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As you may (or may not) know, Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain Vol. 1 owes a lot to the instigations of Mike Arnzen and his Twisted Prompts for Sicko Writers. For years I’ve been stealing his short, dark story prompts from the Gorelets blog and collecting them in a Word file that I revisit on occasion when I’m short …

Here’s my final drawing for the chapter “Appendectomy” planned for use in Twisted Vol. 2. Can’t wait to show my doctor. I think she’ll approve.

I had a few stories left over from Twisted Vol. 1 that weren’t quite ready for prime time, and I decided to save them for Vol. 2, but last week I had my first new idea for Vol. 2 that I felt like I really needed to work on. Here’s the sketch: It’s what actually happens after you go in for surgery and …

In case you didn’t know about it, Neil Gaiman had an idea a couple of years ago that he called “All Hallow’s Read” where, instead of (or in addition to, it doesn’t really matter) giving candy at Halloween, you give a scary book instead. You can gift it, you can leave it somewhere, you can give it to a library. …

I’ve updated the one-sheet I put together for Twisted, and the hi-res pdf version of it is available here. I’ve included quotes from Kirkus Reviews and the Midwest Book Review along with the entire Publishers Weekly review. The QR code takes you to the Hairy Eyeballs website. I pulled the colors directly from the cover image to tie it all …

After a little (O.K. a lot of) rearranging and reuploading and relinking, I finally have the media kit finished for Twisted Vol. 1. I had a bit of a kit available on the publisher site, but I hadn’t uploaded anything yet on the book site so I wanted to get moving on it. That, and the original media kit was mostly geared …

After they reviewed the Twisted book, Kirkus contacted me and asked if I would do an interview for them. Of course I said I would! Here’s a link to the page: http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/fiction/indie-spotlight-nora-thompsons-twisted/ Nora Thompson’s Twisted features 28 brief chapters of repulsive, funny flash-fiction. In our review, we noted that the debut author “shines at using multiple perspectives to breathe new …

The August edition of Kirkus Reviews is out, and their review of Twisted is in it! And you’ll only have to flip to page 1,716 to read it. Yeah. That would be the last page. Hey, it’s Kirkus and they like the book. It doesn’t really matter where they put it.

I wrote a post about a month ago in response to a few comments I received in a couple of book reviews I got on the Twisted book, and I just reread yesterday what I had written in the post. After a little time away, sometimes you see things you missed that maybe bring up points you hadn’t originally planned …

With three positive reviews from major reviewers to boast, I decided to redesign the Twisted covers to include exerpts. While I was at it, I made a few more changes of things that were bugging me. Here’s what I did: I was afraid the image was printing a little on the cyan side, so I adjusted that From the beginning I wanted the …

In case you didn’t believe me… a couple certificates to prove it!