Horror saves lives
 

Forgive the self publicity, but we're trying to raise money for a good cause. Mike McBride, who started this thing off, is trying to find a meaningful way for himself to say goodbye to his dad who is dying of cancer. The other three of us have all been touched by this disease in some way. This is our way of paying something back

Four authors (Michael McBride [Species; The Legacy], William Meikle [Island Life, Watchers Trilogy], Steve Zinger [The Sab; Ray McMickle and the Kentucky Vampire Clan], and Karen Koehler [Slayer series; Scarabus]) will bring you a chapter a week of a new novel, spread out over fourteen consecutive weeks. The fiction is free (that's four whole novels!), but we will be sponsored by the American Cancer Society as a fund-raising project to further cancer awareness and research funding, so donations would be appreciated!

The novels are as follows:

BLOODSPAWN by Michael McBride
WATCHERS: THE COMING OF THE KING by William Meikle
THE SAB by Steve Zinger
SHREDDER: IRON ANGEL by Karen Koehler

Visit www.topica.com/f/v.html?900079433.900025797 to sign up for the serialization.

Also be sure to sign up for the discussion group at
groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFourHorsemenE-serial where you can discuss
the books and their authors.

Willie



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My dad died of cancer, so I'm all for supporting the ACS. This is a good deal you folks have working.

Good luck :) Im glad to see other authors out there doing serials on the web. i have my own, but i wont pimp it on your post.

Please forgive anyone who bashes the advertising, as this is obviously not the usual bullshit we get here.


by the "Watchers" trilogy, do youmeant the movies based on Dean Koontz's stories? I still feel for him, but those were not good.

Watchers
 

Nope. I have written a trilogy called Watchers. Nowt to do with Koontz :)

Tis a very noble cause. I lost both my parents to cancer and will support this endeavor.

Re: Watchers
 

Thank god :)

I dont know anyone who has had full blown cancer (although my grandfather was extremely sick with colon polyps a few years back), and i dont want to, so you have my backing :)

I'm In TOO!!! I also lost family to canser.

I wish you Good luck!! ;)

Good to see Cancer Research getting some backing from authors.... good way to raise more awareness amongst the book reading and general population... I back it.

btw, one of my Brothers works in Medical Research and is currently working on new Cancer Treatments, he was explaining some of the new developments and techniques, they are developing to enable doctors to be able to diagnose cancer much earlier, and to be able to track the spread of the disease much quicker, to aid earlier removal and recovery. It's very technical and I can’t really go into too much about it here, but I was pretty amazed at what can be done today and what developments we will see in cancer treatment.

This is a very nice thing to do !

I've lost family to cancer as well.

I'll donate what I can. Might not be much, but if everyone went to donate what they thought wasn't much it would add up.

This is a great time to do this as well, this being breast cancer awareness month- Every one needs to be aware.

My condolances, as well, to his father.

Here's an interesting line that was in the confirmation e-mail I received:

"Now if you just can't wait a minute longer and want to pass along a donation to fight cancer, an indiscriminant disease that savagely attacks all humanity without discrimination:"

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for supporting cancer awareness ... but I hope this isn't a hint of the type of fiction we are about to receive.

"An indiscriminant disease that attacks without discrimination"?? Talk about redundant.

What subject do you teach? :p English?

Sorry ..... I let my teacher undies show. :) Yeah, I teach English.

on the off chance you arent joking, yes, he does :D

I wasn't joking. He'd said he was a teacher.. I will be going back to school soon to be an English teacher.

Now I feel bad too.

I'm sorry I derailed a serious thread.

Very good, meaningful cause that is beneficial to the world and has a lot of meaning. Good luck to you all

hows THAT for redundant? no for real, i think this is a good idea. put hat money to good use

B.

Thanks for all the support folks....much appreciated

instead of rasing money to give to ACS. why don't you raise money and get a class action going against the big drug companies forcing them to release all the cures they have found but wont release?

