Welcome to the September Blog Hop! Celebrate the beginning of fall with me and my blogger friends by hopping around and visiting our sites. There are lots of prize to be given away. The contest ends Saturday night at midnight, September 24, 2011.

First Challenge of the Third Writing Campaign

The first challenge of the Third Writing Platform-Building Campaign is to write a flash fiction story in 200 words or less, with the opening words: The door swung open.  Here's mine in exactly 200 words.

Shadow Curse

The door swung open. An evil, dark form filled the doorway. “May I come in?”

Lisa motioned for him to enter.

The putrid stench of the filthy demon filled my lungs when I sucked in a deep breath. I tried to shout a warning, but the words caught in my throat.

Patches of scraggly black hair stuck out of the rotting flesh that covered his body. Scabs flaked off and fell to the floor as he walked to the center of the room. His blood filled eyes held me with a piercing glare.

“Lisa.” I reached for her. “Go in the bathroom and lock the door.”

“What’s wrong?” She grabbed my hand.

“Don’t you know who that is?”

“Yes.” Her tone contained only a hint of concern. “I know who he is.”

“Get out of here, Lisa.”

“No. You get out.” The demon’s voice boomed in my ears. His gnarled, bony hand wrapped around Lisa’s arm. His other back–handed me across the face.

The force of the blow lifted me from the floor and flung me against the wall. My body crumpled onto the rug. Blackness crept into the edges of my vision.

“Brendon!” Lisa’s screams filled the air.

Third Writers Platform Building Campaign!

The Third Writers's Platform Building Campaign is about to begin.  Meet fellow writers and bloggers. Join the fun! Contests and Prizes.
http://rachaelharrie.blogspot.com/2011/08/third-writers-platform-building.html

Shadow Keeper Now Available!

Shadow Keeper is available as a paperback and an ebook at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Amazon.com paper back
Amazon.com ebook
Barnes&Noble.com

Brendon Alexander was a normal high school kid until his dead grandfather appeared in the flames of a fire and bestowed upon him the gift of Demon Fighter.

Lisa Stratton, the new girl at school, has a few secrets of her own—her father is possessed by a demon. She recognizes the scar on Brendon’s chest that brands him as a protected one, but she must discover if he has the ability to cleanse the evil from her father’s body.

The closer Brendon gets to Lisa, the more he uncovers buried secrets from the past. Not hers, but his—his father’s death and the creature that killed him, and the legacy handed down to him from beyond the grave. Burning curiosity and frightening nightmares thrust Brendon deeper into his past while Lisa urges him forward into danger—and into his destiny.

LDStorymakers 2011 Convention

Just got back from the LDStorymakers 2011 Writer’s Conference where I pitched my full length novel Shadow Keeper to a NY publisher.  She told me my novel was too edgy for the Young Adult market. I think I like that--Edgy. Yeah.