tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43408317874056186232024-02-20T10:48:14.977-08:00Mark Edward Hall Mark Edward Hall, Author of Spellbinding ThrillersMark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-61742631391289175862021-07-14T11:59:00.000-07:002021-07-14T11:59:17.855-07:00<p>The audio version of The Children in the Lake is now available from Audible, I-Tunes and Amazon. Here's the link. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Children-in-the-Lake/dp/B093B4W7VT/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">https://www.amazon.com/The-Children-in-the-Lake/dp/B093B4W7VT/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Children-in-the-Lake/dp/B093B4W7VT/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7EuibQ60MAS7IQA3Eq8Lv6JYaVsKEqKMR16QleHf-ReNWC85uUfjz5mX20V7XBTZUt8WMDZfjNLMQkZTaO_Aba7ZtSTVDbuzXP8DGqpZo3S3RJfK4-IHKXdVRVS-Mxk4k5BeqAXCZhkr/s320/children+lake+5+-+Copy+%252818%2529+-+Copy.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-73778467012474569482019-08-28T07:37:00.000-07:002019-08-28T07:45:46.048-07:00<br />
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My new novel, The Children in the Lake, is out. Below is a synopsis. </h2>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Children-Lake-Mark-Edward-Hall-ebook/dp/B07WVFJBT8/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mark+edward+hall+kindle+books&qid=1567001622&s=digital-text&sr=1-1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1047" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9O1ILURcrA5ZBgsY7x4jcI9fRits4TVMc-sAwxuRU2iqQzsOTTSeYto85V9jP23fMfb_EQ_XqGVCdNYLChHJYB6uKLoRtM5x6ivcP-rdDjZgI7xWc613FHRiiC8O8RJfyDRldErdShtTx/s320/children+lake+5+-+Copy+%25283%2529.jpg" width="209" /></a>In 1925 three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead
Lake. Nearly a century later there are those who still report seeing the elusive
children swimming beneath the surface like swift dolphins.<br />
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After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King
and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal. When Rachel discovers
that Great Woods Timber is planning to clear-cut this beautiful wilderness she
enlists the help of Lilly Bowman and her mysterious father, chief and shaman of
the Wabanaki nation.<br />
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But dark events have been set in motion and Arrowhead Lake is
under siege by a sinister force of mercenaries. When Chief Neptune vanishes,
Rachel and Lilly call on Seth Ferguson, the local deputy sheriff for help.
Together they discover an astonishing truth; a shadowy cabal that will stop at
nothing to obtain the secret of Arrowhead Lake, a secret that if unearthed could
have far-reaching consequences.<br />
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When one of Rachel’s sons vanishes in the Lake, she and
Lilly embark on a harrowing journey to find him. What they discover is a mind
boggling truth that will change their lives forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u><br />Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-29701511270020397392019-01-21T08:49:00.001-08:002019-01-21T08:50:35.875-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/3541797156?source=facebook_share&fbclid=IwAR0LR8F5XrpuGz01Z2u05seU0awd-OjTSC4ZJ2kuMJtLs9QX0kDKVUFtlyY">Nice review of Apocalypse Island by author William Blackwell</a>Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-49894253646802030562014-10-13T09:03:00.000-07:002019-08-28T07:57:05.681-07:00<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong>October/November 2017<br /><br />A couple of things I want to talk about today.<br /><br />First:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: maroon;"><strong>New Novel</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>SONG OF ARIEL</strong></span></span></div>
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Under
normal circumstances I would never serialize a novel and put it out a
chapter (or two chapters) at a time. I have nothing against doing this,
I’ve read some novels this way and enjoyed them. Remember The Green
Mile? And I used to like the old serialized cliffhangers from the
thirties and forties they reran on television when I was a kid. <br />
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It’s just that I never considered doing it myself until now.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Song-Ariel-Thriller-Light-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01M8F08BG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mark+edward+hall+kindle+books&qid=1567004183&s=digital-text&sr=1-3"><img alt="https://www.amazon.com/Song-Ariel-Thriller-Light-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01M8F08BG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=mark+edward+hall+kindle+books&qid=1567004183&s=digital-text&sr=1-3" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0e3yzNygpdWnw9nE571JpVU3n2ObbwRBhUXAvhfRCc7WND7K4CWuCNgOIG_5t-TR9lM5XFs0i-aTIUUOcA2QMYqSLDT13xWykPPj2KNtFq_gjQp3aHTtnpmcO2T1axT7nBskggr6865jm/s320/soul+3+-+Copy+-+Copy+-+Copy+%25283%2529.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>
Let me explain. When I set out to write <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Apocalypse Island</em></a>
I did not have even the slightest notion that there would be a sequel. I
thought it would be a tidy little stand-alone novel that would begin
and end with the stories of Danny Wolf, Laura Higgins and Rick Jennings,
and that would be that.<br />
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That’s not the way it turned out.
