Wait up for Santa while you read one of these blood-tingling books by authors who know how to chill and thrill. My own supernatural chiller, ‘A House in the Woods,’ is among this great collection of free reads you can download from December 16 – January 6. Why not make Christmas a scream this year?

Just click HERE to start downloading, and prepare not to sleep for awhile! Authors include: Steve Hudgins, Jade Madden, Ben Farthing, Faith Gardner, Levi Fuller and many more!

(All books require joining the author’s email list.)

The story continues and the mystery deepens with the first 8 chapters of ‘I, Warlock’ on Kindle Vella. I’m writing and publishing new chapters every Wednesday and Saturday, and having a rollicking good time doing it!

Please check it out at the Kindle Vella store. The first three chapters are free for any Vella story. Also, PLEASE RATE IT, and folllow it, too. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to keep writing …

This was set for a January 1 release, but Santa had other ideas! Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers is now available on Amazon in eBook and paperback editions. This 3-book collection presents the Marshall James Thrillers in a single volume, with three times the thrills and a story arc that takes us from Marshall’s shaky beginnings to a final, heart-rending conclusion.

About ‘Triple Threat: 3 Marshall James Thrillers’

I’ll be starting 2023 with a bang, releasing the three books in the Marshall James Thrillers series as a single volume January 1 – and at just $6.99 for the eBook! Here’s the cover reveal. Look for a release-day update when we welcome in the New Year.

I’ll be publishing the sequel, A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due, in 2023. In the meantime, the original is now available to all current and new subscribers. (Current subscribers can look for it in the next email).

Just click HERE to subscribe and download from BookFunnel.

About ‘A House in the Woods’

Laurel and Jeremy Calloway have longed for a new life away from the chaos and confusion of New York City. Driving along a country road in New Jersey with a young real estate agent in the back seat, they almost miss it: a small house in the woods for sale. Laurel immediately thinks this could be the house for them, the house of their dreams, where a simpler life awaits. Laurel can finish her debut novel. Jeremy can look for a job in Philadelphia just an hour away. Stopping to take a look at the property, they meet the house’s caretaker, Eileen, and within a few weeks they find themselves the very lucky owners of their ideal home. But who are the mysterious old couple who’d put the house up for sale, having moved out months ago? Is Eileen more than a friendly neighbor? Who are the townspeople they meet, who all seem aware of the young couple now living in the house in the woods? And is it the house of their dreams, or of their nightmares?

I noticed a lot of other authors using Linktree to consolidate their various links, and now … here I am. You can use the QR code, too. My major links are there (websites, Amazon, Audible, etc). Pretty cool.

2022 is ending with a bang for me! Not only has my latest book, ‘Final Audition: A Marshall James Thriller,’ hit #1 on Amazon’s LGBTQ thriller new releases, but the first book in the series, ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot,’ climbed to #26 in the best sellers for that category. I’d planned on this being the last book in the series, but fan reaction and sales tells me Marshall may not be ready for retirement quite yet.

And now … a Goodreads giveaway! I’ve been treated well by the Goodreads community and always do a giveaway with a new book. Final Audition is no exception. The giveaway will run from December 1, ending on December 25, just in time for a Christmas freebie!

I wondered who was buying all those books! How exciting is this? I’m ending the year at #1.

I’m releasing two chapters a week, every Wednesday and Saturday. You can now read Chapter 3 of my Kindle Vella serial, ‘I, Warlock.’ Be sure to follow the story and give it a ‘thumbs up’ when you’ve read the chapters. Every little like counts!

For a taste, here’s how Julius Tide reacts the first time he meets Charlotte Blythe, whose destiny will quickly become his own:

“With barely a few feet separating us, I was face to face with the most stunning woman I had ever seen. Everything else we said that afternoon, up to and including, “Thank you,” for her purchase, as I gave her change with a trembling hand, is lost to me. It’s as if I said nothing more at all, consumed by the effort it took not to stare at her.

Charlotte Blythe was twenty-three years old at the time. Had she lived to be a hundred, she would have remained as beautiful. Her hair was a buttery blonde, tumbling in waves over her shoulders. Her skin was so perfect it seemed manufactured from another world, a world where there were no flaws or imperfections. Her eyes were the green of precious emeralds. And her smile, which she offered often and without prompting, was the source of all joy.”

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In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover and ruination of Twitter, and his decision to allow the free flow of misinformation and hate speech, millions of users are looking for alternatives. The one I’ve settled on is called Mastodon. Not only does it have a cute cartoon Mastodon logo, it’s a good opportunity to start over. Gone are the thousands of random Twitter follows and followers. I’m finding like-minded people, politically and creatively, to add to a much smaller and engaged list.

It’s not for everyone, and there are other options out there, but I’m liking it. It’s not a single, for-profit company. It’s open-sourced, and once you create an account you will need to choose from a dizzying array of servers, all of which are connected to Mastodon. I’m on the “mastodon.world” server. Don’t be overly confused by that, all the users are connected, so you don’t need to be on someone else’s server to follow or be followed by them. And a great selling point is that most of the servers, hosted by individuals, have strong-to-strict content guidelines to prevent the sort of pollution swallowing Twitter.

It’s a learning curve, but it’s a nice sense of renewal, and a great escape from the Twitterverse that is sure to only get darker, uglier, and more toxic.

A big leap of faith! I’ve started my first Kindle Vella serial. The platform is an Amazon Kindle offering that allows readers to enjoy one chapter at a time of what could be a novel, a novella, or a short story. I’ve been especially creative this year, and I’ve wanted to branch out. This is a good start, and an excellent challenge: I must write at least one chapter a week for this. I’m aiming to get two out each week, same day for consistency and growing some fans, but for now it’s one chapter a week.

Please check it out at the Kindle Vella store. The first three chapters will be free for any Vella story. Also, PLEASE RATE IT, and folllow it, too. If 2023 is anything like this year has been, I’m entering the most productive time of my life. Come with me! You’ll also notice that it’s my first project under the M.A. McNease name. It’s me. It’s not a pen name. It’s just part of my renewal. I like it, and I hope readers do, too.