DAN ALATORRE

I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. Here’s the next installment. Okay so why is being #1 in Hot New Releases for horror anthologies a big deal?     Well it’s kind of like asking […]

I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the first one.  We had 79 preorders and sold 28 books by dinnertime on release day, but when I posted this, we’d only racked up 15 book […]

I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation. Somebody said we regret most the things we didn’t say. For those of you with a book in you, not writing it will be a big regret one day. […]

You may have noticed a few posts this week about the experiences our co-authors had during the creation of the scary anthology. More will appear over the remainder of the month so you can have their insights into the process. Starting tomorrow I’ll also be posting the marketing insights I shared with them in our […]

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, Joanne R Larner    When Dan had the idea to write a compilation of short stories by a lot of different authors, I at first thought the genre (horror/scary) wouldn’t suit my style since at the moment I am writing about (some might say obsessed with) Richard III […]

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, bestselling author Jenifer Ruff   I found Dan Alatorre when an author friend shared a link for one of Dan’s writing contests. My eyes flew to  “the first twenty submissions get a free critique.” I didn’t even pay attention to the contest part. I […]

Check it out! Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes Come along for a chilling ride on a ghost ship, experience eerie daydreams and psychotic killers, explore haunted houses, and send the deceased to their final destination. And that’s just a quarter of the thrills. Edited and compiled by Amazon bestselling author Dan Alatorre, this anthology of […]

Time to buy your copy of the (soon-to-be) WORLD FAMOUS The Box Under The Bed a collection of scary stories from over 20 authors. CLICK HERE to get your copy NOW! Many of the stories here are by first time published authors I hand selected for this amazing anthology. Others are bestselling authors who’ve already […]

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