Published January 27, 2016 by

The Monster Exorcist: New Foes Book Cover

This is the cover art for my latest story The Monster Exorcist: New Foes. I actually drew and digitally painted the picture myself. I'm not super great at art, but I'm tired of searching the net for decent royalty free pictures, and I didn't want to pay someone to design my cover for me. Therefore I decided to just go ahead and make the whole thing myself. I am quite happy with the final result and I think it looks very original.

You can check out a three preview of The Monster Exorcist New Foes here.

Story: Michael here. Last time we spoke I was living it up as a monster exorcist until some crazy fox monster came to eat my heart. Thankfully I managed to survive, but now all my friends and even the exorcist organisation have suddenly turned against me. They're all accusing me of being a monster in human form, but that can't possibly be true, can it?
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Published January 20, 2016 by

The Monster Exorcist Two: Chapter 6

Hello and welcome to Chapter 6 from my new story The Monster Exorcist: New Foes. 

For everyone who is reading this blog for the first time you can download the first book in The Monster Exorcist series for free here. And you can check out the previous chapters as well

                    Chapter 4
                        Chapter 5

I hope that you enjoy reading this chapter, and you can always support my story by purchasing my work or reviewing it on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the iTunes store. You can also follow me on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest updates and free give-aways.


Chapter 6
After a few weeks, Sis finally managed to convince Nina’s brother and Hugo to let me return to school. My sister was smart enough to wait until Sebastian stopped calling up everyday to check on me, and then she launched her counter attack. Nina’s brother looked like he was going to cry, but Sis threatened to tell Sebastian more of his embarrassing moments if he didn’t let me go back to class. Akito also managed to convince them that I was probably safe.
“Nooooooo! You can’t do this to me!” Begged Nina’s brother as he clung to my sister’s leg in desperation. “If anyone ever finds out, the best promotion I’ll ever get will be the main branch janitor!”
“I hear they’ve been trying to find someone to clean the outside toilet for a while now,” said Hugo. “Even the janitor won't touch it.”
“Please, please, think of my career!” Nina’s brother cried, but my sister refused to budge.
Unfortunately they left it up to Nina’s brother to explain my long absence, so he told the school that I'd caught Ebola. I think he also realized that he might need to pull me out again (in case Sebastian came back to check on them), so he told everyone that there was a high chance of me regressing.

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Published January 19, 2016 by

January Update

Hello and welcome to my January update. These are regular blog posts that I write once a month to talk about my recent writing progress amongst other things. I recently changed my website design because I wanted something a little less generic. Some of you might think it's a little girly, but I feel that it correctly represents my soul.


I had a lot of free time over my Christmas vacation so I managed to get plenty of writing done. I have now almost finished writing The Monster Exorcist: New Foes and I'm busy editing what I've already writing. I’m still working on the end. I’m not very good at writing long dramatic fight scenes, so there are still a few scenes at the end that need a lot of work. I've been writing it for so long now that it's not as fun to write as it used to be, but I've vowed to finish it before I start any new stories. You can currently read the first few chapters here.


When I began writing this second part to my story back in the summer of 2014 I was sure that it would only take me a year or so. Unfortunately I encountered some financial setbacks which required me to work a second and third job to make more money. It’s a pain to spend so long just writing the same story, but on the plus side I had a lot longer to think about it, so I believe that there’s many interesting and exciting news scenes which wouldn’t be there if I had just rushed through writing it.
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Published January 09, 2016 by

Vote For Your Favourite Character!

Who is your favourite character from The Monster Exorcist? Please feel free to vote for them here.

Who is your favourite character?

Michael
Tyson
Isaac
Annie
Katie
Laurence
Kurt
Akito
Katrina
Sean Lopez
The Fox Monster
Other
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Published December 25, 2015 by

The Monster Exorcist Two: Chapter 5

Merry Christmas everyone and welcome to chapter 5 of my new story The Monster Exorcist: New Foes.  I hope that you all have an enjoyable end of year break.

For everyone who is reading this blog for the first time you can download the first book in The Monster Exorcist series for free here. And you can check out the previous chapters as well


I hope that you enjoy reading this chapter, and you can always support my story by purchasing my work or reviewing it on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the iTunes store. You can also follow me on Facebook and Twitter for all the latest updates and free give-aways.




