Do your part this Halloween! Stay scared!

While you’re searching all the supermarkets and discount stores for just the right goodies to hand out at the door this Spooky Season (or if you merely plan to snuff the porchlight and let the neighbors feed the little cosplaying ragamuffins this year)…

Be sure to get yourself some brain candy! The Fosterical Library has some delectably dastardly delights to dazzle and dumbfound you this Halloween!

Turn out the lights, snuggle into your comfy place beneath your fave reading lamp, and crack open these horrifyingly good reads:

(Read them at your own risk…)

MURDER SHE LAUGHED

This book will keep you up… unwilling to stop reading, desperately in need to find out who survives, who gets away with the vilest of acts, and who walks away without a whisper of suspicion. Unveiled are such over-the-top tales as: Sherlock Holmes faces his own unending nightmare in The Sleeper Rises… The elusive Zodiac Killer resurfaces to keep hidden his own identity in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z… plus other spine shivering stories of horrible mind-bending visions and mysteries past and future. Stay awake! Beware of what lurks just around that dark corner.

NO EXIT

It may share its title with a number of better-known works, but if you enjoy science fiction mystery with a twist, you ought to give this voracious volume a look.

Journalist Michael Arc mysteriously disappeared in 2003. In the years following, all written and photographic evidence of his existence began to disappear as well. Before he vanished, he was working on the bizarre topic of time travel and certain nefarious forces who may be using it to alter the past and create a new future that favors their evil. Evil like the Allies’ loss of World War II, like a certain thwarted assassination attempt in Dallas, and other historical game-changing events! Arc’s secret files have now been discovered! Astonishing tales of chrono-chaos; there's historical chicanery, alien agendas, confused scientists, mysterious strangers… even a dinosaur!

If they drop the big one tomorrow, you won't sweat it, having survived the terrifying tale contained in…

YOU CAN RUN: A Horror Novella

Who are they? What are they? The world of supernatural lore knows them only as “marchers.” Ancient ethereal predators from beyond the veil. For centuries they have hunted humans, silently, relentlessly. With no concept of mercy, they cannot be pleaded with, and pursue their victims to the death – those whom by unholy mischief or betrayal, become marked. Once a marcher has latched on, the hunted have only one option – to run, for as long as possible, with a desperation to pass the mark onto some other unwitting soul, and hope the new victim can as well, lest the mark fall back to them after that person is caught and devoured. Troy Terrill, a young upstart in the game of paranormal investigation, finds himself the only hope of not one, but two cursed people with marchers on their trail. Can he rid them of their pursuing abominations? Can anyone? Don’t dwell upon the answer too deeply; the act of pondering a marcher gives it your scent...

There they are, brave reader. Door 1, 2 or 3… or all, if you prefer – they’re not that pricey. Available in paperback, or e-reader. On Amazon or your preferred online book vault. Browse and buy with ease, using the above links.

On Amazon, all usual options apply: AmazonSmile® charities, KindleUnlimited® offers, and Amazon Matchbook®.

Read them in your favorite hiding place, and maybe we’ll see you come dawn… … …

Highly Recommended…

It doesn’t take a fiend to appreciate Foster’s latest work, MURDER SHE LAUGHED… just a reader ready to be entertained senseless by some of the scariest tales ever to stalk your bookshelf this Halloween!

It’s been gestating in the Fosterical Vault O’ Mysteriosity & Sinister Shenanigans for an entire year, and now it’s available to tingle your spine and keep you awake!
Turn down the lights except for your favorite reading lamp, curl up with your kitty-cat in the big comfy chair or other favorite reading spot, keep some of the leftover Halloween goodies nearby, and dive face-first into the most shockingly fun batch of terrifying tales to titillate and tweak you!

The Zodiac Killer returns in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z…

Sherlock Holmes matches wits with the mysterious Dr. Caligari and his homicidal slave The Somnambulist, in The Sleeper Rises…

Plus… an all original cast of villains and victims await you in stories with dreadfully benign titles like Under Par, A Quick Solution and Way To Go, Mr. Weaver…

169 pages of killer fun and tenacious twists! Available in paperback, and e-reader format for your Kindle®, Nook®, or Android book app.

