More Reviews (AKA a reason to procrastinate)

I've stumbled across a few more reviews to pass along (while I should be writing or editing or doing something likewise productive).

Fatally-Yours also did a send up of Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, and the reviewer marched along with Mr. Tomlinson's perspective for the most part.

"The inspiration is no doubt there, but the originality and deftness of each author’s story is jaw-dropping..."

Natalie L. Sin receives high praise in this one. Kudos.

Monstrous has been garnering a few reviews as well, including one from Mark Sieber at The Horror Drive-In :

"I had never heard of Aaron A. Polson [who has?] before I picked up Monstrous, but I was most impressed with his entry, "A Plague from the Mud". It captures the personality of a small town in the grip of mounting terror quite well."

The aforementioned Fatally-Yours also has a take on the book. Give a look, see, huh?

[comments in brackets are from your humble blogger]

Slave to the Grind

Ah. Monday morning after spring break. It's nice to be back at work? (that's a rhetorical question, of course)

Brenton Tomlinson has posted a rather nice review of Tainted on his blog. If you haven't read the book yet, we've lowered the price (nudge, nudge). Tainted can be purchased at Amazon.com or from the Strange bookstore.

I'd be remiss not to mention Jamie Eyberg's "Nine" up now at Fifty-Two Stitches. Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

As for my writing, I hammered out a flash story last night tentatively titled "Inked". Yep, it's about a tattoo...on a prosthetic leg...that bleeds. I'll give it a few edits and then send it out to submission land.

I'm also working on query letters for both The House Eater(s) and Rock Gods and Scary Monsters this week. Stay tuned for a related contest and free book giveaway later in the week. (I have spare copies of The Black Garden and Monstrous I'm dying to give away.)

In the meantime, I've realized that I have zero red dirt photos from Oklahoma. How could I be so stupid...so here's a rather mean looking cactus close-up from the botanical gardens in OKC:

(ouch)

Selling a Few Copies for the Red Cross

If you read Felicity Dowker's recent post, or have been paying attention to world news, you know about the horrible fires in Austrailia.

I have a few extra copies of Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural lying around, and I'm going to unload them, donating all but the shipping cost to The Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

If you want a copy, and I have five, order below. Ed and I are considering all profits for this month's edition of Sand go to the Red Cross as well.

God Speed.

Update: only a couple of copies left. ;)

Choose Destination

U.S. Shipping $10.00Worldwide $15.00

Eyes Without a Face

I've resurrected my For the Love of Classic Monsters blog with a film recommendation: Eyes Without a Face

This scene is not for the faint of heart.



I've also added a free excerpt from Tainted. Check the link on the sidebar.

Enjoy!

We are All Winners, aren't We?

I'd like to think so. Thanks to an overage on the first shipment of Tainted (a nice little unexpected bonus--one wonders how printers make money...), I've decided to drop not one but three copies in the mail. Drumroll please...

Catherine Gardner
Barry Napier
and Jamie Eyberg

your names have been drawn from the "mountain" of entries.

Drop me a line at aaron_polson(at)hotmail.com with your addy, and I'll drop a little something Tainted in the mail.

Thanks to all who played. I like games. Stick around, there may be more...

Number 5 Cake: I'm No Expert...plus...Win a Free Book

Everybody likes free books, right? See the bottom of this post for how to win.

Thanks to Carrie Harris's quest to become the Batman eyebrows expert, I checked my webmaster stats. So...people are coming to me for advice on how to make a number 5 cake. I did post pictures of the cake I made for Owen's fifth birthday, along with simple directions, but really...

Here's the book contest. Strange Publications has released Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, and I want to give some lucky soul a free copy.

The catch: write at least one sentence featuring one of the words below.

morbid, obstinate, emaciated, grotesque, pestilence, devastate, abyss

(These are vocabulary words for my high school classes; I always present vocabulary "in context" and have the students figure out the meaning.)

Respond to this post with your sentence(s), and I will place your name in a drawing (one time for each sentence). Deadline is this Sunday (10/19/08) at midnight (Central Standard Time - US). I will announce the winner on Monday (10/20/08).

Goofy contest, sure, but I thought it would be a fun way to combine my two passions.

Tainted Book Trailer

Simple, but gives me the creeps. But I've read every story in Tainted already, and I know what darkness lurks behind those titles.

The Wasteland (Summer Break)

Well, the honeymoon is over. The first couple of days of summer break are always fun, especially with the boys (Owen - 4, Max - 2), but the glow doesn't last long. After a morning of biting, pinching, squeezing, and good old fashioned meanness, I'm wondering when school starts again.

This past week was pretty quiet in my writing life: just one rejection/semi rewrite request and plenty of waiting. I finished the first draft of one short fantasy/magical realism piece, "Tigers in the Common Ground" and my imagination spawned a couple of ideas for flash.

If anyone (anybody out there?) reads this, especially writers, I'm looking for some quaility submissions to my Tainted project. C'mon, you know you want to write a juicy supernatural story, right?

Ah...