Category: The Art of Writing

Phil Slattery’s Sci-Fi Novelette “Alien Embrace” Is Free on Amazon Kindle on March 8

My novelette Alien Embrace will be free on Amazon Kindle on March 8.

Logan Rickover, owner of a hardware store in a small town in Kentucky, has lucid dreams of life as an astronaut that intrude upon his life at any moment. Which of his lives is real? The quiet paradise of Danville or the terrifying jungle world of Stheno D?

Ron Baker commented, “This short has exactly what I like in science fiction: planet exploration and bizarre otherworldly aliens, in this case insectoid. The horrendous purpose the aliens have for the hapless astronauts who make planetfall to find the numerous previous missing exploration teams is grisly. I love the mystery of the planet and the authors device of alternating from the aliens bizarre perspective then switching to the astronauts point of view.”

I will be offering more of my works for free in the upcoming weeks.  Check back often.

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From Newsweek: Netflix will turn “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez into a limited series.

By Andrew Whalen

March 07, 2019

Netflix will turn Gabriel García Márquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude into a limited series, the first time the landmark novel has been adapted for the screen.

The new adaptation, which Netflix announced Wednesday, will be executive produced by the novelist’s sons, Gonzalo and Rodrigo García. García Márquez had many offers to adapt the novel during his lifetime, but was concerned that One Hundred Years of Solitude would not translate well to screen, especially within the confines of a movie. García Márquez was also determined that any adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude be produced in Spanish, which the Netflix series will be.

“Netflix was among the first to prove that people are more willing than ever to see series that are produced in foreign languages with subtitles. All that seems to be a problem that is no longer a problem,” Garcia said in the Netflix announcement.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a tricky adaptation because of the astonishing breadth of its narrative. Rather than following a handful of characters, One Hundred Years of Solitude is about the grand sweep of history, following multiple generations of the Buendia family—beginning with the founding of the fictional town of Macondo by family patriarch José Arcadio Buendia—over a century. Along the way they encounter civil wars, the coming of the railroads and seemingly divine interventions, all spread over seven generations.

“I’ve been hearing the discussion about whether or not to sell the rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude since I was eight,” Garcia said. “It was not an uncomplicated decision to make, for myself and my brother and my mom.”

The new deal isn’t the first time Netflix has tried to acquire rights to the landmark novel, but recent Spanish-language successes like Narcos and Roma have demonstrated the streaming service’s ability to, according to Netflix’s vice president for Spanish language Originals, “make Spanish-language content for the world.”

Originally published in 1967, Márquez’s novel is, according to UNESCO, the third most translated Spanish-language book and the foundational text of magical realism, a genre marked by both its modernity and fabulism, portraying seemingly real-world events intersecting with the profoundly paranormal or allegorical.

One Hundred Years of Solitude on Netflix doesn’t yet have a release date. It will be set and filmed in Colombia.

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“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle

Diabolical (e-book)

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

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If you enjoy horror, check out my collection of horror short stories A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror: Stories of wizards, werewolves, serial killers, alien worlds, and the damned, which includes these stories.