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The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight - Book Tour and Giveaway

7/17/2020

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The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight
by Rebecca Rowland
Genre: Psychological Horror, Transgressive Dark Fiction, Short Stories 

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Three adolescent bullies discover that the vicious crime for which they were never charged will haunt them in unimaginably horrific ways; a dominatrix and a bondage fetishist befriend one another as one’s preoccupation grows to consume his life. A man persuades his wife to start a family, but her reluctant pregnancy comes with a dreadful side effect. A substitute teacher’s curiosity about a veteran teacher’s methodology provides her with a lesson she won’t soon forget. An affluent, xenophobic lawyer callously kills two immigrants with her car with seeming impunity; a childless couple plays a sadistic game with a neglected juvenile each Halloween. An abusive father, a dating site predator, a neglected concierge, and an obsessed co-worker: they are all among the residents of Rebecca Rowland’s universe, and they dwell in the everyday realm of crime and punishment tempered with fixation and madness. There are no vampires, zombies, or magical beings here; no, what lurk in this world are even more terrifying. Once you meet them, you will think twice before turning your back on that seemingly innocuous neighbor or coming to the aid of the helpless damsel in the dark parking lot. These monsters don’t lurk under your bed or in the shadows: they are the people you see every day at work, in the supermarket, and in broad daylight. They are the horrors that hide in plain sight, and they will unsettle you more than any supernatural being ever could.


Trigger Warning:
Contains graphic violence (though not continually) including accidental death, murder, and suicide; sexual content, and occasional graphic language. Sexual assault is implied but not described in a graphic nature. No animals are harmed. 


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​Excerpt from “Bent” (second story, The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, Rebecca Rowland)


I. Jesse
Confucius said, “if you choose a career that you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” I didn’t become a nurse because I like to help people. I didn’t become a nurse because I have an affinity for keeping cool in hectic situations or because I have a preference for soft-soled shoes with solid instep support. I became a nurse because it seemed like the most obvious transition after practically consuming anatomy books throughout my adolescence. To say that I was fixated would be an understatement. There were times when I wanted to peel the images from the glossy pages, drape them over my forearms like perfectly formed crepes, and carry them daintily to the solace of my bedroom where I could consume them still warm from the pan.
No, I didn’t enjoy anatomy book drawings like every other adolescent boy “enjoys” them—as if that isn’t the euphemism of the year—I mean, their ultimate purpose was by-proxy masturbation material of course, but not in the way you think. You see, I didn’t use the illustrations to view naked bodies. I used them to investigate. To formulate. To plan.
Sure, maybe it all stems from that somewhat traumatic incident when I was about eight and the babysitter was curled up on the couch, watching The Exorcist on HBO. I needed to pee, so I crawled out of my bed and crept down the hall in my Ninja Turtle footie pajamas and did my business. For whatever reason, I chose not to return straight to bed; instead, I padded further down the hall and tip-toed into the shag-rugged living room, pitch dark save for the strobing alien glow of the television. It was just my good fortune that the scene that was playing on the screen was the one where Ellen Burstyn is trapped in her daughter’s bedroom, furniture sliding along the floors and blocking the exits, while Linda Blair hacks away at her hoo-ha with the business end of a crucifix. I froze, completely transfixed by what was going on. And then Linda’s head turned in a way I had never seen a head turn. It was as if all of the joints and cartilage and muscle and bone in her body had melted. In that moment, I realized: there was nothing keeping a human body from becoming a life-sized Stretch Armstrong.
The funny thing is, the creepy back-bending spider walk scene wasn’t reintroduced by William Friedkin until the movie was rereleased in 2000. I can’t fathom what kind of effect that scene would’ve had on my sexual identity.
After that night, I became obsessed. I needed to know every detail of the human skeletal and muscular system. I dumped all of my GI Joes into a big pile on my bedroom floor and spent hours trying to bend them into yoga poses even the Kama Sutra would frown upon. Zarana and Zanzibar were my favorites, and looking back now, I can see why: unlike most of the hero Joes, those villains were half-naked, clothed in what I, a now rational and somewhat worldly adult, can only describe as “daddy bondage wear.” Zanzibar, with his swarthy eye patch, midlife crisis ponytail, and brown and silver codpiece, sported a ripped orange t-shirt like a bizarre fetish club stripper. Zarana, the decidedly more butch of the two, wore ripped jeans, a pink halter, and elbow-length leather gloves. The red knee pads draped over the tops of her boots are a detail crystalized in my memory, one that immediately came to mind when Samantha, my rich, blonde, dumb-as-rocks girlfriend in high school, decided to deliver a special present for my sixteenth birthday but insisted on kneeling on the throw pillows from her parents’ Sunpan Modern Bugatti grain leather sofa while doing it.
I spent hours, more likely months, of my tween years trying to bend Zanzibar and Zarana and their merry band of Tom Savini Sex-Machine-costume inspired action figures into human pretzels. After my father took me kite flying on Wells Beach one summer, I swiped the spool of string and repurposed it as fixing rope, manipulating tiny Joe bodies into contortionist tableaus. After weeks of careful, systematic stretching, I managed to turn Zanzibar’s head completely around until he was a fortune teller in Dante’s Inferno, forever doomed to look only behind himself and tickle his silver skull pendant with the tip of his hair. Unfortunately for Zarana, though, I became too impatient, and frustrated after weeks of trying to make her elbows entwine behind her back, she broke in two, her torso spilling a dried-out black rubber band and her splayed legs held together only by a tiny metal hook.
Twenty-five years later, I still have her legs. Sometimes I think about attaching an ornament hook to them and hanging them somewhere out of sight on the town’s Christmas tree, but that might give the police a clue to my identity, and it’s best not to be reckless after what I’ve done lately.