Get in a nap before you order – it will be a loooonng time before you want to fall asleep again.

AmazonSmile® allows you to designate a portion of your purchase total as a donation to a favorite charity of your choice! A KindleUnlimited® membership allows you to read books (including this one) for FREE first, and purchase later. Amazon Matchbook® allows you to pick up a free – or price-reduced – e-reader copy (to keep or gift) of whatever paperback you buy.

Your purchase provides Rob with a modest royalty, with which he can address his medical expenses – not buy a Corvette (yet, anyway.) You get all this reading enjoyment, plus become a positive doer and shaker in the lives of others. It’s a win-win!!
And don’t forget to check out Rob’s other scary books this Halloween season – NO EXIT and YOU CAN RUN.

Read in good spirits and health. Click away!

(This collection of short stories is recommended for readers 18+ only; not something to read to kids at bedtime – or any other time. We’re serious. You’ve been warned.)

New Title Alert!

Almost ready to send to press, Foster’s newest title is sure to prime the pulse rate and tickle the fancy of the latent detective in you lovers of mystery and horror!

Just in time (hopefully) for Halloween, and if not then – maybe Christmas:

MURDER SHE LAUGHED:
Outrageous Tales of Terrifying Mystery and Blood Curdling Revenge

Here’s the back cover blurb:

This book will keep you up at night… unwilling to stop reading, desperately in need to find out who survives, who gets away with the vilest of acts, and who walks away without a whisper of suspicion. Or you’ll simply lie in bed, staring into the darkness… wondering, dreading, unable to find relief even in the privacy of your own thoughts.

The terrors, manmade or otherwise, are relentless in a world where blood, and alliances no matter how loyal or grudging, are cheap. Who can you trust when surrounded by strangers with unknown intentions? Or completely alone in a landscape of peril? How confident are you of your own resourcefulness amid a maze of killers?

Long lost tales of the famous and infamous dubiously light the way to your escape. Sherlock Holmes faces his own unending nightmare in The Sleeper Rises, and the forever elusive Zodiac Killer resurfaces to solve, and keep hidden, his own identity in Mr. A, Alias Mr. Z… plus other spine shivering tales of horrible revelation and mind-bending unwanted visions of mysteries past and future. Stay awake! Beware of what lurks just around that dark corner.

It’s due out soon, so keep watching this space. (Don’t worry, we’ll remind ya!)

It will be, like all of Foster’s great books, available in paperback and e-reader format! On Amazon, and likely on the platform of whichever online bookseller you may prefer instead!

In the meantime, click ‘View All Titles’ above to access Foster’s Author Page and browse from his array of books currently available!

Read well, in fair weather and foul!

Fall is in the air.

Yep, it's just beginning to turn a tad nippy out.

Time to drain the pool, and dig out your warm nighties. Get the ol' burner cleaned, oiled and ready to get the house all toasty & good for those long frosty nights. Make sure Fido and Kuddles have fluffy beds indoors and get the litter box refilled. Make sure the radio has batteries.

You know what else will come in super handy? Some great reading matter to cozy up with under the big comforter and your favorite bedside lamp.

And yeppers, the Fosterical Library has some fantastic suggestions, in paperback or e-reader format, and priced to move!

Read stuff for FREE with your KindleUnlimited® membership! In hopes that you'll want a permanent copy.

What's NOT to like? What's there left to hum-haw about?

Click 'View All Titles' just below the main heading up there, and browse your little socks off!

We promise shenanigans you'll not soon forget; laughter, adventure, horror, thrills, nostalgia... and new titles coming soon! So get clicking!

Well, that was interesting…

What do billiards, golf and advertising have in common?

Besides needing balls to do any of them?

