AJ Hard-The Song Artist

Years ago Shiver and Fears was a book series that very little knew of. 7 years later, multiple readers from multiple states of the U.S. own a copy of a Shiver and Fears book. If a reader like yourself doesn't own one, or even if you don't know a reader with a Shiver and Fears book then that's on you! 

But this blog is about more than books, this blog is about music. That's right, music. As you might know, I preformed 'Someday' in front of a crowd in Golden, Missouri. A few weeks later that song received over 100 views on youtube, but it didn't stop there.

At this moment now, you can not only listen to 'Someday' at Youtube, but also purchase it at  amazon music as well  a few other songs written by me as well. Songs such as 'Gilded Cage', 'Good-Bye', and 'Friendship to Break' are included.

These songs, just like the books, are placed in many sites. Spotify, a downloadable site used for making playlists, have the 6 songs too. 6? You might be saying, "I'm only counting 4." Well 1 is a Christmas original called 'Who is Mrs. Claus' and the other is a karaoke of 'Someday'.

Now let's rewind, I said you may not know about Shiver and Fears, or even know someone who reads Shiver and Fears. That's your fault, and here's why. You've been reading about all the work I put into my books and my songs, but have you put any effort into sharing with your friends, family, co-workers, or neighbors? My thoughts are no.

What about you? If you really want to know more about Shiver and Fears books and any songs I've written all you have to do is ask... I'm waiting!

#1 HIT

Last week I spent my time at camp in Golden, Missouri at K.A.A. Now I start my blog with this story because I wasn't just a known author there. I was a known music artist. I had been going to this christian sports camp for around 9-15 years (still trying to calculate) and for the last 3 years, including this one, I had been what is called a Kaleo. I think of a Kaleo as a second hand counselor, the main difference is that Kaleos are more on vacation there than counselors.
Now understand, I became an author at 18 so I was a starting-off celebrity when I was a camper. But after 7 years I was starting to become a hit, not just in books, but in music too. You see Kaleos meet every few hours a day and always enjoy each other with a talent show. Now, my first year I wanted to join, but didn't have a talent prepared, so I tried an anecdote of one of my books. Funny thing was it became a hit! Other Kaleos today are asking, "Where's Heather?" (Something Strange About Greg) It was a real hoot when Heather came with us the year afterwards.
But this year was the year! I was planning on singing a song based on my new book Magical Times, but I was unable to finish it. I instead went with my catchy song (Someday) to sing from the inspiration of the kids. (The reason all my work is focused on them.) After I sung that song, it traveled. It started from the mouths of Kaleos, then it traveled to their phones on youtube, that song when from the Kaleo building to the cabins of 3 sections of the camp, next thing I know it went from the Kaleos to the campers of K3... or was it HG?

From what I heard it even traveled farther! It was to travel to the homes of different sections of the United States. With all this traveling of my song it made me realize how much support, love, and friends you can find at this camp. Not just for Camper to Kaleo people like me, but the everyone. There are a lot of stars at that camp that I know. Queen Comedians, Poets, Singers, Creative Actors, and Off-the-back Jokers. I'm always ready for another week at K.A.A, U Know!!!

trust fall

man overboard!

3 days of fog!

Listen to a free book

  Shiver and Fears have just received a message stating that A Creepy Christmas is now for sale at Audible.com. If you want a free audio book from Shiver and Fears just message or hashtag the title A Creepy Christmas and you'll be sent a code.
  This code can be used at Audible.com and after typing it in you'll get a credit, this credit pays for Shiver and Fears: A Creepy Christmas. You can enjoy a great story and don't even have to read it! but realize there's only 25 codes, so I suggest don't hesitate.

 By the way, Douglas isn't reading it, but our narrator is still good.Charles D. Baker has done a few good stories. But Doug is still our guy.
  After Listening to all five stories you can write a review on what you think and maybe even pass it to a friend. There's no need to keep it for yourself.
  If you want to listen a piece of the story go to the Website <here. Or just go to ITunes or something.
  Anyway, enjoy your holiday. This offer stands on all the websites: facebook, linkedin, google. Remember "Creepy Christmas" is the code for a code.

