Honestly, I wasn’t too interested in seeing this one. I don’t re-watch certain Stephen King movies/miniseries, like The Mist, The Stand. They’re amazing but they’re either too intense, they broke my heart…or both. It was one of them. This review will focus only on the movie. I watched the miniseries once Read more…
Welcome to the weekly roundup of links for fantasy, sci-fi, horror readers and writers Book Marketing and Branding 4 Social Media Productivity Tips for Authors 11 Top Tools To Monitor Your Social Media Presence In 2017 4 secrets of book promotion and marketing materials Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy Read more…
Welcome to the weekly roundup of links for fantasy, sci-fi, horror readers and writers Book Marketing and Branding 37 Ways to Rock Your Content Will Facebook Become the Ultimate Online Book Club? How Independent Authors Are Promoting Their Books Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – July 2017 Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi New Read more…
Book Marketing and Branding 6 Browser Extensions for Busy Social Media Marketers Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi Enter The Catcher’s Trap in November SIX SCARY STORIES A Brand New Anthology Selected and Introduced by Stephen King! How zombies became a uniquely American horror Get A First Horrifying Look At Bill Skarsgard as Stephen King’s Pennywise Read more…
No, I’m not talking about the anime 😉 When is a story too dark? I’ve often come across some variation of this question between Goodreads and Google+. It got me thinking about what a dark story is. It’s different for everyone. When someone says a story is dark, what does that mean- Read more…
Reading Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey got me thinking about the growing popularity of apocalyptic stories. Think of all the summer movies. How many of them are either apocalyptic or post apocalyptic? The whole zombies taking over the world has become so popular there are even zombie apocalypse survival guides. Read more…
I’m hearing more people say they can’t do horror. They don’t like being scared. Understandable. So, then why do we like it? Do we enjoy being scared? For me, I do like a book or movie that gives me the chills and I’d love to spend the night in a Read more…
How many times have you said or heard someone say they didn’t go near a book because of all the hype? You’d think a lot of hype was a good thing but if it turns away potential readers or turns off people then- what’s the point? It’s kind of an interesting situation. Read more…