Maybe the title of this fantasy collection, one of four collections available in the Seavy County Kickstarter, describes Seavy County the best. Seavy County is an imaginary part of the Oregon Coast. It’s full of magic and horror and crime and romance and yes, music. The Kickstarter ends at 7 p.m. Pacific Time tonight, so […]
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I have written so many Seavy County stories that sometimes I forget which books and stories were set there. I’ve worked on this Seavy County Kickstarter all summer long, and it wasn’t until two weeks ago that I realized my romance novel, The Death of Davy Moss, is a Seavy County story. We added it to the […]
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For the past three days, I’ve discussed the books in the Seavy County Kickstarter. I’ve only shown you dark fantasy novels, and I teased you with the possibility of other genres. Well, here are two of them. Visitations features the science fiction of Seavy County. It leans heavily into aliens, some of them quite amusing. […]
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There is a place called The Devil’s Churn on a part of the Oregon Coast we can all drive to. Is it the entrance into Seavy County, the imaginary magical part of the Oregon Coast? Maybe…. The Devil’s Churn novel features the actual Devil’s Churn and some great mysterious doings. It’s available as part of […]
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Now that you’ve had a chance to read “The Women of Whale Rock,” you have officially entered the world of FantasyLife. You haven’t read the story? Go back to the home page and scroll down. You can read the story for free. Some of the characters in “The Women of Whale Rock” appear in the novel FantasyLife. […]
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Strange things happen in Whale Rock. Lately, swarming gulls appear on the beach, too many of them, followed by a dead body pecked beyond recognition. Sheriff Dan Retsler knows the county coroner’s report—death by drowning—hides something. But what? Surely, not the magic the locals at the False Colors claim. Retsler doesn’t believe in magic…not yet, […]
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The last week of the Seavy County Kickstarter began today. For the past seven days, we’ve focused on the overall things you could get from stories to novels to workshops. The stories and novels are all set in Seavy County, an imaginary part of the Oregon Coast where strange things occur. As I compiled this, […]
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Many of you have read my Seavy County stories over the years. You might even have noticed they were set in a fictional part of the Oregon Coast. Or maybe you just thought I wrote a lot of Oregon Coast stories. (I do.) I put them in a made-up part of the coast because I […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with short video. Sometimes I add audio, but every now and then I do something that’s imagery and text. I’ve done that here, with the video I did for Dean Wesley Smith’s current Kickstarter campaign. There was simply too much information to cram into a talky video, so […]
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Here’s the book trailer, specifically designed to feature the Kickstarter, for my noir novel, Consecrated Ground. This is the novel that I mentioned on Tuesday, the one that the original editor slapped an offensive title on (which stuck for nearly two decades). I’m using the original title. This novel is historical through and through, although, like […]
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