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#Amreading#Newrelease: Jimmy and the Halloween Candy Monster by Donald Firesmith

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A Book Review by Kajori: "Hell Holes: A Slave's Revenge" by Donald Firesmith

A Book Review by Kajori: "Hell Holes: A Slave's Revenge" by Donald Firesmith #TheChrysalisBREWProject #writerslift #BookTwitter #bookreview

Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge by Donald Firesmith follows Paul Chapman as he navigates his life on the planet Hell as a slave to the demons.  Review Donald Firesmith’s Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge revolves around Paul Chapman. At fifteen, Paul, along with his twin sister, Sarah, and mother, Mary, is kidnapped by demons from his home in Alaska. His father, Robert, is killed. Teleported to the…

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My Thoughts on Hell Holes: A Slave's Revenge by Donald Firesmith

My Thoughts on Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge by Donald Firesmith Like the rest of the Hell Holes series, I do not recommend this book for my youth readers. Of all the Hell Holes stories, this one was by far and away my favorite. I love learning about the planet Hell, seeing the gladiator culture of the demons. I enjoyed the character development, I enjoyed seeing how Paul adapted and excelled…

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Hell Holes (Book IV: A Slaves Revenge) by Donald Firesmith

Hell Holes (Book IV: A Slaves Revenge) by Donald Firesmith

A Slaves Revenge Hell Holes Book 4 by Donald Firesmith Genre: SciFi, Paranormal Horror – An epic story of love, loss, friendship, and survival under the most hellish of conditions, Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge is the award-winning prequel to the Hell Holes series of alien invasion novels. After killing his father, alien demons teleport a fifteen-year-old boy, his mother, and his sister to…

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Hell Holes Series by Donald Firesmith Genre: SciFi, Paranormal Horror

A Slaves Revenge Hell Holes Book 4 by Donald Firesmith Genre: SciFi, Paranormal Horror An epic story of love, loss, friendship, and survival under the most hellish of conditions, Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge is the award-winning prequel to the Hell Holes series of alien invasion novels.After killing his father, alien demons teleport a fifteen-year-old boy, his mother, and his sister to Hell, a…

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A Bewitching Monday A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops It Takes Discipline with Barb Jones #SupernaturalThriller #WritingAdvice  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3JLs1ZI Ten of the Most Important Lessons Donald Firesmith Has Learned as an Author #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3juT3dg Author Interview - Titanian Warrior by Victoria Saccenti  #bewitchingbooktours https://paranormalists.blogspot.com/2023/02/author-interview-titanian-warrior-by.html Pirate Lover’s Curse Sleepy Hollow Hunter #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/40vqo8s Titanian Warrior Titanian Chronicles Book Three by Victoria Saccenti - PNR/Fantasy Romance - One woman holds the key to his destiny—and his people’s salvation.  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3Xfpudy Tale of a Body Thief by Kristy Centeno ~ #UrbanFantasy #UF #Bewitchingbooktours @KCenteno122  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3I9HFgt Sight Beyond the Sun Separating truth from lies is impossible in the game of spies…especially the lies you tell yourself.  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3DIID0m In the northwest corner of Flint, an amusement park once stood complete with bumper cars, a Tilt-A-Whirl, a rollercade and a roller coaster. The park was located off DuPont and Stewart between Dewey Woods and Flint Park Lake (Devil’s Lake).Learn more in Chapter 20 Flint Park Amusement Park and Devil’s Lakehttps://amzn.to/2Gt3Cpw  #HauntedFlint #RoxanneRhoads #JoeSchipani Titanian Warrior by Victoria Saccenti https://www.westveilpublishing.com/?p=18364 Tale of a Body Thief by Kristy Centeno Virtual Book Tour  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3lhc4A4 Ghosts and Legends of Genesee and Lapeer Counties - where history, true crime, and the paranormal intersect. https://amzn.to/3kjorrN #TrueCrime #HauntedHistory #GhostsandLegends #GeneseeCounty #LapeerCounty #HauntedFlint #HauntedMichigan #GhostsofMichigan #GhostsofGeneseeCounty #HauntedGeneseeCounty #HauntedLapeerCounty #GhostsofLapeerCounty #LapeerCountyMichigan #GeneseeCountyMichigan #GhostsStories #UrbanLegends #MichiganUrbanLegends #MichiganGhostStories #TrueCrime Tale of a Body Thief by Kristy Centeno  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3DKyG2y Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge by Donald Firesmith  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3Y6sz0J Inside Scoop on the Main Character in Pirate Lover’s Curse by Sheri Queen  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3kR1y2r

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Donald Firesmith is here to tell us about his scifi paranormal horror tale A Slave's Revenge, book IV of Hell Holes. The book - and the othe...

