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I mentioned here that a few other horror authors and I were going to write a novel-length book, containing three novellas, one written by each of us, but we weren’t sure what the theme was going to be.  So, now that I have finished and sent out my short story collection, I figured it was time to update you on what is going on with this particular project.

The theme of the book will be ‘a doctor makes a house call’ and each novella will be loosely based on this theme.  Basically this means that each novella will contain this idea in the first chapter, but from there each of us takes the story in our own direction.

I mention this now because I have begun the writing for my part of the book.  Though, I’m not going to give you any clues yet with what my novella contains, I will say that the writing is going well…and fast.  At this rate I should be done with my novella in 8 days (a novella is a minimum of 25K words) – so you do the math where I’m at right now.  But, even though the writing is coming fast and furious right now, I doubt I’ll be able to keep up this pace or have the time to do so, to complete it in only 8 days.  But, hey, never say never…right!?

I’ll let you know more about this project as updates become available.

John Raab, the Editor at Suspense Magazine.

We are very happy that Ty contacted us. He is the type of author that we love and want to see become a national bestseller. I think the public needs to keep an eye out for Ty, his energy and style are great. We need more emerging authors like him.

Thanks for the kind words, John.  I look forward to working with you, as well.

I mentioned in a few previous posts that I have been working on a collection of my short stories.  As of a few days ago the writing/editing of these stories was completed.  The tentative title for this book is For After Midnite and will contain 13 tales and totals a little over 67K words.  The manuscript has been sent out for consideration to be published.  I will, of course, update you as word comes in.

I originally ran this giveaway back in December 08.  Though, with the growing popularity of the book I thought it would be a cool idea to do it again.  So here we go…

How would you like some FREE bookmarks of Night School?  (pictured below)

All you have to do is email me (ty_schwamberger@yahoo.com) and let me know your name and address.  I will then mail you 5 bookmarks.  In the subject line of your email, please insert ‘Free Bookmarks.’

There is one catch…

When you receive them, you keep one of them but have to distribute the other 4 to help me promote Night School.  This can be done by placing them in similar books you get from the library, slip them in a book at the bookstore, mail with your monthly bills, leave one with your tip while at a restaurant, etc.

Sound good?  Yeah?!  Start sending me those emails, today!

I apologize on the frequency of my posts as of late.  I’m currently working on a number of items; arranging book signings, writing short stories for my ‘short story collection’, discussing a ‘theme’ for a book with two other authors, a possible television appearance, reading books and writing reviews for Withersin Magazine and some other odds and ends. 

– Book Signings – I should have some updated information from the publisher in the next week to update you all on.  The book signing originally scheduled at Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio) has been moved to October 24th.

– Short Story Collection – As you might remember from a back post, I was originally going to write a number of shorts to amount to 50K words.  Although, the more I thought about it the more I thought it would be nice for the book to be a bit longer than 200 pages (25K words in a manuscript is about 100 pages in a type-setted book).  So, I decided to write a few additional shorts to beef up the book’s length.  Right now I am at about 60K words and have decided to write two more (one will actually be co-wrote with my sister, Sue) and in the end will total about 70K or a little more.

– Book Collaboration – Still hashing out some ideas with the two other authors.  I plan to devote all my writing time to this, once I am done writing the shorts for the collection.

– Television Appearance – Can’t say much about this now.  If everything works out, I’ll give you the details at that time.

– Book Reviews – Submitted another review to Withersin Mag a few days ago and should be published on their site soon – I’ll let you know once available.  Currently reading House Infernal by Edward Lee.