Manuscript Accepted!

I received this email last week while at camp in Minnesota. Needless to say, it made my day!

Dear Mr. Temples:

Your paranormal novel Helltown Chronicles is accepted for publication by Eternal Press.

I’ve attached the Author Formatting Guidelines. You’ll be receiving an email with a Contract and an Author Information Sheet.Congratulations!

Erin

Erin Lale, Acquisitions Editor

Eternal Press

Helltown Synopsis

Here is a synopsis for my new book “Helltown Chronicles”:

In the 1970s, the town of Boston Mills, Ohio was turned into a ghost town practically overnight when the U.S. Department of Interior seized lands and condemned homes and properties in order to expand the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. In the years since, a multitude of mysterious tales and ghost stories have sprung forth concerning the macabre remains, known as “Helltown.”

Newspaper reporters Jerry Wolanski, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Susan Wong, of Toronto, Ontario, are both sent to Akron, Ohio by their respective editors, tasked with writing “fluff” Halloween pieces about Helltown. They happen to meet under bizarre circumstances in a cemetery, and decide to join forces. Soon they find themselves experiencing first-hand Helltown’s reputation for horror, intrigue, and the supernatural.

Along the way, Jerry and Susan meet up with a pair up of unlikely allies: Astarte, a New Age bookstore proprietor who practices witchcraft, and her ex-husband, Frank, a retired police detective turned private eye. With Astarte and Frank’s assistance, the reporters chronicle Helltown’s sagas and–in the process–they must destroy a malevolent force that they’ve unwittingly unleashed before it destroys them.

“Winship Affair” Copy Purchase by BC Libraries

Yippee! I received this note from the Boston College Libraries:

…The item that you recommended has been added to the collection. To submit a hold request, please visit Holmes: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/ or contact a member of library staff at 617-552-8038 :

Title : Winship Affair., Blue Mustang Press, 2014., 9781935199182, ISBN

Call Number : PS3620.E465 W56 2014

Owning Library: O’Neill

 

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Autographs

Yesterday, I read to the fourth graders at the St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton, as part of BC’s Read Aloud program. Previously, I had mentioned to the kids that I was now a published author. They begged me to read from my book, The Winship Affair. I told them that it was for “adults only” but the prologue is “G-rated” so I read that section to them. Afterwards, about a dozen came up to me with little scraps of paper. They all wanted my autograph!

Royalty Check from Blue Mustang Press

It’s amusing how many of my friends think that I’m going to make a lot of money from publishing a novel. Shown here is my first (and possibly last) royalty check from book sales. A large part of this “profit” is no doubt derived from the book copies that I personally purchased for gift copies for friends and family.  But, hey, at least I did not “self publish” which means someone else believed in the book and underwrote the production costs.

 

Winship Affair royalty check from Blue Mustang Press