I have been in the advertising business – all considered – for about 38 years. I started as an editorial cartoonist and feature writer for various college newspapers, worked as a be-all flunky at an ad agency upon exiting college, was the art director of a direct-sales auto industry magazine, did graphics for a book publisher, then went to work for the first of four (4) daily newspapers in 1991.

This year (2018), the proliferation of overseas outsourcing combined with my cumulative health problems, led to my finally conceding to retirement, even though I’m not quite “retirement age.”

Along the way I grew dissatisfied. I spent my career doing my best work, to make someone else’s life financially stable. In return I was shown the door, when cheaper help came along. But during that time, one would think I picked up some degree of savvy regarding that industry – the business called ‘advertising & marketing.’

Like Socialism, or one of Leonardo DaVinci’s man-powered flying machines – it looks fine on paper. Actual field testing in the real world is where its terrible, fatal flaws emerge.

So how do billiards and golf become relevant?

If one decides to take up either billiards or golf, one realizes something terrible as time passes. One can spend hours a day practicing billiards at a local pub or in one’s home. Controlling every geometric strategem, knowing the cue ball's sweet spot from any vantage point. One can spend every day on a golf course mastering which club to use, the correct ‘English’ to put on a ball, lawn break patterns, wind factors… everything. And on ‘Game Day,’ when all that accumulated expertise is brought to bear – you can still STINK.

Play the worst round of your life.

Choke. Rookie out.

Look like the pantsless guy in the enema factory.

Advertising has the same risk. You can technically know exactly what it takes to sell snow to polar bears. As the hired help aboard some company making its living by providing ad services, you might pull off sales that save fiscal years for the firm. You might make the difference between the company falling short, or it having a boom month.

But when it comes time to make great sales for yourself… that’s when you run into the polar bear who’d rather eat you than purchase fresh snow.

In my self-styled side career as an indy author, I’ve had both kinds of years. But the same old marketing strategy doesn’t cut the mustard forever. This year I tried hiring a third party to promote my work. SHOUTMyBook-dot-com has fulfilled their promises to get my book covers (and my own promo text) onto social networks, and reposted by other book blogs. It’s all been great.

On paper.

But after three months, and even resorting to giving them my personal best-selling book to promote – there have been no sales. A lot of bluster, but no cash register ca-ching. In short, they’ve made a nice little sum from me. I don’t blame them – I blame the strategy becoming old too soon.

So in the next few months, you’ll see the return of the MMCD Blog! Yes, it will get a bit crazy, but I can do no worse for myself than SMB has done. Plus – it’s FREE!

So let me be the first to welcome you all back to the sink or swim world of My Mind Creates Danger! At the very least, I promise you interesting promo stuff. I hope you’ll browse my product while you’re here too. The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics awaits you!

Amazon still has all its great promotional add-ons that I can, in turn, pitch to you!

All my books are available in paperback and e-reader format!

KindleUnlimited members can read stuff FREE!

AmazonSmile lets you mark part of your purchase total as a donation to your favorite worthy cause. (You could stick it to me, for not liking my politics, by donating to a charity you’d think would get my goat – while helping me with my medical bills by buying a book!)

Amazon Matchbook lets you get a free/price-reduced digital copy of whichever paperback you purchase – to gift a friend with an e-reader, or take along on your own.

Yep, I have new titles on the way – hopefully before year’s end. But if not, then 2019 will be chock-full of surprises!

Just click ‘View All Titles’ above, and do some really early Christmas shopping for the bookworms on your gift list! There’s something (or there WILL BE) for everyone!

Read in renewed vigor!

GIVEAWAY!! Two Prizes Spoken For! TWO LEFT!

NOW TWO PRIZES HAVE BEEN NABBED! Unpacked from the Fosterical Archives, we have a remaining 2 – count'em – 2 free gifts still up for grabs!

One could be yours! All you have to do is a teensy favor... Don't worry, it's easy as... well... it's darn easy, trust us! But it would also be muy appreciated!

