Death House: Newsletter 1

When I was a kid, I wrote a story called DEATH HOUSE. I remember sitting on the shaggy blue carpet of my bedroom, narrating the creepy story into a tape recorder, manifesting my best Edgar Allan Poe. I wasn’t alone. My friends surrounded me, emitting guttural, spooky sounds like a Hollywood seance. Thanks, Tammie, Barb, and Michelle. Little did I know how popular audiobooks would become. Alas, the tape recording went the way of my Which Witch Game, my high school class ring, and the poor Barbie that didn’t survive the dryer. Gone Girl. But something survived: my love of the supernatural. Eventually, my dad’s battle with Parkinson’s became the catalyst that put pen to paper after years of sad Poelessness. CHORUS OF CROWS unfolded. It’s the story of a retired farmer with Parkinson's and his difficult daughter, who battle mysterious and malevolent visitors, that may or may not be real. Write what you know works sometimes, and other times, you need to defy gravity, like with THE LEVITATION GAME. 😊 Writing a novel is one thing; publishing one is akin to pulling a bullet from your abdomen without anesthesia, like in old Western movies. Luckily, after many self-surgeries, Ten16 Press said yes! THE LEVITATION GAME will be an actual book, and it all started with my weird compulsion for the supernatural. I blame it on the Bermuda Triangle, Sasquatch, and Alien Autopsies. Now that my website is up and I’ve figured out my new blog, I’m conquering Mailerlite and newsletters. It turns out that it's handy to be able to illustrate my own book cover. :) Best of all, local author Peter Geye has agreed to give my book a sweet little blurb before it hits the press. Christine Brunkhorst of the Star Tribune said this about Peter Geye:  "If Geye is Minnesota's Thoreau, then his pond is a frozen lake." I love that line. Plus, I don't have to worry about negative Goodreads reviews for a long time. Gulp. "Any fear that I felt in presenting my first two books to the world was overcome by my dream of being an author." Kern Carter, author of Boys and Girls Screaming Sharon Wagner Books