Broken Old Broad's update for the last couple of weeks...

 

Hi friends!

Well, my intentions to write a blog each and every Sunday have always been good in theory, but I tend to stray from those plans. Sometimes I manage to catch up around Tuesday or Wednesday, most times I lose track of the time and miss the whole week. 

Thing is, my day-to-day routine is, for the most part, dull as a mud puddle. I get up, I write, I take a break and do a couple of chores, I write some more, I make dinner, Blaze and I watch and movie and scarf our meal, I write some more, read or watch Colbert on Youtube, pass out for a few hours and do the whole thing over again the next day.

There are moments of hilarity or frustration or little bursts of anger (usually from me, I will admit – due to sharing a studio apartment with little space and privacy, which leaves my buttons easily pushed, even though I live with a seriously awesome man whom I adore), but mostly things are humdrum.  And what tiny bits of drama there are go into the books. 

So finding stuff to write about in the blogs takes a wee bit more time than a week. 

2021 is looking to be busy. I have plans to participate in both the April and July Camp NaNoWriMos, as I'm pulling all my writing articles, health articles, and poetry into collections.  Boom.  And in November I'm writing a novel about a woman whose entire life has been shaped by narcissists.  So far….  It's not going to be a horror novel, well, not in the traditional sense. There will be plenty of drama, though. Psychological. Hopefully there will be some sarcastic wit in there too. Now all I have to do is keep myself from veering into the horror genre. We'll see. 

I'm a big fan of Fredrik Backman, and as I was reading Britt Marie Was Here I started thinking I know people orbiting me whose stories would be interesting. I have plentiful notes in journals, attempted memoirs, and character notes to draw from. I'm gonna give it a shot.

But, to those who like my horror stuff, particularly my Owl's Nest novels and Owl's Eye View Magazine, I have plans for a gruesome, deliciously evil novel – to be written for NaNoWriMo in November of 2021 – that will give you your ooky fix in a big way.  Plus, I've reconstructed Owl's Eye View Magazine in its original form and just passed the halfway mark of publishing all ten years' worth (I'm up to Issue 53 as of last night) and am planning on a fantasmagorical bundle towards the end of January. 

Hence, I've been having many "oh crap!" moments on Tuesday or Wednesday, as I realize I forgot about the blog….

I need to learn from my husband, because he is a blogging, posting, publicity machine (and he still gets novels, short stories, and poetry written every single day, which leaves me in awe – and a tiny bit pissed off, heh, heh, heh).  \

Speaking of my dream-hubs – He is chugging away publishing on Patreon. For 3 bucks a month you will have access to the three novels and multiple short stories he's posted there. If you're looking for ooky fixes, there's at least one a day on Blaze McRob's Patreon page, in the form of a novel chapter or short story.

Okay, that about does it for today. Oh! Blaze and I did manage to vote yesterday morning. Hopefully some sanity and decency will get into office and our country can begin to heal and repair all the damage…

I hope all of you are well and are looking forward to 2021 as much as I am. Remember to mask up and slather on the hand-sanitizer when you're out and around, for your own safety as well as everyone else's. I'm hoping the horror stories can go back to existing only on the pages of my books this coming year…and stay there. 

Happy – and safe! – holidays to everyone.

Hugs!

Ter

 

Broken Old Broad Update - Things are moving right along.

Hi friends!

For a Broken Old Broad I've been moving along at a pretty good clip! All four of my Blazing Owl Short Horror pieces are live on Amazon, well ahead of my before-Thanksgiving goal. 

Another goal that's coming right along ahead of schedule is the "104-Issues-of-Owl's-Eye-View-Magazine-live-on-Amazon-by-mid-January" goal. I've been trying to edit and publish two issues a day, no matter what. For the most part I've managed that, and there were a couple of days there when I actually got three up. Some issues require more editing than others – the very early ones contained some non-fiction articles that I had to update or discard, which takes a little more time than editing the straight fiction. Mostly it's moving along glitch-free, and so far the first 15 issues are up. 

