The October Plan

 If your reading this blog because you want to know what Shiver and Fears is planning, then you've come to the right place! We can't give much though.

First, lets start off with the Monsterfied contest. You're only going to hear about our remaining monsters on Instagram. Because that were our judges are picking the best monsters. But I will say, just like last year, we will have a first place and second place. Our first place and 2nd place winners will win their first audio book of Shiver and Fears, and be posted all over the media!

Second, we are giving away key chains to our fans. We'll be posting those on our next blog, and a few sites as well. These key chains are special, they are custom made by Shrinky dinks and put together on golden lobster clasp. Last year we gave a haunted charm bracelet to one of our fans. She enjoys it a lot and wears it constantly on October.

If you haven't checked our website, Shiverandfears.com, then you haven't heard about Shiver and Fears new upgrade for covers. No, we're not talking about Mei Wu, we're talking about the complete look on the book. What we used to do is place a Polaroid photo as the cover, but starting 2021 we are placing the cover in a hallway of an open door.

 Here is an example. One thing we want to do is add an icing feature to the cover. We'll see what happens. We got time.

Meanwhile, we are still giving birthday prizes to our first 5 Facebook fans of each month. But with it being Halloween month, we're doing more. We posting quiz questions on special groups and giving away MORE audiobook prizes! Wow, that's a lot!

Another thing we're trying to do is get people interested in sending horror photos so we can share them. We'll see how that works.

Fall into a Busy Year

   You might be wondering what have I been up to for the past 3 weeks. It’s been a very busy month, I usually blog about 2 per month. (including the Author of the month) But September is a very busy month for me. For one thing I’m receiving wonderful gifts from friends, family, and fans this year. I got a surprise message from Jason and Kylie. 

   If you haven’t guessed, my birthday was just two weeks ago! Once that was done I talked to Alisa Reyes and asked her to make a video for my friend for HIS birthday. So I’ve been working on that for a while. 

   You also may have forgotten that next month we reveal the monster of the year! So far, we are down to our semifinalists, only 6 more to choose from. Our judges are doing a great job, they know what’s scary! 

   Meanwhile, I have been spending hours at work for all three jobs, coaching, teaching, and writing. In fact, I’m late for the new “Magical Times” book. As for ‘Shiver and Fears’ they will be making a comeback in 2021 of Spring. Now what about my new job as an artist? Well Music is coming and going. Only because I am working on a NEW new project which is learning to read music. 

Shocking, huh?! This is one of the busiest parts of the Shiver and Fears team, and with Randon having to quit and Mei coming to her last projects, I'll be back into working on this stuff alone. (very common) Don’t Worry though, we are keeping you informed with as much info as possible about our plans. We hadn’t even talked about Halloween yet, huh? Wouldn’t you like to know! 

Let's Meet an Author: Angelina Kanan

 

Meet our new author we chose. Her name is: Angelina Kanan

She wrote the book "Beasts"

Go here to read this book> Beasts

Angelina enjoys Singing, cooking, writing, crochet, knitting & reading (fascinating stuff!)

check out her stuff at www.angelinakanan.com

Angelina favorite book genre is Fantasy Romance & that is also what she writes too!

Comment on what you think about her book. We'd love to hear from you!

A Collection of Areas

 We already disscussed about how Shiver and Fears is a big thing, and how my work may not be popular, but it is grabbing attention from people all over the place.I've chatted with Kyle Massey, Louie Crown, Issac Brown, and a few fans as well. Let me get to the point: So, my work has traveled to dozens of sites, and although I can't show you EVERY SINGLE ONE. I've highlight the main ones here: FLOWPAGE.

Which one was the most interesting to you? I will tell you, the most popular is the music on spotify! Everyone is loving the song On the Shelf! You tube is big too, there are not just songs, but vlogs, skits, and stories. My most favorite is Behance. If you check it out, you'll see why.

If you are an artist in books, music, or fashion, then you might want a flowpage too! To me, it's the easiest way to show all your work without a long list of links.

Sorry, I wanted to post this for you to see... What do you think? Scary, don't you think? You know they don't have a lot of monster shoe picture, not unless they are "cute" for kids. Here at Shiver and Fears, we don't want cute. We want fun scares! That doesn't include blood covered monsters eating babies. (No need to ask where that idea came from!) 

Anyway, another thing I want to inspire you to do is check out more blogs about these author's we met with. They are pretty fun, once you get to know them. And hey we just had a monster parade on instagram, check that out too, @shiverandfears

Illustration partner

Before I tell you some fun news let me make sure you know about what you alrweady know. My artist partner Randon Timberlake has re-illustrated a few book covers for Shiver and Fears. and he still is, but as time passes it might be time to work with another partner. So that's where this artwork comes in. If you haven't heard, Shiver and Fears got an upgrade with the book "Why I Don't Play Video Games" more gruesome huh? This was put together by Mei Wu and artist found on social media. We'll see how well this goes. Meantime, we're not sure if Random still wants to work with us. Who's artwork do you like more? Randon or Mei? Randon did his picture for the book "Puppet Family" Awkward don't you think? I think so for sure.

Meanwhile here is another fearing story to tell! We are monsterfying our fans early this year! Why, you may ask, here is what we're thinking: Starting in the month of October give us 10 days for entries, 20 days for votes, and 1 day to reveal winner. (broken up evenly) By starting in August, that's a whole month to enter in the contest, a month to chat with our judges and enough time to choose which monster is the best for the whole year!

 This is an example of one of our monster fans. This isn't really the guy who entered, but he sent a picture of someone, I guess his brother, and we made a monster out of him. That's the fun part of the contest, it doesn't have to be a portrait of yourself, it can even be a drawing! Just as long as we have a name behind it, you're in.

We are encouraging social media fans to send us a picture by DM, but for you blog readers, enter the contest by sending your picture to shiverandfears@gmail.com. Just remember to add your name so if you win we know who it belongs to.

That's all we have for now, but if we have any more news... well, you know how to find us!

Let's Meet an Author: Keshia McEntire

You ready for this one? Meet Keshia McEntire

she is the writer of The Eden Saga:

(Saving Eden and Finding Eden)

Just click here < to see her work

Other than writing Keshia is interested in photography, travel, and baking

Keshia doesn't have a website, but she does have a facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KRSMCENTIRE/

she likes to read YA dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy

and writes YA dystopian (with science fantasy elements)

Reminds me of Magical Times books I write. Hers might be a little more adventurous. Comment what you think

Shiver and Fears

8th Bookaversary, Shiver and Fears

Shiver and Fears annual book anniversary is today! Wow, to think one book started all this! Back in 2012 The Haunted Cell Phone was just manuscript on a computer, but soon became an idea for everyone to read.

Now we have reached 32 horror fiction books in 8 wholes years. Over 150 audio books from this series has been sold and made around $300 doing it! About 7 teenage tv stars have made an appearance video in Shiver and Fears behave. 3 books reviewers have commented about the author and his books (me).

Shiver and Fears has made contact to 1584 people on Facebook and has a total of 277 likes on Facebook and 342 followers on Instagram. 

Now you gaze at this information and might be like "Don't sound so successful to me." But the truth is the fact that numbers do go up, and the fact that this series has traveled the globe to many english-speaking people, shows more than you think.

It's good to know the bookaversary still stands even with all this craziness going around. We'll be sure to check rating next year and compare how much has changed!

Happy Bookaversary!