It all goes back to The Stand

Today I've been editing the sound files for the audiobook version of my short story If You Believe in Love At First Sight. Got to thinking that it was somewhat ironic that this was the book of mine I'm working with right now. Mainly because a lot of it came about from my love of The Stand.

If you don't know, The Stand is an awesome Stephen King book about the world falling apart in the face of a terrible plague. It Is where I fell in love with the evil character Randal Flagg years before I ever heard of The Dark Tower. Now my story is nothing like any Stephen King book I've read so I can't claim my books are any fair comparison.

It's just that when I first wrote The Speed of Darkness I had recently read The Stand, and so the idea of setting my story in Nevada amused me. now The Speed of Darkness is the name I've given my convoluted werewolf series because it somewhat describes the super-power my nerdy hero Nigel Hunter controls. You can read about him and the start of the series in The Illumination Query

If You Believe in Love At First Sight Is surely nothing like The Stand, it's actually quite short. I don't have much of The Speed of Darkness written down, but my idea for the fourth book (I do plan to write them all eventually) somewhat came from my other favorite character from The Stand, Larry Underwood. Rereading The Stand not long ago made me decide that my series needed a musician, and my character Joel Shine was born.

New Microphone

I actually have a little USB microphone connected to my Chromebook now. I was in the middle of editing the files for the audiobook I'm working on now (The World Beneath Trilogy by Rebecka Georgia) and I guess my Chromebook 11 is a couple years old now, the internal mic went out. And trying to record on my cell phone does not give the same sound quality.

Like werewolves? And free books...

Just thought I'd give you a heads up... Christopher D Schmitz Is giving away the Kindle copy of his book, Wolf of the Tesseract for free through Friday the 22!

My short story Right Now is now available as an hour-long audiobook!
https://goo.gl/2kgyDK
Written and narrated by Sarah baethge.

They're on sale now!

The 2 audiobooks I narrated for Candy Michelle Johnson came out today!


Monkeys in the Wall by Candy Michelle Johnson
Episode 1 https://goo.gl/piHa4s
Episode 2 https://goo.gl/AUi35P

My Poetry is now on Audiable!

The silly vampire poem that I wrote a few years ago is now on audible.
20 minutes of the poem (yes I got a little carried away writing it)
and about 3 minutes where I explain my writing of it.

Amazon Keywords

This weekend I was playing with the keywords on my books to try and improve their search rankings. I did manage to get my book Radiant Shadows, Beginnings to get on the first page of results for Kindle in one category!
Looking at it though, I'm thinking that I could really use a more professional looking cover than the little handmade .gif I scribbled out one night back in 2014.
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Ok, now I worked up a better one -->

I'm happy to Hear if you have any opinions on it.