I've also organized all the fodder for my memoir books and have started writing some poetry and essays. This was a monumental task because I jumped from Medium (where I'd published over 350 articles and poems) to Patreon (where I'd re-published all the material I'd taken down from Medium, and was up to 60 or so) and decided Patreon wasn't for me. Not that Patreon isn't a great idea, it's just not quite me. I don't do well with the "come pay me to write for you" kind of promotion. I'm better with the "I just put a book up on Amazon that I know you're gonna lovet" kind of promotion. Actually, I'm not great at either, but the latter is more my speed. And knowing the material is up in digital markets and available without subscriptions seems like a better, easier found deal for you guys – my readers.

2021 is going to be a busy year. I've got all kinds of eBooks slated: a writing book, Broken Old Broad Inside Out Essays, (personal experience pieces), Broken Old Broad Outside In Essays (essays about what's going on in the world from a Broken Old Broad's point of view), Broken Old Broad Busts a Beat (poetry – some of it written in my teens and on up through my current stuff). I'm also pulling together notes for an Owl's Nest novel that, if the rest of my projects move right along, I hope to get written for NaNoWriMo (in November) and publish in early 2022. So there probably won't be as much from me on social pages this year, though another of my goals is to be better about marketing and give Blaze more of a hand in that department. I tend to suck at that – mainly because there just don't seem to be enough hours in my day.

Speaking of Blaze, you should subscribe to Blaze McRob's Patreon page – It's only $3 a month and he's already published two complete novels there and is starting to put up a third. Boom, baby! And if you prefer short stories, there are plenty of those in between novel chapters. He's been averaging a novel a month since he launched his page in October. You can't go wrong with this subscription, friends.

Okey dokey. I think that's about it. Ookiness to create!

Stay safe, everybody! Chills!

Ter

Oh! On a completely different subject, some seriously awesome music came out in the last couple of months –

"Only Gossamer My Gown" by Valentine Wolfe – which is extraordinary. I've come to expect unique music and excellent quality from Sarah Black and Braxton Ballew, and they've exceeded those expectations every single time, one album better than those before, consistently. OGMG is no exception. Ethereal, soul stirring vocals from Sarah with a thrashing, bass violin beat from Braxton, bringing the spirit of Emily Dickinson among us and into our hearts. Loving it!

The other is "Hollywood Africans" by Jon Batiste. During 2019 and 2020 I watched a lot of Stephen Colbert, and Jon Batiste caught my attention. I looked him up and found this album which is awesome! It opens with an original boogie woogie, "Kenner Boogie" which sucked me right in (Love me some boogie woogie!!). There's a cover of "Smile" so heartfully done it brought tears to my eyes (more than usual). There's also a cover of "The Very Thought of You" that is soft, slow, and beautiful. Six out of the eleven titles on this album are written by Jon Batiste, and every one of them is stunning and unique. I found out he is the creative musical force behind "Soul" – a Pixar movie coming out this month! Looking forward to that!

 

 

 

Broken Old Broad's Weekend Update

 

Time For an ooky update!

It's been a busy week with lots of chills going up on Amazon. 

Owl's Eye View Magazine, Issues One through Three are up and live on Amazon. I'm tweaking Issue Four later this morning, and possibly Issue Five this evening.  I will be working exclusively on Owl's Eye View for the remainder of 2020 and hope to have all 104 issues live on digital markets by New Years. 

In addition to issues of Owl's Eye View, I have re-edited four lengthy short stories and published them all this week:

"A Flash in the Pan", "And He Screamed", "Joinings", and "Shonk". 

So basically, there was something to read on your lunch break every day, just to give you a little jolt and keep you sharp for your afternoon workload.  Heh, heh, heh. 

Of course there are still my seven novels, four novellas, one novelette, multiple short story collections, stories that appear in Lycan Valley Press anthologies, all written to keep you awake and shivering.  My whole kit and kaboodle is listed below.  Embrace the nightmares! Muahaha!

I'm not the only one busy around here, either.  Blaze McRob is looking to rock your ooky world as well by stuffing his Patreon page with frights and delights for your reading pleasure.  Blaze McRob is creating Stories, Novels, Horror, and Fiction | Patreon

Blaze publishes daily on his page and so far has put up an entire novel: Wolf Whispers. (It's a chilling read that echoes the times we are living in.)

