH" target="_blank">sign up for my new review copies newsletter here!</a> All I ask in return is that you review the book on Amazon. If you also like to do blog reviews or video reviews, or Goodreads reviews, or elaborate sky-written reviews, or have a review site, even better!</div>
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I suppose I should also mention that I finally released <a href="http://mybook.to/empireofbloodboxset" target="_blank">a Kindle boxset edition of the EMPIRE OF BLOOD series</a>. It includes the trilogy as well as the following two short stories: WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS and THE RESURRECTION OF TOMMY DERRINGER. Now, with the entire series up and looking rather naked on the review end of things... it would mean more than the world to me if any of you out there who have read the series would click the link and head over to the Amazon page and leave a review.</div>
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In other news... I just finished the second draft of a new sci-fi novella called The Colors, one I've been working at off and on for about three years now. One I'm very proud of and think might mark a big milestone for my work. Or it might just suck and be the spark that ignites my eventual meltdown. Haha! Hopefully not. I don't really want to give too much away but it is a hard SF novella with some similar and polar opposite parallels to Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space (a connection that happened quite by accident much like my story FOUR ARCHES recently released in <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/2017/04/the-hopefully-not-forgotten-bob.html" target="_blank">GOTHIC LOVECRAFT edited by Lynne Jamneck and S.T. Joshi</a>).</div>
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At the beginning of May however, I'll be doubling down on finishing up ORIGIN OF BLOOD: An Empire of Blood Collection in order to make sure and have it ready in time for a Christmas day release. The collection will include three character origin novellas, some other origin short stories, as well as some notes, handwritten and otherwise, deleted scenes, and other bonus material.</div>
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Well, with that, I'm done boring the pants off of you guys. Until next time...</div>
robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-45506334216771271812017-04-12T21:08:00.002-07:002017-04-12T21:08:22.329-07:00Dream StaticSo that novella I mentioned that I didn't know what to do with... The very next morning a mass email went out from Amazon promoting their Kindle UK Storyteller contest (no I'm not from the U.K. The contest is open almost world wide) so I read through all the rules and slept on it and ultimately said fuck it. So low and behold, weighing in at approximately 24,000 words, <a href="http://mybook.to/dreamstatic" target="_blank">now available for Kindle pre-order</a>, and releasing in both eBook and paperback exclusively on Amazon, I give you:<br />
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robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-31835812142619703912017-04-09T23:27:00.001-07:002017-04-11T17:52:48.210-07:00The Hopefully Not Forgotten BobWow... first post of 2017... in April... I am a master of consistency!<br />
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<span class="">We still haven't been able to move. Life has been one big nose to the grindstone in the form of going back to a day job for the past year and a half now with very little to show for it other than <u><b>NOT BEING HOMELESS</b></u>. Not that our </span><a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/2016/09/please-help.html" target="_blank"><i><span class="">home</span></i><span class=""> is worth calling a home</span></a><span class="">. I'm really </span><u><span class=""><b>not</b></span></u><span class=""> going to just moan and bitch for this entire post. Just bear with me as it's been a rough year and I may need to go off on a raving tangent here and there without warning. You've been warned?</span><br />
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<span class=""><span class="">Some good things have also happened and are happening. Most of them have been or are a (glacially) long time coming, but they've happened/are happening nonetheless. There was the release, in December of last year, of GOTHIC LOVECRAFT edited by Lynne Jamneck and S.T. Joshi and <b>including my short story "Four Arches"</b> a Lovecraftian twist on my hometown's version of the goatman rural/suburban legend. For those of you who don't already know, this book has been in the works for some time. I believe it was initially supposed to be released in late 2015 if I'm remembering correctly.</span></span><br />
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<span class="">This handsome volume is available, <strike>at least for now, </strike>in <strike>only</strike> two hardcover editions from </span><a href="http://www.jasunnistore.com/" target="_blank">Cycatrix Press</a> (pictured above the previous paragraph, there is a <a href="http://www.jasunnistore.com/gothic-lovecraft-trade-hc-anthology/" target="_blank">trade edition</a> and a <a href="http://www.jasunnistore.com/signed-lettered-gothic-lovecraft-limited-hc-anthology/" target="_blank">signed/lettered limited trade edition</a>) and as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Lovecraft-Donald-R-Burleson-ebook/dp/B06Y1PFYTW" target="_blank">an Amazon Kindle eBook</a>.<br />
