Tuesday, August 30, 2016

2 Weeks To Launch! Plus More of Chapter 1


2 WEEKS TO LAUNCH! PLUS MORE OF CHAPTER 1

So the first proof copy came in for me to review. (The first hard copy of the book. Lol.)

While the interior is perfect, the cover appeared a little on the dark side. So I have made an attempt to brighten it up to see if that will help.

The other thing I did originally was to have a "mat" look too. I've switched that to glossy.

Hopefully I'll have the cover where I want it. We shall see! (It's down to the wire now. :) )

Okay, as promised, here is more of the chapter:

Chapter 1 (cont.)

Both Liz and Peter were listening to the two. Liz was scared. She was having a hard time controlling herself. Peter was doing his best to keep her calm.

‘What is your name?’ Sam asked. 

Once they know contact is made, no matter when it is first discovered, the spirit has come out of hiding and Sam is able to have direct communication with them. It’s as if they have given permission.

She waited for a response. 

Sam finally spoke. ‘Hello, Jane. Why are you here?’ 

They waited for a response.

‘Well, you may like this family but they live in fear of you.’ She expressed.

Just as soon as Sam said that, Lucy could see the ghost dart off into one of the bedrooms.

‘Where did she go?’ Lucy asked. 

She looked up from the screen to see which room it was. 

Lucy went first as they moved to the bedroom on the left. When she arrived, she began opening the door slowly. The full spectrum camera was capturing the images inside as the room was being revealed. She wasn’t looking at the screen, so she couldn’t see what the camera saw as they both stepped inside.

‘This is the children’s room. She’s in the corner, over there.’ Sam uttered pointing to the right-hand side.

Both of them immediately point their cameras to the same area.

Lucy noticed the EMF meter was going wild, where it didn’t before. She could obviously tell that there was something she couldn’t explain which was causing that, because it was reading zero from before.
‘You must leave; this is not your home anymore!’ Sam stated.

This just upset the spirit.

With Lucy holding onto the full spectrum, she could see, clearly what was happening with the ghost. It moved very quickly from left to right, as if it was frustrated, pacing back and forth. Then without warning, it rushed up towards Lucy.

‘Whoa!’ She yelled.

What she could see from the camera, was the woman’s face. It was skinny, almost like skin and bones, with dark eye sockets, where the eyes would have been.

She showed Sam immediately. ‘Look at that!’ 

‘Oh yeah, she’s pissed.’ She replied.

Sam knew with the spirit in this state that it would be the best time to remove it from the house.

She yelled to the Livingroom. ‘Liz, Peter, can you come here please?’ 

No sound came.

‘Liz?’ She called again.

Nothing.

‘That’s weird.’ Lucy looked at Sam.

Sam knew this was a problem. ‘Uh oh.’ 

They rushed to the Livingroom to see the ghost standing in front of the husband and wife. Tears were rolling down Liz’s face as she was frozen with fear. Peter couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

Sam looked right at her. ‘Liz, you have to tell her to leave. Only you can do it because she’s connected with you the most.’


I hope your day and week is awesome!

Mark

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

3 Weeks To Launch! Plus More of Chapter 1


3 WEEKS TO LAUNCH! PLUS MORE OF CHAPTER 1

So the picture above shows you the cover of the book. Hope you like it. I'm currently just waiting from CreateSpace to see the proof. If it meets with my expectations then it'll be ready for launch and I'll be good to go. 

Don't forget to check out my posts from "10 Weeks To Lunch" all the way to this post if you would like to read the chapter from the beginning. (Once I have the entire section released, I will provide a link to all of them in a single blog where you can read the whole thing. :)

In the meantime, it's all about getting the word out there now. Almost there!

So here is more of Chapter 1:

Chapter 1 (cont.)

the full spectrum is usually the first one to spot something.

However, nothing was happening. The house was in fact eerily quiet.

‘Peter, are you seeing anything?’ Sam asked.

‘No, nothing.’ He replied.

She needed to dig deep. ‘Hmm, where are you?’ 

Both Sam and Lucy know that paranormal events happen in waves. You might go hours before capturing everything all at once, then nothing for the rest of the night. Sometimes, the place comes alive, almost right away. When that happens, the investigation is a busy one.

This was not one of those.

