Red Rose Publishing Has Contracted CODE 30!

I'm thrilled to say that I just signed a contract with Red Rose Publishing to publish CODE 30, my novella of supernatural horror.

Blurb:

Hi. My name is Alexis Hembree, and I’m a cop. My partner and I are good at our jobs. Except we don’t tend to work what others would call a "normal" beat. For some reason we draw evil to us like flies to sugar.

Sometimes there are things in this world we can’t explain or anticipate. But when they cross that line between their existence and ours, when they show up, we have to deal with them as best we can.

Some cops fight criminals. We fight things that never should have existed.

303 Lexington St.
It was a crack house. Except, in this case, drug dealers went in but they didn’t come out. Not alive, anyway, but in body bags. What’s more, if everyone who went inside ended up being shredded to death, who was doing the killing?

Georgie Porgie
The killer targeted women. Young, old, prostitutes, business women, it didn’t matter. One moment they would be walking down the sidewalk in the middle of town, and the next what was left of their bodies would be found in a nearby alleyway. Devoured. That’s why I had to be the next one to walk the streets. To draw out whoever was doing this. To be his next victim.

The Goodbye
He murdered young girls by crucifying them with icepicks. He was slick, elusive, and heading for our city. My partner and I were damned and determined this murderer would get no further. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep my head on the job. Neither could I ignore the weird-ass dreams I was having about this deviate. This case was becoming more personal, more foreboding, and more dangerous with each passing day. And there was no damn way I could avoid what I dreamed would be the final outcome.

TV Review - Paranormal State (A&E)

Paranormal State is A&E's answer to the SciFi Channel's Ghost Hunters. But that's where all similarities end.

The blurb on their website states:
PARANORMAL STATE is a half-hour series chronicling the extraordinary life of Ryan Buell and other members of the Penn State University Club The Paranormal Research Society (PRS) as they seek to find the truth behind terrifying real life mysteries, hauntings and ghosts.

As the blurb says, the people doing the research are young adults, most of them university students. And they don't investigate as much to "debunk" a sighting, but rather to prove a haunting.

Like GH, they try to capture manifestations on camera. They use similar equipment, and often call in "specialists" like psychics to help them. But I've also noticed a slant geared toward exorcism and demonic possession, not to mention the occult. Plus they sometimes hold seances.

Is it good? In my opinion, it has its moments, and it has its dull stretches, too.

You can access their website here.