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The Story behind City of Brotherly Love

Although I’ve told everyone I weaned on horror with the Dark Shadows and Dracula, my introduction to horror happened long before Dark Shadows, when my mother and I went to Atlantic City before my eleventh birthday. My mother gave me money for amusement rides while she rested on a bench, watching me. A sign caught [...]

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Revisiting the “I Gotta” Bug – Information Dumping

In my post about the writer’s “I gotta” bug, I detailed the struggles I had working the ending to “One Last Favor.” I sent my story with a revised ending to Toni Rakestraw. A few weeks later, she sent me the edited tale with the line edits and thought balloons, and at the end, noted [...]

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Killing Your Darlings and other Writerly Issues

I got the edits back on Steel Rose, and was glad I had an editor look over the book. Maura Anderson has done a thorough job on Steel Rose, and Toni Rakestraw has done well by me on the stories for City of Brotherly Death. For me to edit my own work would be like [...]

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JoAnna Senger’s Interview

I first became aware of JoAnna Senger through her short stories for Barbara Custer’s Night To Dawn magazine. Her writing style easily pulled me into the stories. Recently, I read her first published novel, “Betrothal, Betrayal, And Blood”, and was blown away by her writing technique and storytelling ability. Tom: JoAnna, thank you for sitting [...]

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When the Writing “I Gotta” Bug Bites You

In Stephen King’s Misery, his protagonist Paul said the “I gotta” motivated him to keep writing despite the tortures inflicted by the villain Annie. By tortures, I mean the loss of body parts, starvation, and other horrors. But he had to keep going because of the “I gotta” bug. At the time, I thought “I [...]

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The Making of an EBook

Like many other authors, I am turning to independent publishing, hence my imprint Night to Dawn Magazine & Books. That means hiring artists to do my covers, getting the book edited, shopping ISBN’s, and converting my word file to an eBook. In the case of people whose books I’ve published, it also includes sending out [...]

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Tom Johnson’s Interview with Illustrator Teresa Tunaley

I first became aware of Teresa Tunaley’s illustrations in Barbara Custer’s Night To Dawn magazine a few years back. In fact, I was so taken with Teresa’s art I went to her website and looked at the many pages of fine illustrations she had already done for book covers and magazines. It was no surprise [...]

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Lulu versus CreateSpace III

After much kvetching and discussion about CreateSpace, I’ve started to publish the NTD paperbacks through them. The latest release, Tales of Masks & Mayhem V4, saw publication through CS. Why? The short answer: money. The Global Distribution package on Lulu costs $75.00 plus whatever you pay for ISBN’s. The Pro plan of CS costs $39.00 [...]

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When to Hire an Editor

Some time ago I posted the advantages of Autocrit software, and the wisdom found in Writing the Breakout Novel. Autocrit enabled me to catch repetitive words, and I ferreted out problems in my novel when I applied techniques from Writing the Breakout Novel. However, the devil is in the details, and a small press editor [...]

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Dark Moon Presents Zombies – Review

Title:  Dark Moon Presents Zombies Edited by: Jason Shayer, Stan Swanson, Jennifer Word, and Frances A. Hogg Available as: eBook ($3.95) and Paperback ($12.95) ISBN-13: 978-0983433538 Where available: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers. Rating: 5 Balloons  A few weeks ago, Julia Jansen offered me the pleasure of reading Dark Moon Presents Zombies. I [...]

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