Happy Shiver and Fears Day!

 Today is a special day. No, it's not Shiver and Fears Bookaversary, that's over the summer. No, the hliday I'm talkling about is Shiver and Fears author's birthday is today!

 Sorry, you don't get a day off work because of it, but you do get to celebrate with a thriller collection of Goosebumps! That's right, today I'm enjoying my birthday with a marathon of Goosebumps.

But that's not all that's happening on this day. I will be passing around Shiver and Fears ebook stickers to my new fans at work! They are already enjoying Shiver and Fears books placed in their classroom, now it's time they enjoy a gift from the author. That's what makes this day super special!

Now you as a blog reader, might want in on this. If you're there, here's what you can do to join in the excitment. Leave a comment! I know I've told you this many times before, but no, seriously, leave a comment. a little kindness goes a long way, even if you don't know the author that well. 

We may not know each other well, but everyone deserves a happy birthday. Washington gets one, Amelia Airhart surely gets one! Gosh, I know for a fact R.L. Stines gets one. As a published author for 10 years, i deserve one too! 

Just leave a birthday comment, and watch what good it does for you!

Secret Site

 Guess what? Shiver and Fears is found on a secret site! Don't believe me? Want to know how? It's a very interesting story:

A few years ago, around the time Shiver and Fears was first in the making, I had found a website where writers can post their stories for the public to read. It was a great idea at the time. However, things didn't work out well. For one thing, Shiver and Fears was still in work in progress in gaining attention, so the original plot was to write books. 

This would mean no story ideas would be finished because all the attention would go the books, not the stories. Another issue about this site was so many ideas would come to mind all at once, So some ideas weren't published for the public. This means that time on writing had been avoided so much, the process had been forgotten.

This leads to the final reason why this secret site has been kept in the dark. This was around the time that "Magical Times" was beginning to become an idea. First, it was supposedly a story about my family living in my house. This was an idea because at the time, My sister and her daughter moved in with us temporarily. It was an idea that would never make it to books, because it was too realistic and rude to the family. The idea had been scraped!

Shiver and Fears was picking up a few years later, at this point the site was forgotten and was never mentioned again.Once other sites were gaining popular noticed by Shiver and Fears, search sites, such as GOOGLE began finding the most popular sites to mention Shiver and Fears. These sites include: Barnes and Noble,  Amazon,  Blogger, ACX, and the official site: Shiverandfears.com

Can anyone find this said site and recall any AJ Hard originals story ideas? Don't think so! You know why? Because I don't even remember this site. And so this mystery site will remain a story FOREVER!

Let's Find the Best Monster

Baby Ghoul

Well, it's September, which means we have entered all entries. Now we are at the part of this contest where Instagram viewers take a vote every weekend.

As you already know, Scarface is already hanging up his title as monster of the year.💼 Zombie Mouth has already disappeared! Now it's up to you, Instagram users. Who is the scariest monster of them all?

Could it be "Skinny Creeps" an instagramer who has a thing for Goosebumps! So far, he is tied with another monster "Creepy Clown" so they'll have to fun face to face in the polls later. 😮

Skinny Creeps

Here is a nominee from TikTok.👇 Yep, we even accept nominees! One thing that we are working on for this contest is getting contestants to create their own monster! But first, we need to get reconition.

Fang Thriller

I'm sure if you are reading this, you must be on instagram. So I'm letting you know, this Friday morning, be ready to vote for our next polls. You can find it at Shiver and Fears profile stories... If you know where they are!

Sell Books and Give Aways

 Shiver and Fears is working on a new process this year. Not only are we hosting the annual  Monsterfied contest but we are giving away and selling Shiver and Fears to our fans.

So far we are at our 6th book being sold. As for our give away last month, The firefighters and our young winner are both enjoying their copy and shirt from Shiver and Fears.

Now let's tak about the dominoes from before. What are we going to do with those? We're giving those away this Halloween season. How? Well we always keep our contest simple. Either by how many people respond, or just by number pull. But I want to do this one a little different... I got some time to think about it, but if you have any ideas, let me know. It's always good to hear suggestions from fans who like Shiver and Fears merch.

But as of now Shiver and Fears is still collecting entries for the monsterfied contest and introducing Boo the ghost. Hopfully byu the end of the school year we'll have eyes all around wanting more Shiver and Fears!

Maybe you are one now!

Good-bye Monsters

 Now that it's August, it's time to find some new monsters. Are you interested in entering in the monsterfied contest? You have a couple of choices: 1. you can send in a photo of whoever you want to get monsterfied by me. Or 2. You can download a monster app and make the monster youself to send in.

Our old friend Scarface will be missed, but he's had an enjoyable time. Being presented on christmas cards, social media shout outs, and stuff like that.

But now we give that title to another person. Who might it be? If you want to enter the contest go ahead, send your photo of your favorite celebrity, someone in your family, yourself and I'll take to my shop to my monster machine! Just joking. You can do it too! Send your photo to a monster app and start creating, then send in that photo to enter.

As for now, good-bye to Scareface and Zombie Mouth. Your fans will miss you... until our new monsters eat you for dessert!

Is the code working?

 

QR codes are complicated. Right now, I had to create and send a new QR Code invitation to everyone. The other one was expired. Now I've sent this code to dozens of people, and only a few answered and were able to see the invitation.

The Bookaversary! Oh snap, I almost forget to mention the most important thing! We will have gift bags, but we'll only have a total of 40. So our first 40 guests will recieve a giftbag, while guest number 41 (whoever that will be) will sign the card, and enter in the drawing contest- no, not like art drawing!

Each guest who wish to enter in the give-a-way with write down their name and email. then on Bookaversary day, I'll announce the winners on Youtube, and email them to send an address to give the gift to.

Each winner (only 2 winners) will get a hand print of a Shiver and Fears book and a shirt. Woo! I'm tired just from thinking about all that. Another thing I'm working on is getting the two Monsterfied winners to show up.

With our unmasked creature be present? We'll see.

Until then, scan that code and comment if it works.

Bookaversary Set up

It is now June. That means it's time for setup. The bookaversary is in July and invites are being delivered by email this year.

Last year went very well. So well, it has been decided to be the traditional way of Shiver and Fears. This year, the event will be held at the library. The same library that has watched me grow through the years. 

It pays to grow with connections.

Meanwhile things are being put together now. As of now, keychains are being printed, ebook codes have been laminated, and slap bracelets are being delivered soon. But still, gift bags need to be bought, and our monsters still need a talking to- hoping they can make an appearance for the fans.

Not to forget this year there will be a Shiver and Fears sweepstakes. Are you coming to the bookaversary? It's only half-way ready. But if you want to come, just ask for your QR code. My team and I hope to see you there!