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Kalvin Ellis - Author - Photographer - Speaker - Coach

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Sometimes in the writing room the words just flow and other times they stick. I'm in a sticky part of this book that requires some exposition and I just keep having to sit back and ask myself if what they are saying moves the story forward or if I ca

*NOT BOOK RELATED*
Some photos I took on our adventure today. Some bigger versions of the same will be in my stories and eventually on my website.

My friend @kellybrocklehurst tagged me in the #topthreekingbooks challenge. Now if you know me, asking me to pick favorite King books is like picking my favorite child. But I have some books I enjoy more than the others. IT, On Writing, and Bag of Bo

Maddi and I have had a rough week. She's been stressed and angry, and I've been depressed. We decided we needed a change of scenery. So I took off work today and we got in the Jeep. We normally head West into the mountains. But because of all the fir

I added this pop up to my website a few months ago and haven't sold a book (via my website) since! Thanks, everyone! So now I've got a good stock of books and want to give two signed copies away. You don't have to tag anyone, or share anything (thoug

Tonight we played a game I really enjoy, Sub Terra. It is a cooperative game about being stuck in a cave. Very hard to beat and we died right before making it out of the cave. All four of us (you can see us laying down but Maddi's piece is black and

Been wanting to get my hands on this one for a while! If @jamesfahyauthor is half as good of a writer as he is a nice of a guy then this book will be amazing!

Last week we played Pioneer Days. It was a fun game that we all enjoyed. Jordan figured out a very overpowered mechanic early on and wiped the floor with us. I paired it with a companion book from one of my all time favorite TV series, Deadwood. The

Got some cool new indie books this week! Check out @joshua_marsella and @authorbillyray and their work! Very excited to dig into these two! .
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Tonight we played Dread for the first time. I loved it. It took me back to the old RPG days. I love a good horror game, especially when I control the narrative. Instead of dice you have a Jenga tower to define success and failure. Tower falls, you di

Just finished If It Bleeds by Stephen King. There were some bright spots. If you haven't read the Bill Hodges trilogy and The Outsider then this will have some spoilers in it for you. I enjoyed it, but I enjoy all of his work.

Today's boardgames and books is brought to you by Escape Room in a Box: The Werewolf Experiment and the book Master of the Moors by @kealanpatrick. Fun game and fun book. I haven't finished the book but I have finished the game.
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An appropriate game and an appropriate book for this trying times. The other day we played Pandemic. We managed the outbreak really well but then made it to the last round and realized we were about to lose and the entire population of Earth was goin

Another #booksandboardgames entry. One of my favorite games Betrayal at House on the Hill. Also the book from last months book club read Haunting of Hell House. .
What are you playing and reading?
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The other day we played one of our favorite games, Potion Explosion. I decided to take start a fun new series of pictures of #booksandboardgames (I say start but as I typed the hashtag I see it has been used before). So I have paired it here with The

Stephen King is my all time favorite author. He might actually be my all time favorite human being. .
Whose your favorite author?

A few weeks ago I was struggling with what I could do to help more in the current crisis. So I reduced the price of my eBook and paperback as far as Amazon would allow to try and give my story away as cheap as I could to people who are isolated. Then

The release date was supposed to be 3/19 for the hardcover of In the Hills Above the Gristmill, but after getting the proofs back and seeing how good they look, we have opened then up for order!
They are available on Amazon (link in bio). If there i

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