The Bull

In The Demon’s Head #102:The Bull

April 19, 2013

Hello and happy finally Friday. I hope that your week has gone well. You best be ready to jump into the weekend with all of us. If you’re stuck at work then I have to say sorry. I can only offer up a small piece of help in the form of the final Photo-blogging challenge this week. Let’s take a look at the picture:

Note: Normally here I’d start the new piece. But looking through these pictures I’ve realized there is kind of an underlying theme in them. Now some people may not notice it, hell it may be just the way my brain works. If you see it though realize it wasn’t intentional it just kind of happened that way. Now enough of that, let’s get onto today’s piece.

The Bull

Every night when I sleep,

I feel the same presence,

The same energy,

Watching over me,

I’m not sure what it is that they want,

But I know they keep watching,

I had hoped that it would go away,

But it just keeps getting stronger,

Soon I think,

I’ll see his face,

And maybe then,

I’ll know what it is,

That they want,

I don’t understand,

Quite what’s going on,

But I’ll be happy when it’s over,

Until I’ll sleep uneasy,

With the bull looking over my shoulder,

About The Piece

It seems I’m setting extremes right and left. Earlier this week, or was it last week I can’t remember, I had the longest piece I’d done for this blog. Today I write the shortest piece that I’ve written in quite some time. I can only hope that you guys enjoy and followed it.

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I'd like to take a quick moment to say that my thoughts are with those in Boston. I"ve spent this morning watching the news and I can only hope that "Suspect #2" is caught quickly just like everyone else. I can hope that when this day ends that they can start rebuilding. 

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Until the next time you want to walk through the gates of hell and into the demon’s head, I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.

A World Without Freedom

In The Demon’s Head #91: A World Without Freedom

March 29, 2013

Hello everyone and a happy Friday to you and yours. It’s kind of nice. I’m sitting here in the office looking out the window and I realize how much I love every season but winter. I love the chance to go ride my trike, (Yes you read that correctly, your truly rides trikes) and enjoy the air. If we could go every year without a winter, I think I’d be perfectly fine with that. You didn’t stop by today to read about my thoughts on the weather though. Your here for the photo-blogging challenge of the day right? Well I’m here to bring it to you. Afterwards I will have a nice little tidbit of information that I’d like to share with everyone that I hope you guys will enjoy. Let’s get a look at today’s picture.

A World Without Freedom

They were angry,

It started with the guns,

Then with marriage,

And slowly they begin to twist,

Everything,

To where we had no choice,

No freedoms,

No thoughts,

That were our own,

Slowly they began to heavily monitor,

Entertainment,

First books,

They were edited,

If there was a chance that something could cause,

An uproar against the government,

That now called itself,

The Power,

When books became a thing of the past,

They focused on Television,

Editing shows left and right,

Destroying anything,

That was a radical thought,

It too fell by the wayside,

When The Power,

Had their way with it,

Then finally radios,

They were the last to go,

And were the hardest to stop,

Those who were in control of the towers,

Took their last breaths,

Defending what the nation once was,

And damning what it had become,

In fact the very last station,

KHXM was closed,

When it was discovered,

That they had planted speakers in flowers,

Around the country,

In an attempt to begin an uprising,

When he was found,

He was dealt with,

Killed,

On air for all of his followers to hear,

As if a parting shot to those who once wanted to listen,

Now life is more about awaiting death,

Then living,

We all go place to place,

Doing whatever job we are offered,

And we don’t say much,

Communication has died,

And with it the souls of those who once called this nation home,

The Power has finally taken control and they will do whatever they need,

To keep it,

The echoed sounds of my dad’s last screams still run through my head,

I was in the building when that happened,

But they never found me,

For years I’ve waited for a chance to get at The Power,

And I will do so,

One day I will find a way into their doors,

And I will finish what my dad,

And that rebellion started,

One day,

They will Fall,

To Me,

About The Piece

As a man who loves radio and music, and given the current headlines, I thought that this idea rang out in a lot of ways. A lot of you may be curious about what happens next here and who knows I may actually add on to it at some point. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. The picture is a strange one in how it’s set up and I think it played perfectly into this idea.

Now originally there was going to be some information that I was going to post here but I think rather than do that I’ll be releasing another edition of “In The Demon’s Head” tomorrow with some more of that information. There are a couple of ideas that I’m running with and I think that it would be awesome to share it all in its own special issue.

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Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon’s head. I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface. 