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A Cauldron of Uncanny Dreams

Author Donald Firesmith

A BookBud Review

Completed 09-06-2021

Genre: Adventure Fantasy

Basic Plot: A collection of short horror stories, from haunted farm houses to the devil himself, meant to disturb and horrify.  

Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book, and am leaving a review voluntarily.

Highlights:

Plot uniformity

Narrative ability

Dissatisfactions:

Lack of unique story lines

Horror clichés

Lack of build and delivery

Notable Quote(s):

I highlighted none

Rating Breakdown:

Flow 7/10

Plot 2/10

Creativity 1/10

Review:

First and foremost, I appreciate that this author took the time and immense energy needed to write this book for others to enjoy. He should be applauded for the effort. As for my review, while I loathe giving a bad one, in this case I found it necessary. Let's start with a look at horror anthologies overall. A well produced and captivating horror anthology is difficult to achieve, especially when being written by one author. You have limited time to draw in the reader, build the anticipation that creates fear while reading, then create a wallop of an ending to leave said reader shocked and awed by what just happened. With short stories, that is difficult to do. There's no give on the build so most good short horror stories focus on the finale, big reveals and strange twists, something to make it stand out or keep in the reader's memory. In the case of this particular collection, I felt none of these literary tools used properly. I would not say this description applies to all of the stories in this collection, but it was enough to put me off from wanting to read it. Most of them held generic, tired plots without the added oomph needed to really intrigue a seasoned horror fan, with dashes of cliché lines like, "I felt drawn to it" or similar ideas which were used in nearly every story to explain the protagonist's being involved.

I gave it a 1.5 out of 5. I really wanted to like this much more, as horror anthologies are actually one of my favorites as of the past few years, but I was deeply let down. There wasn't any depth of character, no situational unpredictability, no build to intrigue the reader. It felt generic, like someone following a recipe of what horror is. Each story lacked a unique plot, which in and of itself is not the issue; authors like Darcy Coates and Amy Cross do this all the time, ghost story after ghost story but they write in a way that's intriguing and captivating, even if it isn't the greatest writing to be done, it is compelling somehow. Another example would be Goosebumps or Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, both of which are for younger readers, yes, but hold that same idea of campfire like scary stories that give you a hard hit towards the end. This however, felt like it was without that same passion. It wasn't the worst anthology I've read, I just also wouldn't recommend it to most horror fans as again, I found the writing style and delivery wanting. I want to mention a positive as well, in that I felt this author’s narrative ability. The tone of the writing was done well through voice. I think this author holds a lot of potential since, as I said, not all of the stories in this were fitting of this overall rating, so I do believe it's possible with some more passion for the genre, or more work on emphasis in certain aspects, his writing could be amazing. I just wasn't impressed this time.

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#Amreading #Newrelease: Jimmy and the Halloween Candy Monster by Donald Firesmith

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My Thoughts on Hell Holes, Book 3: To Hell and Back by Donald Firesmith

My Thoughts on Hell Holes, Book 3: To Hell and Back by Donald Firesmith I do not recommend this book for my youth readers. To Hell and Back was not my favorite in the series. I do not hold this against Firesmith’s ability to craft a compelling story. A good portion of book 3 went into detail about the types of weapons the humans were to take to Hell, and I am not interested in the technological…

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Blog Tour ~ Hell Holes Series ~ Excerpt

Blog Tour ~ Hell Holes Series ~ (What Lurks Below & Demons on the Dalton)

Author: Donald G. Firesmith

Genre: Science Fiction /Paranormal/Fantasy

Dates: 1st – 12th of May

Hosted by: Ultimate Fantasy Book Tours

  Blurb:

When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appear overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, they threaten financial and environmental catastrophe should any more open up under the Trans-Alaska Pipeline or any of the many oil wells and smaller pipelines that feed it. An oil company sends a scientific team to investigate. But when the geologist, his climatologist wife, two of their graduate students, a local newspaper reporter, an oil company representative, and a field biologist arrive at one of the holes, they discover a far worse danger lurks below, one that threatens to destroy all of humanity when it emerges, forcing the survivors to flee south towards Fairbanks.

