BRYAN W. ALASPA

My final stop for the Storyland blog tour is an interview over at the TriSarahTops blog. Check it out and make sure to pick up your copy of Storyland at Amazon today! Read the interview at TriSarahTops HERE. #thriller #blogtour #horror #writing #interview #Storyland #psychologicalhorror #psychologicalsuspense

Stop number 4 on the Storyland blog tour is up and ready for you to read. SunShineSarahXO was kind enough to let me do a guest post and blather on about why I wrote Storyland and why I am so demented I tend to like writing about horror and psychological horror. READ IT HERE! #blogtour #Storyalnd #guestpost #thriller #horror #writing #suspense #psychologicalthriller #psychologicalhorror #writer

My third stop in the Storyland blog tour is now up. It's a brief review (a good one) and a different excerpt from yesterday. Read it HERE and then head over to Amazon to get your copy in print or Kindle. #storyland #novel #blogtour #thriller #psychologicalhorror #psychologicalsuspense #psychologicalthriller #mystery #book #blog #excerpt

Stop two of my Storyland blog tour is up and ready for you to read. The fine folks at Creative Misfit have their post up and it's an excerpt from the novel. Read it and then get your copy at Amazon in print or Kindle editions. CLICK HERE TO READ THE EXCERPT AT CREATIVE MISFIT #Storyland #blogtour #blogs #excerpt #horror #thriller #suspense #psychologicalsuspense #psychologicalhorror #psychologicalthriller

The fact is that the publishing world has changed. You can debate until the end of time if it's changed for the better or worse. I think it's changed for the better. I like the vast expanse of authors and works of fiction that I might not have had access to in the pre-Kindle world. I can go on and on about how I was there trying to push the idea of self-publishing before there was a Kindle, but even I can't inflate my ego that large. People have been self-publishing for centu

Storyland starts in the modern day when a man named Ned, while attending ComiCon, awakens to find out that his childhood best friend Martin Brace has brutally murdered for people out in the woods back in his home town. Martin and Ned lived next door to each other as kids and played a game called Storyland. Martin stated he believed Storyland was real and that they were part of the story itself, set out to defeat a giant evil he's named Grool. Martin is now a reclusive author

An excerpt from my new novel Storyland. Right here. Stay tuned! #comingsoon #tomorrow #Storyland #thriller #suspense #psychologicalsupsense #psychologicalhorror #psychologicalthriller #mystery #whodunnit #indieauthor #indiewriter

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Chicago suspense writer Bryan Alaspa continues to do things the hard way, announcing via his website and social media that he will be publishing his new psychological thriller novel Storyland under his own publishing label on Halloween, 2017. The reason? The feedback he got from publishing agents and traditional publishers said the novel was “too dark”, “disturbing” and “gritty” for them. “It was weird,” says the author, “several of them got back to me and the ones who provid

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So, I have finished a first draft of another novel this year. That means, in the span of less than a year, I have drafted three novels. One is currently being shopped around to literary agents (and if that fails, then to small press publishers, then maybe to Kindle Scout and, if that fails, I'll publish it myself), one is with a Beta reader and needs MAJOR help (that one may be out by end of the year) and this one. And this one scared the crap out of me. I have two Beta reade