Friday, November 1, 2024

Friday Book Blogger Special: A Murky Reckoning

 

Genre:

Dark Fantasy

Buy Link:

Publication Date:

October 14, 2024

Ebook Price:

$0.99

Paperback Price:

$5.99

Book Blurb:

Whether she’s crawling across a sweltering bayou or swimming languidly through a swamp, the bog hag watches and waits.

Join sixteen AuthorTubers as they explore the allure and mystery of the Bog Hag, turning her from a villain to a gal with a social calendar, a vendetta, or even a need to be the best she can be.

Any and all proceeds from the sales of this anthology go to Quill Cottage Wildlife, a 501C3 nonprofit.

Story Blurb

Author: C. L. Hart

Garwick Greedgill is a fisherman desperate to become a legend in the realm where he dwells. When he pulls a horrific creature up from the polluted sea, he sacrifices it to the legendary sorceress who is said to live at the center of the bog near which he dwells.

Yadira of the Roots is said to be the daughter of Nyarlathotep, the Wish-Bringer From Beyond the Stars. Will Garwick’s actions earn favor from the storied Bog Hag, or does another fate await him?


The First Line/Book Beginnings



In his wildest nightmares, the fisherman could never have imagined the horror he dragged aboard his boat from the Gloomwater Sea.


The Friday 56

Gleamscale handed Garwick a glorious grimoire. Despite its captivating rose ebony cover, the book was unsettling. It smelled like dead flowers in a mausoleum.  

About the Author

C. L. Hart, the owner and sole employee of Naughty Netherworld Press and Ornery Owl Ventures, is spoken of in hushed tones. She is an editor who writes or a writer who edits. She is also described as The Mad Scribe of the Northeastern Colorado Plains, The Terrible Old Woman, and The Author That Should Not Be. She is a member of ACES Editing Society, the Denver Horror Collective, First Coast Romance Writers, the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Passionate Ink (writing as Lil DeVille), Regency Romance Writers, and Rocky Mountain Romance Writers.

Ms. Hart shares a home in a remote rural town of 134 souls with her adult son and three cats. Her sense of fashion is best described as Early Twenty-First Century Unmade Bed. This disabled former nurse can usually be found arguing with herself about subplots or rehabilitating eldritch horrors.

When not penning sanity-destroying works of dystopian fiction, Lovecraftian fantasy, or old-school horror with the occasional sweet romance thrown in to upset the cosmic apple cart, Ms. Hart enjoys creating baked goods she hopes will be considered palatable by someone besides eldritch horrors.

Book Blogger Hop


1st-7th - Have you ever participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November, and do you have any favorite books that were born from this writing challenge? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

To the best of my sometimes questionable recollection ability, I believe 2008 was the first year I attempted NaNoHellNo. Not to put too fine a point on it, but aside from poetry, everything I churned out during the gods-forsaken month of No-No-No-vember was irredeemable shite. Years after the fact, I tried giving this verbal vomit a second chance but ended up tossing it aside only slightly less quickly than I DNFed both Twilight and 50 Shades of Nope. 

Once I became a NaNo Rebel, things went much better. I create one horrible, sanity-scarring document into which I dump everything I write in November. Voila, 50 thousand words, and I can actually work with some of them. It's a win!

I am not getting into all the controversy surrounding NaNoHellNo. This was my name for it long before the current scuttlebutt. I'm still counting words in November. I am embroiled in the Dabble 60-Day Novel Challenge and Novel 90 from AutoCrit. There are a lot of challenges going on in November. Pick your poison.


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