II. Rebekah
My name means “tied up” in Hebrew. I shit you not. When I was a kid, a bunch of us looked up our names in my mom’s old baby book shoved way in the back of the old, musty bookcase. Apparently, it had been a real party game in the late 1970s, deciding what to name your little bundle of post-Roe v. Wade joy. When we cracked open the spine, a few dog-eared pages pulled us right to our brood’s namesakes. My older brother, Matthew? His name means “Gift of God.” My sister Abigail? “Gives joy.” And my cousin Adam, his name translates into “Son of the red earth,” whatever the fuck that means. Rebekah? “Bound.” Restrained. Confined.
The irony kills me.
I didn’t set out to become a dominatrix. I mean, I know everyone in the sex trade says that, unless they’re lying and/or coked up so high they’d say just about anything to keep the camera rolling. When you’re sitting at that worn wooden desk in third grade, tracing the scratches and graffiti with your finger, all the while cursing the son of a bitch whose etchings cause your pencil to make holes in your papers because the surface below isn’t perfectly flat anymore, you don’t daydream about one day, maybe someday, wearing a latex cat suit and cracking a whip against some thirty-something-year-old district attorney whose suit jacket shoulder smells a little like sour milk and Fruity Pebbles. You don’t go shoe shopping with Mom the summer before you begin junior high and imagine the sales clerk licking the toe of your brown Candies t-strap loafer. You don’t fantasize about hog-tying your senior prom date and stuffing him in the trunk of his dad’s Dodge Aries while you stab your undercooked chicken cordon blue and listen to your best friend whine about her stiletto heels totally killing her feet.
I mean, maybe you do think about all of those things. But you don’t make it a career choice. When Mrs. Zahn, my high school guidance counselor, called me into her office in October of my senior year to have “the talk”—you know, since I hadn’t expressed any interest in applying to college, entering the military, or even pursuing a dead-end career as a Citgo convenience store attendant or IHOP waitress—I had nothing to offer her, not even a half-assed line of bullshit about wanting to become a kindergarten teacher or a famous fashion designer. I simply stared at her and waited out the five minutes of silence that hung between us until the bell rang for next period.
I loafed around community college for a few years, even honed a trade working for an engraver part-time to pay my rent. The place was called “Stanislau’s Personalized Gifts,” and Stan, the mild-mannered owner with the heavy Polish accent, was patient and taught me first how to engrave metal plates using a machine. After a few months, I was using the hand stencils and detailing calligraphy like an ancient stenographer on papyrus. I even tried my hand at stone etching a few times and seriously considered going into the tombstone design business. I still might. It’s an art, transcribing someone’s last identity onto a marble slab. I dabbled in wood carving a bit, too, and was even hired to create a set of “special edition” paddles for Pi Beta Phi’s Rush Week; the sorority liked my work so much that they let me keep one of them afterwards. I still personalize paddles for wedding shower gifts every now and then. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.


