tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38214862024-03-12T19:51:30.581-05:00Necrotic TimesHorror/Sci-fi author Ethan A. Cooper's web logEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-28267009152979599512017-03-30T22:43:00.002-05:002017-03-30T22:44:36.165-05:00Scary Clowns. Phidlestix. IT.
Our minds have this fantastic ability to make anything scary when we let it. Personally, I like the thought of something that's intended for laughs having the opposite effect.
So yeah, there are some scary clowns out there, and if I'm going to write a story with a clown in it, it's going to be one of those.
I wrote a short story Phidlestix back in 2001 while I was up at the Cornerstone Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-10249976711039377782016-10-01T08:00:00.000-05:002017-03-28T21:07:41.528-05:00Free Short Horror Story: PhidlestixMy silly little horror short Phidlestix has been revised and updated in honor of my favorite month. I originally wrote this back in 2001 at the Cornerstone Music Festival. It's been available since 2002, but when thinking of what I wanted to write for Halloween this year, I thought about revisiting this story, and then writing a sequel.
I revised the story with the help of some friends and drew Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-33482566958886539932016-09-01T16:59:00.005-05:002016-09-01T17:00:13.354-05:00For Your Consideration: DollSubject: Doll
Author: Miracle Austin
Website: http://www.miracleaustin.com/
I first met Miracle Austin in Tyler, TX during East Texas Book Fest 2015. The first thing that attracted me to her booth was the artwork for her YA novel Doll. It showed a young girl pressing a pin into a doll's head. So yeah...voodoo. I was intrigued, as the artwork clearly stood out among most of the other Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-84767038835589258772016-05-18T02:59:00.002-05:002016-05-18T03:03:32.497-05:00For Your Consideration: Traitor's MasqueSubject: Traitor's Masque, The Andari Chronicles Book 1
Author: Kenley Davidson
Website: http://kenleydavidson.com/
Some of this is in my review on Amazon, but I wanted to say more about it here.
Give Cinderella some spunk, a backbone, and a whole lot of wit, and you’ve got Trystan, the heroine Traitor's Masque, a new incarnation of the rags-to-riches fairy tale.
First, let’s be honest with Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-4551712435974657202016-05-03T13:42:00.004-05:002016-05-03T22:53:17.741-05:00If she can, so can you.If you think you can't write a novel, I know you're wrong, because my daughter did it when she was 9.
If she can, so can you.
National Novel Writing Month has a Young Writers Program. Instead of the 50,000 goal for the month of November, you set a daily goal. We determined that 500 was reasonable for her. She did it for the first time when she was 8 and learned a lot about what Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-20390023900032453322016-04-19T13:08:00.004-05:002016-04-19T13:13:42.364-05:00First time in the author boothLast Saturday (4.16.2016), Lily and I had a booth at the Longview Library's annual Chautauqua Festival 2016. This was something I'd been wanting to do for some time but hadn't quite known how to go about it. I applied last year to exhibit at the east Texas Book Fest 2015, but wasn't accepted. I did go as an attendee (mostly to see my favorite Texas-based author D. Marie Prokop. It was worth it asEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-48236693540333021302015-12-09T14:19:00.000-06:002015-12-09T14:21:53.452-06:00For Your Consideration: The Red KnotSubject: The Red Knot, the final installment of the Days of the Guardian trilogy
Author: D. Marie Prokop
Website: https://daysoftheguardian.wordpress.com/
D. Marie Prokop has released the final book in her Days of the Guardian trilogy. I got to help her out with some beta reading/editing, so I'm certainly not an unbiased third party when it comes to recommending this novel. the novel is suitableEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-13168408264506220782015-10-31T16:20:00.002-05:002016-09-30T12:41:03.902-05:00Short Story: All The Best CandyDear Halloween,
I love you lots. You have All The Best Candy. You really do.
Sincerely,
Ethan A. Cooper
PS: I wrote this for you.Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-35950920625050385002015-03-29T13:33:00.003-05:002015-03-29T14:08:00.904-05:00For Your Consideration: Days of the Guardian TrilogySubject: Days of the Guardian trilogy
Author: D. Marie Prokop
Website: https://daysoftheguardian.wordpress.com/
D. Marie Prokop was in the "Oh, I didn't know you wrote!" category that authors briefly fall into at the moment they reveal their proclivities to you--like it's a secret identity or something. We met her and her husband when we attended the same church group some years ago. As Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-19636114833691663342014-11-07T15:26:00.002-06:002014-11-07T15:31:53.584-06:00BFFs 4EVR: Hubris and procrastinationAfter publishing What Happened On My Space Vacation in January, I got overconfident in my ability to crank out Angel Descending this year.
Hubris I tell you.
Well, hubris and procrastination.
Anyway, I severely underestimated the amount of rewriting I'd have to do in order to get the first DOWNfALL novel into publishable shape. My writing philosophy for the serial, online format was a quick Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-53006473812929324592014-01-30T13:28:00.001-06:002014-02-02T13:17:12.119-06:00Why and How I Wrote About A Vacation In SpaceFor as long as I can remember, but especially when I started to write my own stories, my dad talked about how he had always wanted to write a story about a family taking a vacation in space. It's was a straightforward and simple idea (those are often the best ones). Writers have plenty of ideas they never work on, and this was one of those. So yeah, my dad never got around to writing it, and withEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-89239668516781511522014-01-29T22:13:00.001-06:002014-01-30T12:49:34.297-06:00What Happened On My Space Vacation Is Now Available!The novel is about a teenage boy named Max who is forced to go on a vacation in space with his family (instead of staying at home and doing fun things like making out with his girlfriend). Naturally, not everything goes as planned. It's a quick, exciting read, with plenty of adventure, surprises and suspense.
It's about 280 pages, and has interior illustrations. Seriously, it has really fun Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821486.post-11939908599689904802014-01-29T00:21:00.002-06:002014-01-29T21:23:01.143-06:00This AgainHey, there's no time like the present to relaunch the old web log. Yes, you heard me. Web log. That's a term. The Internet said so. Anybody can have a blog, but it takes a real man/woman to have a web log.
And I do so want to be a real man/woman.Ethanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285890999168830526noreply@blogger.com0