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Tag: New Release

  • Get in the Mood for Halloween! #MFRWHooks #MFRWAuthor

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    A woman, encased in glass, lives in the center of town, yet everyone pretends not to see. A phone call from Mom turns horrifyingly urgent. A sports car, a family inheritance bound up in memories. A graveyard of nameless souls. Haunting. This collection of short stories will send a chill, linger in memory, leave you…

  • Gathering Eerie Bits

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    Frances Brown
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    As many of you know, a badly broken right arm has waylaid my intention to complete and release the next Haunted Voices novel, TimePeace, at the end of September. Voice to text is not an option, since I use all Mac computers. DragonSpeak, the best dictation software program for authors, doesn’t play well with Mac.…

  • A Sneak Peek at ELECTRICITY – #MFRWHooks

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    My new release, Electricity, is the latest installment in my Haunted Voices novels. This one was especially exciting to write, since I work where it is set: the location used to house a State Mental Asylum. There’s still one building that’s never been renovated, and it is a spooky place indeed.   Here’s a sneak…

  • The Final Countdown

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    Frances Brown
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    In three short days, my next Haunted Voices novel will go live on Amazon. I can’t believe this all happened so fast. After a loooong dry spell in my writing life, The Great Muse finally smiled on me again. Of course, it helped that I took a week’s vacation from my day job with the…

  • Gargoyles!

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    Frances Brown
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    Welcome Chris Redding to my blog with her new release, DESTINY OF A GARGOYLE, Book One of the Series, “When Gargoyles Love.” Donal Foley was born in a time when magic ruled the Earth. Gargoyles protected fairies from goblins. His family was a group of elite gargoyles who were assigned to protect a specific fairy.…

  • The Mystery of Van Gogh’s Death

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    Frances Brown
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    It has been accepted knowledge for over 100 years that Dutch Post-Impressionist artist, Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890. His tortured life, during which he exhibited more than one obsession and some very unusual, self-injurious habits (like eating paint) which would seemingly substantiate this theory. But details are sketchy, and in 2014, more than one…