Working on it

  So here's the update for Shiver and Fears: Facebook fans had risen to 104 likes as we celebrate the October birthdays. Some have asked us what's so special about the birthday song to only play it in October? The answer is that they're in October, the month of Halloween, the perfect holiday to theme Shiver and Fears books.
   Instead of a Happy Birthday, they should have a horror birthday (Not to confuse it with Horrible birthday. We're not monsters, just scary artists) Meanwhile as we wrap up the October month we work on another project.
  We are selling shirt, just to see how it goes. No special reason, just want to get something of ours to sell. It'll only be for the fall season, and it's not world wide. Just for friends and family.
  Now if you are interested in Shiver and Fears stuff you know we have a store > at zazzle. But if your interested in free stuff we do have that give-a-way, It'll last until December, that will be the time when we start ordering the gifts and sending them to the fans.
  Hope our work makes a dent in our actions, you know it's not always easy making your work a success!
 
 

Writer's Jobs

The writer's job is to do one thing... WRITE! But I have to write, promote, draw, post, edit, update, work on products, websites, and pages... Are there any writers who actually do all this stuff? I wish I had a team. Just a few days ago I let go of who I thought were my team mates for Shiver and Fears books, but none of them could keep up with their duties. I had an editor, a product labeler, a fan club president, a video producer, even an illustrator. But here's the struggle: If I can't get a hold of the product labeler on phone, on facebook, on email and tell him "I want a Shiver and Fears pen made" how is he ever going to get it done? and if he can't get it done then how can I expect him to make anything else? So who's stuck with the job? The head of Shiver and Fears, the one who's trying to sell the books... in this case, it would be me, The Writer. Because I'm the editor, the producer, The head worker, the one who posts EVERYTHING, the idea man, the one who runs into 100 familiar people and say "I write books, you should check it out.", the idea man, the agent, the video producer, the artist, the contest host, the photographer... That's a lot of jobs for a writer, which is another job I do, and it doesn't seem like I good at any of them. Because the writer is suppose to do one...WRITE!

Working Solo

Shiver and fears had to fire the staff.... Ok, ok so technically there is no staff. No one was getting paid, but it was a team effort that no one was focused on. The graphics designer, Ashton, was fantastic at his work, but there's not much to do for Shiver and Fears in graphics. We had a Shiver and Fears fan club, but Skyler wanted to focus more on her singing carreer. Lastly our product designer was working in the store, so I thought, but even  Micha didn't have the time to help. AJ Hard is working alone now. I have from the start. However, writing is harder than I thought it was. See what I have to say in Writer's Jobs. As for now Shiver and Fears has over 100 mistakes and no one to help solve... for free. Money is the code-word and it's something that I'm unable to give to a few teammates. I guess you can call the Shiver and Fears team a volunteer job! But in this world, everything cost money.

A whole new writing style

So apparently writer have to write the same. have to have paragraphs, must be on the left not center. I mean I can understand too many commas, or too much use of a word, or even punctuation is wrong, but for something silly as aligning words a certain way, or making paragraphs. They say this isn't for the publishing, but for the readers as well. Why can't someone write a book to write? Why can't it just be a book and not be in some perfect comparison to every 10000 books in the word. Then there's the number issue, oh I dare not get into that! Don't take this the wrong way critics are good, they make sure you understand you know what's the problem, my only issue is that everything has to be like everything else. A burger shouldn't have to come with potato fries, why not sweet potato fries, or even a different side dish? We should all be different and shouldn't have to run things the same. Who makes these 'laws' on how a song should be sung, or how a book should be written, or how a movie should be filmed? I was told my work is great, it might not be the next R.L. Stine story, but it's good. I guess it takes a lot in order to make something better than good, or maybe good just isn't enough for this place we call home. 

Meet Shiver and Fears

It's time you were introduced to a new book series. Meet Shiver and Fears. I've done a lot of work with this series. It's not just a book, but a movie. It's not just a story, but a story involving actual people. It's not just something to read, but something to get involved with. Every now and then someone ask where to find a Shiver and Fears story, but realize. It's not hard. It's as popular as any book you read. All books have the same cover A polaroid picture of: a girl writing in her journal with a stranger behind her, a boy in bed with a monster underneath, a girl in the forest attacked by an arrow, or even a boy being held in the arms by ghosts. You can't say you can't find AJ Hard's book, because what book store doesn't sell them? Everyone's taken the challenge and none were able to answer. Now that you know where to buy a book when are you going to buy one? Or even better, listen to one?