Fake Reviews
Reviews, I often say, are important. I encourage reviews – even bad ones. However…. Yesterday, I happened to be on amazon and noticed a new review for my latest little ghost story book. Two stars and the text ‘Rubbish’. Yes – that was it. I clicked on the reviewers id and discovered that in one day the ‘reviewer’ had reviewed tens of Kindle books in the supernatural category. Several of mine and many of other authors in the genre. There was an intriguing pattern too. Book upon book by me and others all given one or two star reviews with a single comment – Rubbish. However, one author in the genre was the exception. All of his books were 5-star and marked excellent. Some, but not all, were also ‘verified
Read More »The Last Observer Serialized
The Last Observer is being serialized by Weird Darkness. Each episode of Weird Darkness features a chapter of the book read by Darren Marlar starting with Weird Darkness #64. You can catch up and stay on top episode by episode at the Weird Darkness Youtube page. Listen as Stanley find himself the target of a black magic lodge that wants to change reality as we know it….. You can grab the Kindle version here if you don’t want to wait…. This is a well written book that grabs you from the start and doesn’t want to let you go. ~ WitchHazel, The Adventures of WitchHazel The kind of book that really keeps you up late, just trying to finish that proverbial “one more page!” as you fight vainly against the
Read More »Anxiety Attack
Somewhere Another side of me Shakes in fear Shuns the world And company Sometimes This other side Tries to take control Shake, rattle and roll Beating like a drum Heart feels wired Cold, clammy hands Insides all mangled My thoughts tangled A panic attack Drop a tiny pill The world becomes still Who is he? This stalker This shadow part of me? Where did he come from What does he want? Anxious to know Anxiety show And How could this happen to me?
Read More »Audio, Audio
As a writer who publishes his own books, any way to get to an audience and make additional sales is of value. About 6-months ago I thought I would have a shot at audiobooks via ACX – Amazon’s audiobook platform. Today, I sold my 500th audiobook! I am reaching a different audience using the audiobook as well and I do think that is helping book sales generally. I am on for a record year and currently have 4 books in the UK supernatural top 50 including an audio book! The ACX program is a bit rigid but it is quite easy to navigate. Firstly, you sign up for your account and then you identify your books – those you want to create audiobooks with anyway. Then, you look for a
Read More »The Last Observer Revisited
The Last Observer – my foray into the novel or rather novella. A story in which I tried to explore the idea that nothing exists unless it is observed by a sentient consciousness. My hero, Stanley, was a man who read anything and everything in so doing, developed his imaginative faculties to such a degree that he in essence became a magician, able to create reality simply by imagining it although he didn’t know it. He was inadvertently dragged into a plot to reimagine the world by a group of evil magicians and was rescued by the hero – Edward. I re-read it recently and I still think its a quite good and certainly worthy of a read. I have also been working on a follow up on and off
Read More »New Interview
A new interview with Jim Harold for his paranormal podcast is now out….. Find out about my haunted life!
Read More »The Pink Bus And The Blue One Too
A little while ago, I put out a book of short stories called The Pink Bus. I think it is some of my best work to date, I had it nicely edited by a wonderful editor (Alienora Taylor) and on the back of a big hit in Your Haunted Lives (still riding high), I sat back and crossed my fingers. Despite a good give away, the book sank without trace. I was gutted. So, I thought I would try an experiment. We took the content, changed the cover and title and even the author name and re-issued it. The giveaway was better and my unknown pen name sold a bunch of books. It’s not a huge hit but its doing alright. So, what did I learn? I’m not sure. Was
Read More »The War Wolf – Review
It isn’t often that I rave about a book or anything to be honest. Perhaps I need to do it more often? However, I recently took advantage of a Free Kindle offer to download a book called The War Wolf: The Sorrow Song Trilogy Part One (Volume 1) by Peter C. Whitaker. Peter is a fellow Hull man that I somehow met on Facebook in the last year or so who writes too and very well. The book is part one of a trilogy of books called The Sorrow Song Trilogy and all three books cover just a few days and weeks in 1066. I have always enjoyed good historical fiction or perhaps faction especially if the author can really talk the period and Peter can do just that. He
Read More »Seeking Support
Crowd funding is all the rage these days it seems. So why not seek some crowd funding for my activities I thought and the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like a good idea. So here it is… Why not support me and my writing and blogging activities with a small monthly donation to the cause? Just $1 , $5 or $10 a mont is all it takes and you can sign up here. So what do you get for your hard earned cash???? For $1 per month – If you support my activities for $1 per month, I will invite you to my private FB page at The Haunted world of G. Michael Vasey. Here you will get previews, free stories from my books, discussion and
Read More »Exciting News!
Yes, I am excited to announce the audio book version of Your Haunted Lives will shortly be out. I reviewed the sound files this morning submitted by Darren Marlar and it sounds simply awesome thanks to Darren. Your Haunted Lives is now available in Kindle, paperback and audiobook formats and continues to storm the supernatural Amazon charts. It is fast becoming my best selling book of all time and is currently second only to My Haunted Life Too, having been in the top 20 for more than 3-months and in the top 3 much of that time. Thanks to all who have purchased it. The Your Haunted Lives audiobooks is almost 2.5 hours long and is read in masterful fashion by Weird Darkness creator and host – Darren Marlar. The
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