Stories

I continue to marvel at how my story The Haunting is selling so well - 145 copies in 10 days. That's the most I've ever sold since I started this business. Some of my other little collections give three stories for the same price, but for some reason they don't sell a fraction of The Haunting. Is it the cover? Is it the description?

My fear is that I can't replicate this with another story as I don't really know why it's been so relatively successful. It can't be reviews because it doesn't have any so far.

So I wondered whether it was the fact that the title is a common one - you can't copyright a title so you can call your stories anything. I didn't do this on purpose with The Haunting, but maybe it has helped that there are loads of other stories/films etc, called The Haunting or the Haunting of...

So, I'm writing a story called The Exorcist. I want to introduce a character called Adam Meyrink who is a Chaos Magician and who is the only one who can exorcise the thing...

"Little Brother, you've been meddling with the Goetia" as Allen Bennett said to Aleister Crowley...

I'm quite enjoying writing it but as I sit here all on my own typing away in this quiet, empty house, I am getting a bit scared.