For a guy that never intended or wanted to write a novel I don't really listen to myself very well. I just finished writing the last story for another long in the works book. The zombie novel began a lot of years ago as a short story called The Delicate Sound of Rain. I wrote… Continue reading Crap, I Did It Again…
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Information about and teasers of my books.
Trimming The Fat
For me there’s few things as upsetting as editing my writing. Well, wait, that’s not true, I really like editing my work when I am doing the editing but when it comes to someone else, well…I think loathe is letting the act get off a little easy. There is just something so clinical and… Continue reading Trimming The Fat
Why We Do It
Every so often I find myself asking - why do I do this? And sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I am just staring up from the bottom of a deep, dark well and I honestly don't know why I do it. Why I write. Why I paint. Why I draw. Why I take photos. Why… Continue reading Why We Do It
It's That Time Again…Time For A Good Scare
Ohhh, you can feel it in the wind. Can hear it in the rustle of the leaves. You can even smell it in the air. Halloween is creeping its way nearer and nearer and it's a perfect time for stories that will chill your bones. Well, you've come to the right place . Do I… Continue reading It's That Time Again…Time For A Good Scare
Contempt
The saying goes 'familiarity breeds contempt' and it couldn't be more true - when you are an artist or a writer and you don't get your book further out than your immediate area you will hit a very, very large wall of indifference. It isn't that people don't like you, and not that they don't… Continue reading Contempt
A Shadow Over Ever – an excerpt
Last night was an amazing night for me. I have wanted to see the release of my novel A Shadow Over Ever for a long, long time and it's amazing to finally have it out.Here is a sample from deeper in the book, when things are established and the true danger is becoming apparent. This… Continue reading A Shadow Over Ever – an excerpt
A Note To Friends And A Press Release – Hooray?
Eighteen years ago I began a journey. It started with a short, weird little story about an angry man with a pumpkin on his head and it became the seed for what would eventually become my first and perhaps only novel. This novel has been with me for a long time. From that short story… Continue reading A Note To Friends And A Press Release – Hooray?
Tips Off The Top
As far as I have had my blogs, and we’re talking a lot of time now, a lot of years, since nearly 2000 so that’s a lot of years and a lot of rambling and as much as I may like to think I have nothing but pearls of wisdom and deep thoughts to offer… Continue reading Tips Off The Top
A Shadow Over Ever – a novel about the end
Pete Anders is a lonely man. An angry man. A man who has reached the end of his patience and sanity and a man who has chosen Halloween as the night he will get his revenge. What Pete doesn't see though are the strings that are leading him towards a violent end where he can… Continue reading A Shadow Over Ever – a novel about the end
Laying It All Out
I am in the midst of the most un-fun part of the book process, at least for me, and that's laying it out. Thankfully I have an awesome girlfriend that knows her way around laying my books out who has been hard at work on it but it is for sure not a glamorous job.… Continue reading Laying It All Out
Living Down to Expectations
It never ceases to amuse me when i do book events and get placed near uppity writers of self help or bios or whatever and they gimme the stink eye as if i am scaring customers off. Oh, people. So caught up in feigning what a pro writer should be but never getting the community… Continue reading Living Down to Expectations
Booky Business
Hey there Lords and Ladies of Awesomeland. I am here to tell you that I am going to be part of a pretty rad event here in Flint and if you're into books and in the general sorta vicinity you should come out. For reals. I mean, where else can you pick up the WHOLE… Continue reading Booky Business
Taking Back Horror
Horror, at its heart, is about the war at the base of human existence, the war of evolution and instinct. Evolution tells us we have to keep moving forward because we have no choice, we must move forward to survive but instinct warns us to be wary of moving ahead too quickly because there are… Continue reading Taking Back Horror
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 