Lucy kept looking for an explanation, a physical reason behind the haunting, however, she couldn’t pinpoint anything. To her, if anything was to happen tonight, she might not be able to explain it away as easily.

Hours went by, both Lucy and Sam were dutifully recording and looking for any sign of the woman. It was approaching 3am, both Liz and Peter had fallen asleep on the couch, however, Sam and Lucy were continuing to investigate. They go through the night from dusk to dawn, before they call it quits.

Suddenly a noise came from the attic. It was the sound of footsteps.

‘I was just up there. There was nothing going on. I thought I was done sweeping it.’ Lucy recounted.

Sam looked at her. ‘I guess not. The static camera is up there, don’t worry.’

Both Liz and Peter woke up from the sound.

‘Oh no, here she comes.’ She uttered.

Peter squeezed her hand, gently. ‘Lucy and Sam are here, don’t worry.’
Liz felt a sense of reassurance but she couldn’t shake the feeling of fear either.

Sam started the questioning. ‘Who are you? Can you knock on a wall if you want to communicate? Two knocks for “yes”, one for “no”. Do you understand?’

They waited for a response. A few moments of silence, pausing to see if it understood before two knocks on a wall came.

‘Okay, an intelligent response.’ Sam expressed.

Lucy needed to know, male or female. ‘Are you a woman?’

Again, Lucy and Sam had listened for the sound. Then, two slow thumps.

‘Where is that coming from?’

Sam shook her head. ‘I don’t know.’ 

Before they could ask another question, Lucy heard “hey” whispered in her ear.

‘Who was that?’ She asked.

Sam looked at her. ‘What are you talking about, no one mentioned anything.’ 

‘No, I just heard the word “hey” spoken right beside my-’ Lucy began.

‘You’re what?’ Sam asked.

‘Shh... I can see something on the full spectrum.’ Lucy quickly stated.

There, in front of the two women, Lucy could see a faint shape on the camera’s screen. It seemed to be slightly smaller than they were and possibly took the form of a female.

‘She’s here.’ Sam voiced.


Hope you have an awesome day (and week)!

Mark

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

4 Weeks To Launch! Plus More of Chapter 1


4 WEEKS TO LAUNCH! PLUS MORE OF CHAPTER 1

So I'm currently working on the cover design. It's looking good, just need to iron out a few tweaks.

(CreateSpace can take images up to 40MB. Mine is significantly larger than that. We'll see what we can do. :) )

Anyway, as promised, here is more of the first chapter:

Chapter 1 (cont.)

Sam asked, ‘Why don’t we agree to meet back here say at about four o’clock, so we can set up the equipment? That will give us the time we need, before it goes dark.’

Liz nodded. ‘Sounds okay to me. Did you want my husband here?’

‘Yes. If it comes to it, the two of you may have to forcibly tell it to leave and we would rather you both were here for that.’ Lucy replied.

‘Okay, that makes sense. I’m so glad you’re here. I have a good feeling about this.’

‘We make no guarantees but we’ll do our best.’ Lucy didn’t want her expectations to be too high because they might not be successful and they didn’t know what they were going to find.

Liz nodded, ‘I understand.’

Four o’clock came round, Liz and Peter were waiting in their car, outside of the house.

Lucy and Sam went straight to work. Unloading Lucy’s car, setting up the camera locations and base-camp.

It took almost an hour to have the cameras ready for aiming. Sam was the one that always did the aiming while Lucy was at the computer telling her the directions she needed them moved.
Finally, the four static cameras were ready and rolling.

‘Great job Sam! I think we are good to go.’ Lucy voiced.

‘Awesome.’ 

Liz and Peter looked on as they watched this all unfold.

‘Okay, so this is what we need from you two...’ Lucy began. 

Peter nudged Liz, turning to Lucy so they could keep their attention on her.

Lucy continued, ‘While we do this, stay here and watch those cameras for us. There will be a digital recorder in here too, if you feel the need to ask questions.’ 

He nodded. ‘Will do.’

Turning to her best friend, ‘Okay Sam, I think we are ready to begin.’ 

The sun had just set and twilight was upon them. Even though the last rays of light were slowly disappearing over the horizon, the house quickly went dark as Lucy switched the lights off.

‘Here we go.’ Sam stated.

