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Tuesday Evening Ramblings

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I’ll be in Louisville this weekend for FandomFest.  It will be my last public appearance for 2011, unless Seventh Star Press does some kind of a book launch for Book Three.  This will also be my last convention under the banner of Third Axe Media, so it’s a little bittersweet.  I’m hoping to go out with a bang and sell a bunch of books and posters.  The show is shaping up to be awesome with the headliners being John Carpenter and Henry Winkler.

I will head up on Thursday so I don’t have to rush on Friday.  I’m looking forward to seeing some old friends and meeting all the folks involved with Seventh Star.  I doubt I’ll get to rest much because of my panel schedule and table, but it’ll be nice to have a weekend away even if I will be working most of the time.

I’ll try to write another blog tomorrow or Thursday will my full panel schedule, so any of my friends and readers in Kentucky will know where to find me.  If you live close to Louisville, come out to the Fern Valley Hotel and Convention Center and check out the show.  It should be a blast.

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Thursday Morning Ramblings

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Three and a half years ago, I was a broken man.  The turmoils of the economy spiraling out of control had sapped me as I worked two full-time jobs just to tread water.  The unrealistic expectations of Tusculum College working me like a dog and treating me like a second-class citizen had exhausted my body.  The struggles to launch my writing career had dampened my spirit.  And the neediness of a lazy, selfish, lying, cheating wife had crushed my soul as I felt used and discarded like a bag of garbage.  Three and a half years ago, I had nothing left to fight with.

For two and a half years, I languished in hell, missing my children, feeling like a failure, believing myself at fault for everything, but still, I struggled to get to my feet.  Many nights, I cried myself to sleep.  Many mornings, I forced myself out of bed and put one foot in front of the other.  I wrote on book three, traveled to conventions, started this blog, taught my classes at Walters State and slowly, ever so slowly, lifted myself from the depths.

Today, I am not broken.  Today, my will has been reforged in the fires of hell and is stronger than ever before.  Today, my body is hale and virile.  My spirit is refreshed.  My soul is renewed.  Today, I am decent man, working as an instructor of English, writing my fourth book, and building an organic farm.  If you knew me three and a half years ago and believe I am weak and shattered, you will be surprised, for while I admit that back then all my fight was gone, today, I’m a new man.  Today, I’ve got the green light; I’ve got a little fight.  I’m gonna turn this thing around.  Can you read my mind?

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Cinema of Shadows

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Seventh Star Press is proud to unveil the brand new cover art by Matthew Perry created for Michael West’s Cinema of Shadows, which will make Harmony, Indiana a household name with horror readers everywhere.

A pre-ordering window is now open for readers interested in a limited edition hardcover of Cinema of Shadows, which features a Matthew Perry illustration not included in the regular editon.  Only 75 numbered copies of the limited edition will be issued, at a price of just $34.95.

There is also a special pre-order offer for the regular trade paperback edition.  Both of the pre-order offers include an array of Cinema of Shadows collectibles, including a beautiful 14X20 poster of one of the interior illustrations (also by Matthew Perry), a set of 5X7 glossy art cards, bookmarks, a pair of buttons, and a magnet.  Copies can be pre-ordered in the online store at http://www.seventhstarpress.com and will be shipped August 1st, to ensure arrival before the book’s August 7th street date.

Cinema of Shadows welcomes you to the Woodfield Movie Palace.

The night the Titanic sank, it opened for business…and its builder died in his chair.   In the 1950s, there was a  fire; a balcony full of people burned to death.  And years later, when it became the scene of one of Harmony, Indiana’s most notorious murders, it closed for good.  Abandoned, sealed, locked up tight…until now.

Tonight, Professor Geoffrey Burke and his Parapsychology students have come to the Woodfield in search of evidence, hoping to find irrefutable proof of a haunting.  Instead, they will discover that, in this theater, the terrors are not confined to the screen.

Cinema of Shadows will ultimately be available in trade paperback, hardcover, and a variety of eBook editions.

Spook House, the next Harmony, Indiana novel from Michael West, is slated for 2012 release, with another title coming in 2013.

Updates and additional information can be obtained at the official site for Seventh Star Press, at www.seventhstarpress.com , or at the author’s site at www.bymichaelwest.com