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The Ecstatic, Victor Lavalle - a review
Anthony is the ultimate in unreliable narrators. This books is full of surreal scenes, twisted logic, impossible events and a touch of...
carmillavoiez
Jan 12, 20201 min read
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Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King - a review
I haven't blogged much for the past month, but will be back with frequent posts very soon. I am getting used to new meds and trying to...
carmillavoiez
Jan 8, 20202 min read
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Seasonal Greetings from Carmilla Voiez
Happy Yule (or whatever holiday you celebrate). 2019 has been a strange and difficult year for many of us. The world feels like a story...
carmillavoiez
Dec 19, 20191 min read
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A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay - a review
I love horror. I enjoy being frightened and disturbed by what I'm reading (or watching). The world is a scary place and horror can be a...
carmillavoiez
Dec 19, 20191 min read
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Elements of Horror, Book Four: Water- a review
Elements of Horror was released earlier this month, and I am honoured to have one of my stories “High Tide” in the collection. I am...
carmillavoiez
Dec 15, 20196 min read
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Week ten study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was film structure. We learned how films are broken down into acts, which can be broken down into scenes, which can...
carmillavoiez
Dec 10, 20196 min read
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Short anthology with plenty of girth - review
This is a well-rounded collection of five poems, ten short stories and six autobiographical essays celebrating male genitalia. It deals...
carmillavoiez
Dec 5, 20191 min read
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Week nine study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was film making and scripts. It’s been a tough week for me. My elderly cat went missing for a day and a half. He’s...
carmillavoiez
Dec 4, 20195 min read
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99c Book Sale
This weekend through Cyber-Monday the following books are available for 99c. Some like Starblood, Psychonuat, and The Ballerina and the...
carmillavoiez
Nov 28, 20192 min read
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The Venus Virus - Cover Reveal
New London, 2067, and a diminished Britain struggles to preserve what remains after the Great Flood. Whether this planned city is a...
carmillavoiez
Nov 27, 20195 min read
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Week eight study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was radio drama. We studied a radio play – Smooth Apparatus and how sound effects might be weaponised in drama. The...
carmillavoiez
Nov 26, 20199 min read
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The Rave, by Blake Jeckel - visual horror
Here it is! The very first visual novel by Count Krew Publications. Based on a short story of the same name, The Rave chronicles...
carmillavoiez
Nov 24, 20191 min read
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Basement Beauty, radio play
I'm currently working on a radio play based on my Vampire novella Basement Beauty. I don't know whether anything will come of it, but it...
carmillavoiez
Nov 21, 20191 min read
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Venus Virus Line Edit
Hot off the press and ready for my red pen. The cover reveal will happen next week and, if the publisher is happy with my final...
carmillavoiez
Nov 21, 20191 min read
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Week seven study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was staging plays. We were reminded this week that conflict is essential in plays (otherwise the audience will be...
carmillavoiez
Nov 20, 20199 min read
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Week six study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week’s subject was revealing information in drama. We looked at subtext and exposition. Subtext is the “hidden meaning that lies...
carmillavoiez
Nov 13, 20192 min read
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Evil Returned, Richard Raven - New Horror
SYNOPSIS Married only two years, Jeff and Angie were happy. Jeff’s new business was finally showing some promise and he couldn’t wait to...
carmillavoiez
Nov 8, 20192 min read
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Week five study diary – Advanced Creative Writing
This week we moved from prose to scripts and looked at the craft of the playwright. I received my marked assignment from weeks 1 – 4....
carmillavoiez
Nov 5, 20198 min read
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Pumpkin Lanterns - a short story for Halloween
Pumpkin Lanterns CW: Psychosis Mandy screwed the lid back onto her mascara wand and placed it in her velvet wash bag. Without looking...
carmillavoiez
Oct 31, 20197 min read
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60 Days of Horror
I took part in an event called "Halloween Bingo" on Booklikes. The challenge was to fill as much of a bingo card as possible by reading a...
carmillavoiez
Oct 30, 201911 min read
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