Somewhere along the way this strange entity known as the Blue Light
intruded into my consciousness and made its way onto the pages of <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Apocalypse Island</em></a>.
By the end of that novel I knew that the Blue Light would have to
continue in one form or another, one way or another. I wasn’t sure how
then, but I knew that it was so.<br />
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You see, I liked the blue
light. But even more, I felt a strange attachment to it, as if it had a
life of its own that had somehow escaped the imagination of its creator
and found its way into his heart. Sometimes that happens, and I don’t
have an explanation for why.<br />
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By the time <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Apocalypse Island</em></a>
was published I was more than halfway through another novel entitled
Soul Thief, which up until then was also destined to be a stand-alone
novel. But something happened with Apocalypse Island that I didn’t
expect. It became a best seller. A minor bestseller when you compare it
to the likes of King or Patterson, but a bestseller nevertheless. And
the one thing fans of Apocalypse Island kept coming back to was the Blue
Light. I got a lot of mail from fans, as well as a ton of reviews, and
the thing they talked about most was the Blue Light, What is it? Where
did it come from? Where is it going? Please don’t hurt it. Please don’t
kill it. I'm addicted to the Blue Light. I think I’ve fallen in love
with it.<br />
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Seriously?<br />
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Seriously.<br />
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Even one
bestselling author made that claim. Somehow, I had unwittingly created
an entity, not a human being, but an entity, without form or substance
that readers have become attached to.<br />
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Go figure.<br />
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Well, that next novel, Soul Thief, pretty much wrote itself from then on. The two books became the beginning of <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413209900&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413209900&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Blue light Series</em></a> with ideas for at least two more novels.<br />
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Once <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Thriller-Blue-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413209900&sr=1-4&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Thriller-Blue-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413209900&sr=1-4&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Soul Thief</em></a> was published I began to see the same sorts of comments from readers I’d seen with <em><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank">Apocalypse Island</a></em>.
“Loved the Blue Light.” “Can't wait to see the next one in the series.”
“Want to know what happens to the Blue Light.” Will Doug and Annie and
Ariel be all right. Will they survive? I want to know what happens to
them and the Blue Light. Will the characters from the two previous
novels come together in the third?”<br />
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You get the picture.<br />
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And
that brings me back to the original reason for this post. The third
novel in the series will not be complete for another few months, so, in
an attempt to appease those who want more now, I’ve decided to release
it as a series of .99 shorts, a chapter or a section at a time,
depending on how it all fits together. Some releases will be shorter and
some will be longer.<br />
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For those who don’t like to read a book this way, well, sorry but you’ll have to wait for the full release. <br />
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For those who want to get a jump on the new novel, the first section, Chapter's 1 and 2 (about 60 pages) is now <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Song-Ariel-Blue-Light-Short-ebook/dp/B00OF408E0/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208245&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Song-Ariel-Blue-Light-Short-ebook/dp/B00OF408E0/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208245&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank">live on Amazon</a>, with subsequent chapters to follow.<br />
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Of course all of my books are always free to those who are members of <a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/ref=ku_lp_rw_dp_bb?_encoding=UTF8&ie=UTF8&node=9578129011&pfShowFeatures=&ref_=ku_lp_rw_dp_bb" href="https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks/b/ref=ku_lp_rw_dp_bb?_encoding=UTF8&ie=UTF8&node=9578129011&pfShowFeatures=&ref_=ku_lp_rw_dp_bb" target="_blank">Kindle Unlimited</a>.<br />
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Thanks for your patients, dear reader. I’ll see you on the other side of the Blue Light.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: maroon;">Second:</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong>THE HAUNTING OF SAM CABOT</strong></span></span></div>
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One of the reasons the third novel in the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413212477&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413212477&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Blue Light Series</em></a> is late is because I spent the better part of the summer extending my novella, <em><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank">The Haunting of Sam Cabo</a>t, </em>into a novel<em>.</em><br />
<a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413052684&sr=1-6&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413052684&sr=1-6&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><img align="none" data-cke-saved-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/b3bd4a70-7938-4f9d-ba13-5546d965f8bf.jpg" height="300" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/b3bd4a70-7938-4f9d-ba13-5546d965f8bf.jpg" style="float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px; width: 200px;" width="200" /></a><br />
I recently got the rights back to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413210117&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413210117&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>The Haunting of Sam Cabot</em></a>
from my publisher. Hurray! The original version of the book was a 98
page novella. In the preceding months I extended the novella into a full
blown novel of just over 200 pages. The basic story did not change. I
added more depth to the characters and had fun with some of the scenes
and situations.<br />
<br />
Amazon tells me that in order to keep the
existing reviews in place the extended version needs to be linked to the
original paperback version, which in turn shows a much lower page count
on the new extended version, which is not correct. If this seems
confusing to you then you can imagine how confused I feel. Alas, it is
Amazon's way of doing things.<br />
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The upshot of this whole thing is,
the page count you see on the product page is incorrect. If you decide
to spend your hard-earned 3.99 for the kindle version of the new,
updated version of <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-Novel-ebook/dp/B00O2C4SAA/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>The Haunting of Sam Cabot</em></a>, rest assured that you will be receiving a novel, not a novella.<br />
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Now on to the product description.<br />
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There
are places that hold evil, houses so vile, so tainted, that people
refuse to live in them. Farnham House is one of those places. Once an
inn, this majestic old New England manor house is back on the market,
and the price is very reasonable. Sam Cabot is a man tired of moving.