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Rebecca Rowland is the transgressive dark fiction author of the short story collection The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, co-author of the novel Pieces, and curator of the horror anthologies Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, and Madness; Shadowy Natures, and the upcoming The Half That You See and Unburied. Her writing has appeared in venues such as Coffin Bell, Waxing & Waning, and the
WiHM online collections The Ones You Don’t Bring Home to Mama and Final Girls with 20/20 Vision and has been anthologized in collections by Red Room Press, Transmundane Press, Forty-Two Books, Emerald Bay Books, Twisted Wing Productions, Thurston Howl Publications, J. Ellington Ashton Press, and Dark Ink. To surreptitiously stalk her, visit RowlandBooks.com.


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Play Like a (Final) Girl: Women Who Write Horror
by Rebecca Rowland



I have trouble looking at you the same way. That is what the gentlemanly and sincere co-worker said to me after reading a few of my short stories. He may have been blushing a little. I don’t know: as a painfully introverted soul myself, I could feel my own cheeks redden and I had to look away. He didn’t mean the comment in a misogynistic or patronizing way, and I truly believe he would have said the same thing to a male colleague, but it made me wonder: is this why women writers are sometimes stigmatized in dark fiction writing? All that sugar and spice can get very messy when it mixes with blood and pulp; is writing horror—gasp--unladylike?
Before you scoot closer to the fainting couch, readers of the fellow double-X chromosome, let’s get real. Men have been the primary authors of scary stories since The Ancient Greek Hesiod’s rendition of Kronos gobbling up his offspring. Truth be told, men have been the primary authors of every genre, at least for text accepted as canon. Mary Shelley may have wiped the floor with her competition that stormy night in Lake Geneva, but it was decades before readers accepted that she, and not her poet husband, was the author of Frankenstein. More recently, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, Octavia Butler, and Joyce Carol Oates have made significant slashes in the genre’s glass ceiling. So why is it that all but one of the initial-named writers who submitted stories to horror anthologies I edited women? I myself am guilty of the trend. When I presented my first story under my own name for publication, I listed myself as R.J., not Rebecca. You may say that’s self-hatred, my own gender bias worming its way into a self-defeating prophesy, but I say it’s realism. Half of me was afraid that male readers would not trust my storytelling; the other half was afraid of how people might judge me for my content.
As an editor, I’ve fielded stories from men. I’ve fielded stories from women. I’ve fielded stories from non-binary writers. I can tell you that when it comes to creepiness and gore, we gals hold our own, and it’s not all gothic romance, either. There’s some of that, sure, but women are emerging as powerhouses of folk horror, dark sci-fi, splatterpunk, and psychological thrillers as well. Alma Katsu’s novel The Hunger and Julia Ducournau’s film Raw are stomach-churning funfests, and the feminist vampire creep flick A Girl Walks Home at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour and not-for-arachnophobics novel Silk by Caitlin Kiernan will keep you on guard long after the story has finished.
I changed my submission name back to Rebecca after a publisher accepted the query for my first short story collection, but even then, I had my doubts. Would readers trust that I could play like the boys? And furthermore, what would my day job colleagues think of me if they read the content? The turning point came when I was halfway through writing “Bent,” a tale of a rigger, a man who achieves sexual pleasure through tying his partners up, who becomes consumed by his obsession. In the middle of doing research about the stages of body decomposition, I texted my publisher. I can never show this story to anyone, I wrote. You can’t worry about what other people are going to think, he replied. I trusted him, and it became the best reviewed piece in the collection.
As far as those people who will have trouble looking at me the same way after they read my fiction? Now-a-days, I take it as a compliment, and I encourage other women to do the same. It’s a formidable thing, to be able to manufacture terror with just your mind. When poet Audre Lorde warned, “Women are powerful and dangerous,” I don’t know if she was thinking specifically of other women who write, but I can only imagine what she’d say about women who write horror. We are powerful and dangerous, and that’s ladylike in the best way possible.


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110 Comments
Bernie Wallace
7/17/2020 05:45:24 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 07:54:45 am

Hello, Bernie!

In total, I'd say about a year and a half. What's nice about writing a story collection—rather than a novel—is that you can write pieces of it here and there. Working on a novel requires a consistent time commitment. I was able to write the pieces in Horrors while working on other things, so that was nice!

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Beyond Comps
7/17/2020 06:05:44 am

Great cover!