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I'm quite pleased to be sharing pages with several authors I quite look up to in this collection, including Caitlin R. Kiernan and John Shirley.<br />
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<span class="">On September 6th of last year, <b><a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/shining-in-crimson.html" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON</a>'s eBook edition celebrated its fifth birthday </b>alone in the corner of an empty room with a used paper plate coned into a birthday hat on its proverbial head... I had intended to have a revised, expanded, and author's preferred edition ready for release on the fifth anniversary of its October paperback release, but alas the nose to the grindstone thing and the obligations of family life have kept me from managing to accomplish this even still. Maybe I'll have it done by the time the tenth year anniversary comes around? Ha! I'll try not to take that long.</span><br />
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<span class="">Speaking of trying and utterly failing, some of you may remember a collection of Empire of Blood origin novellas I promised to have out some time ago called ORIGINS OF BLOOD. I had initially offered a preorder for it </span><i><span class="">only </span></i><span class="">as a limited hardcover, but seeing as how 99.9% of my audience are Kindle users, it was only ordered by a handful of people and I didn't manage to raise enough funds to cover the cost of putting it together. That said, I agreed to provide special copies to those folks nonetheless while also getting their permission due to the low demand in print of <b><u>putting out an eBook edition as well</u></b>. And I still as of yet haven't delivered on that and for that I'm more sorry than I can say. </span><br />
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<span class="">The book has proven to be an elusive one for me to finish and while that's no excuse for its extremely tardy delay, I do hope those of you who preordered understand given how little time I've had to write at all the past two years or so. And while I'm throwing out excuse after excuse, there was also a number of months in which I wrote nothing at all because I found myself in that old stupid cliche of writer's block. Had you told me prior to that that such a thing existed I would have laughed in your face. But it happened and I felt myself unable to break free from it until inspired by </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28424879-split-tongues" target="_blank"><span class="">just the right pair of stories</span></a><span class="">.</span><br />
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<span class="">All that said, <u><b>I'm still working on ORIGINS OF BLOOD and I hope to have it finally, once and for all, ready to release before the end of this year!</b></u></span><br />
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<span class="">On the editing front, I'm no longer taking new clients due to the whole day job thing, however, I am back in the anthology game. Last year, I solicited a number of authors whose work I love to contribute to a new cosmic horror/noir anthology for </span><a href="http://www.crystallakepub.com/" target="_blank"><span class="">Crystal Lake Publishing</span></a><span class=""> titled <b>ASHES AND ENTROPY</b>. So far I've accepted only two stories for it but I should be receiving many more stories soon. Look forward to that one to come out sometime next year!</span><br />
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<span class="">For those who don't know, </span><a href="http://www.nightscapepress.com/" target="_blank"><span class=""><b>Nightscape Press</b></span></a><span class=""><b> remains currently on hiatus awaiting the launch of our new charity publishing model </b>we've been working hard on for some time now. The idea is that authors and the charity of their choice will receive most of the royalties while NSP will get a meager little bit and then mostly rely on donations/pledges/special projects to cover our expenses etc. </span><br />
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<span class="">We've enjoyed doing the "For Good" line of charity anthologies (Horror for Good, Fantasy for Good, with more to come!) and have always wanted to expand on our charity work. Hence the idea to become the first ever (that we know of) charity-driven speculative fiction press. Unfortunately, though, things are moving slow as we still have a couple of books to put out via the old model, but <b>we hope to open submissions later this year for the charity model </b>when we relaunch.</span><br />
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<span class="">I have a long overdue story yet to come out at some point this year... if it does. I hate to say that, but it was initially slated for a late 2013 release and well... it's been quite a while now. That said, I'm told it should be coming out soon. <b>The story, "Coma," marks a rare departure for me from either horror or more concept-based science fiction. </b>It focuses on the torn relationship between a married couple in the midst of a coming apocalyptic impact from a comet. I'll try and remember to update the blog when it comes out.</span><br />
