Scary Mary

The dead speak to her. She wishes they'd shut up.

Scary Mary is a complete novel free to read online about a high school girl who hears ghosts.
It is written for a young adult/teen audience, but everyone is welcome.

Reviews of Scary Mary

LL Book Review
LK Gardner-Griffie says, "S. A. Hunter’s characters jump off the page and into life. You are pulled into the story from page one."

Web Fiction Guide
Donna Sirriani says, "Go read this now."
Morgan O'Friel says, "It’s a must-read for anyone who enjoys supernatural stories, despite its high school focus."

Interview

Books and Bites interviewed me about Scary Mary.

Merchandise

You can purchase a hard copy of Scary Mary from Amazon or Lulu.






And coming soon T-shirts!

Bookmooch

I'm not sure how widely known this site is, but I really like Bookmooch. I've been able to pick up a lot of books that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Sure, the books I really, really want aren't there, but that's to be expected. On the other hand, I've gotten some fun stuff like The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Book. Now I know the best way to fend off an alligator. Never know when I might need that.

Anyway, I like the site. I use it. Wanted to mention it. It's a great way to get rid of books and receive new ones. My initial inventory was made up of a bunch of Dragon Lance novels my brother didn't want anymore. I found out pretty quickly that there were people who were more than eager to take them off my hands. And because I sent them those books, I got a copy of The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde, which I'm really enjoying.

Hey, got any cool book resources you use?

Didn't Forget - Just Didn't Post

Okay, so last night when I got home from work, I was so tired I went to sleep and slept until I needed to get up again for work. I thought about posting to this here blog, but sleep won out. The reason I was so tired is because I was up way too late the night before working on the new banner than you now see above. I'm not sure if it's great, but I think it's better than the plain text banner I had before. I also tried to change the template for the blog, but couldn't get it to work exactly right. I think I'm trying to do something that Blogger won't let me do.

Today is the end of my work week. I have the next three days off. I plan to work on SS and on my last assignment for my painting class.

Almost Forgot

I know it's bad that I almost forgot to blog on only the second day of my week long daily blogging challenge, but Mondays are rough. Work is hell, and I have class in the evening, but I only have one more week of class. I've enjoyed Introduction to Painting, but it will be nice having that off my plate for a bit. I've signed up to take Painting I in the fall, but I'm taking it easy this summer.

I posted the first paintings I did for the class a while back, and I meant to post the second set. I've had the digital pictures for weeks now, but I never could muster myself to post them. Well fear not, here they are now. The assignment was to do a study in the light half of the gray scale and another in the dark half. I'm happiest with how the dark half turned out. My proportions and perspective are all wonky in the light gray scale painting.





Well, more tomorrow. See ya.

Blogging

I'm going to try a little experiment. I want to blog everyday for a week and see how that goes. I'm not going to be writing anything deep and meaningful. I just want to force myself to post something everyday and see how it goes.

The posts will generally remain writing or book related. I'm not going to go off on home life and family. I may write about art or art class. Like tomorrow, I have another big painting due and I've been slacking on it like crazy. I need to do some serious work on it tonight, but I don't know if it will get anywhere near done for class tomorrow. I wish I'd committed to it like I had for previous assignments, but it's almost the end of the semester, and I'm starting to feel burned out. Plus, I'm just not interested in doing landscapes.

I also waited until the last moment with SS again. It got written yesterday. It's shorter than my usual installments, but the preceding part was longer, so I felt justified in being brief. Funny thing is that most of what happens in this week's installment is new stuff that wasn't planned in my outline, but what I had planned wasn't very good, and I'm much happier with what happened.

Horace Thistlebottom (and most writers should recognize the surname and get a smile. If you don't recognize it, google it.) is a character I came up with months ago in a very early stab at a sequel. I need to now find the notes I'd written down for him. I hope I have notes because I can't remember everything I'd thought up for him, but I'm afraid that 'everything' I thought up for him may not have been much. We'll see.

Things I looked up while writing chapter 8, pt.2: Toy dog breeds (Scottish Terriers are NOT toy dogs) and sic vs. sick (interchangeable)