In The Demon's Head: When The Daylight Grows

In The Demon’s Head # 87: When The Daylight Grows

March 20, 2013

Hello guys how are things are your end of the computer screen. This is the first blog post that I’ve written in almost a month. Not so much because I don’t have a lot going on. (There’s that too in honesty) but more so because I’ve been really busy with everything from working on my writing with school to a few other projects. I can say though that there will likely be a lot more of these blog post coming. I’ll explain that shortly.

More Blog Post Coming

A lot of people who read this post are fans of my Facebook and Twitter accounts and if you’ve been following that then it’s likely that you’ve heard that I’ve lost my full time job as a member of the Missouri Veterans Home. I don’t want to go into a lot of details for why I was fired or why because quite frankly it’s in the past. However, it does open a new door to me.

That door is that a lot more of my time can be spent on my writing and publishing some of my work. This means that I can focus full time on my writing. Part of that time will be spent writing more blog post. I am hoping to going back to 2-3 post a week. We’ll have to see what happens between and I won’t make promises but I’m hoping that is one way that it goes.

Email List

I’ve spent a lot of time reading and learning in the last few weeks. One of the major points that I’ve taken away from all that reading was that an Email list is as beneficial to me as a Facebook Page. What I’m hoping is that I can launch an email list within the next couple of weeks I think that it will be majorly beneficial moving forward.  I’ll keep you updated as things near that point.

More New Ideas

Sometimes it amazes me that I manage to derive ideas the way I do. I’ve literally found my last three ideas while eating or sleeping. It’s kind of surprising to me that things can come to me the way they do. I’m not going to complain though and I can’t wait to get a few of them on paper. I think the new short story idea, as well as the new novel ideas will all pipe your interest.

The Blackout Series

I know that there are quite a few people who have downloaded the Blackout Series’ inaugural title “Life After Dark” and I’m happy to announce that the next story in the series will be available right around the corner.

I don’t want to give away too much yet but I’m hoping that it will be available and ready for your reading by the end of April.

That’s about all I have for right now. I hope that you enjoy this post and I remind you to subscribe to the post by entering your email in the upper right hand corner. You can also follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.  Finally If you like what I’m doing please feel free to use the donate button at the top of the blog. Any kind of donation would help and would go a long way into helping me keep the dream alive.

Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon’s head, I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.  

In The Demon's Head: What's New for 2013

In The Demon’s Head 73: What’s New for 2013

January 11, 2013

Hello everyone happy belated new year to everyone. I’m excited because this is the first post of the New Year, this post is going to be full of information on my plans going forward through 2013. 

First off, as some of you may know I enrolled in a writing class at the beginning of the year. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but after doing just the first assignment I feel that I learned quite a bit already. This leads to some information regarding my debut novel. 

I started writing the novel a little over a week before the New Year. I made it about five pages in before beginning the class and I’ve realized that I want to wait until I finish this class before I began that novel. It may be a little bit but I do intend to begin the novel and finally release it to the public.

So if the novel is now on the back burner for the time being does that mean that my writing is also on the back burner with the exception of the class? Not in the slightest. First the writings of the months I intend to continue those. I’d like to do one a month and hopefully can hold onto that while doing the class.

Now what about the stories side of things since most of my free writings will be poems? First let’s talk about the Blackout Series. 

Originally my goals were to release the first story as a free download or read then put the others up for sale but I’m beginning to think that there may be a different system set up. I think that I will be giving away the stories for free for a while simply to help build my platform up as I work on the class and get in the process of writing my novel. 

 In the process of the class too I’m going to try to submit some short stories for publication to magazines. I’m aiming mainly to spend the next year or two as I finish the class to get my writer’s platform built up.  Hopefully by no later than the end of 2014 possibly I could have the novel done and ready for release.

Those are some of the goals for this year. Part of the reason that I put the novel on the back burner was mainly because I wanted to focus most of my writing energy on the course and that way I could finish it quicker and I would be able to focus on it and learn as much as possible. 

I will have some updates and information as I work through the course and hopefully come up with some new ideas for both stories and future novels. I look forward to this course and to sharing in the journey with you guys. 

Until next time another Happy New Year and until you decide to take another trip through the gates of hell and into the demons head, I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.

In The Demon's Head: To All Who Survived The Myans

In The Demon’s Head #72:To All Who Survived The Myans

December 27, 2012

Merry Belated Christmas all and I hope that your season was filled with cheer and excitement as you spent time with the ones that you loved. I myself didn’t do a whole lot I spent some time with my Dad, Grandma and some other family as well as my wonderful Fiancé Liz. You read that right yours truly is now engaged.  I’ll talk more about this at some point in the future but for right now let’s jump into this edition of In The Demon’s Head before it becomes one of those stupid sappy Christmas letters that you really don’t want to read.

