Spooky Sunday Top Five

Bitten 

Bitten is a Canadian television show about a family of werewolves based off of novels by Kelley Armstrong. It stars Laura Vandervoot who you may remember as Supergirl from her Smallville days. The show is about a family of werewolves living in Canada. Lots of eye candy and all of the paranormal romance tropes I know you just love.

Vampire Girl by Karpov Kinkade 

In order to save her mother, a young woman must marry one of the seven princes of hell. Written by a husband and wife team underneath a pen name, the series is extremely addictive and you’ll find yourself wanting to read the next one right away.

Crimson Peak  film

A young American heiress finds herself swept off by a charming English gentleman who seems to have it all including dark secrets. Bonus it stars Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska.

 

The Girls by Emma Cline

A look inside the Charles Manson cult from the perspective of a fictionalized teenage girl who survives her involvement with the group. It’s extremely dark but shows how manipulative men can be with young girls.

99 Problems-Hugo 

Jay-z is already pretty bad ass to begin with but this southern gothic style weirdly works too.

Book Covers

Along with being a writer, I’m also a bit addicted to graphic design which is where a lot of this project came from. I would see a picture for a cover and think of ten different stories for it. So I decided to incorporate those pictures into my story as per the suggestions of Derek Murphy from one of his videos on self-publishing.

So to help pay for the writing habit that I love, since I also work part time and a student, I thought I would offer my design services as well. I’m responsible for all of the graphics you see on my website as well as the editing of them. stellastokerauthor@yahoo.com is where I can be contacted at.

Success is not instantaneous

It is week one of my publishing experiment. I came up with the idea of a weekly, serialized novel so that I would always have content to offer new readers. The first volume of Barton Hollow went out on Friday, May 5th, 2017. The second volume is being written and goes out on Friday, May 12th, 2017. I put my book up for free and have gotten a few downloads but not nearly as many as I thought.
And, when I was worrying about this today, I stopped and reminded myself: this is the first week.

We hear so often of things going viral now that people want to believe that success is the same way. But success comes from hard work and dedication. That requires putting in the time, effort, and work to see results.

This is only the beginning. It took two weeks to get the first draft written, the website up, and the word out. This is the fifth day that the book has been released. Things are still new, just coming up. I’ve got a long way to go. The only question is how far am I willing to for this thing to work?

If you quite before you even start, you’ll never get a chance to see.

Keep writing and don’t forget to stay spooky.

-Stella Stoker

P.S.

Pick up the first volume of Barton Hollow free today. https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Hollow-Serial-ebook/dp/B071KVH652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494441724&sr=8-1&keywords=barton+hollow+stella+stoker

Release day!

Barton Hollow officially comes out today! Be sure to grab your copy so you can prepare for next weeks volume. One visit, and you’ll be simply dying to come back. https://www.amazon.com/Barton-Hollow-Serial-ebook/dp/B071KVH652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494002196&sr=8-1&keywords=Barton+Hollow+Stella+Stoker