They began in the Livingroom, since that was their base and everyone was in there.

They started by asking if anyone was there, pausing for an answer which they couldn’t hear.
Lucy went around the room with her EMF meter looking for any sign that a fluctuation was happening. None came. She also held the full spectrum camera, and a digital recorder which she has attached to her vest so it can keep recording without the need for her to hold on to it. Sam was holding onto the K2, a camera, plus a digital recorder, which was attached to her vest in the same way. 

Every once in a while Sam would ask another question, waiting for an answer which they couldn’t here.

As they slowly moved through the house, beginning in the Livingroom, moving to the kitchen, then into the hallway, slowly into the bedrooms, Sam wasn’t picking anything up.

She immediately noticed something. ‘It is almost like she knows we’re here and doesn’t want to give her presence up. Are you picking anything up on the full spectrum?’ 

‘No not yet.’ Lucy replied.

Often when the K2, EMF meter and cameras aren’t showing anything, 


Hope you enjoy!

Mark

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

5 Weeks To Launch! Plus More of Chapter 1


5 WEEKS TO LAUNCH! PLUS MORE OF CHAPTER 1

September 13, 2016 is creeping up on you and me and I can't wait!

I have it now formatted and looking good in CreateSpace (wow what a challenge). Plus it is in Kindle.

All that's needed is the cover which I will be having here shortly.

Once all of it is done. I need to "proof" the hard copy from CreateSpace. When that is approved I will be focusing entirely on marketing for the rest of the time. :)

So, without further ado I give you two more pages of chapter 1:

Chapter 1 (cont.)

the Livingroom was a little disheveled, the dishes were clean and put away but they could see some mail on the kitchen table.
All in all, it wasn’t bad. However, Liz prided herself on running a clean home. Even the smallest mess was too much.

Turning to Sam and Lucy, Liz uttered, ‘Sorry about the mess. We left in a hurry.’

‘Don’t be. We aren’t here to judge how clean your home is, we’re here for you.’ Lucy replied.

‘Thank you, Lucy. That makes me feel better.’ Liz had a small sense of relief, even though to her, she could have presented it better.

Sam wanted to put her at ease. ‘Listen, we understand that you all left as soon as you could. Don’t think that you should have come back here to clean it up, open some windows, just because you fear how you think we are judging you, or not.’ 

Liz stopped in her tracks. Stunned by what Sam had said, almost as if she could read her mind. She looked down.

‘I’m sorry, I just hate it when guests come over and they see a clutter.’ Liz’s issues were coming out and she couldn’t get past them. She was stressing out.

Lucy grabbed Liz’s shoulders. ‘Let’s just focus on WHY we are here, okay?’

Liz couldn’t say anything; she was terrified of what might take place. So, she gave a short nod. A tear was beginning to roll down her face, she needed this thing gone so she could have her family back.

Lucy hugged her. ‘It’s okay. We’re here now.’

Liz didn’t return the hug, she felt some relief from it but was still too scared. However, she gathered her strength up so they could continue with the investigation.

She took a deep breath and began giving the tour.
As they walked around the house, Liz would show the areas that events took place. Lucy was writing them down, while considering where to locate the static cameras.
The locations that they were able to pinpoint were, the hallway, the children’s bedroom, the spare bathroom and the attic.

Sam was giving some impressions of what she was feeling too while the tour was taking place. This was dutifully noted by Lucy as a way to review at a later stage, once the evidence was in.

It took them about half an hour to move through the house, Sam, kept reassuring her that they are going to do their best. When they were finished with the viewing, they all went back to the Livingroom.

‘So, what we are going to do is set up some cameras in the rooms that you have shown as the “hotspots”.’ Sam articulated.

Lucy felt the need to add to what Sam just spoke of. ‘If you don’t mind, we would like to use the Livingroom as base-camp. It seems to be the quietest. In addition, we will have our other equipment running too to see if we can find reasons behind these events.’

‘Such as what?’ Liz asked.

Lucy explained, ‘Well, for instance, we have an EMF meter that will see if there are high EMF signals in the house. Those readings may affect you and your family in that you may think something is there, feel a presence when there isn’t, or if it is really bad, we may be able to show why it is, so you could have someone come out and fix it. 
‘For example grounding your home better would help it go away. If there are, this would need addressing as it could be unhealthy.’

