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:

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

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

Twitter Page:

https://twitter.com/terridelcampo

 

Broken Old Broad Blogs (Personal update blog):

http://terridelcampo.blogspot.com/

 

Facebook: Personal Page:

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

Facebook: Owl's Eye View Magazine Page:

https://www.facebook.com/Owls-Eye-View-Magazine-296740517101/?fref=ts

 

Facebook: Blazing Owl Press Page:

https://www.facebook.com/BlazingOwlPress?ref=hl

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

 

Broken Old Broad Blogs! (Personal update blog):

http://terridelcampo.blogspot.com/

 

Facebook: Personal Page:

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

Facebook: Author Page:

https://www.facebook.com/Terri-DelCampo-1641874719402682/timeline/

 

Facebook: Owl's Eye View Magazine Page:

https://www.facebook.com/Owls-Eye-View-Magazine-296740517101/?fref=ts

 

Facebook: Blazing Owl Press Page:

https://www.facebook.com/BlazingOwlPress?ref=hl

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Terri DelCampo's Patreon plans - week one

 

How are you today, my awesome readers?

It's been an exciting week for me and I've learned a lot – about Patreon, about publishing. Patreon in different than other platforms I've published on – it combines publishing with promoting which is demanding and fun all at the same time. 

Demanding in that you do all the work at once – writing, posting, and then figuring out ways to catch the eyes of readers looking for what I've got.  I know you're out there! Pick a tier and sign up! Put a little ooky on your lunch menu. Find a kid story to read to your little. Read an essay about a topic we both have opinions about.

If you don't see anything that floats your boat, drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do because Patreon is all about you and what you want to read. 

So far I have thirty pieces published on Patreon, and I'm adding to them every day. I've been popping new stories/essays/poems up every day since my launch trying to get cool stuff in front of your eyeballs. 

I'm already tweaking the hell out of my Patreon Plans –

I was only going to have one tier with everything on it, but I now have four – Kid's stuff ($3/month), horror stories ($3.25/month), non-fiction & poetry ($3.75/month), and a combo that has everything ($10/month).  I did that because I wanted to create a tier that would separate my children's stories from everything else. And I took into consideration that people looking for horror stories might not care about my personal essays – thus, three separate tiers and one big ol' pile of everything. 

Another idea I tweaked was publishing on Fridays. I decided to expand on that.  I'm putting up stuff every day.  I planned to put a piece up from each of my niches every week – and that's still my plan, but I'm going to put one or two things up a day. 

Then there is Freebie Friday when I put up a piece or two for free. 

Now I need to get some attention! So check out the stuff I have up – some is for free just to give you samples of my work. Come on, everybody! Broken Old Broad writing here!

Drop me a line! Eyeball my page and subscribe – it's like watering a story tree. Come read under it!

For those of you who read this blog regularly, I'm changing its name from Pause for Thought to Broken Old Broad Blog to make it more easily found. I hope you like it! 

Have a great week!

Ter

What Publishing Platform Protects Writers the Best?

 

Broken Old Broad Writes

What Publishing Platform Protects Writers the Best?

Don't want to get cloned and ripped off again. 

 

Jeez, it's been a long time since I posted on my blog. I am shopping around for a new publishing platform because not only did Medium change their Terms of Service contract to further exploit their authors (which boggles the mind, because we were already groveling for claps and pennies), but the entire site was recently cloned, which means that in China and Russia and other countries where copyrights mean nothing, our material is being scrubbed of our bylines and used without our permissions – aka pirated.

So in my search for a new home for my somewhat large body of work, I am interested in knowing how well protected each of the sites I'm considering actually are.

I am not all that computer savvy – nor am I well-versed in tech-speak. I just want a general comparison about how much one site protects their material as opposed to others.

And also, I know there isn't much recourse when pursuing pirates in countries that don't cooperate, but how responsible can I hold publishing platforms for the loss of my copyrighted material?

I'm sure Medium is receiving a deluge of questions from irate writers because the entire site was scraped and cloned. Every single publication. How much protection is available for writers, and do individual publications, like "The Atlantic" have more protection from their own end? 

Before I choose a publishing platform, I want to find out about this.

I would appreciate answers from various tech support departments of the platforms I'm considering, and if anyone else wants to chime in and tell me why theirs is better, I'm all ears. 

Thank you!

 

 

US Democracy in Jeopardy

The Russians landed planes and troops in Venezuela on Monday, March 25^th, 2019. They received a 'rebuke' from the United States.   Venezuela is about 1700 miles from Florida. The range for an ICBM is 5000 miles. 

And the President of the United States does virtually nothing.

When the Russians planted missiles in Cuba in 1962, President Kennedy recognized the threat to our national security and did more than 'rebuke' Krushchev. He stood toe to toe with him for 13 days until Russia removed the damned missiles. 

Does anyone realize the nuclear threat here? The threat of invasion? Does anyone care that the Trump administration has apparently sold out our democracy?

And where the hell is the media? The only reports I see about this act of aggression are from the BBC and the Wall Street Journal.

We don't need the Mueller report; we only need to open our eyes. Trump is setting our country up for his Kleptocracy, with Russian backing.  It's obvious. It's imminent. What the hell happened to the United States making the world safe for democracy? What happened to making our country safe for democracy? Apparently Americans are too busy squabbling to open their eyes and see the evidence of collusion.  No loyal American president would allow Russia to invade Venezuela, so close to the US. 

Wake the hell up, Americans. All the rest of Trump's crimes pale in comparison to this treason. And many of those crimes are tied to it. He's been beholden to Russia for decades.  And he proved that when he kissed Putin's ass in front of the whole world in Helsinki. 

Trump belongs to the Russian mob, which controls the Russian government. And he is taking over our country with their help. They bailed him out of bankruptcy in the late 1980s, and because of that we now have a compromised president who is selling out our democracy. We have a crime syndicate in the White House posing as our government.

Read:

"House of Trump, House of Putin" by Craig Unger

"View from Flyover Country" by Sarah Kendzior