Now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life in the country with
his wife and young son. Little does he know that he will soon begin a
long, slow descent into madness and that he will spend his summer living
with dead things.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: maroon;"><strong>FREE</strong> Promo: October 18th thru 20th </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">SOUL THIEF (BLUE LIGHT SERIES 2)</span></strong></span><br />
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<em><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Thriller-Blue-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-4&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Thriller-Blue-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-4&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank">Soul Thief</a></em>, the second book in the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413212477&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413212477&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Blue Light Series</em></a> will be free for three days only from Oct. 18th thru Oct. 20th. If you haven't read the sequel to <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413208562&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><em>Apocalypse Island</em></a> here's your chance to get it free.</div>
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APOCALYPSE ISLAND (BLUE LIGHT SERIES 1)<br />
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SOUL THIEF (BLUE LIGHT SERIES 2)<br />
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THE FEAR (HORROR)<br />
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Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-17807877641345212762014-05-16T12:48:00.000-07:002014-09-07T07:20:16.345-07:00<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Update on The Haunting of Sam Cabot</span></span><br />
<span style="color: maroon;"> </span><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Cabot-Mark-Edward-Hall-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400254446&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Cabot-Mark-Edward-Hall-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400254446&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><img align="none" data-cke-saved-src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/48b8c447-f1dc-44f0-bd72-7de132243b8f.jpg" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/48b8c447-f1dc-44f0-bd72-7de132243b8f.jpg" height="154" style="height: 154px; margin: 0px; width: 100px;" width="100" /></a><br />
<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;">As I</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"> mentioned in last month's newsletter, come August I will have the rights to my novella, <i><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Cabot-Mark-Edward-Hall-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400246898&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Cabot-Mark-Edward-Hall-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400246898&sr=1-7&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank">The Haunting of Sam Cabot</a></i>, back from my publ</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;">isher.<br />What
I didn’t mention is by then it will no longer be a novella but a full
blown novel. Many readers loved the book but lamented that it would be
so cool if it was longer. Well, I listened, and for the past few months
I’ve been working on turning it into a longer and more complex work. The
original novella is told in the first person from the perspective of
the protagonist Sam, and for a while I actually did flirt with the idea
of changing it to third person. In the end I de</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;">cided
to keep it in the first person. I believe it works well that way and so
do many of its readers. Sam is the perfect voice to tell the story of
his own descent into madness. Or perhaps it’s not madness at all but
something else entirely? You be the judge. The bonus is that i</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;">t will be more than double in size with lots more twists and turn</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;">s.