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Alongside ORIGINS OF BLOOD, I've also been working on a number of other stories, mostly science fiction and/or weird cosmic horror and/or both mixed together. <b>I finished a noir-ish science fiction novella titled Dream Static last year </b>in order to submit it to Tor.com's call for near-future SF novellas last summer. However, upon receiving the feedback of some gracious and inspiring writer friends, I realized it wasn't ready and in the midst of reworking it, I didn't quite make the window for that submission call. I've since not figured out exactly what to do with it. I would prefer to publish it the old fashioned way instead of self-publishing, but we'll see what happens.<br />
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One last thing before I wrap this post up: <b>I'm currently going over and marking edit points for the audiobook edition of my 2014 hard science fiction novella THE NESTING PLACE. </b><a href="http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_1_srNarr?searchNarrator=Scott+F.+Feighner&qid=1491804181&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Scott F. Feighner</a>, under the name Scott McDonald, has done a phenomenal job at bringing my story to life in audio. Look for this to be out very very soon!<br />
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Beyond that, I'm sure there are tons of things I'm forgetting to mention since the last time I posted was December and that was maybe one of three or four posts last year... but at the moment, I think this will do. It is what it is. <b>Thank you for having patience with me or maybe even for not forgetting I exist! </b><br />
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Until next time...robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-23532660801903194892016-12-03T13:33:00.003-08:002016-12-04T06:30:17.432-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After months of fighting an uphill battle with the world at large, I finally have some good news to report. My short story, The Death Catcher, first published in Fear the Reaper, <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/list/409070971-top-100-voting-list" target="_blank">has made the top 100 in TNT's Wattpad horror contest</a> and from yesterday through this coming Tuesday (December 6th) it's in the running for the top 35. After that is the running for the top 10 and then the grand prize winner(s) are chosen from there. During each of these rounds that I manage to stay in <a href="https://www.wattpad.com/70088739-the-death-catcher-1" target="_blank">YOU CAN READ AND VOTE for The Death Catcher here (LIKE RIGHT NOW, FOLKS!)</a><br />
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The story and contest are over at Wattpad. If you're not familiar with Wattpad and/or don't have an account, it's free and there's mobile apps so you can read free fiction, including several of my stories and my first novel, SHINING IN CRIMSON.<br />
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So please go and check out the story and vote and then share with all your friends! The top 10 winners get $2,000 and their story optioned, and the grand prize winner gets $20,000 and their story made into a television episode for a new upcoming horror anthology show! So, if you enjoy the story and would like to see it on your television, this is your chance to help make it happen!robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-90729612692033238642016-09-27T10:38:00.003-07:002016-09-27T10:56:54.937-07:00Editing Discount!I've got openings for editing clients at a reduced rate! I'm a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor who has worked with writers at all stages of their careers from newbies to award winners and bestselling authors. Three novels I have edited for Nightscape Press (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Dead-Flies-Supernatural-Thriller-ebook/dp/B008E6QX3U" target="_blank">A REQUIEM FOR DEAD FLIES</a> by Peter N. Dudar, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Rage-L-L-Soares/dp/1938644034/" target="_blank">LIFE RAGE</a> by L.L. Soares, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionist-Rena-Mason/dp/1938644085" target="_blank">THE EVOLUTIONIST</a> by Rena Mason) were nominated for the Bram Stoker award and two of those authors (L.L. Soares and Rena Mason) went on to take home the award. <a href="http://www.thisishorror.co.uk/awards/2013-winners/short-fiction-year-2/" target="_blank">One novella (Interstate Love Affair by Stephen Graham Jones) went on to win a This is Horror award.</a><br />
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For a limited time I'll be offering my services at a flat $5 per thousand words (at that rate, an 80k novel would cost only $400). Message me here on FB or email me at <a href="mailto:rsweditorialservices@gmail.com">rsweditorialservices@gmail.com</a> to set up a free sample edit.robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-237922755553933332016-09-14T15:40:00.001-07:002016-09-14T15:40:57.323-07:00Please Help!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My wife and I have been trying to move our family back
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living in is a complete dump (See the pictures at the bottom of this post). When we moved in we had no idea just how bad it
was. The water has sprung major leaks about eight times, one causing major
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The floor in the kitchen feels
like it’s going to cave in any day now and I found a hole in the floor next to
one of the doors the other day. The deck feels like a death trap to walk on.
