It's Release Week! * Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter releases Thursday, May 10. * Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2: The Axe Will Fall releases May 14. * Release week contests & giveaways, start Mon. 5/7. See GirlZombieAuthors blog.
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A new edition of Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter is coming out - with a new cover & edits! ** The new Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2 is also coming soon. Title to Be Revealed!! Hoping pre-orders will be up by mid-late April. ** Here's a tiny sneak peek of the first line of the book blurb: After being acquitted of brutally slaying her parents, Lizzie Borden thinks her nightmare is over—but it’s only just begun! * Sign up for the newsletter (center top column on main page of this website) for contests & more! New NL coming out Mon. 3/26. A little reveal - Here's part of the new cover title! Cool, huh???? What do you think? ** The Haunting of Dr. Bowen - Kindle SALE, 99 cents. March 12-18 **
(See page for US and UK links.) - ** Woo-hoo! #15,144 and #65 in Ghosts. I was even ranked next to Stephen King at one point!!) Imagine the shock... Dr. Seabury Bowen, neighbor and physician to the Borden family, was driving his carriage home after 11 a.m., Thursday, August 4th, 1892 and gets home to shocking news. His wife, Phoebe, meets him at the screen door, telling him Lizzie came over and says her father was killed! He rushes over, and despite being a doctor, comes upon a ghastly scene--his former patient and longtime neighbor Mr. Andrew Borden lying dead on the parlor settee, his face gashed and bloody. He is among the first visitors on the scene, as well as the first doctor. He later learns that the 32-year-old younger daughter, Lizzie, and the maid, Bridget Sullivan, are the only ones home at the time of the murder. Then, the stepmother and Mr. Borden's wife Abby Durfee Borden, is found dead, lying in an upstairs bedroom/sewing room, also bashed in the head. The doctor finds himself in the middle of what becomes "the crime of the 19th century." His recorded testimony is the only time he shares his story of what happened that morning. But what did he really think? Was he shaken, maybe even haunted by the horrific, and most unusual, murders? GET HIS VIEWPOINT! In The Haunting of Dr. Bowen, A Mystery in Lizzie Borden's Fall River, I share the doctor's point of view, and how the murders, and other events, may have affected the doctor. Did Fall River's past tie into the city's bloody legacy? (Light horror. This is a companion book to my book, Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter, but without the zombies.) About the book: Dr. Seabury Bowen—physician to the infamous Lizzie Borden—swears he’s being stalked by spirits, though his beloved wife thinks it’s merely his imagination. But the retired doctor insists that neither greed nor anger provoked the recent sensational axe murders in Fall River. Rather, he believes the city is poisoned by bad blood and a thirst for revenge dating back to the Indian and Colonial wars. Now, two years after the Borden murders, Dr. Bowen is determined to uncover the mysteries stirring up the city’s ancient, bloodthirsty specters. Can he discover who, or what, is shattering the peace before Fall River runs red? Or will he be the next victim? Part mystery, part love story, The Haunting of Dr. Bowen reveals the eerie side of Fall River as witnessed by the first doctor on the scene of the legendary Borden murders.
Hope you had a great start to 2018!
I started out the new year right with a great new review of my companion book, The Haunting of Dr. Bowen in the Jan. issue of Uncaged Book Reviews 4 stars! Here's part of it: "... An enjoyable story to go along with Lizzie Borden (Zombie Hunter)... Though it explores a slightly different facet of the paranormal genre, it fits nicely into the world Verstraete had already built. Additionally, she added one last bittersweet surprise to the end of the book that reminded me of the story's predecessor..." - Kaitlin, see review online. (Jan. 2018, pg. 90) What if Lizzie Borden's doctor was haunted by what he saw that morning in 1892, and by Fall River's past? My novella, The Haunting of Dr. Bowen, is on sale for Kindle - only 99 cents, Dec. 11-18. * BUY HERE. Get the details here. (Paranormal, some light horror, mystery, alternate history) Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter - What if everything you heard about the historic Borden murders wasn't true? (See details here.) Yes, I started Nanowrimo, the write-a-book-in-November project. I had written some already on Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2, so I wanted to use it as a quasi-schedule to keep going.
I slacked off a bit, but got some done yesterday. I'm at just over 19,000 words, so not bad. I'll keep going to see where it leads. I am almost thinking of a shorter, novella length, which I really like. The Haunting of Dr. Bowen turned out to be a nice, readable length and a neat little book... But we'll see... Left off at a good, exciting point... Lizzie going out late at night, alone, to meet someone who sent her a mysterious note... Whatever could go wrong?? heh-heh-heh... I have a new nonfiction story, "Lizzie Borden: Murder and Mistakes?" in the Big City Cops I issue of the Mystery Readers Intl. journal. Get it in pdf or hard copy. Good journal. It includes essays on assorted topics by various authors. Wow!!!! - Today Descent Into Darkness hit #1 in anthologies/horror! How cool is that?? 700+ pages of novellas, short stories and more! On sale 99 cents to Halloween! My story, "Thirteen Horses" was a way to find perfect justice for a horrific, real-life crime... The OCTOBER FRIGHTS Blog Hop is underway! Eerie #Halloween fiction, spooky prizes, giveaways and more on 35 blogs! Tues. Oct. 10: Read my new short fiction, "The Pumpkin Patch." What really happens to the lucky pumpkin picked from the patch? Weds. Oct. 11: #1LineWed - One Line Wednesday Thurs. Oct. 12: Flash fiction, "Fall Leaves" Fri. Oct. 13: Sat. Oct. 14: Sun. Oct. 15: |
Blog by Chris Verstraete - author, award-winning journalist, miniaturist. I love dogs, too. It's all good.
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