COFFIN HOP!

 I'm very excited about the Coffin Hop! It's the first blog hop I have ever been a part of. A bunch of horror fiction writers are participating and there will be prizes and just to make it all interesting we've all come up with our own inventive ways of getting each other to our blogs and look around some with these contests.

I am very excited because my sequel, Vampire's Trill is soon to be released in November, and I am having my own contest to win the first book Vampire Ascending as an eBook!

But to make it interesting I'm going to have a scavenger hunt and it will have something to do with the #13, and a visit to more than one of my blogs! I will make the announcement next Monday. So swing by.

ALSO! You don't want to miss this! Another horror fiction author will be a guest on my blog on the 26th (Wednesday), and he is having a fabulous give away.

Awesome John Everson

 Horror author, John Everson's The Pumpkin Man has just come out and he is doing the tour and you really want to come and be part of that.

 And many of my friends will drop in. And we'll have a hopping good time. I hope they're all hungry! Looks like it, doesn't it?

And we'll try and remove the stake from Dracula's chest--he looks so uncomfortable . . . and a little pissed. Well I would be too!

Don't forget! October 24-Halloween! I wouldn't want you to be left behind . . .

Halloween Decore, and a few Goulishly Wonderful Announcements!

BOO!

Did I frighten you? Sor-r-r-y. But this big fellow would look nice in the entryway, don't you think? Or hung outside from a limb his tattered robes catching the wind. SPOOKY!!!

Here is another offering from Pumpkin Hollow :

GOULISH ANNOUNCMETNS:

 Next Monday begins a blog hop for horror fiction writers--COFFIN HOP. I will be participating, since this looks like fun. I have no idea exactly what we'll do throughout, but there is going to be a scavanger hunt to get us going from blog to blog. Some participants are offering give-aways. I've not decided as to whether I will have a give-away at this point, but I might give away a book. We'll see.

 I also have another wonderful announcement--I will be hosting John Everson here on the 26th (next Wednesday). He definitely has a great give away, so you won't want to miss this! I'm so excited he has given me a date to be on my blog!

Lastly but not least, I'm working on a short story for publication. I'm not going to go into detail. Short stories have never been my forte', and I've rarely sold them (except to Weed's Corner). I will keep you informed. I don't want to say too much about it at this point.

Check back next week so you don't miss out on all the fun!

Happy Haunting!!!

John Everson - Oujiga Boards and Scary Urban Legends

Hello, my lovelies! How are you this wickedly splendid Saturday? Have you carved your pumpkins yet? Or ... are you waiting for someone to do that for you--hummmm?

Well I thought I would pass this along with a personal note as well. If you like contests to win books and other things you might want to go to Fangtastic Books and check out the contest going on with author John Everson's The Pumpkin Man, which is out now, but he's got some really cool prizes including music, signed copies of his books and so on.

I can happily say I've met John a few years back at the DeKalb Borders, and just to prove it, here's a picture of me and the other author they had there, Mike Kleen, who writes about known ghosts around Illinois.

Authors: John Everson, Lorelei Bell, Mike Kleen

 I had not been to an author signing before just to meet authors, and this was a great time to relax and meet two horror writers at the time. When I read John Everson's books his writing reminds me of horror writers of the 1980's. There's a method to his madness. Believe me his books are excellent. And I got a first book signed by him, Covenant, at the time (yay me!!), and he lives only 40 minutes away from me too.

Well, now he's written another one that is based on an urban legend. There is also Ouija board usage in it. It sounds really creepy about a serial killer who carves the faces of his victims on pumpkins and leaves them in place of the heads. Gruesome, for sure. If you ever met John you wouldn't believe he could come up with such things. But, hey, I do too, and you would probably say the same thing about me.

I've included the site to this and there's gobs of things to check out here, the prologue, store, plus cool/creepy music as well, just hit the link below. You can even try out the Ouija Board--if you dare!!!

The Pumpkin Man by John Everson