Chickens, Ghosts, and Marriage

CHICKENS IN THE NEWS did well as a free book earlier this month—made it to number 1 in the free humor and entertainment category and to number 4 in the free history category. If you got a free copy and enjoyed it, please leave a review at Amazon. Thanks!

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I've been hard at work (after a week of having fun playing tourist and geocaching with a friend who came to visit) on GHOSTS AND GRAVEYARDS IN THE NEWS and hope to have it published by October 1. The cover has a new font called EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN that is free for commercial use. Isn't that a great name for a font? And it is a perfect font for this cover. I've provided a link in case you are in need of a spooky font.

 

I'm pretty sure the Kindle version will be available by October 1 and the paperback version will follow soon.

Here is one of my favorite stories from GHOSTS AND GRAVEYARDS:

SPITE AND VENOM. Spite and venom are not always buried with the dead and for this reason a censor of gravestones is employed in a big London cemetery. He has had to stop many gross libels on the living that people proposed to put on the stones. Not long since the wife and friends of a tolerably well known jockey wanted to have the dead man’s saddle, whip and cap laid in a cover over his grave. On the grave of a man killed in an accident the relations gravely contested his right to stop an inscription which said, “Murdered by His Masters.” Sometimes, at their own wish, those who pay for gravestones and monuments induce the stone cutter they employ to endeavor to smuggle inscriptions through, but he exercises the most rigid scrutiny. Cases have been known where sunk letters have been filled with putty or cement, with a view of this being quietly picked out afterward, when the letters would, of course, show. One of the coolest proposals was that made by the heir of a manufacturer of sweets. The deceased man made a special kind of butterscotch and the heir proposed that small packets of this should be placed on the grave daily for the refection of visitors to the cemetery. —The Valentine Democrat (Valentine, Nebraska), April 30, 1896. 

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MARRIAGE IN THE NEWS is also almost ready to go and will also be published in Kindle and paperback versions.