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Dark Angel Christmas, a 7500-word YA holiday thriller, is available free Nov. 29 and 30 2022 and will be priced 99 cents for some time thereafter. Order here!



Synopsis and Warnings

It’s a 10-minute walk to the town square for a Christmas concert, until a mysterious white truck turns up.

In seconds, following a detour to shake her stalker, Amity Nichols is in a test of endurance and a game of survival that are one and the same.

Does the mysterious driver know about the dark secret she’s harboring? Or does he want something worse for her than silence?

As darkness falls, Amity will have to face a challenge of stealth and patience until decisions on life or death can’t wait any longer.

Warning: Contains mature themes and intense situations.

Dark Angel Christmas is Sidney Williams, author of The Gift and New Year's Evil, writing in a slightly darker vein as Michael August.

A nice review of Fool's Run as a Wednesday Reads feature on YouTube from E.G. Stone.

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I finished a short story this week. I've been working mostly on Long Waltz, the sequel to Fool's Run, but I had a burst of creative energy spurred by a spurt of reading short stories.

It's nice when things come together. As in many cases, the story, or its essence anyway, had been on my mind a while.

It's a subtle and tight 1100 words and called "Strange We Should Meet Here."

I submitted to a huge market. I'll move on from there. Submission takes a while.

I got a fabulous new T-shirt from Fright Rags, beautiful rendering of The Bride.


Based on friends' reactions, it's slimming too.

I had a lot of fun doing this Author Spotlight Interview for the Dark Between Pages YouTube channel. It was fun to talk about Fool's Run and More.

Check it out here.

Thanks to all who entered the giveaway for Disciples of the Serpent.

Signed copies shipped yesterday and are headed toward the three winners, interestingly one East Coast, one West Coast and one Midwest.

That's a nice distribution, taking the adventures of Special Detective Aileen O’Donnell and the O.C.L.T. coast to coast.

I just discovered the other day that Ali Larter was the artist's model for my third novel from Pinnacle, Blood Hunter.

Just a bit of trivia, but it's kind of fun to discover that factoid.

The character in the book most-alined with the figure on the cover is a bit older, but so it goes.

It's a post on ye olde other blog, but I jotted down a few thoughts about how my story in the magazine Dark Dossier, #56, came to be.

Get the mag here.

I'm really pleased with audiobook version of my novel, Fool's Run

It's read by Josh Brogadir who has lent his voice to many great titles including some by the great Charles L. Grant.

He provides a great tone for my first person narrator Si Reardon, a former police detective tasked with the dirtiest of jobs in contemporary New Orleans.

I know many publishers don't put authors and narrators in contact, but Crossroad Press does, and it was great fun working with Josh on Louisiana pronunciations, and we even discovered a few details I tweaked on the manuscript.


Check the title out on Audible here, and definitely give it a listen if you have Audible credits to use.

It's a great time to think of ghostly gothic and paranormal romance. Get my long fiction "Strake Hall" and 10 other great tales from other authors in this collection from Camden Park Press.

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Love Among the Thorns: an anthology of Gothic and Paranormal romance