The wood is warped and cracked and has many weak spots and some boards coming
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The garbage disposal died over a
year ago, was never fixed. Six weeks ago the dishwasher went out for the third
time (the plumber keeps saying it needs replaced) and it’s still not been fixed.</div>
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There are holes in the walls,
one goes all the way outside (I sealed it with tape!), two bedroom doors (which
are practically cardboard) have fallen apart, one’s completely done for and the
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adults and one teenager can deal. But my daughter moved back in and now has a
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By rights, we should be able to
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For the longest time, everywhere
we applied for either got otherwise rented (the market is extremely
competitive) or the landlord wouldn’t allow our German Shepherd.</div>
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I started a new job in June and
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For years now, we’ve lived in poverty yet we’ve managed to build a small press and published award-winning novels and novellas and anthologies contributing thousands to charity. And we’ve been planning to do so much more; to re-launch Nightscape Press with a brand new charity-driven model that will pay authors and the charities of their choice the majority of royalties.</div>
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There’s a reason we’ve barely produced any books in the past two years.</div>
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<i>We’re broke!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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But that doesn’t mean we’re ready to give up just yet either.</div>
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As soon as we get moved, we’ll be doubling down to make our charity model a reality in 2017.</div>
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But we can’t do that while we’re stuck in this place, struggling to survive.</div>
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So, <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/robert-and-jennifer-wilson-641330" target="_blank">we've set up a fundraiser to try and come up with the money we need to move asap.</a> If you can help in any way, we would really appreciate it! Thank you for reading and thank you so much in advance for sharing, donating, or any other contribution to our cause that you can make!</div>
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robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-67119050468387688862016-06-13T06:06:00.000-07:002016-06-13T06:06:26.247-07:00The KU Experiment Continues and MindLink: A Lifeline Binary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I said screw it and threw all my cards on the table. I don't think a good experiment is worth the time and energy if you don't give it a serious try. So, I've now made MY ENTIRE CATALOG available through Kindle Unlimited. So, if you're a KU member and you were holding out for the price to come down on FADING IN DARKNESS or RISING FROM ASHES or WHERE ALL LIGHT IS LEFT TO DIE, etc. you can now read all of these titles absolutely free, (because a paid subscription is free, right? Yeah, well...)<br />
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So, just for the sake of making sure the info is out there, I'm gonna go down the line and list off each of them:<br />
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<b><u>COLLECTIONS:</u></b><br />
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1. <a href="http://mybook.to/mindlink" target="_blank">MINDLINK: A LIFELINE BINARY</a> (Just released! A novel in time-jumbled parts. Includes EXIT REALITY, SOULSERVE, KOADIE'S MONSTER, and SELF-AWARE)<br />
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2. <a href="http://mybook.to/wherealllightislefttodie" target="_blank">WHERE ALL LIGHT IS LEFT TO DIE: A COLLECTION OF DARKNESS</a> (Includes THE QUIET, THE NESTING PLACE, THROUGH THE MINDHOLE, FORCIPULES, THE DEATH CATCHER, SELF AWARE, and THE RESURRECTION OF TOMMY DERRINGER, an EMPIRE OF BLOOD short story exclusive to this collection.)<br />
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<b><u>NOVELS:</u></b><br />
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1. <a href="http://getbook.at/shiningincrimson" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON: EMPIRE OF BLOOD I</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://mybook.to/fadingindarkness" target="_blank">FADING IN DARKNESS: EMPIRE OF BLOOD II</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://mybook.to/risingfromashesempireofbloodbookthree" target="_blank">RISING FROM ASHES: EMPIRE OF BLOOD III</a><br />
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<b><u>NOVELLAS:</u></b><br />
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1. <a href="http://mybook.to/thequietnovella" target="_blank">THE QUIET: A NOVELLA</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://mybook.to/thenestingplace" target="_blank">THE NESTING PLACE</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://mybook.to/soulserve" target="_blank">SOULSERVE: A RAY GARRET/LIFELINE TECHNO THRILLER</a><br />
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4. <a href="http://mybook.to/exitreality" target="_blank">EXIT REALITY: A RAY GARRET/LIFELINE TECHNO THRILLER</a><br />
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<b><u>NOVELETTES:</u></b><br />