Future of The Blackout Series

Don’t be worried this isn’t an announcement that sees the Blackout Series never come to light. Quite the contrary this an announcement marking the release of the first story in the Blackout Series entitled “Life After Dark” has finished its first hard edits and I will be putting them in here within the next couple of days, shipping it off to my editor and starting on the hard edits for story 2 which is “Six Feet Under” The first story will be available directly for download from my website, through Smashwords, possibly Amazon, and WattPad. I haven’t settled on an exact date yet but unlike I previously had hoped the story will be available either Late January or Early-Mid February but I plan on no later than that.

Website Updates

I said this in my last post from earlier this month and still haven’t done it yet but I do fully intent to make one of my projects at the first of the year revamping my website. There’s two reasons for this especially now, first being that I’ve done a lot of studying about how websites should work and a good way to build an author website and while my is barebones what it should be it’s nothing like it should be and that’s a problem that I fully intend to correct at the first of the year.

Other Projects to Kick off 2013

Since we survived the Myan doomsday prophecy from December 21, 2012 it means that I can start planning for what comes heading into 2013 and I’ve established how I will fill the bulk of the first half of the year, I will be writing, revising, and preparing a novel with a yet unknown title centered around the plotline for the poem “Viral” that I released earlier this year. I’m going to take this in a different direction and try to land an agent and get the book traditionally published. I think that the plot is strong enough and as long as I can shape the characters I should have no problem.

The year is ending on a high note. I started this full time journey back in February and since I’ve done a lot of good things and I’ve taken a number of steps in the right direction so I’m very confident heading into 2013 that I will only go further in the right direction. This will likely be the last post that I publish this year but I’d like to say many thanks to everyone who has liked the stuff I’ve done so far and expect much more coming in 2013. Everyone have a Happy New Year and I’ll see you on the other side of the Ball Drop for 2013.  

In The Demon's Head: Major Announcement

In The Demon’s Head #71: Major Announcement

December 7, 2012

Hello everyone, I hope that today’s post finds you all well and good leading into the holidays that are just around the corner. I said yesterday during a Facebook post that I would be making a few major announcements today in the form of a blog post so here it goes.

Free Writings Are Set to Return This Month

It’s been a few months since I’ve done any of these. In honesty I had intended on doing one a month every month and that kind of fell apart with the launch of  “More Than Memories” and I don’t think  I’ve done a free writing in nearly four months. Well that changes this month as my free poetry writings return and maybe even a couple of short stories that haven’t made the cut into “More Than Memories” but in order to keep up with the monthly pace I expect far more poems then short stories. This month’s poem is called “The Club” and I’m expecting it to be available on December 18 pending a cover photo. This was one of the many things that I reconsidered after reading a post from Google Plus about how readers viewed me and my brand as a whole. There’s more on this subject below.

Price Reduction for More Than Memories

I know I’ve done this once before but here me out on this one, it’s not a sales gimmick or anything else, it’s legit in me lowering the price and here’s why. The same Google Plus article that I referenced above also taught me how to think about the pricing of the E-Book goes. It said in the article that you need to establish yourself   before you can expect someone to want to pay 2, 3, 4 or more dollars for your book. You need to think it from a consumer point of view and not from a what you think the book is worth standpoint and that’s exactly where I found myself once “More Than Memories” was released. I’ll be honest the book has managed to sell only one copy thus far and the more I think about it the more I think that it has to do with the price. Let’s face it unless you read this blog or visit the Facebook page, or follow me on twitter (in which case if you do any or all of these many thanks to you) then you likely have no idea who I am when it comes to buying  books of mine. Even some of those who do those things wouldn’t want to throw their money at something they’re not completely sure about and that’s why I’ve decided after much consideration that I will be charging for 1.50 for the book going forward. I think this pleases a number of parties, including those who didn’t want to pay 3 dollars and those who feel that 99 cents warrant a cheap and not very well done book. I for one hope that this will entice you to pick up a copy of the book had you been on the fence about it. Also remember that you can download a sample and read through some of the book before you buy it. The book on smashwords is available here.

New Website Is Coming

I said this sometime ago that I intended to update the website and I still haven’t ever gotten around to it but that procrastination will end shortly. I’m aiming to begin rebuilding the website within the coming weeks and have it completed by the end of the year. This is one of those timetables that I hope pans out to my advantage but we’ll have to see how work and everything goes. Regardless there will be a better designed website up in the very near future you can mark my words.

That’s about all of everything that I’ve got right now. I hope to have some more info on the website in the coming weeks and I will be sure to let you in that info when I can get it. Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon’s head, I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.