I’m really excited about it and hope you guys like it as much as the
original version. By the way, it will also be available for the first
time as an audio book. More updates on that later.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">Apocalypse Island Promotion</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: maroon;">For those who haven't read </span><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400246898&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1400246898&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><span style="color: maroon;"><i>Apocalypse Island</i></span></a><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/Soul-Thief-Audiobook/B00II77RWG" href="http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/Soul-Thief-Audiobook/B00II77RWG" target="_self"><span style="color: maroon;"><i>,</i></span></a><span style="color: maroon;"> the first book in the </span><i><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397405513&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397405513&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><span style="color: maroon;">Blue Lig</span></a></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><i><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397405513&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_10?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1397405513&sr=1-10&keywords=mark+edward+hall" target="_blank"><span style="color: maroon;">ht Series</span></a></i><span style="color: maroon;">,
the kindle edition will be on sale for just .99 from May 17th thru May
23rd. That's tomorrow thru the following Friday. To date Apocalypse
Island is my all time bestselli</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: maroon;">ng
novel reaching Amazon's top twenty list three separate times and
landing on several number one bestseller lists. If you haven't read it
this is your chance to grab the kindle edition for just .99 little
pennies. Hope you decide to check it out. </span></span></span><br />
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APOCALYPSE ISLAND (BLUE LIGHT SERIES 1)<br />
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SOUL THIEF (BLUE LIGHT SERIES 2)<br />
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THE FEAR (HORROR)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">Thanks and be well,</span></span></span><br />
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<img align="none" data-cke-saved-src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/0bf92ebd-d240-42fc-b3a5-a2570bef77b2.jpg" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73/images/0bf92ebd-d240-42fc-b3a5-a2570bef77b2.jpg" height="127" style="height: 127px; margin: 0px; width: 450px;" width="450" />Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-4436571917316459802014-04-16T08:34:00.001-07:002014-04-16T08:34:41.615-07:00<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong>April 16, 2014</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong><br /><span style="font-size: 24px;">Soul Thief Promotion</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">For those who haven't read <a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=725e0c0a53&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><em>Soul Thief,</em></a> the second book in the <em><a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=9007a37eeb&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blue Light Series</a></em>, the kindle edition will be on sale for
just .99 from April 14th thru April 20th. Hope you decide to check it out. Also,
it is now available as a print edition through createspace. For those who prefer
to read in the old paper and ink format here's the link:
</span></span></span><em><a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=2be576a4e1&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Soul Thief</a></em> <em>print</em><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">Home From
Florida</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">My wife Sheila and I arrived home in Maine yesterday
after a two day road trip from Florida. We got here just in time for mud season.
Oh joy. We spent three months in the warmth this year and we're thinking we'll
stay six months next year.<br />I love Maine but I don't miss the cold
weather.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: saddlebrown;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">A Couple of Updates </span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">First, for those who might be interested in my writings
other than the Blue Light Series, come August, I will have the rights to my
novel <em><a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=02b5b68fc7&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Haunting of Sam Cabot</a></em> back from my publisher,
Damnation Books. Working with Damnation Books has been nothing short of a
nightmare for me and I can't wait to regain control of my work so that I can
offer my loyal readers the kinds of promotions that have made my independent
titles so successful. Next year I will regain control of both <em><a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=7feb705d24&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Lost Village</a></em> and the <em><a href="http://markedwardhall.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d69dcebcf6c41ad5a3a0fae73&id=1b95e51fbf&e=c4ecf97f2c" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Holocaust Opera</a></em>. Yay!<br />In the meantime, The third novel
in the Blue Light Series, <em>On the Nightwind</em> is still not finished, but
close. I will let you all know when it becomes available. I'm thinking perhaps
I'll run some sort of initial free promo.</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif;"><span style="color: saddlebrown;">Thanks and be
well,<br /><br />Mark</span></span></span><br /><br />Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-50610407053590538052013-11-10T09:01:00.000-08:002013-11-10T09:01:43.984-08:00Blue Light Series, Part 1.My latest novel, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Supernatural-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall">Soul Thief</a></i>, a follow up to the kindle bestselling <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall">Apocalypse Island</a></i> is now available as a kindle download.<br />
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I have also collected both works in one volume entitled the <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-5&keywords=mark+edward+hall">Blue Light Series</a></i>. Nearly three hundred thousand words for just $5.99. Those who buy the two books together as a collection will save $2.00 over their individual prices.<br />
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I cannot thank my readers and fans enough for making <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-Mystery-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-3&keywords=mark+edward+hall">Apocalypse Island</a></i> a Kindle bestseller. I am hoping <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Thief-Supernatural-Thriller-Light-ebook/dp/B00F3IZ6IA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-1&keywords=mark+edward+hall">Soul Thief</a></i> will follow in its footsteps.<br />
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There are two more books planned for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Two-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B00GB8CT7W/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1384101430&sr=1-5&keywords=mark+edward+hall"><i>Blue Light Serie</i>s</a>. <i>On the Nightwind</i> is the third and I hope to have it out in early 2014. The fourth is tentatively titled <i>Lion of God</i>.<br />
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Again, thanks to all those who have supported my writing efforts over the years. I am truly grateful.<br />
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MarkMark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-68877221009804165402013-01-29T08:56:00.000-08:002013-01-29T19:23:03.764-08:00One Writer’s Journey: Adventures in PublishingThis sounds strange to most people when I talk about it, but I have
never pursued a traditional book deal. I mean that. Never in my life. I
sent my first novel, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a>,</i> (along with four-hundred dollars) to the <a href="http://scottmeredith.com/">Scott Meredith Literary Agency</a>
in New York in about 2001. A nice editor got back to me and commended
me on the ambitiousness of my novel, said I was a promising writer and
that <i><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i> </i>was actually a great book, but, no one
would publish it because it was too long. 258,000 words. He told me
there wasn't a publisher in the land that would touch a first time
author with a book of that length. He qualified that and said that if I
was a celebrity author like King or Patterson it would be fine, no
problem, I could publish my laundry list and it would sell. But I wasn’t
King or Patterson, I was an unknown. And publishers wanted nice tidy
little eighty to one-hundred-thousand word books from unknown authors.