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1. <a href="http://mybook.to/throughthemindhole" target="_blank">THROUGH THE MINDHOLE: A SERIAL KILLER FAIRY TALE</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://mybook.to/koadiesmonster" target="_blank">KOADIE'S MONSTER: A RAY GARRET/LIFELINE TECHNO THRILLER</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://mybook.to/weekendwarrior" target="_blank">WEEKEND WARRIOR: AN APOCALYPTIC TALE OF ALIEN INVASION</a><br />
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<b><u>SHORT STORIES:</u></b><br />
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1. <a href="http://mybook.to/whathappensinvegas" target="_blank">WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS: AN EMPIRE OF BLOOD SHORT STORY</a><br />
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2. <a href="http://mybook.to/forcipules" target="_blank">FORCIPULES</a><br />
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3. <a href="http://mybook.to/thedeathcatcher" target="_blank">THE DEATH CATCHER</a><br />
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4. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Self-Aware-Garret-Lifeline-Techno-Thriller-ebook/dp/B00HTWCEQA" target="_blank">SELF AWARE: A RAY GARRET/LIFELINE TECHNOTHRILLER</a><br />
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5. <a href="http://mybook.to/alightthatcouldonlyshineonthedead" target="_blank">A LIGHT THAT COULD ONLY SHINE ON THE DEAD</a><br />
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6. <a href="http://mybook.to/northerncontinent" target="_blank">THE NORTHERN CONTINENT: A SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY</a><br />
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<br />robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-54291420876277459542016-06-04T17:41:00.002-07:002016-06-04T17:46:37.011-07:00Selling out... But Only If I Actually Get Paid...Some of you may remember a very angry post I made about Kindle Unlimited. In it, I blamed KU for declines in sales that many indie authors experienced since KU started. I swore for the longest time I would never do this. But I've decided to put my toes in the water and see if either it's worth taking a swim or my leg comes back out half eaten by a big fat monstrous shark with an Amazon logo stamped to its forehead.<br />
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My novella <a href="http://mybook.to/exitreality" target="_blank">EXIT REALITY</a> came to the end of its contract several months back and I reclaimed my rights to it and shortly before that I took down its sequel novella, <a href="http://mybook.to/soulserve" target="_blank">SOULSERVE</a>. I had planned on reworking the entire story between both novellas into one coherent novel. I still may write a novelization but I've since decided against my initial plan and have instead put both novellas as well as all my previously Patreon-exclusive stories up on Kindle Unlimited. So, they're available to read for free if you're a KU member or to purchase for their individual prices etc. We'll see how it goes.<br />
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I also recently released an audiobook edition of one of those stories, <a href="http://mybook.to/alightthatcouldonlyshineonthedead" target="_blank">A LIGHT THAT COULD ONLY SHINE ON THE DEAD</a>, narrated by yours truly. I plan on doing the same for these other ones and maybe some of my other works. I have a narrator lined up for my <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/empire-of-blood-excerpts.html" target="_blank">Empire of Blood series</a>, but he's still waiting on me to get him an edited/revised copy of <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/shining-in-crimson.html" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON</a>.<br />
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Which brings me to another big piece of news...<br />
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On October 2nd, the long overdue revised and expanded edition of <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/shining-in-crimson.html" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON</a> will be born into the world. Along with the omnibus edition of the entire trilogy which will contain all three novels, three short stories, notes, deleted scenes, and more. So, keep an eye out for that... Or don't if you'd rather not.<br />
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I'm still running behind on the Origins of Blood collection but will be getting it out there as soon as I possibly can. Life has been more chaotic than usual this past year and it's not looking like it's going to stabilize any time soon, so please bear with me. Also, I now have <a href="http://payhip.com/robertswilson" target="_blank">a Payhip page where you can buy eBooks directly from me!</a><br />
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Beyond that, I don't have much to report other than I am writing, writing, writing! For those of you who are interested, below is a list of all the "new" titles I just put up on Amazon.<br />
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The future of experience is digital...even in death. No one knows this better than Ray Garret. In a world where the human brain can connect directly to the internet, human beings become the target of a mass-murdering computer virus.<br />
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Ray's an Antivii agent in charge of tracking down the source of digi-human viruses. He's no lover of the HPDID (Human Perceptual Digital Interface Device), but when a recorded experience from his dead wife is left for him, Ray has no choice but to play the file, changing his life forever.<br />
