This thread is for authors in the Paranormal/Supernatural/Horror Genre to be able to meet and discuss topics and issues faced in this genre. If you are in this genre and you do not see your name listed, please comment below and tag me in it. Link to the Paranormal/Supernatural/Horror Member Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Pt02mjcycw_xo0WCoZi6Rdyz6EPHq7630dtV8R-gbw/edit?usp=sharing ------- @Rebecca Phillips @Ricardo Coto @Oleg Shleyfer @Anita Biers @Kim Brooks @Rickey Pittman @Jonathan Stanyer @Deborah Fox @Amy Murdoch @Margaret Moxom @Joy Davis

We just had our first coffee Hour Meetup and some fantastic ideas have been spun out of them. The idea I want to work on is this? I would like to start having regional Virtual Coffee Hour Meetups so that the Authors in certain regions of the country can come together and become friends. Every time a new author joins us we can direct them to the regional meetups so they can start building relationships with authors near them. Also regional meetup events can be done by Big Book Love Regional Leaders. The second idea is to start having Virtual Coffee Hour Meetups for Genres that authors write in so that you guys can mastermind together with authors writing what you are writing. Before we can start this, there is some information that we need to get from you guys. 1. What genre is your main genre you write in? 2. Would you be interested in these localized virtual meetups and genre specific meetups? 3. What days and times are best for you to get online for these meetups? 4. Would you be interested in becoming a Virtual Coffee Hour Regional Leader? Regional Leaders would be made into moderators for the community and you would have the ability to host these meetups right here in our live call zoom room. I would train each Regional Leader so that you understand how the software works. Just throwing this idea out there to gauge interest. Comment below your answers so we can begin to figure how to make this work for the most amount of people.+ Paul Roberson Community Executive Director https://www.bigbooklove.com/paul-l-roberson/

Let me tell you something about turning seventy. Nobody throws you a parade. There's no certificate that arrives in the mail congratulating you on making it this far. What you do get is a whole lot of people treating you like you're already halfway to the grave, speaking a little louder when they talk to you, asking if you need help with things, you've been doing perfectly well since you were six years old in 1955. Well, I've got news for everyone: I'm seventy years old, and I'm not dead yet. Not even close. My husband? Yes, he's dead. It's been five years now. And for a long time, too long, if I'm being honest, I acted as if I'd died right along with him. Wore my widow's weeds like they were sewn onto my skin. Became a professional mourner. An expert at being the sad woman at the end of the pew, the one people whispered about at church socials. "Poor thing," they'd say. "She's taking it so hard." And I was. God knows I was. Forty-eight years of marriage doesn't just evaporate because someone's heart stops beating. You don't just shake it off like water after a swim. But here's what I've figured out, sitting in this house that's too quiet, eating dinner at a table set for one, watching television shows he would have hated: I earned the right to have the life I want now. Not the life everyone thinks I should have. Not the life that looks appropriate for a woman my age. The life I want. George Burns, now there was a man who understood something about aging, once said, "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." I've got that quote taped to my bathroom mirror, right next to the magnifying mirror I use to pluck the chin hairs that have decided to throw a party on my face without my permission. Every morning, I look at those words, and I think: He's right. Getting older is mandatory. Getting old? That's a choice. And I'm choosing not to.

As a contribution to this wonderful Book Club, I'm making available a copy of my published novel, Dormant Angels - A Secret Kapt Buried For 2000 Years. Here is the synopsis: When archaeologist Albert Whitfield unearths five enigmatic copper tablets beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount, he stumbles upon a truth concealed for two millennia. The discovery should have been his career's crowning achievement. Instead, it awakens something that should have stayed buried. As an ancient evil stirs, its influence spreading like poison through the Holy City, Whitfield races to decode the tablets' cryptic message. But he's not alone in his pursuit. A shadowy figure known only as The Collector will stop at nothing to claim the tablets—and the terrifying power they guard. From the hallowed halls of the Vatican to the blood-soaked stones of Jerusalem, Whitfield and his allies—brilliant historian Jennifer and battle-scarred Father Robles—must unravel a secret that powerful forces have killed to protect. Because if they fail, the Dormant Angels will rise. And this time, there may be no banishing the darkness. Don’t miss the explosive ending to a story eerily similar to today's events! If you enjoy it please leave a comment here and on Amazon. Below is the PDF. (ePub available upon request) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XDppdGfD_2QTzTWGJkKoHyg47w7Cg7ng/view?usp=sharing

When her husband of 48 years died, the seventy-six-year-old author thought her life was over—until she realized it was just beginning. This laugh-out-loud memoir chronicles her journey from grieving widow to independent woman who refuses to "dry up" in her old house, navigating hilarious dating disasters, pushy adult children, and the shocking discovery that she's still got it. A warm, witty guide for widows ready to reclaim their lives and find the Merry inside themselves. (The names of ALL the men the author encountered have been changed to preserve their fragile male egos.)