Looking for a Halloween Treat?

It looks like the release date for my new book of dark and disturbing tales will be close to October 31. This one would make a great gift for dark tale lovers. The current working title is "Dark and Disturbing Tales: The Hunter, and 15 more bone chilling short stories", but it's subject to change. We discussed calling them horror stories, but horror didn't quite fit. And many of the stories labeled horror seem different than these tales. But horror definitely enters into them.
All these tales were early morning wake up thoughts. The stories came almost complete, although they required some editing...a lot of editing...okay, some had to be almost completely rewritten so they made sense and had some continuity and felt whole. But then, that's what writing is really about, rewriting.
And even though the title is Dark and Disturbing Tales, they aren't about politics or politicians...well most of them aren't, maybe one is. And it's been rated one of the two most disturbing of the sixteen tales. These tales are not for the young or faint of heart.

Do you enjoy dark and disturbing short stories

If you do, you're in luck. I am putting the finishing touches and preparing a cover for my next YA book. It will include 16 short stories, including; It's Always Better With Roses, Body Grabber, The Dowser, The Hunter, and Bigger.
Disturbing stories that don't require you to leave the lights on when you go to sleep, but when you wake up in the dark, you'll wish you had.
The scheduled release is mid-October, just in time for Halloween.
P.S. It's fiction no animals, plants, or humans were injured during the research or writing.

Bigfoot footprint cast photo, as promised

The cast of the bigfoot footprint from the garden is hardened. It's coming to life right out of my YA fiction book, Revelation.
Here is a photo of it. I will have it on display at my table during the St George Book Festival on October 20 at Barnes and Nobel in St George, and again at the book event on October 25 at the Children's Museum in St George.
Doesn't look that big?
Here's a comparison photo with my foot next to the cast. I wear an 11.5-12.5 depending on type of shoe (really sandal, I don't wear real shoes unless I must, but let's not get too technical)

Now that's a big foot! Not mine, the other one. And yes, I know the grass needs to be mowed. I am working on the second book in my Almost Human trilogy, Retaliation. It is scheduled to come out in Fall 2015, if I can just keep these pests out of the garden. On the upside, whatever left this print seems to get along with my chickens. None of them are missing, and Ala King, the Black Austrolorp appears to have accepted it, she hangs around the area of the footprints and clucks softly.