 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28425525-hell-holes

   ↓Buy Links↓

  Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Holes-What-Lurks-Below-ebook/dp/B012IUE14U

 Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hell-holes-what-lurks-below/id1076804292

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 Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/608355

  Blurb:

   When hundreds of huge holes mysteriously appeared overnight in the frozen tundra north of the Arctic Circle, geologist Jack Oswald picked Angele Menendez, his climatologist wife, to determine if the record temperatures due to climate change was the cause. But the holes were not natural. They were unnatural portals for an invading army of demons. Together with Aileen O’Shannon, a 1,400-year-old sorceress demon-hunter, the three survivors of the research team sent to study the holes had only one chance: to flee down the dangerous Dalton Highway towards the relative safety of Fairbanks. However, the advancing horde of devils, imps, hellhounds, and gargoyles would stop at nothing to prevent their prey from escaping. It was a 350-mile race with simple rules. Win and live; lose and die…

 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29741250-demons-on-the-dalton

   Buy Links:

 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Holes-Demons-Donald-Firesmith-ebook/dp/B01FQA1EFI

Booklife: https://booklife.com/my/project/hell-holes-demons-on-the-dalton-12403

 Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/625752

 Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hell-holes-demons-on-dalton/id1097614941

   Author Bio:

  A geek by day, Donald Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can possibly remember. He's also proud to have been named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, although his pride is tempered somewhat by his fear that the term "distinguished" makes him sound like a graybeard academic rather than an active engineer whose beard is still slightly more red than gray. By night and on weekends, his alter ego writes modern paranormal fantasy, apocalyptic science fiction, action and adventure novels and relaxes by handcrafting magic wands from various magical woods and mystical gemstones. His first foray into fiction is the book Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore written under the pen name Wolfrick Ignatius Feuerschmied. He lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky, and his son Dane, and varying numbers of dogs, cats, and birds. His magical wands and autographed copies of his books are available from the Firesmith’s Wand Shoppe at: http://magicalwandshoppe.com.

  Visit him at:

 Website: http://donaldfiresmith.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FiresmithAuthorFanPage

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DonFiresmith

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HQ006A

  BOOKTRAILER: https://youtu.be/amXuTAlKoX0

Hell Holes: What Lurks Below

Excerpt - Preface

Though the sun had finally dipped behind the rounded mountains of the Brooks Range, the temperature remained well above freezing, leaving the ground moist from the morning’s rains. It was quiet except for the soft sound of the breeze blowing through the short shrubs and sedges that covered the tundra of the North Slope.

An arctic fox silently patrolled his territory. He sniffed the ground, following the scent of a female that had passed by earlier that evening. She had brushed against a bearberry bush, and he stopped to breathe in her enticing smell. She was in heat, and he hoped to father her second litter of the season.

Though the fox occasionally heard the distant rumble of big rigs driving north along the Dalton, carrying supplies to Deadhorse and the oil fields around Prudhoe Bay, he paid them no mind. The humans were several miles away, and unlike wolves and wolverines, they posed no threat.

The fox abruptly stopped, turning his head to the side in puzzlement. He heard a faint hum that seemed to come from the ground below him. It was a new sound, one that he had not heard before. It rapidly increased in volume until it became a piercing, high-pitched whine, far beyond the dull hearing of the humans in their trucks. In agony, the fox rolled on the ground, desperately pawing at his ears in a vain attempt to stop the pain. He yipped and whined, adding his voice to the faraway howling of wolves.

The sound suddenly stopped, replaced by a deep rumble as the ground beneath the fox began to shake. Slowly, foot by foot, a huge circle of tundra the size of a large pond began to push itself above the surrounding tundra. Carrying the fox upward, it rose until it reached the height of a caribou’s antlers. Along its circular boundary, loose wet dirt and ragged patches of plants fell off, forming a ring-shaped pile that surrounded the rising ground.

With a sharp jerk, the massive cylindrical plug of earth underneath the fox stopped rising and began sliding downward. No longer incapacitated by pain, the terrified fox sped across the quivering ground, running for his life as it continued its unrelenting collapse. He ran toward the edge, arriving just as the ground beneath him slipped below the short ring of loose and muddy soil that marked its circumference. With a desperate leap, the fox jumped up, landing on the ring’s slippery slope as the ground continued its collapse into the rapidly deepening crater. He slipped, sliding perilously backwards before desperately pawing his way back up and over the top. Once down on the solid ground surrounding the huge hole, he ran away as if he were chased by a pack of starving wolves.