Please send something else along that's at a more appropriate length, (along with another four-hundred bucks, by the way).<br />
Well, that was that, thank you very much. I never sent another thing
to that agency or any other agency for that matter. Maybe I’ve got a
thin skin, but I was no longer interested in what literary agents had to say. I was keenly aware of the statistics, of how many manuscripts ever made it to an editor's desk. One writer friend of mine had been rejected so
many times he was on the verge of suicide.<br />
So, I did the unthinkable. Way back in the dark ages before kindle and
nook and all those other reading devices we now take for granted were
invented, I decided to self-publish my magnum opus. This was before
Amazon or any of the other booksellers were selling e-books. If you
wanted to self-publish a book you needed to go through one of those
“vanity” presses that charged for services. So that’s what I did. I brought <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i> out in hardcover and trade paperback and sold
downloadable copies from my website to those who were willing to read an
enormous book on their computer screens. The book actually came out
pretty well. It was formatted nicely, had a good cover. I signed up with
the <a href="http://www.horror.org/ne/">New England Horror Writers</a>,
did some group signings, made some friends, and, to my amazement, the
book began to sell. Before long I was receiving some nice reviews from
fellow authors as well as readers, and low and behold I found out that
several ‘respectable’ authors with ‘real’ published books had
recommended to the HWA (<a href="http://www.horror.org/">the Horror Writer’s Association</a>) that <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i>
be nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.<br />
But of course it wasn’t
nominated. Back then, and even now, the HWA has a very hard time
recognizing anything self-published. They love their legacy publishers,
and if your work isn’t sanctioned by one of them, well. They claim they
consider all published works, and I believe they do, but it’s been my
experience that very few independent books ever get much consideration. No matter, they are for the most part, a good and
beneficial organization. But I believe in my heart (and this is just my opinion) that if they continue on their present
course they will soon become as irrelevant as bookstores and legacy
publishers.<br />
<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i> sold well without the benefit of being sanctioned by a legacy publisher, or being recognized by the Horror Writers Association.<br />
In the meantime I wrote several other books and was doing okay publishing short stories in various magazines and anthologies.<br />
Then, a little more than three years ago, on invitation, I sent my novella, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494549&sr=1-2"><i>The Haunting of Sam Cabot</i></a> to a brand new small press publisher, <a href="http://www.damnationbooks.com/">Damnation Books</a>.
Now this is the important part. Are you listening? It was the first
time in my writing life that I had ever sent a manuscript to a book
publisher. You heard me right. <i>The very first time.</i> At the time, Kindle was a brand new concept and
I had never heard of it. Damn my error. Well, I heard right back from
Damnation Books that they wanted to publish my book. Wow! First time.
Couldn't believe it. They subsequently published two more of my books including <i><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i>.</i> I signed five year contracts with
each of those books. I wish I never had. It was just about the time
Kindle exploded on the scene and I was suddenly tied down to a publisher who priced
my books much too high to sell well on Kindle. And oh my lord, the formatting! It was atrocious. To their credit, some of the formatting issues have recently been straightened out, but if you check sample versions of both <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a> </i>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Holocaust-Opera-ebook/dp/B004S44XDO/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5"><i>The Holocaust Opera</i></a> you will see that the text of both books is entirely in italics. E-gads! And, to my utter chagrin they
priced the Kindle version of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322494479&sr=1-4">The Lost Village</a></i> at $9.95. Celebrity authors can get away
with selling e-books at that price, unfortunately nobody else can. Try
telling that to my publisher. I know in my heart that if it had been priced at $2.99
or even $3.99, where it should be, it would have been a Kindle bestseller by now. I
begged and pleaded with my publisher to just try it but they wouldn't
budge. Too bad for them because they have lost me as an author. I am presently in the process of obtaining the rights back to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Haunting-Sam-Cabot-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_6"><i>The Haunting of Sam Cabot.</i></a> The other two will be next. It's going to take some legal wrangling, but it will happen. Not that they
should care, They have what seems to be a massive stable of authors
now, most of which seem quite satisfied to earn 17.5% of the list price
instead of the 70% they could earn as independents. Go figure. I guess
for some the prestige of having a REAL publisher outweighs everything else
including earnings.<br />
Since then I have self-published a collection of shorts for kindle <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Servants-of-Darkness-ebook/dp/B00381B3ZY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1266267223&sr=1-1">Servants of Darkness</a></i>
that’s been doing very well for a collection (Collections aren’t
supposed to be good sellers) and I've published a new novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2"><i>Apocalypse Island</i></a> as well as several other novellas,
and a bunch of short stories. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2"><i>Apocalypse Island</i></a> is doing quite well, and I have a new novel, <i>Soul Thief</i> due out this spring.<br />
So, here I am, right back to square one. I have always been a strong
advocate of self-publishing. I fell down once and signed with a "publisher," but unless I’m offered a huge amount of money and great
e-book terms I will never ever do it again. I'm having too much fun on
my own.<br />
As I said in a previous post, this is just me. Each writer has to
find his or her own path. But if you do choose a publisher, please choose carefully. I feel that my own writing journey is just
beginning. The time has never been better for the independent author.
