Carnival Summer excerpt

Here's a free preview--the first 53 pages of my original e-novel CARNIVAL SUMMER, which is currently only available for the Kindle (but I'm looking into other platforms).

CARNIVAL SUMMER came about partly due to my frustration with the current status of my teen horror series WITCH SEASON. In its original mass market paperback format as four separate books, WITCH SEASON is out of print and unavailable. For a couple of years there were Barnes and Noble exclusive editions that combined them into two separate books, WITCH SEASON and WITCH SEASON 2. Then B&N dropped those and Borders picked them up. Borders, however, hasn’t released WITCH SEASON 2, so I’m constantly hearing from readers who have read SUMMER and FALL and would like to find out what happens, but can’t.

There’s nothing I can do about that (except plead with the publisher to at least put out WINTER and SPRING in e-book editions, and ask you folks to bombard Borders with requests for WITCH SEASON 2, both of which I’ve done).

But I can, and did, write a separate book, and that’s CARNIVAL SUMMER.

It’s not a WITCH SEASON book, but it’s meant for the audience that loved WITCH SEASON. It’s a supernatural thriller meant for teens, but that I believe adults might enjoy as well. It’s about Melissa Avery’s sixteenth summer, in which her twin sister Gwen is murdered and in which Melissa discovers love and the carnival and the monsters who travel America’s heartland. Real monsters, not the metaphorical kind. It’s scary and suspenseful and romantic, and it takes readers deep into a world most have probably never been, that of the traveling carnival. Read this, and the next time a carnival comes to your town, you’ll be able to understand carny talk and maybe even throw a little back at the carnies.

I hope you enjoy this free excerpt. If you do, the full novel is only $2.99.