The frightened fox was several hundred yards from the hole when the rumbling stopped. Still running for his life, he did not see the brilliant blue burst of light that shot skyward out of the huge crater. But he did see dozens of similar blue beams briefly light up the northern horizon. As suddenly as they appeared, the lights winked out. The fox did not stop until he had placed several miles between himself and the pit. Silence returned to the North Slope, while the scent of sulfur and decay filled the air above the newly formed hell holes.

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A Bewitching Friday

A Round-Up of Daily Tour Stops INTERVIEW WITH DONALD FIRESMITH (HELL HOLES: Book Four-A Slave's Revenge)  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3Y3kE4f Sight Beyond the Sun Love Beyond Book Two by Melody Johnson - Sci-fi Romance - Separating truth from lies is impossible in the game of spies...especially the lies you tell yourself.  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3judYgs Tale of a Body Thief by Kristy Centeno  #bewitchingbooktours https://midnightmusingswithbertena.blogspot.com/2023/02/tale-of-body-thief-by-kristy-centeno.html Titanian Warrior by Victoria Saccenti ~ PNR/Fantasy Romance #BewitchingBookTours @VictoriaSAuthor https://saphsbooks.blogspot.com/2023/02/titanian-warrior-by-victoria-saccenti.html Sight Beyond the Sun by Melody Johnson #SciFiRomance #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3l5rNm3 Tale of a Body Thief (Rovena Silvex Chronicles) by Kristy Centeno ~ #BookTour #Excerpt #Giveaway  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3RrS0Y1 Titanian Warrior by Victoria Saccenti https://www.facebook.com/reel/514651204071406/ Pirate Lover’s Curse by Sheri Queen  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3Y2dv4a TALE OF A BODY THIEF BY KRISTY CENTENO - BOOK TOUR + GIVEAWAY https://buff.ly/3laOpla Pirate Lover’s Curse by Sheri Queen https://www.facebook.com/reel/1269853103570016/ HELL HOLES: A SLAVE'S REVENGE BY DONALD FIRESMITH - BOOK TOUR  #bewitchingbooktours https://www.jazzybookreviews.com/2023/02/hell-holes-slaves-revenge-by-donald.html INTERVIEW - PNR FANTASY - TITANIAN WARRIOR (Titanian Chronicles, #3) by Victoria Saccenti  https://buff.ly/3HwisuS Inside Scoop on the Main Character in Pirate Lover’s Curse by Sheri Queen  #bewitchingbooktours https://buff.ly/3kR1y2r Titanian Warrior by Victoria Saccenti https://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/2023/titanian-warrior-by-victoria-saccenti

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Your Autonomous Car is Sentient by Donald Firesmith

Your Autonomous Car is Sentient by Donald Firesmith

The Simulation Theory of Consciousness (or Your Autonomous Car is Sentient) by Donald Firesmith Genre: Speculative Non-Fiction

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered what our robots might be thinking? What do our cars experience as they use their sensors to observe the world around them and increasingly take over our driving duties? When we play computer games, are we the only ones who experience the…

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THE SECRETS OF HAWTHORNE HOUSE BY DONALD FIRESMITH: BOOK REVIEW

THE SECRETS OF HAWTHORNE HOUSE BY DONALD FIRESMITH: BOOK REVIEW

THE SECRETS OF HAWTHORNE HOUSE

  Title: The Secrets of Hawthorne House

Author: Donald Firesmith

Genre: YA Urban Paranormal

Length: 414 Pages (Paperback)

    Fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell was having the worst summer imaginable. His misery started when his mother died in a senseless car accident. Matt’s grieving father, unable to remain in the family’s seaside cottage, moved Matt and his twin…

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The Secrets of Hawthorne House by Donald Firesmith @DonFiresmith #HalloweenBlogHop #Day9

Follow the Tour! ​Oct 1 kickoff at Silver Dagger Book Tours Insane Books

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Oct 3 Jazzy Book Reviews The Pulp and Mystery Shelf

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Oct 5 A Wonderful World of Words Midnight Book Reader

Oct 6 Readeropolis Paranormal Romance Trance

Oct 7 Literary Gold Scrupulous Dreams

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