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True Crime Tuesdays on the Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mary Cotton – the Arsenic Widow
Enjoy this True Crime Tuesdays episode, brought to you courtesy of author Franklin Maw’s upcoming Blood Evidence: 25 True Crime Chillers.
She married often, and buried often — husbands, stepchildren, her own children, one after another, in a mining town that had already seen more than its share of death. No one thought to ask why. Arsenic was cheap, convenient, and nearly impossible to prove… until someone finally did. This is the story of Mary Ann Cotton, one of Britain’s first convicted female serial killers, and the quiet, domestic horror she left behind in West Auckland. This is “The Arsenic Widow,” from Franklin Maw’s Blood Evidence.
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A Book Reading at Federal Twist Vineyard in Stockton, NJ
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Devil’s Wood Audiobook Now On Spotify and Select Retailers
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Devil’s Wood Audiobook Sample (Now on Spotify and Payhip)
Listen to a two-chapter, 20 minute sample of Devil’s Wood, the audiobook. You can now get it on Spotify, or directly from me at my Payhip storefront (Zip file and single MP3 file).
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Devil’s Wood Audiobook Now Available
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE
The audiobook edition of ‘Devil’s Wood’ is now available from Spotify or directly from my Payhip storefront. Fasten your headphones!
Antiques dealer Peter Brightly encounters an unusual walking stick at a mysterious estate sale where strangers come to bid on the remnants of a life. He sees its multi-colored wood, lovingly carved as if by the gods. It’s not just any walking stick. It has a sense of history and mystery to its beauty. He desires it at any price, knowing he must possess it. What he doesn’t know is that it must possess him, too.
Something changes when he brings it home. His health declines as his life unravels. Determined to understand what’s happening to him, Peter traces the object’s history through the lives of those who’ve owned it before, each trail leading further into darkness. A tree, an ancient people, a man and a curse. A woman he joins forces with to find the truth. Will the walking stick claim him as a debt to pay? Or will he bury it along with the forces that gave it life? Enter the Devil’s Wood for the answers. You may never come out.
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Paperbacks Available with Direct Buy!
Really happy to offer an option for folks who don’t want to get books on Amazon (my ebooks are already available at my PayHip storefront). This is for paperbacks. I’ll be offering my entire catalog soon. https://www.books.by/markmcnease
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Still Here: A Video Description of a Journaling Workshop
This is a short video description of a workshop designed specifically for LGBT participants. You can read about it, with dates and registration information HERE.
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Fearsome Fiction Podcast: The Devil’s Wood Journal Entry 7
Found in an abandoned cabin in the New Jersey woods, the Devil’s Wood Journal continues with Entry 7. The story has been told by the fireplace, but is any of it real? Is any of it even possible? Anonymous and the others debate the merits of a story so incredible it must be real.
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Devil’s Wood Now Available on Ingram
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Fearsome Fiction Podcast: The Book Is Out – Devil’s Wood Unleashed, and the Devil’s Wood Mythology
The curse has been broken! Devil’s Wood is now available as an ebook and paperback on Amazon (including Kindle Unlimited), and soon through Ingram for wider distribution. Today on the Fearsome Fiction podcast I offer a short introduction on the book’s release, then treat listeners to the Devil’s Wood mythology, all part of The Devil’s Wood project. Check it out at TheDevilsWood.com for much more, and listen to this origin story and the legend behind it all.
