This Month's Free Photos - Roses

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Oddly enough, I have a few new free photos to post even though it hasn't been a month since my last posting. Think of it as an early June entry.

Knock-out rose

In the back of the house, I have a few pink roses.

Knock-out rose, pink

This flower came up on its own...

Alien monster?

No aliens here (and that's the story I'm sticking to), it's just the inner part of this dandelion (below) that sprouted along the side of the house.

My single dandelion, growing beside the house...

Don't count on early editions of free photos too often. I barely get them posted at all!

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Coming Soon: Human 76

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Coming soon! Human 76

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You may have noticed the hints on this blog that Human 76 is coming. It's also likely you have no idea what I'm talking about. It's a post-apocalyptic anthology I was invited to participate in by Lisa Shambrook. I haven't seen a cover yet, but I do have the story line-up (with my contribution conveniently in bold letters):

1. Leaving the Nest by Lisa Shambrook
2. Follow the Leader by M. S. Manz
3. Where the Wild Things Are by Nick Johns
4. Glint by Michael Wombat
5. Behind These Walls by Alex Brightsmith
6. Hiero Worship by Jeffrey Hollar
7. Human X by Michelle Fox
8. The Hunted by Steven Paul Watson
9. What You Put In by Julia Rios
10. Underneath by Denise Callaway
11. The Song of Aiden by K. R. Smith
12. Sand by Michael Wombat
13. The Oasis by Rebecca Fyfe
14. Sheshwatay by K. J. Collard
15. The Ballad of Ash and Hum by Alison Deluca
16. We Make The Future by (unknown at this time)

Sorry I don't have links for all of the authors. Or even all of the authors. I'll add them in as I get them.

Scene from Human 76
featuring Bekah Shambrook
as Ghabrie

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Coming soon! Human 76

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...with my story, The Sword of Hexworthy Manor!

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News - In Creeps The Night Audiobook

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Coming soon! Human 76

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I was browsing through Amazon at the books in which I have stories and noticed the "cover" for In Creeps the Night didn't look quite right. The image seemed to be truncated and I couldn't figure out why. Then I realized it was the cover image of an audiobook! I didn't even know one was being developed.

The audio book cover for
In Creeps the Night

Now I can hear someone read my story, Little Monsters, back to me! There's ever a sample on the page you can listen to. One warning, however. The audio file for my Android phone is rather large at about 178 MB. Might have to bump up the limit on my data plan if I download a lot away from a wi-fi connection.

When you play the audio (which seems to require headphones/earbuds), the words are highlighted as the narrator speaks. This could be useful in teaching reading. And the inflection isn't always the same as when I read it, but most of the time it's pretty close. Everyone has a different little voice in their head. I have several, but don't tell anyone.

Here's a screen shot of the audiobook page on Amazon (US). You can see the button for the sample audio playback.

They don't list the authors on here, however. Unfortunately, Amazon has a limit on the number of authors it lists even on their book web pages, but I am in the book!

Partial list of authors from a screen shot of the table of contents
showing my name included

Now I have something new to play with—and it includes one of my stories!

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This Month's Free Photos - Earth and Sky

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It started out as This Week's Free Photos. Now, it's This Month's Free Photos. Perhaps I should rename these posts This Year's Free Photos. I tend to be a bit irregular in putting up new images.

While waiting for the Human 76 post-apocalyptic anthology to come out (it happens to contain a story I wrote - The Song of Aiden), I thought I'd post a couple of free images. They're just phone-camera pics, so they aren't great, but it's what I've got...

I've always been intrigued by the colors of the sky when the sun is about to go down and blue hovers near indigo, fading to black. The air has to be clear to get this effect. I noticed it a few evenings ago and took a shot with my phone.

Image of Maryland sky

Earlier that day I met this snake (a garter snake) as I got off the train on the way home. There is a lot of open area around the make-shift station I frequent, so finding wildlife there isn't surprising.

Image of Garter Snake

Check back the next time the Earth is in the same position around the Sun. I may have another picture posted!

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Oh, Dear... There's Even A Video

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I have a story coming out soon, so I believe, in a post-apocalyptic anthology. I think it is to be titled Human 76. While there have been a few pictures available on Twitter (hence the image on my blog header), I hadn't had any news about it for a while. So, I did a little Google search and found this video. The video has a blurb: "Human 76 - a post-apocalyptic anthology coming soon, featuring the talents of fourteen of the finest Indie writers in the world."

Fourteen of the finest indie writers in the world? It seems I've come up a bit in stature since, well, yesterday. Or else there are fifteen writers for the anthology.

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