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A chance to win a free digital copy of Midnight Roost at every stop. Just leave a comment to show your support for the tour, the anthology, and all of the fantastic authors.
Welcome Sonia Pipkin
Inspiration for “Once Upon a Time”
I wrote this short story while I was attending Western Colorado University, during a short forms course. I love the idea of combining a fairytale with unexpected horror and that was my inspiration.
About Author Sonia Pipkin
Sonia Pipkin graduated from Western Colorado University with an M.F.A. in creative writing with a concentration in genre fiction. She lives in Colorado where she is a freelance writer and is currently attending Colorado State University working toward an M.A. TESOL certificate. Her current project is a linked short story anthology that focuses on women injustice.
Instagram: @writersoniav
Facebook: Sonia Valladares
Welcome Robbie Cheadle
About Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Reading from “The Behemoth”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MprF0oN4BcE&t=7s
Roberta Eaton Cheadle is a South African writer and poet specialising in historical, paranormal, and horror novels and short stories. She is an avid reader in these genres and her writing has been influenced by famous authors, including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Amor Towles, Stephen Crane, Enrich Maria Remarque, George Orwell, Stephen King, and Colleen McCullough.
Roberta has short stories and poems in several anthologies and has two published novels:
* Through the Nethergate, a historical supernatural fantasy; and
* A Ghost and His Gold, a historical paranormal novel set in South Africa.
Roberta has eleven children’s books published under the name Robbie Cheadle.
Roberta was educated at the University of South Africa, where she achieved a Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1996 and an Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1997. She was admitted as a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2000.
Roberta has worked in corporate finance from 2001 until the present date and has written seven publications relating to investing in Africa. She has won several awards over her 20-year career in the category of Transactional Support Services.
Roberta Eaton Cheadle is a contributor to every short fiction anthology WordCrafter Press has ever put out, as well as co-editor for the Poetry Treasures anthology series.
Roberta contributed the winning story, “The Bite”, in the 2022 WordCrafter Short Fiction Contest and Visions anthology, as well as being a contributor to all WordCrafter Press anthologies and co-editor for the Poetry Treasures anthology series.
About Midnight Roost
20 authors bring your nightmares to life in 23 stories of ghosts, paranormal phenomenon, and the horror from the dark crevasses of their minds. Stories of stalkers, both human and supernatural, possession and occult rituals, alien visitations of the strange kind, and ghostly tales that will give you goosebumps. These are the tales that will make you fear the dark. Read them at the Midnight Roost… if you dare.
Kaye Lynne Booth, Chris Barili, Christa Planko, DL Mullan, C.R. Johansson, Joseph Carrabis, Keith J. Hoskins, Mario Acevedo, M.J. Mallon, Michaele Jordan, Patty L Fletcher, Paul Kane, Roberta Eaton Cheadle, Rebecca M. Senese, Zack Ellafy, Sonia Pipkin, Denise Aparo, Robert Kostanczuk, Isabel Grey & Julie Jones.
Midnight Roost can be downloaded via most distributors through Books2Read:
https://books2read.com/u/318L0l
Monday – October 16 – Opening Day –Isabele Grey (Interview & Reading) & Joseph Carrabis (Reading) – Writing to be Read
Tuesday – October 17 – M J Mallon (Reading) & Christa Planko (Interview & Guest Post)– Undawnted
Wednesday – October 18 – Chris Barili (Guest Post) & Paul Kane (Guest Post) – Patty’s Worlds
Thursday – October 19 – Julie Jones (Reading) & Keith Hoskins (Guest Post) – Robbie’s Inspiration
Friday – October 20 – Michaele Jordan (Reading) & Mario Acevedo (Guest Post) – Writing to be Read
Saturday – October 21 – Patty Fletcher (Guest Post) & DL Mullan (Guest Post & Video) – Roberta Writes
Sunday – October 22 – Sonia Pipkin (Guest Post) & Roberta Eaton Cheadle (Reading) – Kyrosmagica Publishing
Monday – October 23 – Closing Post –Denise Aparo (Reading) & other stories – Writing to be Read
M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
I don’t read much horror or spooky stuff, but I am going to pick this one up for my one Halloween read. Great post.
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Thank you so much Carla. I appreciate that. It is a really good 👍 anthology. Such a variety of stories. 😀
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This collaboration sounds fantastic.
Congratulations to all the authors involved.
The Books2Read link is broken.
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How odd. WordPress decided to add some html to the end of the link. No idea why. Have now updated the link. Thank you so much for letting me know Patricia. 😀
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Thanks for setting up a great tour stop, Marje. It looks great. And thanks to Robbie and Sonia for sharing. 🙂
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My pleasure Kaye. Happy to do so!
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How lovely! Congratulations, Marje. 🩵
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Thank you Colleen. Its great to be a part of this anthology. 😉
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Hi Marje, thanks so much for hosting this stop on the tour. Sharing.
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Hi Robbie. Many thanks. 😀
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So many talented authors in this collection.
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It really is a brilliant collection. One of the best I’ve participated in Darlene. 😀
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Hi Marje, that is good to know. Paul Kane is a very well known and popular author of horror so its an honour to feature alongside him.
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Yes indeed. Good to know that Robbie 😀
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Sharing to help spread the word!
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Thank you so much Liz. 💓
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Congrats for being part this anthology Marje. Sadly, I don’t read horror or scary. 🙂 xx
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Oh, it isn’t too scary. At least I don’t think so! No worries. xx
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Thank you everyone that commented! I hope you enjoy my story and all of the other works from the other authors!
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Thank you for commenting Sonia. All brill stories. x
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What a wonderful group – congratulations to everyone x
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Many thanks Toni. 😊
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