Any way you do it takes time and patience. If you decide to
self-publish, make sure you have a good book, a good cover and a great
description. Hire a good editor and listen to what that person has to
say. Once all that is done, make sure the book is formatted correctly for digital publication. You can hire that done at fairly reasonable cost. I've learned to do it myself. I've learned to do most everything myself, including some of my own cover art. Once it's ready, put your book out there and promote it until
you’re exhausted. With all of those things and a little luck maybe you
will become the next Kindle bestseller.<br />
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Mark Edward Hall Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-25329063477024835142013-01-24T19:37:00.001-08:002013-01-29T17:55:30.038-08:00My surprise best seller. Don't ever give up on a story<br />
This is a reprint of a post I did on my website last year.<br />
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I have three legacy published books. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Village-ebook/dp/B0041N3RKC/ref=sr_1_9?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327277899&sr=1-9">The Lost Village</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Haunting-Sam-Cabot-ebook/dp/B002LLNGSY/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327277933&sr=1-5">The Haunting of Sam Cabot</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Holocaust-Opera-ebook/dp/B004S44XDO/ref=sr_1_8?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278039&sr=1-8">The Holocaust Opera</a>.
Those who read my blog and keep up with my writing activities know by
now that I’m sorry I ever went with a publisher. That’s not news but it
is truer now and more relevant than ever. There is a post on this blog
about how to make money publishing short stories on Amazon. If you
haven’t read it you should. Here’s the link. <a href="http://www.markedwardhall.com/the-pros-of-publishing-short-stories-on-amazon">http://www.markedwardhall.com/the-pros-of-publishing-short-stories-on-amazon</a>
There are other posts relevant to the independent author as well. And
if you are an independent writer and you're not familiar with Joe
Konrath's <a href="http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/">blog</a> you need to be.<br />
What I want to talk about today is a little novelette I wrote nearly fifteen years ago entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Elm-Street-ebook/dp/B004V55KU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278290&sr=1-1">The Hero of Elm Street</a>. Now I’m primarily a horror writer. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Elm-Street-ebook/dp/B004V55KU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278290&sr=1-1">The Hero of Elm Street </a>is
not a horror story. It's a light-hearted little ghost story about love,
loss and the power of hope. Not generally my style, but because of my
grandmother Luella, who meant a lot to me and was my greatest influence,
the story has always been dear to my heart.<br />
Back in the dark ages before kindle and nook and self-publishing (now
known as independent publishing.) I sent that little story out to
nearly every literary magazine in the country. I didn’t hear back from
most of them. I did hear from Yankee. They said they liked it but felt
it wasn’t right for them at the time. Yeah, we’ve all heard that before.
So I buried the story and pretty much forgot about it.<br />
Well, a year ago I decided to include <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Elm-Street-ebook/dp/B004V55KU0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278290&sr=1-1">The Hero of Elm Street </a> in my collection, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Servants-of-Darkness-ebook/dp/B00381B3ZY/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1327278404&sr=1-4">Servants of Darkness</a>.
