📚 Read on Royal Road 📚
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📖 Moving notice
From November 2022 to March 2024, I had an incredible experience sharing a big part of this story with the community here on Hive. I think HM is ready for a larger audience, and its genre and style would be a good fit for the avid readers over at Royal Road.
All content here on Hive will be edited to point that way—thank you for all your input over the nearly 2 years we ran this serial publishing experiment.
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Synopsis
Alena moved to a small town to start a restaurant, not to tangle with a demon. But when the monster messes with her wifi, ruins her roommate's date, and threatens to commit mass murder, she's forced to put her plans on hold.
Impossible phenomena and a chaotic stalker lead her to a grandfather clock with backward numbers. The ghost inside believes she's there to help it escape, and offers to show her the world through its eyes. With one fateful glimpse, Alena ignites a journey that becomes much more than a trade of sanity for safety, and enters a long entrenched battle for the sovereignty of the soul.
The Ghost in the Clock is the inaugural episode of Hunting Midnight, a paranormal adventure series that shatters genre expectations by delivering as much charm as it does creepshow, as many smiles as it does spooks, and an unforgettably unique cast of villains and heroes.
Contains strong language, sexual themes and scenes of violence.
🎁 Giveaways 🎁
- The Hunting Midnight giveaways will run more or less weekly, as separate posts
- If publishing goes to plan, this will span almost all of 2023 (or more!) It’s a big story 😅
- Giveaways will be hosted in various communities for greater exposure
- Entry mechanism: leave a comment that quotes a line from any part in the The Hunting Midnight story (not here! In the giveaway posts!)
- Each giveaway will feature:
- 🎁 Standard prizes for up to 10 winners
- 🎡 Spins on a bonus prize wheel for meeting certain conditions, such as being a member of Scholar and Scribe
- Prizes will reflect the host community (e.g. DEC in Splinterlands, STARBITS in Rising Star). Check out one of the giveaways for my last publication, The Childseeker’s War to get a sense of how they work.
- Winners will be announced in the giveaway posts themselves (i.e. winners of #1 will be announced in #2, etc.)
Estimated giveaway schedule and status
| Giveaway posts | Main Prize | Est. Start Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giveaway #1 | STARBITS | Sun Dec 4 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #2 | WOO | Mon Dec 12 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #3 | INK | Mon Dec 19 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #4 | SPS | Mon Jan 2 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #5 | PIZZA | Mon Jan 9 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #6 | STARBITS | Tue Jan 17 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #7 | HIVE & SBI | Wed Jan 25 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #8 | SLOTHBUZZ | Mon Feb 6 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #9 | STARBITS | Mon Feb 13 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #10 | WOO | Tues Feb 21 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #11 | LEO | Tues Feb 28 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #12 | DREEM | Tue Mar 13 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #13 | SPS | Thu Mar 23 | ✅ Finished |
| Giveaway #14 | PIZZA | Mon Apr 3 | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #15 | INK | Tues Apr 11 | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #16 | WOO | Tues Apr 18 | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #17 | LEO & HSBI | TBD | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #18 | STARBITS | Sun, May 28 | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #19 | SCRAP | Mon, Jun 5 | ✅ Finished! |
| Giveaway #20 | PART | Thu, Jun 15 | ✅ Finished! |
Thank you for reading. I own the license for all images in this post. Original Hunting Midnight cover art by Liz Mac.