Fuck Cancer. The Faceless God ebook is Still Being Published on 8/27/2022
Welcome to the first post of 2022! I hope the New Year has been kind and that everyone is staying safe. So, I'm just going to jump straight into what's been going on with me as it's directly affecting my career.
Note: The information in this post was originally published in my Newsletter of the Cursed on 3/31/2022. It’s been edited and revised for this blog.
Welcome to the first post of 2022! I hope the New Year has been kind and that everyone is staying safe. So, I'm just going to jump straight into what's been going on with me as it's directly affecting my career. I found a lump on my breast the same evening I got back from Rose City Comic Con in early September of last year. I was not seen by a doctor until November, but eventually my biopsy came back positive for breast cancer, more tests ensued, and on January 19 I had a lumpectomy. On the positive side, the tumor was small and hadn't spread beyond my breast. But on the negative side, the pathology report and genomic testing showed the cancer was fairly aggressive. To make sure it's gone for good and doesn't come back, I started chemotherapy in March and will be continuing treatment until May, and then undergoing radiation.
Needless to say, this all sucks, but I'm not going to let cancer fuck with the world of the Ellderet. More than anything, I want to put The Faceless God in your hands, my dear readers. The Faceless God ebook is still on schedule to be published on 8/27/2022 through Amazon. The paperback will follow shortly after, as it takes a bit more work for me to assemble (formatting, interior artwork, new chapter headers, etc). In the meantime, you can download a sneak peek over on BookFunnel, including the prologue and the first two chapters. Please note the artwork on the sneak peek cover is not the final cover art for TFG.
The next couple of months are going to be intense, but to quote a lyric from one of my favorite songs by Nine Inch Nails, "nothing can stop me now." You can now pre-order The Faceless God ebook on Amazon, and know that your pre-order helps put my stories in front of other readers.
Thank you for coming along with me on this crazy ride that is a writer’s life!!
Teipanoc (laters),
EMM
Tales for the Camp Fire 1-Year Anniversary: Our Wildfire Relief Charity Anthology of Short Horror Stories
Happy Saturday! I'm excited about today as it marks the 1-year anniversary of Tales for the Camp Fire!! Within one day of the ebook going live, the charity anthology I published reached #3 in Amazon's Best Sellers in Horror Anthologies, and the 100 print books I had taken to Bay Area Book Festival sold out!
Happy Saturday! I'm excited about today as it marks the 1-year anniversary of Tales for the Camp Fire!! Within one day of the ebook going live, the charity anthology I published reached #3 in Amazon's Best Sellers in Horror Anthologies, and the 100 print books I had taken to Bay Area Book Festival sold out!
During that launch weekend at the book festival, many readers shared their personal stories of how they or someone they knew had been devastated by the wildfire that tore through Paradise, CA in late 2018. The loss was heartbreaking. By the end of 2019, we raised $2,200 in profit and donated it to North Valley Community Foundation’s wildfire relief fund. All of this was possible because of the readers, authors, organizers, media outlets, and local bookstores who supported the charity anthology in one way or another. I'm very grateful and proud of this book because I and a lot of other people donated our time and labor to give back to the community.
Many thanks to Jonathan Maberry for blurbing the book (eekk! mind blown!!), Petersen Games for donating the awesome cover artwork, Deirdre Spencer for designing the cover, to the estate of Clark Ashton Smith for graciously donating a story, to Bram Stoker Award nominated author Loren Rhoads for stepping up as editor, to L.S. Johnson and Qamber Designs for taking on the ebook, to all the contributing authors who donated their stories, to author Ben Monroe for coming up with the idea of putting together a charity anthology, and to director and author Death's Parade Film Fest and Chad Schimke for going above and beyond to spread the word.
I feel very grateful to have been a part of this ❤ If you would like to help out and get a great collection of horror stories, you can find the anthology in print and ebook on Amazon. All profits from the sale of this anthology will be donated to Camp Fire relief and recovery efforts administered by the North Valley Community Foundation.
All the best,
EMM
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Originally posted on my Instagram @tomesandcoffee 5/2/2020. Minor edits were made to the text for the post. Additional photos were added.
A Bookish Playlist for To Nurture & Kill
It’s day 24 of “sheltering in place” in San Francisco as the State attempts to help #flattenthecurve. Had Covid-19 not struck, I would be traveling down to Anaheim, CA for a weekend of vending and geeking out at WonderCon …
Gritty heroes, blood-soaked promises, and family bonds put to the test.
It’s day 24 of “sheltering in place” in San Francisco as the State attempts to help #flattenthecurve. Had Covid-19 not struck, I would be traveling down to Anaheim, CA for a weekend of vending and geeking out at WonderCon. The cancelation of WonderCon and subsequent conventions means lost income for me, but everyone’s health and safety comes first. More than anything, I want to see the faces of the readers I have met at conventions again, which means doing my part by staying home.
As a indie author, all I can offer is some form of entertainment while I keep working toward completing The Faceless God. I’ve gone deeper and deeper into the world with each draft and subsequent revision. It’s like the David Lynch quote I included in yesterday’s Twin Peaks 30th anniversary post: “I think that’s one of the great things about a continuing story: that you can go in, and go deeper and deeper and deeper. You begin to feel the mystery, and things start coming.”
While I continue diving further into the world of the Ellderet, I wanted to share a playlist I made back in 2017 for To Nurture & Kill. These are the songs that “made it” to the final draft of the story, the ones that when I listen to them I see myself in my mind’s eye writing the scenes. Most of the songs are instrumental, although a few have lyrics.
Let me know if you’ve read To Nurture & Kill or if any of the songs strike a chord!
We’re living in strange times. Let’s all be kind to each other, and don’t be racist.
See you soon,
EMM