Good evening my friends and readers, it has been a while since we could sit back and talk a bit. Things are beginning to get rolling again over at Wicked East Press. It's a good thing to see and is a very good press to work to work with. The delays have been settled and the …
Continue reading Updates, the Counter of Responsibility, and the Next Big Thing
Hello all you ghouls out there! Tonight we open the casket on the subject of being the new guy in the room, the one just now striking out on their own, and the one who will make mistakes. Nobody who starts writing is a pro from the start. It takes time and it takes some …
Ok, I'm going to take a moment to wax poetic about The Avengers. Marvel Studios did an incredible job bringing their superhero franchises together in one big kick ass movie. It helped they had this planned all along with each movie adding something toward the whole (if you stayed after the credits that is...). The …
I started out the year with some modest goals while I tried to build on the beginning success of last year. 2011 was my first full year of writing and I finished the year with 10 stories in 8 anthologies. My goal was 5, so I thought I did ok. Raising the bar higher for …
Continue reading The Year So Far…(and a pretty good one to boot!)
I have returned. I return a different person, a new man. I've tasted the forbidden cigars of Cuba, got smashed on rum punch while jumping into the Caribbean, and found out there is more rum in the islands then I can consume. The last one was a tough pill to swallow for me. Before I …
For those who are new to the blog, or who will be, let me introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and...wait that's the Devil, not me. I'm Brent Abell, newbie author and general pain in the ass to most who know me. I like my books bloody, my music heavy, and my movies scary. …
This afternoon, I received word that "Amos's Song" was accepted to Wicked East Press's Chained in the Attic anthology. It is my fourth story with WEP and I would like to thank Jessica A. Weiss for her continued faith in my work. Now a little about the story for the newly titled "Why Did I …
Well, this is it. Here we are at the end of 2011 and it was one hell of a year. When the year first started, I had just finished out 2010 with a fun reading at Mo*Con IV and a few rejection slips from editors. That was pretty much my writing career till 2011. Considering …
Like I said in the title, what ever it is you celebrate... have a happy one! To make all your family's dreams come true this holiday season, give the gift of books. What? Do I know of any good ones? Why yes I do! As you can see to the left...Daily Flash 2012 from Pill Hill …
Continue reading Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Whatever (Buy A Book)!
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