Temporary Anne Blog Tour

Oops, I'm a day late with this. So sorry. If you're following along, the next stop of the blog tour was posted yesterday.




THANKS to everyone who's following the Temporary Anne blog tour!  

The story This Is How I... continues on Rusty Carl's blog, The Blutonian Death Egg. Click here to go read it. 

If you didn't already get it, "Temporary Anne" just $0.99 today, so click this link to download this excellent horror story.

Temporary Anne Blog Book Tour: Day Three

WELCOME!

This is DAY THREE of the release tour for my newest book, Temporary Anne.

Temporary Anne is a horror story about a woman so desperate to avoid Hell -- the fate for the evil she's done during her life -- that she makes things infinitely worse after her death.

To celebrate the release, I'm doing a blog tour in which I'm writing a short story, LIVE, with your help!  At each stop, I'll do an installment of the story and you can suggest where it goes next!

Below is PART THREE of the story.

PART ONE appeared on Tina Downey's Life Is Good, PART TWO on Andrew Leon's Strange Pegs, and if you didn't catch either, click here to read PART ONE and HERE to read PART TWO. 

This Is How I... PART THREE: 

"YOU!" she says again, and I see her.

She is a vision -- not least because she is glowing, not least also because if there is anyone as sexy as her, anywhere, in the entire world, then I've never met her.

Technically, I've never met her, either, although this is the third time she has shown up in these... visions? They're not visions anymore, not now that Stephen King's lifeless body is being picked up and flung at her, not now that seven security guards are dead and I can hear the police sirens outside and even... is that a helicopter? Helicopters?

Perhaps I should be leaving, too, but the monsters have never paid any real attention to me, just acting out their horror shows in my mind and then in phantasms before me and now for real, but even the idea that maybe this time I will have more than a box seat at the show is not enough to make my legs move, to tear me away from the podium.

I do crouch down a bit as she -- dressed, for some reason, in a band outfit from my old high school, this time -- runs full speed at the Beast, who meets her with a gallomping, salivating ROAAAAAR!!!!, tentacles whipping around, still in some cases coated in the blood of the security guards, arms ripping out seats, mouths growing extra teeth-- I hadn't known it could do that!, I'm starting to regret ever dreaming this thing up -- as the woman suddenly stops, so suddenly it is as if our rules of inertia do not apply to her, and she takes off the towering, shiny hat that she has on, and points the open end up in the air.

Tentacles grab her, mouths bear down on her, muscular scaled arms throw seats at her, and she pays them no mind as she pulls at the brim of the hat and widens it, stretches it beyond what it could possibly reach, and I watch as one two three chairs disappear into the hat that is suddenly wide enough to take them.

The Beast gives another ROAAAARRR!! but this one seems weaker -- frightened almost, and I see the Drum Major grin and jump at him.  Her hands, one on each side of the hat, pull it even wider, and the tentacles that had been reaching for her are sucked into the hat's empty opening.

The sound went something like this:

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHRKKRKRKRKRKRKRKKRKKRKKKRKRKR

Kind of.

As the hat sucked the Beast into it, and suddenly the Drum Major was crouching on top of her own hat, in the midst of the wreckage of what had been a Nobel Prize ceremony, the hat writhing and struggling and muffled roars coming from it.  It had shrunk back down to regular size, nearly, but was clearly stuffed full of something -- stuffed full of Beast!-- and she let out muffled grunts as she pushed down on it. 

The doors to the auditorium burst open.

"Don't just run! Stand there!" she yelled at me.

I turned and started to run as voices from the exits yelled at us and the sounds of sirens and screams was overwhelming.  Drum Major was just behind me as I got to the edge of the stage; just a few feet past the curtain when I looked back, she had her arms wrapped around the still-struggling hat.

"Do you need help?" I shouted over the din as soldiers -- soldiers!-- poured into the empty, devastated cavernous space.  

"Didn't you hear me?" she yelled back.  "I said stand there!"

Then...

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What happens next? USE THE COMMENTS TO HELP LIZ DECIDE, and watch for the next installment:

The Tour Dates: 

1. Life Is Good: Friday 9/13

2. Strange Pegs: 9/16

TODAY: 3. Laws Of Gravity 9/18

Upcoming:

4. The Blutonian Death Egg 9/20

5. Nigel G. Mitchell Author, Blogger, Geek 9/23

6. Jessica Bell Author/Musician 9/26

7. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan, Speculative Fiction Author 9/30

8.  Jess' Book Blog 10/3

9. Lara Schiffbauer's Motivation For Creation 10/7

10.PTDilloway.com 10/10

The FIRST REVIEWS ARE IN:  "It's fascinating. If you like horror, this is definitely a book worth reading."-- Andrew Leon

"Another chilling tale from the author of The Scariest Thing You Can't Imagine. ...Pagel's style reminds me a lot of Vonnegut's work in that while the narration seems jaunty with its humorous asides and such, there's a lot of hidden depth to that narration."-- PT Dilloway.

If you didn't already get it, "Temporary Anne" just $0.99 today, so click this link to download this excellent horror story.

As an added bonus, for today only I am making my sci-fi/horror classic book ECLIPSE free today!  Click here to download the amazing story of Claudius: he wanted to be the first man to reach the stars-- but it was murder to get there.

Temporary Anne, the Blog Tour

You know Briane Pagel don't you. Don't you.

He's got a new release as well as a blog tour:

SHE'S ALMOST HERE... and I'd advise not being here when she arrives.

My name is Anne. With each day of my life, my actions brought me closer to Hell. Now, with each day of what is left of my existence, I struggle to avoid the fate that was set out for me -- or rather, not just to avoid it, but to master it. 

A contemporary horror classic, "Temporary Anne" presents the terrifying tale of a woman who avoids eternal damnation by sending others to take her place, scrambling to avoid the minions of Mephistopheles while searching for a way to allow her ravaged body to serve her indomitable will. The frightening images -- demons made of ice, babies' souls consumed -- will stick with you for as long as Temporary Anne exists -- which is FOREVER. 

Get it on Amazon for $0.99! And watch for the blog tour where you can win free copies of this book and all my others.

1. Life Is Good: Friday 9/13
2. Strange Pegs: 9/16
3. Laws Of Gravity: 9/18 (That would be here)
4. The Blutonian Death Egg: 9/20
5. Nigel G. Mitchell Author, Blogger, Geek: 9/23
6. Jessica Bell Author/Musician: 9/26
7. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan, Speculative Fiction Author: 9/30
8. Jess' Book Blog: 10/3
9. Lara Schiffbauer's Motivation For Creation: 10/7
10. P. T. Dilloway: 10/10

For this tour, I'll be offering not only giveaways of Temporary Anne and my other books, but I'll be writing a short horror story on the go: I'll begin the story and each host and their readers will get to suggest where the story goes next. It's a blog tour like no other!