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 07:58:41 am

Thank you so much! I am really fortunate to have been published by a company that allows a lot of input from their authors on cover design. I knew I wanted something that seemed kind of innocuous at first but upon closer inspection, was really quite nefarious. The publisher works with a designer who is amazing, and she was able to flush that out almost immediately.

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Soozle
7/17/2020 06:12:01 am

The cover drew me in and made me want to know more! Where did you get your inspiration for the story?

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 08:06:00 am

Thank you for saying that, Soozie! Most of the stories popped up from small things here and there. For instance, a local Catholic elementary school was advertising for their event for prospective students, and the story "Open House" kind of sprung off of that. My closest friend was raising 3-year old twins, and exhausted, he kept repeating to me, "Don't have children!" From there, the story "The Munchies" was born. Every once in a while, I'll see something and write it down. Months later, I'll look at the note and it will develop into something more. I wish I could say that these snippets turn into happy, heart-warming stories, but 99% of the time, they are dark or creepy. I don't know why: I like to think I am a happy person! :)

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Shirley Ann Speakman
7/17/2020 08:29:02 am

The book sounds really good and I like the cover too.

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 09:38:19 am

Thank you, Shirley! :)

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James Robert
7/17/2020 09:18:47 am

Your book sounds like a great read and thank you for sharing it with us.

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 09:38:46 am

Thank you for saying that! :)

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Rita Wray
7/17/2020 09:51:05 am

I liked the excerpt, sounds good.

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 03:05:35 pm

Hi, Rita! Thank you for saying that! :)

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Debbie P
7/17/2020 11:05:14 am

This sounds like a great book.

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RebeccaRowland
7/17/2020 03:06:24 pm

Thank you, Debbie!

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Wendy Jensen
7/17/2020 12:21:51 pm

Great book cover.

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Jennylyn Gross
7/17/2020 12:29:17 pm

love the cover

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Sara Zielinski
7/17/2020 12:45:47 pm

This book has an awesome cover

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jan
7/17/2020 02:59:17 pm

a very reflective cover

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Rebecca Rowland
7/17/2020 03:09:58 pm

Thank you for all of the positive feedback on the cover! 😀 I will let the designer know: her name is Alicia and she produces anti-bullying children’s books too: Www.zombiesquirts.com

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wendy hutton
7/17/2020 03:08:00 pm

this sounds like an exciting book

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Amy F
7/17/2020 03:21:29 pm

Sounds like a really interesting story!

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Jim Thompson
7/17/2020 03:28:54 pm

I’ve loved this book. The stories really had me creeped out. Makes you wonder what all the strangers you meet do in the privacy of their own home.

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Calvin
7/17/2020 03:29:55 pm

Sounds like a lot went into this one, cool combo of genres, packed with nice themes.

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Victoria Scott
7/17/2020 03:33:18 pm

Looks really good! Thank you for sharing!

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Sherry
7/17/2020 03:58:52 pm

I really like the excerpt and think the book sounds good.

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Victoria Alexander
7/17/2020 05:07:00 pm

Thanks for sharing :)

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Elaine
7/17/2020 07:01:08 pm

This sounds interesting.

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Kelly D
7/17/2020 07:39:04 pm

I like the cover, it looks like a good mystery.

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Susan Smith
7/17/2020 08:14:14 pm

Sounds like a great book. I like the cover.

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Terri Quick
7/17/2020 09:07:11 pm

Sounds interesting

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Del
7/18/2020 01:08:11 am

The cover looks great.

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Clem
7/18/2020 01:24:59 am

Interesting cover.

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Sarah L
7/18/2020 03:11:38 am

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Michele Soyer
7/18/2020 06:02:56 am

The title really intrigues me..... what is really in plain sight.. yes I want to read this book.. thank you and best of luck.....

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Rebecca Rowland
7/18/2020 08:13:08 am

Thank you, everyone, for so many positive and encouraging comments! I hope you give the collection a look and that it lives up to expectations. I’m sincerely grateful. 🙂

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Thomas Gibson
7/18/2020 11:35:54 am

The cover for The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight looks amazing.

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Barrie
7/18/2020 02:11:07 pm

I love the blurb about the stories. What is your favorite kind of writing?

