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Book News & End of Year Wrap-Up

It's been quite the year, and it is ending on an upswing.

The audiobook edition of The Lincoln House is currently in the works. Once again, Jennifer March will lend her voice to this atmospheric Southern Gothic novel. Plans are to release it by early February. The audiobook will be available across multiple platforms. Stay tuned for news on pre-orders & review copies.

A special edition hardcover of The Lincoln House is currently in production. I expect it will have a late January 2025 release. A limited edition of signed copies will be available directly through me. Stay tuned for news.

I'm also pleased to announce my upcoming historical fiction book--What Shall Remain.

This is an endeavor of love and a bit of an obsession as well. Some of you may know I spent time working in one of Winchester, Virginia's most lovely historic and haunted homes. I came to know the souls who once lived there via spiritual visits and by reading their personal letters. I spent hours upon hours researching their stories, visiting the places they too walked, and learning more and more about them each step of the way, and my obsession grew.

What Shall Remain is the untold story of Mary Dunbar Williams--the South's Forgotten Heroine. Stay tuned for a release date.

Gothic Characters

The Inside Story • Gothic Characters

As the year comes to a close, I’ve decided to reintroduce characters from my books. Each week, I’ll share one or two of my characters. Some you will love and some…You may despise.

Gothic characters allow an author to create broken, twisted, and often gallant characters. Regardless of the chosen personality, the characters are complex. This is one of the components of the genre that I love.

The first time I wrote the death of a character I cried. My stomach twisted into knots as I tried to envision how she felt along with the angst of her parents and the mindset of her murderer.

In one of my most popular books–Gaston Hall, a Southern Gothic Ghost story. You will meet a cast of empathetic, sympathetic, broken, and vile characters.

Della Rayburn, the matron of the home for orphaned and abandoned children is one of my most tragic and vile characters. But, what drove this woman, left widowed in the aftermath of the Civil War to take such actions? Love? Betrayal? Or, something else?

https://books2read.com/GastonHall