I knew that it might get lost or overlooked in a collection of
primarily dark tales. And I was right. Even though the collection has
been selling reasonably well, I haven’t heard many people comment on
that individual story.<br />
So, on a whim I decided to put it out as a stand-alone story. I
commissioned a cover and a little trailer and published it on Amazon. It
sold some copies but nothing to write home about. So then I got the
bright idea to include it as part of Amazon’s <a href="https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A6KILDRNSCOBA">KDP Select</a> Project and offer it for free for five days. <a href="https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A6KILDRNSCOBA">KDP Select</a><a href="http://www.markedwardhall.com/wp-admin/KDP%20Select"> </a>allows
Prime members to borrow books, but the books also remain for sale. The
only caveat: authors who sign up must agree to go exclusive with Amazon
for a period of ninety days. I didn’t care. The story wasn’t doing much
anyway. What did I have to lose?<br />
250 copies were downloaded in the first three days of the promo and I
thought, well, good try but that's that. Then something amazing
happened. Within the next twenty-four hours the story exploded as more
than ten thousand copies were downloaded. I was stunned. I started
receiving messages and mail and reviews, most saying how much they were
moved by the story and thanking me for publishing it. I couldn’t believe
it.<br />
It was all very nice but I figured after the free promo ended that
would be it. I was wrong. It continued to sell at an alarming rate. And
some of my other titles started taking off. I don't know what happened. I
didn't do anything different with this story. It's a mystery to me, but
a good mystery.<br />
I see now, a week later that it’s slowing down some but still selling
briskly. I couldn’t be happier. The point of this post is to encourage
writers to never give up on a story. You don’t know what’s going to turn
the reading audience on. And when you're faced with an opportunity to
put your work in front of a bigger audience, do it.<br />
Don’t ever give up on a story.<br />
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UPDATE</div>
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The blog you
just read was published on Jan 22nd of this year. As of this date, April
3rd, my little story has sold nearly nine thousand copies. That's
quite a feat for a short story and at $1.99 a pop that's a a
considerable chunk of change. Some of my other short stories are doing
good as well and I'm hoping my new novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Island-ebook/dp/B0072ZB8DY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331231406&sr=1-1">Apocalypse Island</a> will find readers.</div>
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Publishing
short stories in magazines and anthologies is good for the writer's
spirit, but there isn't much money in it. There hasn't been in a very
long time. Now with the advent of devices like kindle and nook it seems
that readers are rediscovering short stories and this has got to be good
for both writers and readers.</div>
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Mark Edward Hall</div>
Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-21577509898506053392011-10-02T17:15:00.000-07:002011-10-13T08:07:16.754-07:00The Lessons of our Ancestors<br />
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<span style="color: black;">I want to
tell you about my grandmother, about how wise she was and how she impacted my
life. She died a long time ago, the nineteen seventies, in fact, but even after
so many years, she still holds influence over my life. Her name was Luella, and
she was my mentor. She was a story teller. She was not a writer. She was a chronicler of life’s
triumphs and tragedies through the oral tradition. Nothing made her happier
than to ‘catch someone’s ear’, as she liked to call it. She lived with us when
I was growing up and she captivated me with her stories and her wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Let me
say this. I believe that our culture</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">—</span><span style="color: black;">we Americans particularly, and perhaps all of western
culture</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">—</span><span style="color: black;">grossly
undervalues the wisdom of those who have come before us. Unlike most eastern
and indigenous cultures, we pretty much ignore, even dismiss the old as
irrelevant. For obvious reasons we are fixated on youth. They’re young, they’re
beautiful, they’re hip. Everything we see in the media, from television to
movies to advertisements, tells us that being young is where it’s at and that
we should value youth over and above everything else. And I agree that we
should value youth. The young are, after all, the future. But in not valuing
the wisdom and experience of our elders, we are not only disrespecting them, we
are losing something vital from our culture.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I was the
only one of the grandchildren who took an interest in what Gram Hall had to
say. I don’t know why that connection was so strong. Perhaps it was because she saw
something in me and tried harder than she did with the others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It’s no
secret that I’m a dark fiction writer. It’s where my mind seems to go whenever
I sit down to write. I can’t help it. That’s the way I’m made and I have no
reason to believe it will ever change. However, there is redemption in all of
my stories and I owe that to Gram Hall. The main theme of my work is the
triumph of good over evil. This is something she taught me as important. She
said that even in the most desperate of situations there is always room for
hope. I listened and I learned. It is the main theme for </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Elm-Street-ebook/dp/B004V55KU0/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1317600318&sr=1-7">The Hero of Elm Street</a><span style="color: black;"> a story
I wrote in her honor about a heroic young man and the young woman who loved him.</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Elm-Street-ebook/dp/B004V55KU0/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1317600318&sr=1-7"></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Gram Hall
didn’t tell horror stories or paranormal stories as we know them today. Instead
she told ghost stories. She had an insatiable belief in the hereafter. She knew
without a doubt that the spirits of the departed walked the earth. They walked in
graveyards and in old houses and down country lanes after dark. She was in tune
with the dead. To her it wasn’t a frightening thing. On the contrary, it was a
way for her to stay connected to those who had passed out of her life. I