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Rebecca Rowland
7/21/2020 05:04:47 pm

Hi, Barrie!
I have to say, I am drawn to write dark fiction. I read a range of things, but my favorite genre is psychological horror, so that may be why. I'm a huge fan of the original Twilight Zone movies, and I think that end twist is a trope in my own stories.

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Marcy Meyer
7/18/2020 02:15:39 pm

I like the cover. Looks good. Thanks for sharing.

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bn100
7/18/2020 03:19:38 pm

nice excerpt

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LYNN CLAYTON
7/18/2020 08:28:11 pm

OH NICE COVER LOOKS LIKE A GREAT READ

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Stephanie Liske
7/18/2020 09:10:40 pm

I like the cover.

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Judy Thomas
7/19/2020 05:29:47 am

It sounds like a scary read.

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Alaskancrab
7/19/2020 07:08:54 am


Although it is a little scary, it will be a pleasure to read.

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Robert Young
7/19/2020 07:17:21 am

Congratulations

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Julie Murphy
7/19/2020 08:23:49 am

The cover fits the title perfectly.

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Robert Fantom
7/19/2020 08:55:51 am

I like the cover. It has a very nice photo

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Cathy French
7/19/2020 08:56:55 am

I don't see the genre, Psychological Horror often but its one of my favorites. Definitely looking forward to these reads

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Rebecca Rowland
7/21/2020 05:07:50 pm

Psychological horror is one of my favorites, too. This collection is mostly that: realistic horror rather than supernatural/monster horror. Some of the characters are a bit unstable, some are terrible people who may or may not get their just rewards. My goal was to make people unsettled rather than truly scared, although I don't think I'd want to run into any of these characters in a dark alley. :)

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Cara
7/19/2020 09:27:15 am

Congrats

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Serge B
7/19/2020 09:30:17 am

Nice cover--looked very serene at first!!!

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Ginger Hafer
7/19/2020 11:29:03 am

I like the cover. It has both innocence and a dark side. The story sounds like a great read.

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shannon zeidan
7/19/2020 11:54:16 am

Thank you for posting about this one! It sounds fabulous.

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molli taylor
7/19/2020 12:37:37 pm

looks like a great read!

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Lydia Goodman
7/19/2020 01:14:53 pm

Love the cover, it fits the book well. The body is in plain sight and I almost missed it at first.

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Shana Lenoir
7/19/2020 01:41:03 pm

Nice

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Sandy Klocinski
7/19/2020 01:56:14 pm

Awesome cover! I love creepy stories. I want to read this book

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avm
7/19/2020 02:19:41 pm

super spiffy

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Nickie
7/19/2020 02:44:22 pm

Great cover and the excerpt sounds good

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Lisa
7/19/2020 03:43:27 pm

Sounds really great, love the cover too.

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Chrystal D
7/19/2020 05:37:25 pm

This sounds like a REALLY good book! I like the cover too, it fits with the description!

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Robert Ron
7/19/2020 10:15:01 pm

Cool! It has been a long time since I have read a horror story.

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Karin
7/20/2020 06:37:44 am

Intriguing cover

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Barbara Montag
7/20/2020 07:17:12 am

I love the title subject and cover - definitely a must read!
Thank you for sharing the review.

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Cynthia C
7/20/2020 08:54:04 am

Thank you for sharing the excerpt. It sounds interesting and exciting.

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beth shepherd
7/20/2020 05:34:19 pm

I really like the cover and the blurb. Thank you

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Renata
7/21/2020 05:40:58 am

I like cover

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Rajee Pandi
7/21/2020 08:39:10 am

the cover is interesting

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Debbi Wellenstein
7/21/2020 10:22:31 am

I enjoyed the excerpt-thank you for the giveaway!

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JANICE WRIGHT
7/21/2020 01:30:13 pm

This looks like a good read. How do you come up with ideas?

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Rebecca Rowland
7/21/2020 05:18:42 pm

Hi, Janice!
Honestly, almost all of the stories started with some small thing that I happened to see: a commercial on television, two boys rough housing on a front lawn, a man skulking around a pharmacy late at night, taking off his wedding ring as he tried to catch the attention of a woman in line next to him. For instance, I caught a news story about a lawyer who was on her phone while driving and ran down two people, and she only received a slap on the wrist: she even kept her law license. The incident bothered me so much that I crafted a story about it. I set it in a different location, a city I was familiar with, and I made up the characters and specifics, but it was a way for me to process the tragedy...and maybe punish the woman in an alternate universe, even if it is a fictitious one.

