Good luck, WerewolfWriter!  And, welcome to the Café!

Hey werewolfwriter! 

      I do not believe I formally welcomed you to the Cafe'. So Welcome to the Cafe! If you have any questions or problems just drop a line and I'll sort them out for ya.

     Also that is fantastic that your a published author.  I hope your book selling endeavors go well! I'm actually currently working on some literary works myself and am hoping to get them completed and polished enough for publication someday.

Hello! I'm Slayer! It's a pleasure to meet you!! *offers choco-chip delight brownies*

I went and saw Red Riding Hood after reading your review and I enjoyed it a lot, thanks!

Kormiak, you might be right about the power of the moon thing. When I wrote my weekly world news story about lunar rays turning Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts into werewolves, a reader quite rightly pointed out there are no such thing as moon rays. After all, the moon doesn't produce light, it's just reflected light from the sun. On the other hand, there are those studies that show a spike in crime rates when the moon is full, so something weird is going on with Earth's satellite. I guess the change-at-will werewolf is more logical, or perhaps the change-under-stress (like the Hulk) werewolf. But for movies like the Wolfman, where the lycanthrope is a tragic victim, you obviously needed a transformation device out of the protagonist's control.

i write things too, but i havent gotten anything published. i have one thing i wanna TRY and get published, i just have to type it up. ^^

and, on the moon thing, i think its because of how the moon affects tides, you know? considering we're about 75% water, its bound to have SOME sort of effect on us, and its a little different for everyone. for some it raises bloodlust, otehrs it raises, well....OTHER lust, XD, and for some, it raises both. but thats just an example. XD

Well, my werewolf novel Hour of the Beast has finally been published! My book launch party at a local  bookstore is this Saturday and I'm so psyched. It's available in eBook format and on Kindle, and you can order it at any bookstore, but the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to get it is at the website http://freedomshammer.com. You gotta check this site out. Among the fun features: the 15 best Weekly World News werewolf stories ever! And the book cover by the great British artist Martin McKenna is one of the coolest pieces of werewolf art in years!

I shot a video promoting my new werewolf novel Hour of the Beast and have posted it on YouTube. I think it's pretty darned good. You can check it out and hear about the roller-coaster ride I went through to make it at http://freedomshammer.wordpress.com Or go straight to the video at http://youtu.be/sT6lJnd5Drw. And don't forget to share it if you like it!

Dira, my publisher is Freedom's Hammer Books. I had my book launch party Fiction Addiction in Greenville last Saturday. It went well. I was amazed at who showed up at the book store. Pretty much everyone I've met since I moved to town, from the kid's sewing teacher to the contractor remodeling our kitchen. The posters mounted on a sandwich board really helped draw in curious readers.

Dira, my wife handles the business/publicity side and was the one who tracked down this small press outfit. I'll get the info from her.

Meanwhile, I posted a pretty cool news story on my blog: "Werewolf Obedience Schools all the Rage in Switzerland." http://freedomshammer.wordpress.com

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Went to the SC book festival to publicize my book and sell signed copies at a booth. Cool experience. Met some very interesting folks, including the writer in the booth next to me. He was selling a book called Pirates of the Savannah -- and was dressed as a pirate! The gimmick helped draw readers to his booth, he explained. (Plus, what a great excuse to dress up). He also had a neat prop, called a "boarding ax." Basically it looks like a short musket, but on the end, kind of like a bayonnette, it has this wicked-loooking ax. The idea is that when you're boarding a captured vessel, you squeeze off one good shot to terrorize your enemy, then do him in with a quick swiipe of the hatchet.  We agreed that I need a good prop for my booth next time. Any suggestions?

Verrrry tempting, Dira. Actually, what I was thinking of was a werewolf hand, kind of a mummified-looking thing that I could stick in a pseudo-formaldehyde filled old jar. When asked, I tell folks I got it from an old curiosity shop that got if from a carnival way back when. I'm not saying I know for sure it's the genuine article. Then again, I'm not saying I know for sure it's not. Just for fun, it'll have a sign in front of it that says "Price $35,000." "Warning: Do not open jar. Do NOT let paw come in contact with open wound." Does that sound like something you could pull off?