Happy Haloween and N-stands for November and New Novel!

Happy Halloween all your little witches, pirates and zombies out there!  For all of us lovers of all things scary, dark and creepy crawly, this is our favorite time of year. So please be careful out there when out pandering for your sugar high on this fine, crisp all hallows eve.  Let’s hope a little scare comes into your life and helps you to appreciate being alive.

I could spot on and on about the amazing holiday but I have bigger bats to fry with this month’s blog.  Yes my old friends both old and new.  I have some updates to share and a new novel to announce.

So, grab a handful of candy corn and a cold Jolt cola and let me fill your jack-o-lantern trick or treat bag full of Erbal goodness.

Death, Be Not Proud- a Zombie Anthology, that I had the delight to put together and edit for Dullahan Press/Dark Quest Books is out and available on Amazon and is THEE perfect (late) gift for Halloween or hey, Christmas is right around the corner.

My latest segment of Shamblin’ & Ramblin’ is now up and ready for your zombie-lovin’ perusal.  Check it out.

I have submitted my short story, “The Cleansing” and hopefully the god’s will be smiling on me and it will be part of the “Vampires don’t sparkle” anthology coming out early next year.  I really dig this satirical, yet bloody tale of my true feelings on the slow decline and destruction of the true vampire mythos.  I will keep you all posted on the status of this story.

I am putting the final edits on a zombie short story I will be submitting to redneck zombie anthology coming out next year.  I will fill you all in on this project as it is completed and I decide on a title.  I’ve been having trouble nailing down a fitting title and that is very rare for me.  So stay tuned.

“The Last in Line” zombie novel is about to get an immense face-lift.  I am working closely with renowned editor Louise Bohmer I really love where the novel is headed and sincerely believe it will make all the difference in the world to making my first novel a really good one and one that will be picked up by and agent.

The big and exciting news is:

November is the national novel writing month and that’s just what I am planning on doing starting on the first.

Here is a taste of what I am so excited about starting:

“One Last Job- A Miles Mazursky Novel"

OLJ is the first in a series of fast-paced action, thriller, and supernatural novels.  It’s protagonist is Miles Mazursky, an aging, alcoholic assassin who is close to reaching his retirement goal for his bank account balance.  He only needs one last job to tip off the account so he can disappear to a secluded Caribbean Island and slip away to read his books, maybe even write one and where he can drink the demons from his past away

 This last job was supposed to be a simple, in and out affair and offered him an astronomical amount of cash for do accept it.  He couldn't turn it down.  And that's when things went sideways.

The hits was put on a young girl.  And Mile's has strict rules on killing people.   And not killing children is number one on the list.

Can sullen Marine Sniper overcome the demons of his past as well as the outside world’s evil to save a very special young girl from certain death at the hands of the vile world of corporate greed and power-hungry medical, pharmaceutical corp-ocracies?

And in the end, saving himself?

I will keep the updates coming on the new novel and hope you all will really, really want to read it when it’s completed.

Thanks again for all the support and hope you have a great November!

-TAE