FREE HORROR STORIES HAS STARTED!

Halloween is upon us and it’s time for my free horror story promo. I have three works for your delectation, each full of tension and scares; perfect for night time reading to #scareyourselfstupid!
First up we have THE KILLING ANGEL, the tale of a disturbed young man dealing with rejection and his mothers evil spirit before “accepting” a job from God! Download here http://tiny.cc/1t3ulw
Next up is OUT OF THE FRYING PAN a paranormal tale in the style of Victorian horror. One mans rest is another mans burning desire! Download it here http://tiny.cc/794ulw
Finally comes ALONE IN TORMENT, this tale begins when a man wakes up from a hideous nightmare that he can’t remember; a his memory returns, he wishes it hadn’t! Download it here http://tiny.cc/9i5ulw
All these stories are FREE for today (and maybe tomorrow) so hurry before it’s too late. I hope you have your geese bumped while reading. If you enjoy them, PLEASE review them. Send your reviews to me at artisangel@gmail.com, find me on G+ (Simon Parker, with pinhead as a profile pic!) on twitter @simonparker1969 or leave a comment on here and follow my blog 🙂  HAPPY HALLOWEEN guys, have a wonderful spooky time with more treats than tricks!

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#FREE HORROR FOR #HALLOWEEN !

It’s finally upon us! Halloween is mere hours away and ALL THREE of my short horror stories are available for FREE over Halloween! Download The Killing Angel, Out of the Frying Pan and Alone in Torment from Amazon for kindle or for the kindle app on your smart phone. I’ll be posting links very shortly. Come back soon 🙂

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Life turns on a dime!

Forgive me for quoting Stephen King in the title of this blog but it just seems so apt for me at the moment. I’m not going to go onto a rant about how crap life can be or the curve balls it throws you at the most inappropriate times, quite the opposite; this has not been a great year for my family really (despite my finally becoming a published writer) but recently my mother has become ill with myeloma and although this has increased stress levels and given me more thongs that need sorting, it has also put things in perspective and boosted my motivation to pull out the thumb I have had firmly stuck in my butt and get all these things done, procrastination is no longer an option so I am gladly grabbing the bull by the horns and turning all our lives around! I’ve always been a go with the flow kind of guy but sometimes a little rudder can make a big difference and right now I feel I can no longer tell myself “what will be will be”. I still firmly believe that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes that reason is to prod you into action, not merely submit to the will of the universe (or God or whoever/whatever your beliefs are). In view of that, I can now see all these bad things that have happened, and are still happening, to my family are actually the key to making things better. To quote another writer, Richard Bach, “you are never given a problem without also being given the tools to deal with it.” So although things are not in the best of shape at the moment, I am in the best frame of mind I’ve been for a long time and moving things forward at a pace. My writing is still very important to me but it has had to take it’s place in the grand scale of what is going on. I have admitted defeat in getting my collection of short stories out in time for halloween, but all being well they should be ready for a Christmas release. My novel will proceed at it’s own pace and I’m aiming for next halloween to publish that. In the meantime, my thoughts and main focus are in an obvious place and I thank you for the sentiments and offers of support I’ve had; it’s been a help and a comfort to know that in this world of “me first” there are still a plethora of those who actually give a damn and (you know who you are) you have restored my faith in people! I’ll still keep blogging and writing and I’ll be posting links on here soon for my halloween giveaway. Thank you for listening to my rant (after promising I wouldn’t!) I’ll see you back here soon. 🙂  x

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sparker22 sent you this page:

http://su.pr/2RvtPx I’m very chuffed indeed that my horror short got spotlighted by Indie Author Anonymous 🙂

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#free horror stories.

Just a very brief post today to let you all know that I couldn’t decide which of my horror shorts to give away this halloween, so all three will be available free for twenty for hours over halloween. I will be posting the links nearer the time.
I’ve been busy with an illness in the family so haven’t concentrated fully on my writing, but the collection should hopefully still be ready for release by Christmas and the novel is still progressing, though not a fast at the moment. I’ll post again as soon as I can and hopefully be back to normal in the not too distant future. Love to you all and keep reading and scaring yourself (#scareyourselfstupid) 🙂

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Strange and dark times

Things haven’t exactly been going to plan lately; I won’t bore you with family details, but suffice it to say that family time has been “different” lately and frequent visits to hospital have been taking priority over writing time. I am still squeezing in some time to carry on with the projects thatI have going and still hope to get TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS AND MACABRE released before Christmas, but my duty as a loving son is to put my focus elsewhere until the picture changes. It’s a n adjustment for all of us and I know I can make it work, but I must apologise to you now if my posts become less frequent and not as detailed for a while. I love my writing and I love my blog and intend to keep it going and improve the content as I grow in confidence using it. I’ll be posting the links to my existing works on here soon and I’ll be back on here as soon as time allows. In the meantime, have fun, reading,, writing and doing what you love. Take care and speak soon. Simon x

