Today, January 7th, 2022, is my tenth anniversary of the release of The Hauntings of Cold Creek Hollow. Since then I have published thirty-five full-length novels in the Haunted Series, four novellas, six in the spin-off series Cid Garrett P.I., and one stand-alone book, Angelo, in the series. Also, I have written Knight of Pages, five mystery novels in the Cin Fin-Lathen series, and published my short story Evil. If you’re doing the math, that’s fifty-three manuscripts that I have published in ten years. I’m not patting myself on the back but reminding myself of my last ten years as an author.
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Haunted Series September Update!
I know it’s way past time to update all of you on the Haunted Series. We have been working very hard on book #31 Smoke and Mirrors. It will go to the beta reader this weekend. So if everything runs smoothly, it will be available Tuesday the 8th of September. Although, as I have done in the past, if I can get it to you sooner, I will notify you on alexieaaron.com, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Spring book is coming...
Sorry, it’s been so long since I last posted, but I was writing on book 30 and, whoa, did that pull me in. Myth and Malice went to the Red Pen today. She’s reading it and banned me from staring at her. What to do, what do to? I thought maybe I’d get all of you caught up.
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Catching Up With Alexie Aaron
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Dancing! The above screen grab is from Amazon Friday, February 21st, 2020. Yesterday 02202020 they posted that book # 5 of the Cid Garrett P.I. series had sold 215 books in one day. So my number five book is number five overall in the ghost genre. Even if it’s temporary, I’m very happy. It’s been a tough winter.
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Alexie Aaron 2020 Update
Hello!
Here it is the first Friday in January, and I’m just about recovered from the holidays. The cookie jars are empty, the tree needs to be taken down, and it’s drizzling outside. It’s time to update you.
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Coming Soon...
I wanted to alert you readers that the 28th book of The Haunted Series, Sticks and Stones, is going to be released Friday the 20th of December. It could show up on Amazon on Thursday, and if it does, I’ll notify you here and on Facebook. I know that many of you will be busy with the holidays, but I wanted you to have something to read on those downtimes. Times when you really don’t want to shift snow, vacuum up the continuous cookie crumbs, or in some cases, slather on sunscreen (you know who you are).
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What’s in a name?
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Writing is more than running with the muse. The muse is a showoff and runs easily while I clumsily try to maintain pace. What trips me up is naming characters. It can be an arduous task. To be less confusing, I try not to use a name more than once. Yes, I have slipped up with having a Mike and a Michael in the series and will admit to giving Whitney and Ted the same surname of Martin (oops).
In my defense, I have over 530 characters in the Haunted Series alone. So when a new character - even one that has the reading time of less than a minute – appears, I’m stopped. My fingers cease to fly over the keys. Maybe I should have said pound the keys. I’m hardly graceful. Sorry, digression is also a problem.
I feel I must take a few things into account before bestowing a name. Where do they live? What is their nationality? How old are they? And does their name mean something?
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Mr. Plow
It’s February 27th, 2019 when I’m writing this. I’m inside recouping from the recent blizzard. In the last few days, I’ve moved just under a foot of snow with the help of the Webguy and the Red Pen. The object of our endeavor was to get as much off the drive before the Beta Reader packed it down with his tires leaving for work. We’ve had 91.2 inches of snow this winter season, and today it’s looking like we will be getting six more. It’s beautiful when it’s falling. On each side of the house, it swirls in snow eddies. On the southside, where the large trees protect us, it falls straight down. On the northside, it slams our house and my office window with such attitude that I suspect it’s somehow related to me.
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