WordCrafter’s “Midnight Garden: Where Dark Tales Grow” Book Blog Tour Day 7

Hello everyone! We are on Day 7 of the WordCrafter Midnight Garden Book Blog Tour. The tour is scheduled with guest posts and readings from contributing authors at every stop. There’s a fun giveaway. If you missed any of the stops on the tour, you can go back to any day on the schedule. Let’s meet the authors and their stories.

About Midnight Garden: Where Dark Tales Grow

17 authors bring you 21 magnificent dark tales. Stories of magic, monsters and mayhem. Tales of murder and madness which will make your skin crawl. These are the tales that explore your darkest Midnight Garden… if you dare.

Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/MidnightGardenAnthology

Giveaway

Three lucky winners will receive a digital copy of Midnight Garden in a random drawing following the tour. All you have to do to enter is follow the tour and leave a comment at each stop that you visit.

If you miss a stop, you can go back and visit through the links in the schedule below. (Links won’t work until the stop goes live).

Schedule

Monday – October 7 – M.J. Mallon: Interview & Reading (The Seagull Man) – Writing to be Read

Tuesday – October 8 – Danaeka Scrimshaw: Guest Post (“Fae Game”) & Denise Aparo: Reading “Jack Moon & the Vanishing Book” – Roberta Writes

Wednesday – October 9 – Joseph Carabis: Reading (“The Last Drop”) & Guest Post (“Striders”) – Paul Martz

Thursday – October 10 – Paul Martz: Reading & Guest Post (“The Blackest Ink”) – Writing to be Read

Friday – October 11 – Molly Ertel: Inspiration Reading (“Antipenultimate”) & Abe Margel: Guest Post (My Balance) – Kyrosmagica

Saturday – October 12 – Paul Kane: Guest Post (“Drip Feed”) & Joseph Carrabis: Guest Post (Grande Ture) – Undawnted

Sunday – October 13 – DL Mullan: Guest Post (Kurst) & Ell Rodman: Guest Post (The Drummer) – BookPlaces

Monday – October 14 – Joseph Carrabis: Reading (The Exchange) & Guest Post (The Tomb) – Writing to be Read

Reading from “Kurst”, by DL Mullan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M2AosM8lVc

 

About DL Mullan

A writer at heart, Undawnted’s own creative spark, DL Mullan, began writing short stories and poetry before adolescence. Over the years, Ms. Mullan has showcased her literary talents by self-publishing several collections of her poetry. She also writes novels, designs apparel, and creates digital art. Ms. Mullan‘s creative writing is available in digital and print collections, from academia to commercial anthologies. As an independent publisher, she produces her own book cover designs as well as maintains her own websites. She is an award-winning digital artist and poet.

Currently, she has embarked on writing her multi-book Legacy Universe, Supernatural Superhero Series.

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Inspiration for “The Drummer”, by Ell Rodman

The Drummer came from a mash of memories and nightmares.

I grew up in a secluded area. Not the middle of nowhere, but not close enough to walk to what few friends I had. My dad used to call me ‘the hermit’. My parents worked long hours, so even if I had kids to spend time with transportation would have been a challenge. One of my best childhood memories was a rare exception to that, when I was invited to a birthday party. We set up tents in the backyard, ate microwave hot dogs, and played flashlight tag for hours. In the daylight the woods that surrounded this house were exciting. They were something to explore. This was true at night, too, but they took on an extra quality. There was something eerie there. Technically, we had nothing to fear. Bears, wolves or other predators were driven out of the area by humans decades before I was born. Yet we still sat right on the edge of fear without the ability to identify why.

I hid in a rotting treehouse. I got tagged ‘it’ after noticing hundreds of termites crawling over my shoes and sprinting out screaming. It was more fun than any of my own birthdays. Despite that, I was still the odd one out. Everyone had their friends; I really only knew the kid whose party it was. Most of my time was spent on the edge of the social circle. The setting of The Drummer comes from that experience. You’re having fun with classmates, you’re included, you’re happy to be there, but you’re still oddly alone.

Also as a kid, my bedroom window faced the woods. There was a house nearby with orange porchlights that were barely visible through trees and brush. The type that fixed into the outer wall contained in glass. In that dim, faraway light, I often saw a man holding a lamp that peered into the woods. When the wind blew, it looked like he faced my window beckoning me outside. I remember staying home from school with a fever of something like 103. I slept all day eating nothing but Ritz Bitz peanut butter crackers, then couldn’t get a wink of sleep that night. Whenever I turned towards the window and looked at that house, my fever vision made the man look much larger, and the branches looked like they were coming out of him.

Years later, I remembered the birthday party and wondered what would happen if we did meet something in the woods. Something like my fever vision. That’s where The Drummer comes from.

About Ell Rodman

Ell Rodman Author Photo

Ell Rodman is a D.C. area writer of horror, Sci-fi, and poetry as seen in Andromeda Magazine. Ell is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, a watcher of bad 80s movies, and a fosterer of dogs.

Thanks for visiting today on Day 7 of Midnight Garden Book Blog Tour. Don’t forget to like or leave a comment. The authors will appreciate it!