Currently, he's more than 25 chapters into Mists of Papoose Pond, another novel that kept me awake nights when I read it (both while I was actively reading, and then creeped out when the lights were off in the wee hours of the morning). 

In addition to novel chapters each day, Mr. McRob is putting short stories up almost daily as well.  If you're looking to subscribe to a Patreon page, you won't get any better bang for your buck than Blaze's.  Since the beginning of October, he's published 114 items – and counting.  Subscribe, but make sure you're well stocked with light bulbs, you'll be needing to keep them burning all night.  Muahaha! 

And I'm going to take this opportunity to suggest a little music to accompany your ooky reading: 

Valentine Wolfe offers up uniquely soul haunting music that defies category. They have a new CD out called "Only Gossamer My Gown", that is morbidly stunning.  (valentinewolfe.com) 

So that's a week in the life of the Broken Old Broad. 

As far as the future is concerned, I have several projects in the works for 2021. I'm working on a collection of poetry that even has poems I wrote when I was in my early teens.  I'm also putting together collections of Scared Healthy articles, and Writing articles.  I'm still working on articles, and plan to pull the collections together as Camp NaNoWriMo projects in April and July. 

I'm also beginning a project called Broken Old Broad Inside Out and Outside In, which is a collection of essays.  The Inside Out essays are personal, the Outside In essays are my views of the world around me.  I'm still brainstorming this project and pulling journals and other materials together to write the essays. It will be my major project for 2021. 

I'm also brainstorming an Owls Nest book – maybe a novella or full-length novel.  We'll see.  I have some deliciously evil ideas pinging around in my fetid little brain.

Okay. Time to get busy editing today's issue of Owl's Eye View. 

Check out my Amazon author page!

Chills!

Ter

NOVELS

 

Reflection

Into the Mist

Holy Terrors

MEDS

Parliament

True Crime Shelf

James Reborn

 

NOVELLAS

 

Tooth for a Tooth

Screech

Carnival / Carnival Battle

Night Ops

 

NOVELETTE

 

Ides of March

 

SHORT STORY SINGLE

 

Food Truck Fair

 

BLAZING OWL SHORT HORROR STORIES

 

Shonk

Joinings

Flash In the Pan

And He Screamed

 

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

 

Assbiters from Hell (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Happy Bloody Whatever (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Romantic Shadows (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Blazin' Toybox (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Silver Hells (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Blood Spatter (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Chills (Holiday Horror)

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

Morbid Metamorphosis (Published by Lycan Valley Press)

Grey Matter Monsters (Published by Lycan Valley Press)

 

LITERARY PERIODICALS

 

Owl's Eye View Magazine – Dark Fiction Individual Issues 1 - 104

Owl's Eye View Magazine – 1-104 Issue Bundle (As of January 2021)

 

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

 

The Tales of Princess Rosie & Joey Owl

The Adventures of Kid Joey

Team RoJo & Friends

 

POETRY COLLECTIONS

 

Scumpericks (Satirical Limericks)

"And He Screams" By Terri DelCampo is LIVE ON AMAZON!

Hi Everybody,

Late last night I finished editing my very first Blazing Owl Short Horror story: And He Screams. Ghosts, curses, it has it all, and it's up on Amazon as I type this!

There will be more Blazing Owl Short Horror coming your way soon, along with individual issues of Owl's Eye View Magazine.

I'm very excited to offer the magazine up again in it's original form, from the beginning. I've been trying to make a hole in my schedule to do it, and this is it. I'm hoping to have all 104 issues up by the end of January, followed by a bundle of the whole kit and caboodle as well. That bundle will be a hefty bargain!

I know And He Screams will push your creepy buttons while you're waiting for OEV! Grab it up right now so you have something to read on your first break of the day!

Chills!

Ter

And He Screams

PS: Don't forget about: 

MORE TITLES FROM TERRI DELCAMPO:

 NOVELS

 Reflection

Into the Mist

Holy Terrors

MEDS

Parliament

True Crime Shelf

James Reborn

 

NOVELLAS

 

Tooth for a Tooth

Screech

Carnival / Carnival Battle

Night Ops

 

NOVELETTE

 

Ides of March

 

SHORT STORY SINGLE

 

Food Truck Fair

 

BLAZING OWL SHORT HORROR STORIES

 

Shonk (Coming soon!)