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"As visionary as William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic and as seedy as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories, Robert S. Wilson's EXIT REALITY is a supreme achievement. Wilson has created a world so plausible, and yet so full of nightmares, that you might never want to get online again. I loved this book. Write faster, Mr. Wilson, because I want more!"--<b>Joe McKinney</b>, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of FLESH EATERS and MUTATED<br />
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Death is but a doorway... when SoulServe holds the key. <br />
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One by one, a group of scientists at Brizen Health are being murdered by... something. Doctors, subjects, and even janitors are reporting disturbances in Section 671, the Neuro-Technical Division. Ever since the death of Dr. Carl Broxson, the server room in Section 671 has maintained a negative 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Printers turn themselves on and print out terrifying cryptic messages. People have been seeing things in and out of the virtual world of the Lifeline. Including the apparition of their beloved colleague Dr. Broxson himself. <br />
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When local police realize the case leads directly into the deep digital canyon of the Lifeline, Antivii agent Ray Garret is called to the scene to get to the bottom of things before another brilliant mind can be taken. But when his wife, Rhonda, starts falling at random and begins to have seizures, the ghost in Brizen Health could be Ray's only hope to save the love of his life.<br />
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Young Koadie Lawson is tired of Rudy bullying him on the bus. Every day the older boy picks on him, beats on him, and sometimes even spits on him. But today Koadie has a plan. He's going to finally get his revenge. <br />
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Ever since Thomas Martin joined the United States Army National Guard, he's been called a "Weekend Warrior" by more than a few folks. But it doesn't bother him one bit. Besides, those days ended the moment the daubers blasted through the stratosphere and melted down Japan. <br />
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In the far future, the Earth is covered in ice. Those who have survived struggle each and every day in order to be able to eat. But when a small team of hunters and two anthropologists go on an expedition to search for food and knowledge, they find what's left of the legendary Northern Continent. <br />
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Twelve-year-old Rosario and his parents have arrived at Devil's Creek for a weekend of camping and family fun. The boy's parents have a surprise for Rosario... a secret.<br />
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Look what's gone and <a href="http://mybook.to/risingfromashespaperback" target="_blank">popped up on Amazon three days early!!!</a> Nothing makes a new novel feel quite so real as holding the actual book in your hands! And the new artwork is just gorgeous in matte.<br />
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This is just a quick post to throw out some random RFA updates. First of all, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Robert_S_Wilson_Rising_From_Ashes?id=CLcHCwAAQBAJ" target="_blank">RISING FROM ASHES is now available for pre-order on Google Play for you Android fans out there</a>! So far as I know, that was the last missing link as far as eBook distributors go. So, if for some reason you're just now seeing this and you'd rather pre-order RFA in some other format (including signed trade paperback or hardcover directly from me), you'll find all the various purchase links <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/2015/09/can-you-say-kindle-preorder-here-let-me.html" target="_blank">here</a>. And for those who want to get an early start, you can start reading RFA up through part of chapter 13 over on Google Books <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CLcHCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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In other RFA news, I've emailed out the eBook edition to those who "pre-ordered" them via the Empire of Blood Indiegogo campaign way back when. If I've missed someone, please make sure and let me know what your email address is and what your Indiegogo account name is, etc. and I'll get that sorted out asap. The trade paperback and hardcover perks from that campaign will also be going out very soon, so keep an ear out for more on that.<br />
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I've also uploaded RISING FROM ASHES into the "RSW For Life" Dropbox folder. Same deal as above, if you purchased the RSWFL folder in the past and you can't access it now for some reason, let me know your email address and the account you purchased it with and I'll get you a new link.<br />
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I think that's about it for now, but remember, folks... Tomorrow starts the ten day countdown for the eBook release!!!!! I hope you guys are excited! Because I sure as hell am!<br />