Book reviews are more important to indy authors than one might think. More positive reviews mean greater exposure – which in turn means more readers! That, in turn, hopefully means more reviews, more purchases, more readers – you see that upward pattern?

That's exactly what we want here at The Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics!

So here's the deal:

If you have already read one of Rob's fifteen – (yes, fifteen, we can hardly believe it ourselves) – available books... AND would be kind enough to go on that book's Amazon Page*... and rate the book (preferably high) on their 1-5 star scale, and even write a short review of that book (it can be one sentence, one word even... "stupendous," "original," "memorable," etc.)... then...

Send us a quick note telling us which book you reviewed... with permission to display your review on social media...

While they last, you can choose between these four items! We'll send it to you free!

ERNIE'S JOURNEYS
Paperback – Foster's thoughtful collection of essays on the life and media impact of iconic early television comedian Ernie Kovacs! Ernie's last night on Earth, musings on what might have come to pass had he enjoyed a full lifespan, what he'd make of modern advancements like the Internet, plus the surviving remnant of a proposed Kovacs stageplay.

OR

I'M ROB, AND SO ARE WE
Compact Disc – A rarity indeed! Inspired by the multi-voice comedy of comedians Jonathan Winters and Phil Hendrie, and the in-studio antics of The Firesign Theater, Rob produced this, his one and only Comedy CD! It is still in the original plastic – never played (which is no guarantee of its playback quality but we have it to give away!) 12 tracks. Approximately 45 minutes of funnery and enjoymentness! You want it – here's your chance to grab it! (Note: You will NOT find this item on Amazon – it's only available through this offer.)

We only have ONE of each in our possession, so act fast!

Already spoken for, are...
AMBROSE BIERCE, THE LAST STAND OF
Paperback – Foster's original 2-act stageplay first performed in 2001, with actor/musician Thomas Burks in the title-role. Rebel newsman, writer, iconoclast Ambrose Bierce hides out in a back bedroom of a Mexican brothel in bitter January of 1914, from what he believes is a Federalé lynch mob searching for him in the wake of ally Pancho Villa's capture. Instead, show up an old cohort newsman, and Bierce's cousin, a Calvinist minister, who try to persuade him to return home with them. What results is a verbal battle of wits between the Man of the Cloth, and the author of The Devil's Dictionary! The book also includes production photos, Director's notes, samples of actual local reviews, and a historical overview of Bierce's life. A great read!!

AND

PLAN 10 FROM OUTER SPACE: THE FINAL SOLUTION
Paperback – Foster grabs your funnybone and won't let go in this novelized 'sequel' to the Worst Movie Of All Time, "Plan 9 From Outer Space!" The menacing aliens are back to give it one more try; all your favorite annoying characters return – all written lovingly in the prose style of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

If you can't find the book's Amazon page, just click 'View All Titles' above (*or the link in this text, in the 6th paragraph) to be fast-tracked to it.

If you've never read one of Foster's books (shame on you), you can browse Rob's author page... all links above go to it... buy something, or read it free with your KindleUnlimited® membership... review it according to the above directions... and choose your free gift – if anything is left.

It's even easier than we've made it sound. Don't let details get in your way – start clicking.

Yes, with our (Rob's) enormous THANK YOU.

Read in resplendent health... and get your free stuff!

You've tried the rest...

Now try the best, lest we jest.

Seriously, no media is as personal as a favorite book. You read, you remember, you return.

You can scan your bookshelf and bring a bucketful of memories tumbling down on you. Or lean the shelf too forward and need paramedics.

But one thing is certain – only that the adventure, the thrills, the joy, the laughter, the romance, the horror, the whatever-it-is... plays out on a unique stage, the theatre of your mind. The show, the story, the experience, is uniquely yours.

At the Fosterical Library O' Modern Classics, we have a few stories you may want to see on that epic platform. It costs very little, if anything at all, to make them uniquely yours!

Laughs, chills, sci-fi thrills, and stunning commentary; and you can help out others with your purchase – a favorite charity, and me with my staggering medical costs.

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