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AuntySuzany
7/22/2020 12:31:38 am

Great cover! Thanks for sharing with us!

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Jeanna Massman
7/22/2020 03:02:15 am

I like the cover. It sets the tone for the book.

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Nicole Fall
7/22/2020 03:45:43 am

I like this cover :) It gives you an idea of what the book is about before you even pick it up to read the synopsis!

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Robyn Bellefleur
7/22/2020 07:50:28 pm

I really like the cover. It's a little bit eerie.

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Diana Hardt
7/23/2020 12:44:59 am

Nice cover. The book sounds interesting.

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Nina Lewis
7/23/2020 10:15:48 pm

Looks great!!

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Julie Lundstrom
7/24/2020 01:05:18 am

I like the cover of this book.

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Francine Anchondo
7/24/2020 07:04:15 pm

I like cover.

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Mya Murphy
7/25/2020 09:21:36 am

I love thrillers!! This sound SO amazing!!

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Shirley O
7/25/2020 08:42:52 pm

This book sounds interesting and the cover looks great too.

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Mary Cloud
7/26/2020 11:38:45 am

No questions - the cover is nice

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Heather Mahley
7/30/2020 10:23:04 pm

Awesome cover

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Roger Simmons
8/2/2020 03:51:15 pm

The cover was good but I think it needed a little more silver to the dagger

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joy f
8/5/2020 06:49:11 pm

Sounds good.

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Kristen
8/6/2020 03:13:26 pm

The cover conveys mystery.....what happened?

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MarciaF
8/7/2020 04:30:58 pm

What an unusual "couple" to write a book about. This sounds different than I expected just reading the title of the book.

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Jenn
8/9/2020 06:42:42 pm

Great cover - I love the eerie vibe with the trees.

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B.J. Bernal
8/11/2020 09:27:11 am

Sounds like a really good read!

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Heather Kaufman
8/11/2020 02:14:01 pm

This sounds like a great read that will make you think.

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Paula
8/11/2020 02:34:52 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job

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Deborah D
8/11/2020 03:28:36 pm

How long did it take youto write this book?

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Bella Martinez
8/12/2020 12:55:10 pm

The blurb is exciting!

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Daniel M
8/13/2020 05:25:20 pm

like the cover

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Robin Abrams
8/14/2020 07:46:58 am

I think this cover looks great. Sounds like a must read for me

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Amy Green
8/16/2020 10:26:13 am

This storyline reminds me of the quote from Rebecca ‘Newt’ Jorden in the 1986 film, ‘Aliens’: “[There are real monsters], aren’t there?” I felt the incorporation of Halloween into the plot details was clever. This book would make an excellent live-action vehicle for Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow.

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latisha depoortere
8/16/2020 01:09:07 pm

This sounds so good Thanks for sharing!

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MelodyJ
8/16/2020 02:12:21 pm

The title sounds intriguing!

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Shannon Citrino
8/16/2020 07:38:48 pm

This book looks amazing! Have you ever Read Davis Sedaris? Kinda reminds me of one of his memoirs.

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Betty Curran
8/16/2020 10:01:47 pm

This sounds like a book that would give me nightmares.

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Deb Pelletier
8/17/2020 12:30:55 am

Nice book cover and the book sounds interesting.

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Leah Shumack
8/17/2020 03:43:51 pm

I really like the cover of the book! I would pick it up to read about it a bit if I seen it on a shelf!

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Emily B.
8/17/2020 03:44:54 pm

I like the calmness of the cover, and then you see the dead body.

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Amber Kolb
8/17/2020 06:14:28 pm

This sounds intense and oh so awesome!! The cover is half-beautiful, half-dark! I love it! Congratulations on your book <3

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Bill Hoff
8/17/2020 06:21:37 pm

My daughter would enjoy this book

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Hesper Fry
8/17/2020 07:01:49 pm

I really like the book cover and the story sounds really good!

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Stacey A Smith
8/17/2020 09:13:01 pm

the cover looks nice and peaces full till you look closer.great cover.

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Sand
8/17/2020 10:01:14 pm

Looks like a great cover!

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Leigh Nichols
8/17/2020 10:38:43 pm

The cover is haunting- I'm transfixed by it

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Jerry Marquardt
8/17/2020 11:29:58 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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