Joinings (Coming soon!)

Flash In the Pan (Coming soon!)

And He Screamed

 

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

 

Assbiters from Hell (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Happy Bloody Whatever (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Romantic Shadows (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Blazin' Toybox (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Silver Hells (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Blood Spatter (Co-Authored with Blaze McRob)

Chills (Holiday Horror)

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

Morbid Metamorphosis (Published by Lycan Valley Press)

Grey Matter Monsters (Published by Lycan Valley Press)

 

LITERARY PERIODICALS

 

Owl's Eye View Magazine – Dark Fiction Individual Issues 1 – 104 (Coming soon!)

Owl's Eye View Magazine – 1-104 Issue Bundle (As of January 2021) (Coming in January!)

 

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

 

The Tales of Princess Rosie & Joey Owl

The Adventures of Kid Joey

Team RoJo & Friends

 

POETRY COLLECTIONS

 

Scumpericks (Satirical Limericks)

 

TERRI DELCAMPO SITES AND CONTACT INFORMATION:

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http://www.blazingowlpress.blogspot.com/

Twitter Page:

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http://terridelcampo.blogspot.com/

 

Facebook: Personal Page:

https://www.facebook.com/terri.delcampo

Facebook: Owl's Eye View Magazine Page:

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The turmoil that is my writing and publishing during 2020...

 

Hi Confused Readers! (I greet you thusly, because I know you must be confused - I sure as hell am!)

It's been a wild year, huh? It's been a particular tailspin for me, both personally and as a writer. 

In February I decided that I would try publishing everything but my novels on Medium.com. And it was going along perfectly – I had over three hundred of my non-fiction pieces up there in all my niches: Scared Healthy, Disability Challenges, Poetry, Personal Experience Essays, Op-Eds – You name it, I had it up there. I was even starting to put up my kidlit and horror stories. I should have known it was too good to be true.

In August Medium had to drop a bomb and rock everyone's world: They changed their user agreement, and certainly not to the benefit of the writers. Also, during that same time, Medium writers became aware that the entire Medium site had been cloned.  Aah yes, my friends: The fuckening. Actually, two fuckenings. At the same time.

I pulled all my material from Medium right then and there.

And as I did, I got to thinking about Medium. Good writers draw subscribers to the site. Medium is making a fortune, but the writers get dribbles, drooling over follows and claps. I wrote one article the last month I was there that garnered $12 – little by little all during the month of September.  Last month that article (the only one on my Medium page now) garnered 26 cents.  The highest MONTHLY before that was $16. With over 300 articles, poems, and essays up there.

I decided Medium is bullshit.

So, where to go, I wondered. I landed on Patreon.  I started putting up stories (including fiction and a re-release of Owl's Eye View Magazine individual issues) on my Patreon page.

In three months I had 2 patrons, and one was my husband. While I am grateful that I had interest shown in my work, I was spending all my time publishing stuff that I'd had up on Medium, and I was so busy trying to cultivate the Patreon page that I had no time to write the novel I'd planned for NaNoWriMo this month. 

The Patreon experiment was not a complete failure. I may, at the start of 2021 do a series of writing articles and create a page on Patreon to have a way to connect with my readers on a weekly basis.  We'll see.    

All of this was of course happening during Trump's reign of terror, which had filled me with such outrage and fury over the past four years that I couldn't keep up with the writing about it. I still have a couple of essays to write about issues that I hope won't be forgotten once President Biden moves into the freshly fumigated White House in January.

Politics has rarely caught my attention in the past. Rarely. And it's certainly never distracted me from my writing projects. This past four years has been a horrific nightmare, and the bitter dregs of the Trump administration will be giving me indigestion and sleepless nights right up until Biden's inauguration, when the America I know and love will rise from the ashes and flourish once again. Is my country perfect? Nope. It's a work in progress and always has been. And the only people who can do the work to bring about the progress are Americans. We do that work best when we aren't abused on an hourly basis by a colossal orange asshat.

