Showing posts with label Liz Schulte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liz Schulte. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

Dark Corners
by Liz Schulte

Published: 2011
Publisher: CreateSpace
Genre: Ghosts, Mystery, Thriller
Paperback: 210 pages
Rating: 5

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Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her.

Waiting.

Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her.

Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life. Everyday reality slips a little more between her fingers as she struggles to break free from her memories. She must look deeper into her past as well as the present to discover truth of her husband's homicide.

A string of uncanny events takes place and practical explanations run thin as Ella follows the terrifying road to closure. As the past and present come to a head, Ella must decipher who or what the murderer is before it takes her as well.

Zombie sighting:
I did my best zombie shuffle to the kitchen.
- location 322, chapter 3


My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): disappearances
Holey moley! this one kept me guessing to the end!

I kept flip-flopping on if the murderer was a ghost or person.

What made this story especially interesting to me was that the main character is a writer - always love that perspective. It's the mind within the mind.

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* detour during the rrRoad Trip event

* read Liz's guest post on ghosts
- thanks to those who have shared their spooky ghost stories - i've enjoyed them!

* review copy courtesy of author

* part of Dark Corners blog tour - check out the other stops for more details on this book and goodies



Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Dark Corners: Ghosts

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by Liz Schulte
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Thank you for hosting me on you blog today. My subject today is ghost stories. Not the ones you read, but the ones you have experienced or know someone who has experienced a ghostly encounter.

I am a big fan staying in "haunted" hotels and bed and breakfasts. I consider myself an open-minded skeptic when it comes to all things ghostly. I don't believe ghosts are likely, but I am willing to believe there are things that cannot be explained. I am a proof sort of girl, and I have never had any experience I couldn't suss out. However, my mother has had her share of ghostly encounters in her life, some of which I use in my book DARK CORNERS.

The one I am going to tell you about today is not in the book. Mom and dad were in a hotel in Kansas and it is the middle of the night. The doors are locked, snoring piercing the quiet, and something unexplainable is about to happen. My mom opens her eyes to see a woman in sixties style clothes and a bouffant hair is leaning over her bed reaching towards her. Mom yells to get out of here, and the woman slowly fades into nothing as my dad wakes up. The room is searched and nothing is found. Mom is told it was a dream and the encounter is dismissed. Months later she is watching Unsolved Mysteries and swears she recognizes a girl who went missing from Texas in the sixties who was never found as the girl in her hotel room. Is it the same girl? Was it a ghostly encounter or a dream? No one can say for certain.

So tell me about your ghostly experiences?

What still gives you the creeps when you think about it?

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Many authors claim to have known their calling from a young age. Liz Schulte, however, didn't always want to be an author. In fact, she had no clue. Liz wanted to be a veterinarian, then she wanted to be a lawyer, then she wanted to be a criminal profiler. In a valiant effort to keep from becoming Walter Mitty, Liz put pen to paper and began writing her first novel. It was at that moment she realized this is what she was meant to do. As a scribe she could be all of those things and so much more.

When Liz isn’t writing or on social networks she is inflicting movie quotes and trivia on people, reading, traveling, and hanging out with friends and family. Liz is a Midwest girl through and through, though she would be perfectly happy never having to shovel her driveway again. She has a love for all things spooky, supernatural, and snarky. Her favorite authors range from Edgar Allen Poe to Joseph Heller to Jane Austen to Jim Butcher and everything in between.

Liz would love to hear from you and what you thought of Dark Corners.

Please stop by and visit at any of the below mentioned networks:

Liz's Blog

Liz's Facebook

Liz's Twitter

Liz on Goodreads

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by Liz Schulte
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--~ eBook Giveaway courtesy of author ~--

Dark Corners
by Liz Schulte

Win a copy of this ebook!

Open to all.

Offer ends: July 31, 2011

TO DO:
Answer one of Liz's questions...

So tell me about your ghostly experiences?

What still gives you the creeps when you think about it?


AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)

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Contest has ended - winner is here

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AND, there's more

Tour schedule
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The next blog stop: Jul 20 – Workaday Reads

Sunday, July 10, 2011

In My Mailbox - 7.10.11



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Story "The Woven Offspring"
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For Review:
Hatter
by Daniel Coleman
-fantasy
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Nikolas and Company:
A Creature Most Foul
by Kevin McGill
-fantasy
Released date: September 2011
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For Review and giveaway:

Dark Corners
by Liz Schulte
-thriller
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Hunted By The Others
by Jess Haines
-paranormal
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Kept
by Zoe Winters
-paranormal
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The Name of the Star
Shades of London - Trilogy
-thriller
by Maureen Johnson
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