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Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Even though my first horror novel is on hold while I finish the short story collection, I wanted to talk about its background today. On its most basic level, it’s a ghost story — based on an urban...
View ArticleA Rant About Book Trailers
My plan today was to find some great examples of horror book trailers and share them as some inspiration for other indie publishers out there. That isn’t going to happen. You see, I couldn’t find any...
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New Blog Design
You might notice that things look a wee bit different around here. I changed the blog theme for AJKleinBooks.com due to a series of technical issues related to the last WordPress upgrade. Unfortunately...
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Stop Sucking at Marketing: The Bad Marketing Blog is Coming Soon
While I’m still relatively new to writing fiction (and this pen name), I’ve been earning a nice living from my writing for years. Well, that and marketing my writing effectively. In fact, I come from a...
View ArticleIndie Authors Can Now Join the Horror Writers Association
I know I’m a bit late mentioning this here, but just a quick heads up to any other indie horror writers: revenue from your novels can now be used to help you meet the eligibility requirements of the...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Frozen Lake
For the latest story setting inspiration photo, I took a shot of a local reservoir, Lake Ontelaunee, back in February. It was an odd day to say the least. The temperature was heading into the mid-60s,...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Through the Lens
Today’s story setting inspiration photo is a bit different than the others. Instead of being focused on a certain place, its emphasis is on what could be right in front of your face without you even...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Walking Path Bridge
For this week’s horror story setting inspiration, let’s look at a bridge I visited while scouting potential body dump locations. (Why do I seem to know so many places that would be good for that?) One...
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Story Setting Inspiration: Brooklyn
In two recent posts I talked about a screenplay I’m working on and how my own unfinished nursery influenced one scene in the story. In the former I mentioned I’d be going up to NY for the day and...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Frozen Lake
For the latest story setting inspiration photo, I took a shot of a local reservoir, Lake Ontelaunee, back in February. It was an odd day to say the least. The temperature was heading into the mid-60s,...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Through the Lens
Today’s story setting inspiration photo is a bit different than the others. Instead of being focused on a certain place, its emphasis is on what could be right in front of your face without you even...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Under the Overpass
In this week’s horror story setting inspiration post, I have several photos to share. As mentioned in my previous post covering a bridge in a town where I used to live, I also photographed inspiration...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Evening Fog
I haven’t had the time or inclination to get out and photograph interesting things for the blog series over the past several weeks. But early this morning (when I was finally making my way to bed...
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Horror Story Inspiration: A Grave for 3 Children
Today’s horror story photo inspiration takes a closer look at a stone in the Milford Cemetery in Connecticut — one of my favorite places to visit, and one featured here before. I’m not sure if you can...
View ArticleLove and Horror (and a New Work-in-Progress)
Today I joked to a friend that if I really wanted to hurt my characters, I’d write romance instead of horror. This came after he expressed concern over how many characters I killed off in the course of...
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Freaky Field Trips and Photo Tours
I’ve been running low on story inspiration photos for the series on this blog. That means it’s time to start visiting some freaky, spooky, and otherwise interesting spots to snap some new pictures....
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration – Centralia, PA
If you’re familiar with the story of Centralia, you might expect it to be a creepy place. After all, the old Pennsylvania coal town is often called “the real Silent Hill,” because it inspired the...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Evening Fog
I haven’t had the time or inclination to get out and photograph interesting things for the blog series over the past several weeks. But early this morning (when I was finally making my way to bed...
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Horror Story Inspiration: A Grave for 3 Children
Today’s horror story photo inspiration takes a closer look at a stone in the Milford Cemetery in Connecticut — one of my favorite places to visit, and one featured here before. I’m not sure if you can...
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Horror Story Setting Inspiration: Valley Forge
In search of more story inspiration, I went on another little photography excursion yesterday. This time I went to Valley Forge National Park in Southeast Pennsylvania. This post is mostly about the...
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