#HALLOWEEN FREEBIES

Just a brief post today to give you the heads up about my newest promotion. After much consideration, I have decided that one of my horror/paranormal shorts will be FREE on amazon for Halloween. I’m as yet, undecided which one, but keep coming back for more updates. I will be posting the link and title nearer the time. In the meantime, I am still working on TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS AND MACABRE, a collection of thirteen horror, mystery and paranormal tales from the spooky to the terrifying; the collection is almost complete though sadly I don’t think it’ll be ready for halloween as hoped.
In the next couple of days I’ll be posting an excerpt from JACK, my newest short horror that finds a struggling writer making deals with the devil for a masterpiece manuscript about the most famous serial killer of all time!

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Twist on a horror classic

I’ve just completed the first rough draft of a new short story. It’s not a re telling of a classic serial killer tale, it’s a whole new angle on it with deals with the devil himself and a “being john malcovic”feel to part of it. “Jack, prayers answered, you need this!” (quote from the story) Obviously I can’t give the plot away, but it’s about a struggling writer who makes a Faustian deal to get the recognition he craves and gets more recognition and renown than he ever expected. The horror and fantasy combined with a well known true story make for an alternative explanation of an unsolved crime. You’ll be able to read it, hopefully later this year, when I release my collection of thirteen short stories entitled TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS AND MACABRE. it’s nearing completion so it may be ready in time for spooky evening reads at Christmas 🙂  I’m still working on my novel THE ELOHIM EXPERIMENT too and may need a brainstorming session with my muse as the whole thing its planned out, the story is clear in my head but chapter two is proving to be a bump in the road. It just doesn’t run smoothly at the moment when I read it and it’s important to me that I polish it until I’m happy it’s ready for a wider audience! As a by the way, I’m going to be posting some photos on here too, rather than just my dialogue updates; things that inspire me, some original art, things that give me goosebumps and the like. Let me know what sort of things you’d like to see on here and maybe check out my horror shorts already available on amazon and review them for me, I’d certainly be grateful of your views. THE KILLING ANGEL, OUT OF THE FRYING PAN and ALONE IN TORMENT are just 77p each from amazon.co.uk

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Connecting

What a strange day today has been, this morning seemed to go on forever and then suddenly it was seven pm! I don’t feel like I accomplished a whole lot today writing wise, although I did add another great short story idea to my ideas file. Today was about connecting; this morning was connections I’d rather have not had to make but a situation arose that had to be dealt with, but this afternoon has been spent pleasantly flitting between social media sites connecting with new friends, established authors and others who share interests in writing in its many forms whatever the genre. Clearly my chosen genre is horror/paranormal but I have read many great books outside my comfort zone and found them inspiring. Some may say this denies me the title of true horror fan, personally I’m not so into titles and boxes, I’m into what feels right, what touches something within me and ignites a spark, something that makes a connection with me and means something to me. My new friends on twitter, facebook and especially on goodreads all seem to share those views and that alone is a good enough starting place for me. I hope some of these impersonal “follows” and “follow backs”will lead to genuine friendships, there are some very special, talented and creative people out there who, but for these sites, would have always been strangers to me. Heres to connections, thank you to those of you who followed me or were gracious enough to allow me to follow you.

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Goodreads

Welcome to all my new friends from Goodreads. I’ve just got my head around twitter, facebook, my blog and g+ and now I’ve added Goodreads to the stable. It seems a worthy addition though and full of interesting people and books of course! But once I’ve finished posting on ask these sites, will I find time for real writing? Of course I will, there’s always time for the things you love in life. Talking of writing, I have been in a writing frenzy over the last few days; I’m still moving forward with Elohim Experiment (not quite as fast as I’d like, but that’s no surprise) but I’ve also written another short story, scratched down ideas for another three, done some more editing on Tales of the Mysterious and Macabre and just last night I had an amazing dream that I’m scratching down the details now. Not sure if it’ll be a short story or the next novel, but I’ll most certainly be writing it. The the short stories I have on amazon already are slowly gaining a bit of momentum, I dont ever expect to make millions from them, but I must admit, it’s the launch of Elohim I’m most excited about although Tales will be released first (sometime early 2013) but now I’m rambling! Time for more coffee and get back to my scribblings (yes I still write all my notes by hand before transferring them to my laptop!) Speak soon my lovelies. Simon x