<br />robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-23456335236701311042015-11-19T07:00:00.000-08:002015-11-19T07:00:03.808-08:00Book Review: In Nightmares We're Alone by Greg SiscoOkay, so I never do book reviews pretty much ever and of the few I've done in the past, I've never put them up on here, but what the hell. I liked this one a lot and I'd like to share it with the handful of you who still haven't found the secret button to get the hell out of my chamber of freakish horrors. You're welcome. ;-)<br />
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Each nightmare is unique. All nightmares are the same.<br />
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Three interwoven tales of terror form a collage of human suffering as three separate victims are plagued by otherworldly horrors. A young girl finds herself stalked by the hypnotic eyes of her mother’s new doll, a womanizing con artist can no longer contain the plants that sprout from his fingernails, and a bitter old woman is haunted by the cryptic messages on her dead father’s typewriter.<br />
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Greg Sisco pulls off an amazing feat with this would-be novel, would-be collection. He takes three powerful horror novellas each from a different first person point of view character and tells one longer interweaving story. At times the story seems chronological until you run into situations from the other tales and realize that, while overall the story isn't just one happenstance from three angles, it's actually three stories that segue into each other like a hand of three Aces waiting to be played.<br />
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There are a few scenes where the author shows us the same situation from one of the previous novellas in the collection from another character's point of view and I must admit, typically, I loathe when authors do this, because all too often it's only self-serving and a complete drag on the story. But here, Sisco does it briefly enough and with such powerful character revelation as to execute each of these scenes practically flawless.<br />
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Sisco's prose is tightly weaved, engrossing, twisted as hell, at times serious and penetrating, at others darkly hilarious, and even sometimes, he manages to pull off both in an extremely moving and entertaining display of skill. I lost count of how many amazing lines he was able to slip into this book. Some sending me into fits of laughter while others grabbing hold of that existential cord that pulls together wonder and terror.<br />
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Fans of one-protagonist/one-viewpoint novels might have a hard time with the three separate viewpoints that make up this story, but I found it to be a fascinating balanced whole regardless. If you're to look at this book as a collection of stories, it has the further treat of each tale standing on its own. However, if you read these in order as I did (or maybe even out of order as well?), you'll likely find yourself unable to put the book down until you've read all three and know the complete story.<br />
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My only complaint would be that toward the end of the last story there was a moment when the prose became a tad bit too heavy with character internalization, but the moment is so brief it doesn't warrant me taking off any stars.<br />
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I own several other books by Mr. Sisco and have yet to read them. That will be changing soon for sure. It would appear to me after reading In Nightmares We're Alone that Greg Sisco is one of the best kept secrets in modern horror and dark humor. I think it's time we let the proverbial cat out of the bag!<br />
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Isn't it so pretty??? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CarrionHouse" target="_blank">Luke Spooner of Carrion House</a> did this one and he'll also be doing new covers for Books I and II as well.<br />
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When I first started writing <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/shining-in-crimson.html" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON</a>, in about 2008 or 2009, I pictured everything I was writing with a sort of graphic novel/comic book aesthetic, so when I learned that my previous artist would not be able to do <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/2015/09/can-you-say-kindle-preorder-here-let-me.html" target="_blank">RISING FROM ASHES</a> in time for the book's release, I immediately wondered what it would be like to go with that kind of vibe with all new covers.<br />
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It just so happens, I had just worked with Luke on the cover and interior artwork for a brand new book from <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.com/" target="_blank">Nightscape Press</a> by K.M. Tonso called <a href="http://mybook.to/darklingincidencekindle" target="_blank">DARKLING INCIDENCE: OBSCURE REFLECTIONS</a>.which by coincidence actually hit Amazon today, so if you're looking for a really well-written collection of weird/dark fiction check it out. It's of course, edited by yours truly, and we wouldn't be publishing it if we didn't think it was absolutely amazing.<br />
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<i>Herein are contained reflections of what, as Saint Paul says, we see in a glass darkly. And as this angle of incidence is so shadowed, so must be the reflections it derives. </i><br />
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<i>Each reflection so vivid as to become an open doorway where unwary readers might just find themselves stumbling over the threshold... never to return.</i><br />
