Basically finished.
Basically finished.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I do my editing 4 times, one with Grammarly, the other three myself. Then my editor at the publisher, does her edits. She used to do editing for the US Marine Corp, and she was an English major. Nothing of mine is self published.
I have 2. One is YA dark fantasy, second book in the Moon Ridge, Virginia trilogy. The other is my spicy dragon romantasy, Fire and Ice. Mostly done. Just need to add a few more chapters and editing chapters already done long ago. That goes off to my publisher so can get back to the YA for her.
Join me and author/editor @taramoeller.bsky.social this Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8, at Grimoire Academy's Gothic Market at Fredericksburg Convention Center in Fredericksburg, VA! We both will have our books. The hours are Noon-5:00 pm.
#booksky #writingcommunity #horrorbooks #horror #fantasy
I signed and emailed the contract for my Cozy Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror short story, "Tea Party." It was accepted for an anthology, currently titled World Upside Down.
#horrorbooks #horror #writingcommunity #booksky #cozycosmichorror #shortstories #horroranthology #lovecraftian #tea #oldones
I won't be at Scribblecon in Manassas Saturday as only 25 teens sign up and so the afternoon session was cancelled. The event is only 9 a.m. to Noon now. If your teen is still interested in writing, just email John Dutton by his email on the poster attached. It is still free.
#writingcommunity
The horror anthology, A Chronicle of Horrors, I have my story, Bloody Tide, included, has gotten a review. tinyurl.com/bdhw7ueu
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Nowhere Land has received a review. tinyurl.com/bdnk3bpm
#writingcomminity #booksky #horrorbooksky #horror #bookreview
If know kids in middle schools an high schools thee will be a one-day free writer's conference for them at Benson Middle School in Manassas, Va this Saturday, 2/21, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Email John Dutton at duttonjl@pwcs.edu to sign up or more info.
#booksky #writingcommunity
I will be an author vendor at Authorcon VI, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Williamsburg 50 Kingsmill Road in Williamsburg, VA, February 27, February 28, & March 1. For authors, panels and more: scaresthatcare.org/author-con-6
#Booksky #writingcommunity #horrorsky
It's Fat Tuesday and the last day of Mardi Gras. What New Orleans food do you like? never been to New Orleans? I was, for the World Science Fiction Conventin in 1988. The husband and I, plus our son, fell for the food there. Plus, I got to visit the Voodoo Museum.
#bookskymardigras #fattuesday
Today, begins the Chinese New Year, which 2026 is the year of the fire horse, launching 15 days of celebrations culminating with the Lantern Festival March 3rd. Which happens to also be the Blood Moon, occurring during a total lunar eclipse on March 3rd.
#chinesenewyear #lanternfestival #Firehorse
How to make the blue milk Luke drinks in Star Wars. www.msn.com/en-us/video/...
#starwars #bluemilk #recipe
I will be an author vendor at Fright Reads Book Festival in Maryland this coming October 24 and 25. Check their website for more information about the event. www.frightreads.com
#Thewritingcommunity #booksky #horror #horrorbooks #horrorsky
The husband picked these special Valentine's Day macaroons from Aldi's. One is a way smaller version of heart shaped macaroons I'd gotten at @costco last year and in 2023. But the store also had the chocolate ones, which were not heart shaped.
#aldi #heartshapemacaroons #chocolatemacaroons
The darkest tales from each US state. Some of these I recognized as I covered them in my upcoming nonfiction ghost book, Paranormal Appalachian Trail. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
#hauntedspots #ghosts #cryptids #spooky
Today is National Wear Red for Women Day. It helps raise awareness fir cardiovascular disease as the #1 killer of women.
#nationalwearredday #february62026 #nationalwearreddayβ€οΈ #firstfridayoffebruary #number1diseaseforwomen #cardiovascularhealth
New Release: Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Tales Along Routes 10 And 460. Amazon: tinyurl.com/3t6ej2j8 plus Barnesandnoble.com, Books A Million, and Bookshop.org, Apple Books, and Kobo.
The spirts are waiting to SCARE you a good time!
#thewritingcommunity #booksky #horrorbooks #ghostbooks
And I will sign Nowhere Land and my other books by them.
Thanks. π»
Build your #horror TBR with one of these great reads! Temple Fall β RL Boyle Dead First β Johnny Compton This House Will Feed - Maria Tureaud Saint Delilah β Isabelle Spotts She Haunts Me Still β De Elizabeth Winterβs Teeth β RA Betzer The Dirty Swallow β Sam West Hexes and Fangs β Brianna Malotke The Darling Killer β EM Jones It Looks Like You in the Dark β Mathilda Zeller Nowhere Land β Pamela K Kinney Fissure Face β Patrick C Harrison III The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston β Nick Wallin Funerals are for the Living β Sami Ellis Carry Me to My Grave β Christopher Golden The Siren of Groves Peak β Glenn Rolfe Fabulous Bodies β Chuck Tingle The Sea Hides its Dead β Megan Bontrages
Build your #horror TBR with one of these great reads!
@johnnycompton.bsky.social
@mariatureaud.bsky.social
@briannamalotke.bsky.social
@mathildazeller.bsky.social
@pamelakkinney.bsky.social
@cgolden.bsky.social
@authorglennrolfe.bsky.social
@chucktingle.bsky.social
@megbontra.bsky.social
My next #booksigning at Barnes & Noble is this Saturday, January 10th, from 1:00-3:00 p.m. 15000 Potomac Town Place Suite 160, Woodbridge, VA. I'll be signing copies of my horror novel, Nowhere Land & urban fantasy novel, How the Vortex Changed My Life.
#booksky #horror #writingcommunity #fantasy
My horror flash fiction, With This Body and Blood, is up at Flash Fictions. First new fiction of 2026! There is other horror fiction there too. www.flashphantoms.net/january-flas...
#horror #writingcommunity #booksky #flashfiction #horrorfiction #author
Thanks.
I saw that my nonfiction ghost book on Kindle releasing January 27th is available at Amazon for preorder: tinyurl.com/yty22u2x
See what awaits you along 460 south and 10 in Virginia. No matter which road you take, the phantoms can't wait to SCARE you a good time.
#booksky #writingcommunity #ghosts
6 signs your cat might be Santa Claus.
#cats #santaclaus #christmas
πππ±π©Έπ New tech horror book to check out
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I'm a vendor at the Yule Witch Market in Richmond with my books, including two Christmas ones, a kid's picture book, Christmas Magic & a Christmas horror anthology, Merry Creepmas with my story included. It's free. Noon -5:00 pm. The address is in the picture. tinyurl.com/bdadxkzd
#booksky #rva