Watch Out For Satan-Worshippers! (#IWSG April 2025)

May 6, 2025.

Three reasons this date is important:

1. My birthday.
2. The 10-year anniversary of my first published book, Ten Thousand Days.
3. It's the release day for GALE HARBOUR BOOK 3!!!

Here's the info:

Name: Dirtbag Satan Worshippers From Down By the Bay
Series: Gale Harbour Book 3
Release Date: May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9798314745380
ASIN: B0F277SXCV
Available for Kindle ($4.99 USD) and in paperback ($15.99)
379 pages

Newfoundland, Canada. 1994.

Niall O’Neil is wallowing in teenage angst, still getting over Harper Jeddore, his childhood crush who helped him save the sleepy town of Gale Harbour from otherworldly monsters. Twice. When he meets a new, less-complicated girl named Stacey, it seems his life might be turning a corner. But Niall is pulled back into his old world when people start disappearing around town again, seemingly abducted by Satan-worshipping rednecks.

Torn between his new existence of simple happiness and his messy feelings for his old flame, Niall must make a decision: Enjoy dating girls, experimenting with drinking and making new friends, or risk his life to save the town one more time?

The fate of the entire world may depend on the choices of a hormonal fourteen-year-old with a flair for the dramatic.

Join Niall, Harper, Pius, Keith and Skidmark as they band together for one last adventure…

PRE-ORDER HERE:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F277SXCV

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F277SXCV

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F277SXCV

Help spread the world about the Satan-Worshippers! 

If you can, please sign up to help promote Gale Harbour Book 3 when it releases the week of May 6:

If you can help me with the release by posting it on your blog, I will be in touch soon to provide you with some promo material! Thank you so much in advance.

ALSO CHECK OUT GALE HARBOUR BOOK ONE!

If you're on the fence about the Gale Harbour series and want to check it out with no entry free, the first book, PSYCHO HOSE BEAST FROM OUTER SPACE, is currently FREE on Amazon Kindle from now until Friday, April 5th. I like to call it STRANGER THINGS meets DEGRASSI - it's about kids in small town 1990s Canada. It's got horror, laughs, and plenty of teenage awkwardness. Please go pick up your copy if you haven't already!

GRAB PSYCHO HOSE BEAST FOR FREE!

It's very exciting, I'm glad to finally put GH3 to bed and get it out into the world. It's been a lot of work and many ups and downs, so I would like to thank everyone who has supported me with positive comments over the last few years. I hope I've been able to provide you some of the same.

See you next time (maybe)!

Hugs & Kisses,
-CDGK

And finally, in other writing news...

PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISAPPEARED

Quite a number of people have vanished from the United States in recent weeks. Their stories may be good material for someone interested in writing that kind of thing. What would you call it? Thriller? Mystery? Horror? True crime? Truly an opportunity for genre-bending fiction that cannot possibly be as terrible as real life.

Rumeysa Ozturk

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was grabbed by masked individuals outside her home and brought to an unknown location.

Mahmoud Khalil

Khalil was kidnapped from his home in front of his 8-month pregnant wife and transported to another state under the cover of darkness. Officials admit he has committed no crimes. 

Andry

A gay barber who left his home country to avoid persecution, Andry was abducted and transported to a prison in a completely different country to be tortured and abused.

Let's remember them and all the other innocent people who have disappeared in recent weeks. Maybe they'll inspire someone (maybe even me) to write or do something good.

GALE HARBOUR 3 NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

FINALLY! Gale Harbour Book 3 is available for pre-order!

Here's the info:

Name: Dirtbag Satan Worshippers From Down By the Bay
Series: Gale Harbour Book 3
Release Date: May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9798314745380
ASIN: B0F277SXCV
Available for Kindle ($4.99 USD) and in paperback ($15.99)
379 pages

Newfoundland, Canada. 1994.

Niall O’Neil is wallowing in teenage angst, still getting over Harper Jeddore, his childhood crush who helped him save the sleepy town of Gale Harbour from otherworldly monsters. Twice. When he meets a new, less-complicated girl named Stacey, it seems his life might be turning a corner. But Niall is pulled back into his old world when people start disappearing around town again, seemingly abducted by Satan-worshipping rednecks.

Torn between his new existence of simple happiness and his messy feelings for his old flame, Niall must make a decision: Enjoy dating girls, experimenting with drinking and making new friends, or risk his life to save the town one more time?

The fate of the entire world may depend on the choices of a hormonal fourteen-year-old with a flair for the dramatic.

Join Niall, Harper, Pius, Keith and Skidmark as they band together for one last adventure…

PRE-ORDER HERE:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F277SXCV

Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F277SXCV

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F277SXCV

I'm so excited to finally release this one into the wild. Watch this space for more details as we approach the release day!

Announcement (#IWSG March 2025)

Who missed February? I dunno. Why are you looking at me?

I'm not going to do today's question. The idea of being anyone or anything for a day leads me down all sorts of random creative hallways, all of which ends with me blowing up certain world leaders. So we'll try to keep this on a positive note.

It's still not done, but fuck it, I'm announcing it today. It's veeeeeery nearly ready, so maybe throwing it out into the wild will light a fire under my ass to finally push it out the door.

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...

...Ready?

Gale Harbour book three is officially titled: Dirtbag Satan Worshippers From Down By The Bay!

Here's the tentative blurb:

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Newfoundland, Canada. 1994.

Niall O’Neil is wallowing in teenage angst, still getting over Harper Jeddore, his childhood crush who helped him save the sleepy town of Gale Harbour from otherworldly monsters. Twice. When he meets a new, less-complicated girl named Stacey, it seems his life might be turning a corner. But Niall is pulled back into his old world when people start disappearing around town again, seemingly abducted by Satan-worshipping rednecks.

Torn between his new existence of simple happiness and his messy feelings for his old flame, Niall must make a decision: Enjoy dating girls, experimenting with drinking and making new friends, or risk his life to save the town one more time?

The fate of the entire world may depend on the choices of a hormonal fourteen-year-old with a flair for the dramatic.

Join Niall, Harper, Pius, Keith and Skidmark as they band together for one last adventure…

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The blurb is still a work in progress, so any feedback is welcome.

A new book of course means a new cover style, so that means I had to redo the first two covers as well:

I'm really happy with the new style, but again, feedback is welcome!

Keeping it short and sweet today. When exactly is the new book coming out! Release date TBD - I do have a date in mind, and it's coming up soon, I just need to wait for all the pieces to fall into place. Watch this space for more info!

How was your month?

Hugs & Kisses,

-CDGK

So this is 2025? (#IWSG January 2025)

I almost missed IWSG day again, but I have a good excuse! On Monday night I was cutting some plastic and accidentally sliced my hand with a box cutter. It wasn't a big cut, but it was fairly deep and right in the middle of my palm, so I figured I would need stitches. I went to the Emergency Room, and then proceeded to spend the next SIXTEEN HOURS waiting around the hospital. For TWO STITCHES. 

Universal healthcare in Canada is great, but there are levels of our government that has been purposefully underfunding it for years, hoping to make the public more amenable when they try to roll-out private health care. Health care shouldn't be a political topic.

Anyway, didn't get a lot of writing done over the holidays, but revisions on Gale Harbour 3 are coming along. I hope to announce a release date very soon. 

This post is not going to be very long because my hand hurts and it's hard to type. :-) Just let me say Happy New Year, and I hope you haven't failed at your resolutions yet. Also, I do not recommend cutting your palm with a box cutter. 0/10.

Seriously, why is it in movies, when someone needs blood for something, they always cut their palm? That's literally the worst place to cut yourself!

Hugs & kisses,

-CDGK