Liz nodded. ‘Oh, I see. I don’t think it’s a grounding issue.’

Sam was optimistic that they might find peace for this family. ‘I’m hopeful we will be able to connect with the woman that has frightened your family so much. We’ll see if we can help her crossover.’

‘That would be amazing if you could.’ Liz was praying for that to happen.




Remember, reading last week's and this week's will allow you to finish that sentence from the previous post.

I don't really want that to happen but it'll throw the process. Sorry.

I do hope you enjoy and remember we now have passed the halfway point of the section. You should be able to see a fair bit of progress.

Have an awesome day and week!

Mark

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

6 Weeks To Launch! Plus More of Chapter 1


6 WEEKS TO LAUNCH! PLUS MORE OF CHAPTER 1

Moving forward with CreateSpace now. Kindle is all but ready. The challenge that I'm finding is trying to get the formatting correct with CreateSpace.

I think I'm almost there. Learning a lot! What this will do though is help when I go to format the next book.

Anyway, here is more of the first chapter. Don't forget that if you haven't done so already, you can catch this section in it's entirety by reading from "10 Weeks To Launch!" 

If you start there and work your way down the countdown, you'll be able to read what I have posted up to this point.

(The last of the chapter being available "1 Week To Launch!" When that happens, September 6, 2016, that's really when you will be able to read the whole section. :) )

I hope you enjoy:

Chapter 1 (cont.)

Sam was happy. They both have discovered over the years that they needed to be in complete agreement before they investigated.

She smiled. ‘Awesome! Thank you Lucy, I know you won’t be disappointed.’

‘Well, let’s just wait and see.’

‘So, Liz has agreed to meet us there right now, if you’re ready.’ Sam eagerly expressed.

She was excited to see what they could do. Maybe there was a reason why the ghost had contacted them, plus the children had become so terrified that they really needed to resolve it, if they could. Otherwise the family would have to move.

‘Do you have the gear?’ Sam asked.

Lucy chuckled. ‘Of course. I don’t leave home without it.’ 

Their equipment comprised of eight digital camcorders, which had night vision capability, a full spectrum camera, plus a thermal camera. They had a K2, an EMF meter plus about six digital recorders.

At Lucy’s house they had set up her office, her second bedroom, to be able to edit and review the evidence.

It took them a few years to be able to assemble all of the things that they needed but have found that their quality of investigation has been able to jump by leaps and bounds. They can see and hear things through those mediums which have validated much of what Sam has been able to say through her own gifts as a “sensitive”.

They decided to take just one vehicle to the house. It was easier that way. 

So they moved to Lucy’s car.

It didn’t take too long before they arrived at Liz’s home. She was standing there waiting. It was the middle of the day. The sun was shining.
‘Hi Liz, so nice to meet you again.’ Sam mentioned as they shook hands.

When they give their clients names, they let them know that this is what Sam and Lucy will call them, for their protection and privacy.

Liz was grateful to see them. ‘Hi Sam, same here.’ 

‘Hi, my name is Lucy.’ She greeted Liz in the same way.

‘Nice to meet you. So you’re the skeptic?’

Lucy smiled. ‘Why yes I am.’

‘Well, I figured after you’re done here, you won’t be.’ She stated.

Lucy didn’t want to upset her any more than she already was. She has seen so much over the years and still remained open to other possibilities first that she often found it best to smile and nod, saying nothing more.

Besides, it’s not like Lucy hadn’t heard that line before.

‘We will do our best to give you an answer to what is going on.’ Lucy replied.

‘Thank you Lucy, I’m sure you will but I’m also hopeful that you might be able to make it go away, so we can move back in as a family.’ Liz spoke in frustration.

Lucy looked down. She didn’t want to disappoint, hoping Sam didn’t over-promise again. She turned to Sam. Her eyes voiced, “what did you tell her?”

Sam came back with, ‘We will do our very best Liz. Shall we go inside?’

Liz nodded.

As she opened the door, there was a musty smell to the house, it hadn’t been lived in for a while. The house appeared almost like frozen in time as 


I know this ends mid sentence but it is the "two pages per week" that I promised from the beginning. 

The rest of that line plus new pages of the chapter will be available next week. :)

I hope you have an awesome day.
Mark