Today, my bizarro flash fiction collection, THEY MIGHT BE DEMONS, is free on Amazon. The giveaway lasts all week, so make sure to share the earth-shattering news to all your friends and enemies. If you like pages with comprehensible words scattered across them, then this book is probably not for you. However, if you’re after an antidote to that “ice tea” you just drank, then I would definitely advise getting yourself a copy ASAP.
Amy Rims was kind enough to give me a spot today on her blog to promote the Dark and Bookish Tour and the release of my new book, They Might Be Demons. In this post I teach valuable life lessons on how to properly scare someone. And before you ask, yes, cups of spiders are involved.
My second book, a collection of bizarro flash fiction, is now available on Amazon in paperback from Dark Moon Books. Kindle version is also on its way, so stay tuned. In the mean time . . . GET SOME.
Sorry for ruining the big surprise. But yeah, you’re pretty much boned.
Have fun!
PRAISE FOR MAX BOOTH III
“Max Booth III is a star on the rise!”
–Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker award-winning author of FLESH EATERS
“Unsettling, disorienting, and horrific.”
–Richard Thomas, author of STARING INTO THE ABYSS
“Max Booth III writes with a level of skill that is rare in this day and age. His words rip the emotions screaming for your soul.”
–Eric S Brown, author of BIGFOOT WAR
“Max Booth III has a fresh and wild voice, and he shakes life into a genre that can be stagnant and stale. Watch him. He’s coming for your ass.”
–T. Fox Dunham, author of THE STREET MARTYR
“If Max Booth III has a single voice, it is schizophrenic and his madness is our reward.”
–Jay Wilburn, author of TIME EATERS
“Max Booth III writes like the love child of Stephen King and Terry Pratchett-a love child who may have played with Albert Fish growing up.”
–Araminta Star Matthews, author of BLIND HUNGER
“One of the best storytellers I have ever read.”
–Lori Michelle, author of DUAL HARVEST
“I look forward to following this author as he progresses through his career.”
–Mark C. Scioneaux, co-editor of HORROR FOR GOOD
“Mr. Booth is the real deal.”
–Stan Swanson, co-author of WRITE OF THE LIVING DEAD
Two years ago, I lived in Indiana. Two years ago, I was unpublished. Two years ago, I was nothing.
Today, I live in Texas. Today, I have over 20 short stories published. I have one book already out with Numen Books (True Stories Told by a Liar), and another scheduled to be released this June with Dark Moon Books (They Might Be Demons).
Yesterday, I had a third book set to be published in 2013, with Rainstorm Press.
Today, I’ve requested from the publisher to drop my contract, and the publisher obliged.
Today, I’ve realized I don’t have to settle for anybody who will publish me. Today, I know that my words deserve better.
Today, I am re-reading my novel, Black Cadillacs, and researching more publishers.
Today I am understanding that this novel is special, that it should be read by the world. That I won’t settle for anybody.
Today, I am editing stories for a respected quarterly horror magazine. Today, I am putting together the final touches of a new online/print magazine that is going to blow people away, a magazine that I’ve co-founded with a really awesome editor, writer and friend. A magazine that 200 people are interested in already, and we haven’t even given them the website yet.
Today, I am welcoming new members to the Horror Writers Association. Today, I am helping put together a new, professional horror poetry newsletter for the HWA. Today, I am outlining what I want to discuss as a goddamn panelist at the World Horror Convention.
Today, I am marketing and editing books that I am publishing. That people have submitted to the company I own, fully trusting in my abilities. I will not let them down. Their words will be read, just as my words will be read. The standard I give to my writers is the standard I should expect from my future publisher.
Today, I am signing a check that will serve as a book advance for a future author of my company. An author with writing credits on HBO’s The Wire. I am sending this to him. Me. And he is giving us a book. From The fucking Wire. This is actually happening. And it is amazing.
Today, I am writing. I am editing. I am reading. I am marketing. I am socializing. I am taking care of children. I am supporting a woman I love.
And it is only 12:30 in the afternoon.
Today I am living in the Age of Opportunity. This is an age we all live in. If you aren’t taking advantage of it, if you aren’t living it to the fullest extent that you mentally and physically can, then I want you to smack yourself in the face.
This is the time.
Right now.