listened and I was mesmerized.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We were
very close for a lot of years, so it came as no surprise when her own life was
ebbing from her and she lay in a semi-coma in a hospital bed, that I was the only
one of all her visitors she spoke to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I was
twenty-two years old at the time, newly married and had started a family of my
own. I’d been busy and hadn’t been to see Gram in several months. No excuse, I
know. The news came and I rushed to the hospital. I came quietly into her room
and stood over her bed watching her sleep. I’d been told by doctors and family
members not to expect much. That it was too late and that she would more than
likely just fade away. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But she
didn’t fade away. She opened her eyes, smiled at me, and said, “My little Markee,
(that’s what she always called me) do you remember the things I taught you?” </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I nodded
as tears spilled down my cheeks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Good. I
want you to know that there were reasons for it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“I know,”
I said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Do you?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“You
wanted me to do something with my life,” I said. “It’s why you encouraged me to
read and to think and to make my own mind up about things instead of just following
blindly.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“And what
are you doing with that knowledge?” she asked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I lowered
my head. “I’m trying to write a novel,” I told her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“Wonderful,”
she said. “I knew you would.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And I
did. It took me years to finally finish that first novel. Then I wrote another
and another, and through it all I never lost sight of how important Gram Hall’s
influence was on me. If not for her it would probably never have gotten done. I
owe her everything.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">She died
that night but her spirit lives on in me. She’d be happy to know that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please,
if there’s an elderly person in your life, sit down and talk to them, but
mostly just listen. You’ll be amazed at the things you might learn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Mark Edward Hall</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:mark@markedwardhall.com">mark@markedwardhall.com</a> </span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.markedwardhall.com/">http://www.markedwardhall.com </a> </span><br />
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I have joined the indie authors <a href="http://notreesharmed.com/?page_id=340">First Book Project</a>, a non-profit organization that provides access to new books for children of low-income families. I have dropped the Kindle price of my collection, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Servants-of-Darkness-ebook/dp/B00381B3ZY/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302358208&sr=1-9">Servants of Darkness</a> to .99. If the book makes it into Amazon’s top 100 I will donate $500.00 to First Book Project. For those who have not read my stuff, please give it a try and help out a good cause. It’s only .99 cents and I promise you’ll get hours of enjoyable reading. I hope you help me reach this goal.</div>
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Here’s a description of the book along with some reviews:</div>
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A chance meeting at a cathedral's demolition site between a
suffering young woman and a stranger morphs from unsettling to terrifying when
you discover the stranger's identity. He is simultaneously more and less than
he appears.<br />
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An injured man lost in the wilderness is haunted by a demon that he might or
might not recognize from his past.</div>
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Is John Lennon still alive? Deb Stiles thinks so, and when
she convinces a young reporter to investigate, nothing in their lives will ever
be the same again. <br />
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From there you are taken on a dark journey through a skewed world where
nothing, not even a lowly can of bug spray, can ever be considered harmless or
innocent.</div>
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"Mark Edward Hall writes like a master. Stephen King,
yes, but also like Stoker, Poe, and Bradbury, yeah, even Shakespeare...all
those good guys we've forgotten. He's literate and intelligent and poetic, and
compliments the reader's intelligence. His prose is hypnotic and seductive, it’s
also visceral, and edgy - you feel your heartbeat change. You question what
sanity is. And madness. There are millions of suspense/horror chillers out
there. But this author is also literary, he's the real thing.” —Kiana
Davenport, award winning author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House
of Skin</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark Dialogues.</i> </div>
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“Hall has an uncanny knack for blending vivid, almost poetic
prose with visceral images of jaw-dropping horror to great effect.” —Bram
Stoker award winning editor, Vince Liaguno.</div>
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“Poetic and eerily seductive, Hall pushes you to the edge,
until you get lost in the beautiful madness of his creations.” —Midwest
Book Review</div>
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“Mark Edward Hall is a literary artist, a strong new voice
in the horror genre.” —Lloyd F. Richey, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stormdragon</i></div>
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"Hall is an insightful author with the ability to craft
a brilliant story.” —Dream Forge</div>
Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4340831787405618623.post-24036114005269326952011-03-26T11:23:00.000-07:002011-03-26T11:28:46.142-07:00Welcome to my new blog<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Thanks for stopping by my new blog. I'm primarily a fiction writer, but I have other things to say besides the things in my stories. I realize that nobody today can exist in a vacuum. I hope that in the future I will be able to post stories and profiles of some of the new up and coming independent writers out there, as well as toot my own horn once in a while.<br /><br />Okay, here we go,<br /><br />Mark Edward Hall<br />Madeira Beach Florida<br /></span>Mark Edward Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348437062900925019noreply@blogger.com0