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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #71: A House in the Woods 2 (Chapters 4-6, Podcast Edition)

    Enjoy another three chapters of my newest book as a Mark McNease Mysteries podcast exclusive! This week it’s chapters four, five and six of  ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due.’ I’ll be offering three chapters every week, narrated by my very own Wondervox. No audiobook narrators were harmed in the production of this podcast! Fasten your headphones for weekly commentary, updates, and serialized fiction from yours truly. Comments and encouragement are welcome! You can leave a voice message for me here. I’m listening!

    About ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due’

    A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due picks up where A House in the Woods left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it appears to be. Two years have gone by, and they’ve been good to the Calloways. Laurel and her husband Jeremy have a new house, and a new family with baby Isabel about to celebrate her first birthday. Everything seems perfect, until Laurel begins to have dreams. Bad dreams. Something tells her these dreams could really be memories. But of what? Of whom, and of when?

    Did she really run over a woman in the road at night? Had they once had a dog? Why are these things trying so hard to surface, swimming slowly up from her subconscious? The more she begins to tell the people around her about these dreams, the more convinced she is that they’re part of it, and that these nightmares aren’t really dreams at all. Page after page, the pace escalates as Laurel begins to learn the truth and plot her escape. But will she succeed? The Devil is in the details.

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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast Returns! Show #68: Halloween Expert and Author Lisa Norton

    I’ve taken the Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast out of cryo-storage. It was never dead, just taking a long nap. And now it’s back! More audio mysteries and fiction, announcements and giveaways, and this time with guest interviews, book and audiobook recommendations, and more!

    Listen to this archive gem with Halloween expert and author Lisa Norton.

    About Lisa Morton

    Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and award-winning prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”.  She is the author of four novels and 150 short stories, a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, and a world-class Halloween expert. She co-edited (with Leslie S. Klinger) the anthology Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923; forthcoming in 2020 is Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, a recipient of the Black Quill Award, and winner of the 2012 Grand Prize from the Halloween Book Festival. A life long Californian, she lives in Los Angeles.

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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #66: Six Chapter Sample of ‘I, Warlock: The Warlock Wars Book I’

    Fasten your headphones for a 6 chapter sample of the just-released ‘I, Warlock: The Warlock Wars Book I.’ It’s a great new adventure for me, and I can’t wait to get started on Book II. You can get ‘I, Warlock’ on Amazon, eBook or paperback editions, starting NOW!

    About ‘I, Warlock’

    When the world’s survival depends on the struggle between good and evil, only one can triumph. The victor will preserve for humankind what makes life worth living, or he will rule atop a mound of skulls, served by the souls he defeated.

    I, Warlock tells the story of Julius Tide, born part-vampire, destined to be all warlock. Follow his journey from a near-innocent, living quietly in the Vermont countryside, to a man whose decisions will determine the fate of the world. Every step of the way he has his beloved Charlotte, whose beauty first stuns him one spring day at a local fair, and continues to comfort him as he undertakes a battle against monumental evil that can have only one winner. Grief, joy, ecstasy, tragedy–it all comes into play as Julius, Charlotte, and a dizzying cast of characters march to their destinies in I, Warlock, The Warlock Wars Book I.

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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #58: Kill Switch: A Kyle Callahan Mystery (Chapters 13 – 15)

    I’ll be bringing you the audiobook edition of Kill Swtich: A Kylle Callahan Mystery, in three-chapters released over the next 12+ weeks! The narration is provided by my own WondervoxAI.

    Kill Swtich is the 5th installment in the Kyle Callahan Series, and it finds Kyle dealing with the trauma of having ended the life of a vicious serial killer. Fasten your headphones, and check in every week for the next three chapters.

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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #57: Kill Switch: A Kyle Callahan Mystery (Chapters 10 – 12)

    I’ll be bringing you the audiobook edition of Kill Swtich: A Kylle Callahan Mystery, in three-chapters released over the next 12+ weeks! The narration is provided by my own WondervoxAI, using the voice of someone I call Android Josh.

    Kill Swtich is the 5th installment in the Kyle Callahan Series, and it finds Kyle dealing with the trauma of having ended the life of a vicious serial killer. Fasten your headphones, and check in every week for the next three chapters.

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    Mark McNease Mysteries Podcast #48: Final Audition – A Marshall James Thriller, Narrated by AI (3 Chapter Sample)

    Just … wow. I had no intention of using AI to narrate my writing, but I tried it with ElevenLabs, and I love it. I’ll be able to use this for my blog posts, my fiction and non-fiction writing, you name it. Will it replace working narrators? I hope not. But I would otherwise have narrated this myself. It saves an enormous amount of time, and the technology is stunning. The glitches are very few, and only with tone and emphasis, not on the words themselves. So … enjoy this three-chapter sample of Final Audition: A Marshall James Thriller, narrated by the robot Josh.

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