Have signed up. Waitin for the e-mail back.

Px

Tell ya why.....cos all the money in the world wont make these guys release what they've found. I've done a lot of research on this. Its particularly bad in this country (UK) cos we're tryin to use therapies the US are usin now but the govenment wont let us cos its too expensive. Same sort of story in the US.

Who do you think is resoponsible for lining the pockets of Mr Bush and Mr Blair?? The bloody pharmaceutical companies. Thats who. Together with these two 'puppets', they can control world sales of all pharmaceuticals.

Good quote bout the NHS: 'An expensive patient is one who is ill'.

Pisses me off bout alternative thaerapies as well. My mum only just died of cancer (thats why I recently went mental on here when someone said somethin like.....'your mom this.....etc etc') and we wanted to send her out to Mexico to receive this therapy that has a very good success rate. After months of the GPs convincing her not to go....we found it was too late.

The bastards wont give us a chance. You cant fight that in this day and age.

Px

i know what ya mean. there is this doctor in western australia. who has something like a 90% success rate with curing people with cancer. and i mean people whos doctors have told them there is no hope . but because he doesn't use the expensive way to cure these people. he is called a quack, dangerous, a profiter(sp). the thing is when shown the proff of just how many people he has actually saved they have no answer. and as far as he just being some money grabbing quack, he actually charges something like $3,000 for the treament. with no money needed up front from those who can't afford it. the only thing holding him back from curing more people is the fact is that there are just too many people going to him . luckly there are a few younger doctors learning from him. he teaches them free of charge btw. .

Raise your hand if your government isnt corrupt....























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2nd Charity comes on board
 

Horror Writing Saves Lives: Another Charity joins Colorado horror author to fight cancer.

The Association for International Cancer Research has joined forces with 4 horror authors and the American Cancer Society in hopes of raising money to fund cancer research projects worldwide.

Four separate horror novels are being serialized online over 14 weeks.

In return for receiving the novels, subscribers are being asked to consider making a donation to the Association for International Cancer Research internationally and to the American Cancer Society in the US.

Mike McBride from Colorado, alongside William Meikle from Scotland, Karen Koehler from the Pennsylvania and Steve Zinger from Canada are serializing one of their horror novels a chapter each week for 14 weeks. The chapters are distributed in interactive e-zine format via Topica. At the conclusion, a total of 4 horror novels will have been distributed; one from each author.

In addition to providing the novels free of charge, prizes will be awarded, including free books and gothic clothing from sponsors in the horror field helping out free of charge.

Anyone interested can sign up at

http://www.topica.com/f/v.html?900079433.900025797

All that is needed is a valid email address, and the desire to enjoy great horror fiction!

Contacts:
Michael McBride
10333 Moore St, Westminster, CO 80021
303-439-0406
[email protected]

Jack Cumming, AICR, Madras House, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9EH
044 01334 477910
[email protected]

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WATCHERS: THE COMING OF THE KING by William Meikle. Book 1 of the Watchers Trilogy

The Jacobite rebellion has risen...from the grave

The old wall is a border: England and Scotland, South and North, light and darkness. It is 1745, and the long-awaited night as come. The Bloodking calls his army to battle, and armed with the powers of the undead and the damned, he will bring them South to claim his birthright: The throne of Britain.

Only the old Watchers on the wall stand in his way. They, their swords, and their faith. But too much time has passed and the Watch has grown slack and ill-prepared for the coming war. Only Martin and Sean have seen the horrors that lie ahead for humankind. Only they have the power to stop it. Now, two young officers of the Watch have a duty to perform: Stop the Bloodking.

Or die trying.

William Meikle - http://www.willie.meikle.btinternet.co.uk
Steve Zinger - http://www.stevezinger.com
Michael McBride - http://www.mcbridehorror.com
Karen Koehler - http://www.khpindustries.com/covenhouse.html

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can you send me some money so ican buy those books ...........please