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And while you're at it, you should also really check out <a href="http://mybook.to/release_ameliamangan" target="_blank">Amelia Mangan's debut novel RELEASE</a> also edited by this guy (thumbs and all) and published by Nightscape Press last month. Some of you may remember Amelia's gorgeous dark morsel of a story The Souls of Stars from the Vampire/Sci-fi anthology I edited back in 2013 called <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/blood-type-anthology-of-vampire-sf-on.html" target="_blank">BLOOD TYPE: AN ANTHOLOTY OF VAMPIRE SF ON THE CUTTING EDGE</a>.<br />
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Both of these books are a fantastic treat for anybody who loves dark, gothic, or weird fiction. Amelia's novel leans more toward a gothic psychological sort of anti-romance/thriller. This gorgeous cover art was designed by <a href="https://theaugmental.carbonmade.com/" target="_blank">the ever phenomenal Boden Steiner</a> who did the covers for both <a href="http://mybook.to/threemilespast" target="_blank">THREE MILES PAST</a> and <a href="http://mybook.to/sterlingcity" target="_blank">STERLING CITY</a> by <a href="http://www.demontheory.net/" target="_blank">Stephen Graham Jones</a> and <a href="http://mybook.to/daysofrain" target="_blank">DAYS OF RAIN</a> by <a href="http://www.raywfiction.com/" target="_blank">Ray Wallace</a> for <a href="http://www.nightscapepress.com/" target="_blank">Nightscape Press</a> previously. Here's some more about RELEASE:<br />
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<i>At the age of sixteen, Stanley Fitzgerald murdered his mother. He hasn't uttered a word since. Institutionalized for the last twelve years, he spends his days numb and unresponsive, shut away in a dismal, silent world of his own. </i><br />
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<i>"They let me out," she tells him. </i><br />
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<i>Advance Praise for RELEASE: </i><br />
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<i>"Reading Amelia Mangan’s Release is like being trapped in a slowly sinking ship while icy water rises all around you. It’s creepy, claustrophobic, and disturbingly vivid; I couldn’t put it down." </i><br />
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<i>"Beautifully written and utterly absorbing, Release is the story of a young man trapped in an insular world of memories and madness. Returning to the rat-infested farmhouse where he grew up, Stanley Fitzgerald settles into a routine. He cooks, he cleans, he listens to the radio. One day fades into the next, but there is a certain comfort in the mundane. A certain hopefulness in the simplicity of his new existence. Then a beguiling young woman shows up at his door and Stanley soon realizes that for a man such as he, there can be only one release. </i><br />
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<i>"Haunting and hard to shake off. Release wraps its chilled fingers around you and doesn't let go." </i><br />
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<i>"Release is the novel you'd get if you put Stephen King and Angela Carter in a room together and got them good and mean drunk. Scary, thrilling, gimlet-eyed, and so sharp you could cut yourself on it, this is a triumph of horror novels, and heralds an exciting new talent in Amelia Mangan." </i><br />
<i>—Jessica Alcott, author of Even When You Lie To Me</i>robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-70064736114117312622015-11-10T08:27:00.003-08:002015-11-10T08:27:30.745-08:00Bad News, Short Delays, and What Not...It is with much frustration and stress that I must inform everyone that the release date for RISING FROM ASHES has been moved up to December 8th, 2015. I am very sorry for the delay. I'll have more updates soon.robertswilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01305028306537384037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776550013885964898.post-32290586562632308122015-10-02T10:36:00.000-07:002016-06-07T09:33:37.093-07:00Can You Say Preorder??? Here Let Me Say It With You... RISING FROM ASHES!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The date is finally set! On Tuesday, <strike>November 24th</strike> December 8th, 2015, <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/search/label/Rising%20From%20Ashes" target="_blank">RISING FROM ASHES: EMPIRE OF BLOOD BOOK THREE</a> will hit all the major e-stores! Pre-order is now available for trade paperback and hardcover editions from <a href="http://robertswilson.bigcartel.com/">the Robert S. Wilson Big Cartel store</a> and for eBook editions at all the major eBook chains. Click the icon of your preferred retailer below! I'm so excited to finally share the final Empire of Blood novel with you folks. It's been a long four years since <a href="http://www.shiningincrimson.com/p/shining-in-crimson.html" target="_blank">SHINING IN CRIMSON</a> hit physical and electronic bookshelves alike and one hell of a crazy ride! In celebration, you can get RFA for a special eBook pre-order price of only $2.99! Here's the deets:<br />
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<i>Now with nothing left to lose, Hank Evans has transformed from a hollow shell to a military leader of the Foederati, hardened to the core with the cold unmerciful steel of revenge. He rightfully blames the Emperor for the death of his son and will stop at nothing to destroy the evil man and his twisted religious empire. </i><br />
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