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Bryan W. Alaspa's writing injects the American spirit into the dark heart of our nightmares
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S.P.I.D.A.R. is out today!
Today is the day! At long last, the hype is over and now it's just time to be terrified. My new horror book, and first book published...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 23, 20181 min read


The Real Life Whittier Alaska
For my new novel, S.P.I.D.A.R., I decided it would be fun to set it in a place cut off from the rest of the world. A place where it would...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 22, 20183 min read


Spider Facts: the Black Widow
There are few spiders in the world with a more fearsome, and undeserved, reputation than the black widow spider. They are just the...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 21, 20183 min read


Scary Insects: The emerald cockroach wasp
The world of insects... so much to truly be afraid of. Of course, most of it is at a very small level and most of the time you, as a...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 19, 20183 min read


Storyland: Now a semi-finalist
Last year I was invited by the wonderful Kara Kohn at the Plainfield Public Library here in Illinois to a local author event. I went...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 16, 20182 min read


Spider Facts: the Brown Recluse Spider
For the most part, we are pretty lucky here in North America when it comes to spiders. If you live in Central or South America or some of...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 16, 20183 min read


New horror book: S.P.I.D.A.R. available for Kindle Pre-Order
The town of Whittier is isolated in Alaska and the people all live within towers once used by the military. The tourist season is over...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 15, 20181 min read


Insect Facts: the Tarantula Hawk Wasp
As I have mentioned, the world of insects is far, far more terrifying than anything I could write. It is a brutal world where almost all...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 14, 20183 min read


Zombie insects
The world of insects is a generally terrifying place. As the Jeff Goldblum character in The Fly says - it is a basic and brutal place....
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 13, 20183 min read


Spider facts: the deadliest spider in the world
People have been afraid of spiders for a long time. The term of fear of spiders is known as arachnophobia. Of course, a phobia itself is...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 12, 20183 min read


Writing Tips: Know when to walk away
This is the story of The Wraith. What the heck is The Wraith? The Wraith is a supernatural suspense/horror novel I wrote about a year or...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 11, 20183 min read


Writing Tips: never stop learning
I have been writing for a long time. The first time I wrote anything resembling fiction was when I wrote a three page work of terrible...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 7, 20183 min read


Self-publishing: why use the Amazon publishing platform
I have been self-publishing for a while. Of course, there is part of me that wishes I could be everywhere, but I was messing with...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 5, 20184 min read


How my day job helped me write S.P.I.D.A.R.
One of the things I have written about before is that I am a 'working' writer. This doesn't mean I make a living just writing my books....
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 31, 20183 min read


When the books get hard to write
So, the big news, I guess I should lead with, is that I have officially started writing the third novel in the Elementals YA series. This...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 29, 20184 min read


Help be get published and vote for The Revisionists
I have just finished the first draft of my first technothriller, called The Revisionists. While I have sent it to Beta Readers and the...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 24, 20181 min read


Read an Excerpt from: S.P.I.D.A.R.
My upcoming horror novel S.P.I.D.A.R. is one that will scare you. I tried hard to scare you. It is my first true, straight-up horror...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 17, 201811 min read


Eight Legs of Terror Comes Feb. 23!
Hello there! So, I finally got word back from the publisher about when my terrifying new novel, S.P.I.D.A.R., will be coming out....
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 15, 20183 min read


The plans fror 2018
Hey there! Happy new year. A little late here, but I spent the holidays dealing with a stomach flu at Christmas and then a nasty head...
Bryan W. Alaspa
Jan 7, 20184 min read


Book Trailer for S.P.I.D.A.R. - coming January 2018!
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Dec 19, 20171 min read
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