Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapter One)
Release Date: 11/16/2024
Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #74: Exploring Literary Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Biography, and Autobiography
Mark McNease Mysteries
I’ve written in several genres, formats and mediums over the years. Each has its own requirements, expectations and parameters: short stories, novellas (generally under 40,000 words), novels, poetry, screenplays, television scripts, and stage plays. For now let’s focus on some working definitions for genre fiction, nonfiction, and biography/autobiography. For that past 15 years I’ve written primarily mysteries, thrillers, and some horror/supernatural fiction. I’ve also written countless blog posts, columns and articles, but that’s for another day and would require more words than...
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #77: A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due (Chapters 13-15)
Mark McNease Mysteries
Today’s episode continues ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due.’ This story was inspired by an old house along the road where we live. It’s since been torn down—too many ghosts hanging around, possibly—but every time we walked by it when it was empty I kept imagining something evil behind the old faded door. It helped that we live in the woods, providing a read-made title. We called it the spooky house. It soon became the center of two books: A House in the Woods, and A House in Woods 2. A House in the Woods 2 picks up where A House in the Woods left off....
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #76: A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due (Chapters 10-12)
Mark McNease Mysteries
Today’s episode continues ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due.’ This story was inspired by an old house along the road where we live. It’s since been torn down—too many ghosts hanging around, possibly—but every time we walked by it when it was empty I kept imagining something evil behind the old faded door. It helped that we live in the woods, providing a read-made title. We called it the spooky house. It soon became the center of two books: A House in the Woods, and A House in Woods 2. A House in the Woods 2 picks up where A House in the Woods left off....
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #75: A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due (Chapters 7-9)
Mark McNease Mysteries
Today’s episode continues ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due.’ This story was inspired by an old house along the road where we live. It’s since been torn down—too many ghosts hanging around, possibly—but every time we walked by it when it was empty I kept imagining something evil behind the old faded door. It helped that we live in the woods, providing a read-made title. We called it the spooky house. It soon became the center of two books: A House in the Woods, and A House in Woods 2. A House in the Woods 2 picks up where A House in the Woods left off....
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #74: Michael Connelly's 'Nightshade' Launches New Series with a Bang
Mark McNease Mysteries
Welcome to my newest recommendation. I won't call these reviews, at least not technically, because I won't be offering anything I didn't like! These are books I've read and think you'll enjoy, too. We're starting out with a brand new series and character from Michael Connelly, a maestro in the detective genre whose crime novels I've been devouring for thirty years. I couldn't put this one down, which is almost always true for me with a new Michael Connelly. Listen in and see what I think of the author, his writing, and his new must-read 'Nightshade.'
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #73: A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due (Chapters 4-6)
Mark McNease Mysteries
Today’s episode continues ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due.’ This story was inspired by an old house along the road where we live. It’s since been torn down—too many ghosts hanging around, possibly—but every time we walked by it when it was empty I kept imagining something evil behind the old faded door. It helped that we live in the woods, providing a read-made title. We called it the spooky house. It soon became the center of two books: A House in the Woods, and A House in Woods 2. A House in the Woods 2 picks up where A House in the Woods left off....
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast: A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due (Chapters 1 - 3)
Mark McNease Mysteries
Welcome to the episodic audio edition of A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due. Fasten your headphones and enjoy one new chapter each week. This is not an audiobook in the conventional sense, and no audiobook narrators living or dead were harmed in its production. This is a way for me to share some of my writing in an audio format. So settle back and enjoy the screams. About A House in the Woods 2 A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due picks up where left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it...
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapter One)
Mark McNease Mysteries
I am so excited to bring back the Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast with one of my favorite stories ... a novella, actually, that had an incredibly long gestation in the recesses of my imagination. I'd put it off as an audio option because the voice technology I use wasn't quite good enough. Now I think it sounds terrific. Yes, it's AI/synthetic voice. I would never pretend otherwise. So fasten your headphones, and let's get this dark, dark party started. The year is closer than you think. The world has collapsed under the weight of its own insatiable needs, leaving shattered cities where those...
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Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #71: 'I, Warlock' 3 Chapter Sample, Narrated by Sean Rhead
Mark McNease Mysteries
New year, new exciting announcements! The audiobook for 'I, Warlock: The Warlock Wars Book I' is now out. Narrated by the terrific Sean Rhead (our third book together), this first book in the series introduces us to Julius Tide, reluctant warlock with vampire blood in his veins that has cursed him with an extraordinarily long life. He meets his beloved Charlotte at a fair in Vermont, and soon their destinies become one. This is the first book in a projected 3-book series, and it lays the groundwork for an epic battle between good and evil, with their surival hanging in the balance.
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Paper Hearts: A Short Story
Mark McNease Mysteries
Paper Hearts, a short story.
info_outlineI am so excited to bring back the Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast with one of my favorite stories ... a novella, actually, that had an incredibly long gestation in the recesses of my imagination. I'd put it off as an audio option because the voice technology I use wasn't quite good enough. Now I think it sounds terrific. Yes, it's AI/synthetic voice. I would never pretend otherwise. So fasten your headphones, and let's get this dark, dark party started.
The year is closer than you think. The world has collapsed under the weight of its own insatiable needs, leaving shattered cities where those who still have anything fight to keep it that way, and those who don’t are a constant threat. It’s a danger that must be contained through a tightly controlled society where everyone is observed and everything is kept in its place.
Harry Hellerman and his twin brother, Elliot, enter this world three minutes apart. By the time they’re teenagers, they’ve been surrendered to Control to be molded into the perfect assassins. A boy named Harry Hellerman enters, and a man named Harry Hell emerges: a killing machine of the highest order.