Chapter 5



With no school to go to, most of my time was spent repairing headquarters. It was all because Akito was too stingy to hire anyone. He said that we couldn’t risk bringing in outsiders in case they discovered the library, our weapons, the illegal shotgun, and his gunpowder stock in the basement. Akito said he had enough ammunition to blow up my school, but I think he just didn’t want to part with his money.
The building had taken quite a blow from the fox monster attack, so we had to rebuild the living room, kitchen, bathroom, and study. Kurt tried to argue that because I helped destroy it, I should repair it all, but Akito insisted that the physical labour was all part of our training.
“The organisation used to hire more outsiders,” said Laurence as he happily nailed the floor next to me. “But then they arrested my uncle on suspicion of imprisoning young people and running a cult. He spent ten years in prison.”

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Published December 03, 2015 by

December Writing Update

Hello and welcome to my December writing update. You may be reading this because you’ve taken interest in my work, or maybe you’re just giving it a read because you’re interested in the life of someone inspiring to be author. Either way, I hope that you can try reading my latest story.
 
I’ve currently been writing out the final chapter in my story The Monster Exorcist: New Foes. It has been taking a lot of work, and I’m not very good at writing battle scenes. I have to play out all my battle scenes move by move like a choreographer and it takes a long time. I really want the final part to be exciting, so I have been rewriting it many times until I feel that it matches what I have pictured in my head or better.
 
 One of the reasons that it’s been taking so long to finish the story is because my writing method is very slow, so today I would like to take some time to talk about how I write stories. My method is probably one of the slowest ways to write a story on the face of the planet, so please don’t feel like you have to copy me.
 
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Published November 17, 2015 by

The Monster Exorcist Two Chapter 4

Hello and welcome to chapter 4 in my next story The Monster Exorcist: New foes. If it's your first time seeing this story, you can read all the previous chapters online here. Or even grab them for your ebook reader here.
I feel that the end is insight, so I've been extra motivated recently and I've been trying to write every chance that I get. I finally thought up and ending for part two! I have a long term plan and an ending for the entire story, but I really wanted the last chapter in part two to leave an impact. Some of my original ideas were pretty terrible. (For example: he faints.) But think the new ending is quite cool! 





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Published November 04, 2015 by

November Writing Update


Hello and welcome to my November writing update. I actually started writing this post way back in October but I didn’t have time to finish it until recently. I’m sorry that there haven’t been any updates for a while now. I haven’t had much time to write recently due to work, and work after work, and work on weekends. It’s a little depressing and I would like to cut back in order to concentrate more on writing, but I need to pay my rent. I’m still working hard towards finishing my story The Monster Exorcist but there are just so many other commitments. I guess it’s all just part of being a responsible adult.


If you hadn’t already noticed I posted some great free previews for my next story The Monster Exorcist: New Foes. When writing the story I did try and make it easy for people who haven't read the first book, so please give it a go even if you haven’t read “The Monster Exorcist.” I hope that you can enjoy it, and any feedback would also be great.



I originally wrote The Monster Exorcist as a slightly different story called How I was Murdered by a Fox Monster. I received many emails asking about part 2, so I made a special version for those fans which you can download or read online here.


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Published October 12, 2015 by

HIWMBAFM 2 and The Monster Exorcist 2 Free Previews

I recently made these great free previews of "How I Was Murdered By A Fox Monster Two" and "The Monster Exorcist Two." You can download them for free on payhip for Kindle and ebook readers, or you can read them online. Please enjoy.

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Read The Monster Exorcist Two Preview Online

Read How I Was Murdered by A Fox Two Preview Online

The two previews are almost the same, except How I Was Murdered By a Fox Monster uses almost all Japanese style names, and begins with the last chapter from The Monster Exorcist. It wasn't included in the original draft.
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Published October 08, 2015 by

The Monster Exorcist Two Chapter Three

Hello and welcome to the third chapter of The Monster Exorcist Two. I hope that you enjoy it. 



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Chapter 3

 Apparently two teenage girls showing up in the hospital (one with a damaged face) looked suspicious, so the police came to headquarters to investigate. Sebastian refused to let me out of my chair, so his minions shoved me into a closet and pushed a wardrobe in front of the door. I was trapped, and everyone else had to pretend that the damage had been a gas explosion next to a box of fireworks.
“Yeah, we were just all studying,” said Kurt to the police. They had a hard time believing Akito's story and decided to interview everyone. “And then it was just like. Bang.”
“Yeah, bang, ” added Tyson.
“And KABOOM! ” Added Laurence dramatically.
It was my only chance to escape before Sebastian changed his mind. My mouth was taped shut, so I jumped in my chair to move it closer to the door. I planned to kick the door to get the officer’s attention, but the chair tipped over and I fell on my face.
“What was that noise?” I heard the officer ask.
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