And of course COVID has not helped. I thought being cooped up at home would mean tons of writing time, and I did get some serious work done, but I also spent a shitload of time reorganizing and transferring projects to Medium, then to Patreon, and now, again, I will be working, probably until the end of this year, to get everything up as ebooks. 

I took down all my Owl's Eye View Magazine bundles to publish on Patreon. There were pros and cons to that. The pros were that I would put back together OEV issues from the first 5 years, re-edit them and publish them one at a time on Patreon.  Each issue would be published separately, no dates, just an issue number. There are 104 issues of OEV and they contain some damn fine stories, if I say so myself. The cons were that the formatting on Patreon is more like a blog page. It doesn't carry Word formatting. It's block formatting that spaces after each paragraph. It wrecks the look and layout of my magazine, and totally screws up poetry.  OEV no longer looked like a dark fiction magazine.  It just looked like a blog. I hate it. 

So one major project for the remainder of 2020 is to re-edit and re-release each issue of OEV Magazine as eBooks. All 104 issues, and when they are all ready I will also pull them together in a box-set so ooky aficionados have a choice..  I'm hoping to prep two issues a day. 

Another project is to publish my lengthier short stories as singles on Amazon. Blazing Owl Short Horror will be popping up on Amazon. 

My shorter stories will probably be worked into OEV Magazine issues as bonus stories.  Or maybe a couple of collections…not sure yet. Or I may do Blazing Owl Short Horror two-fers.  Hmmm.  Excuse me while I jot that down…heh, heh, heh.  

I'm shelving my non-fiction projects for the time-being. Come January 2021 I will have my homeless stuff all tucked into it's new habitat, and then I'll be ready to start fresh projects.  There are three main ones: 1)  Broken Old Broad Inside Out – A book of personal essays and poems.  2)  Broken Old Broad Outside In – A book of essays about the world around me. 3) A so far untitled dark fiction novel in the brainstorming stages that I will probably do for NaNoWriMo in November of 2021. 

So there it is. My next 14 months all laid out.

Time to get busy because you all need stuff to read, right?

Thank you guys for sticking with me during this multiple transitional year! Good stuff is coming! 

Ter

 

Weekend Post from the Broken Old Broad

 

Happy Weekend, Friends!

Getting a jump on the blog post and writing it on Saturday.  I was out of commission yesterday – my back decided it was a good day to attack and kicked my ass.  It's a lot better today, with the assistance of Tylenol and ibuprofen and some stretching and resting.  That article I posted this morning about finding the joy in your life when disability challenges are all around? Yep. Apropos for yesterday. 

Hopefully you had a great week and are on the hunt for stuff to read over the weekend. Subscribe to my Patreon page and I'll keep you busy. I even have stuff to offer the littles!

I got a lot of work done this week organizing notes and pulling together the first couple of issues of Owl's Eye View Magazine which is coming in January.  I can't wait for you to read it!  Ooky stuff coming every week. 

I'm also concentrating on memoir and personal experience pieces, which will come each week as well. 

Blaze McRob is getting ready to start up his Patreon page in a few short weeks.  For those of you looking for awesome horror reads, you'll find them on his Patreon page in spades!

If you're looking for some chuckles, my friends Alison Tennent has a book out:  Stung on the Nipple Twice, and other tragic tales  A.M. Tennent.  Made me feel a whole lot better last night during the back pain. 

Come find me on Patreon!

Thank you for reading! 

Ter

https://www.patreon.com/BrokenOldBroad

Please look for Novels and other works by Terri DelCampo on most digital market sites:

NOVELS

 

Reflection

Into the Mist

Holy Terrors

MEDS

Parliament

True Crime Shelf

James Reborn

 

NOVELLAS

 

Tooth for a Tooth

 

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Find Terri DelCampo online:

Blazing Owl Press (Founding Partner/writer/editor):

http://www.blazingowlpress.blogspot.com/

Twitter Page:

https://twitter.com/terridelcampo

 

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http://terridelcampo.blogspot.com/

 

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