Being a writer often means having to hold down a day job. This is nothing new. When Stephen King was writing his breakout novel, CARRIE, he was holding down a job as a substitute teacher and working in an industrial laundry. I’m no different, for years I have worked a day job, first as a soldier in the Canadian military and as a truck driver. If you asked me 20 years ago if driving a truck would lead to the writing of my second novel, ACADIA … [Read more...]
MJ Preston Gives Readers An Epic Tale of Blackmail, A Diamond Heist, and Alien Invaders In ACADIA EVENT
Marty Croft has it all. A beautiful wife, and a successful career as a commercial artist. That is until his past comes back to haunt him. Enter Gordon Shamus, the psychotic son of Marty’s former gangster boss. After Marty’s wife is kidnapped, he finds himself forced back into a world he left behind. The job seems simple enough. Drive the world's longest ice road and retrieve a package of stolen diamonds. But what will become of Marty and his wife … [Read more...]
Lawrence Davis Discusses His PTSD And How It Shaped “The Stalker” In His Novels
Warning: this could have some quasi-spoilers. The Stalker was, to me, a physical embodiment of PTSD. You see, this actually started as a project in therapy, and it’s also the thing that made me pay closer attention to my subconscious. The first variation of the book was a short story about somebody very tired, and beat down, trying to come home but they can’t because of a monster waiting for them at their door. My PTSD, once I was … [Read more...]
Author Mark Anzalone On Why We Enjoy Horror
Why do we enjoy horror? This question has been batted around for quite some time, primarily due to the inhered irony of enjoying things that should, if they were real, terrify us. So, as a newly published author of horror, I thought I’d take my turn at bat. Something I should get right out of the way is that—like most people, I’d wager—I don’t read horror stories because they might frighten me. I read them because they fascinate me. The … [Read more...]
CRUX
In an experiment to discover what secrets are hidden within the infinite vastness of the galaxy, scientists create a machine so powerful that it rips a hole through space and time. But instead of revealing the dark world of their own universe the machine opens a gateway to a universe infinitely more horrifying … and infinitely evil. After seven physicists vanish during a routine test of the highly guarded Hadron Super Collider in Geneva, a series … [Read more...]
Gripping New Military Thriller SWORD OF THE CALIPHATE
What would a mad mullah actually do with a weapon of mass destruction? Simple. He would use it. Derek Martell is in a dead end career, manning a fuel point in Eastern Iraq. It’s a far fall from a life of fortune and glory, but he’s lucky to have any job at all. Until he wakes up after a sand storm, to find Doomsday is at hand. The apocalypse has started, and his invite was late. Teamed up with a rag tag band of other … [Read more...]
Mark Anzalone
Welcome to my Wildblue Press Author Page! My name is Mark Anzalone, and I’m the author of Book One of the Shepherd of Wolves trilogy: The Family Man. I’ve been a huge fan of horror since I was a kid—from books and comics to movies and TV. I’ve been writing and drawing horror from a young age as well. I’ve always had a few notebooks and a sketchbook on me, constantly jotting down story ideas, drawing new monsters, and formulating new RPG … [Read more...]
Clay Martin
Hi, and welcome to my author page. I consider myself primarily a father these days, but I have had a number of strange jobs over the years. I am a retired Green Beret, more specifically an 18F Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant, from 3rd Special Forces Group. Prior to that I was a Reconnaissance Marine and Scout Sniper in the USMC. In my years since retiring from that life, I have been a competitive shooter, contractor, firearms instructor, and … [Read more...]
LAST SON OF THE WAR GOD
In the backcountry of Idaho, a tribe of men are hunting and killing with a dream of returning the world to an earlier time. A time when courage and prowess in the field determined a man’s worth. A time when the strong took what they wanted, and the weak cowered in fear. Mike Bryant has come to the wilderness to die. Tired of the trappings of modern life, his will to live has run out. But when he crosses paths with a group of … [Read more...]
Dom Stasi; Hand Shaking
It was 1990 when I found myself and my twin Beechcraft airplane grounded by a spate of late Spring thunderstorms. As anyone who’s spent the steamier months in south Florida will attest, these monsters roll through here in afternoon waves. Sometimes they come in one behind the other embedded in powerful squall lines, other times they’ll form spontaneously right around you in a process called convection. Either way, they love to eat light … [Read more...]
