Coffin Hop Day 3: Sad News and Author of the Day

Welcome to-day 3 of the Coffin Hop!  I realized that my blogs about me are no longer on the front page, so I will recap what has gone on before.  My name is Brent Abell and I write horror fiction.  I have only been writing for a year and a half and have already had …

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Coffin Hop Contest Author- Tuesday Edition

 Ok gang for the rest of the time, I have decided to let everyone enter an answer to the Author of the Day and all right answers will be entered.  I want more people to have a chance.  The blog this week will have a new bio for me since the first one is old …

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Coffin Hop: Contest Author #1

Ok gang, you have seven days and seven authors.  Your mission: be the first to correctly guess my favorite book by that day's author.  Go down and enter your guess into the comment section.  The first person that correctly guesses each day will have their name in the hat for the grand prize at the end of …

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Coffin Hop! News, Contest, and Jeff Strand

Welcome Coffin Hoppers to my blog page.  I am Brent Abell and I welcome you to the home for my fiction and other goodness.  This is a busy time for me, so rather you are a new reader or a regular reader, hang on tight we have a lot to cover! 1. News time!  In …

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Coffin Hop- All Hail the Pumpkin King

Welcome to the show, step inside...step inside.  Rather you are a regular visitor or just passing through the graveyard on the Coffin Hop, let me welcome you to the official home of me.  Let me introduce myself, I am Brent Abell and I write horror and dark fiction.  The things that go bump in the …

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News, Beer, and a Live Episode of Cops

First off, damn I hate waiting.  Christmas?  My siblings and I had our haul scoped out a month in advance.  Lines?  I buy expensive badges to Star Wars Celebrations so I don't have to wait in most lines.  Submissions?  That my friends is the one thing that kills me...and I can't change a thing about …

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What I’m Reading (And You Should Be Too)

Once upon a time, a sixth grade student walked into his English class for free-read and dropped Stephen King's IT on his desk.  The paperback looked like a brick and clocked in at over 1,000 pages.  The teacher came over and stared at the student quizzically while pondering why a sixth grader had such a …

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Believe the Unbelievable

When I was a kid, my parents, brother, and sister lived in an older two-story house.  It was the first house that my parents bought and as kids, we thought it was a mansion compared to the other places we had lived.  I was only in kindergarten, so my knowledge of the paranormal was minimal at …

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News and Geekdom

Well readers, the big news for the week is that story number five got accepted yesterday.  I was on a camping trip when my good friend (and fellow writer) Wes Southard texted me about the rejections/acceptances going out for the "New Dawn Fades" anthology from Post Mortem Press.  I checked my phone for my mail …

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Why?

(Note: This is a work of sarcastic questions and true answers.  While the intent is true, the people bugging me are not really my family, except for my sister who finds it amusing to mess with me about it.) I have been asked many times by my family in the past year about why did I …

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