This is DAY THREE of the FIVE FREE DAYS for the Creature from the Bridgewater Triangle and other Odd Tales from New England. The book has reached the top of the Amazon Kindle Chart in its genre - Kindle Short Reads. It is NUMBER ONE!
More than 150 people downloaded the book during the first promo day. That is a large number of readers for a title with no paid promotion. The books that you see on sites like Bookbub and so forth are all part of a paid campaign. The authors have to plunk down some fairly serious cash to get listed. The Creature has NO PAID PROMOS. So to reach Number One and stay there for two days is gratifying to me. Thanks everyone.
The 85 Year Old Dot to Dot Detective ended his promo run at Number 37 in his genre and more than 350 books were ordered. Amazon said that for a no name author like Bill Russo; the best you can expect is about 200 readers.....the old guy almost doubled that. I also used NO paid promos for that book. Since its promo run ended, the old detective has sold one or two copies per day.
I released two other books this week. Swamp Tales - Horrors from the Hockomock Swamp and the Marshes of Cape Cod (selling well and moving up the charts) and "Crossing the Musical Color Line & Other Adventures of Singers and Players." It's moving very slowly but is my best work and will find an audience when people realize that I am writing about the seminal artists that paved the way for their favorite singers and players.
SWAMP TALES takes place in the Bridgewater Triangle and in the marshes of Cape Cod. Four men sit around a smoky campfire next to a kettle pond in the Bridgewater Triangle. They swap eerie tales of the area - but these stories are not the common 'Triangle Tales' of UFOs, ghostly hitch hitch hikers; these are new stories, fictional tales that bring fresh,new horror into the swamps and the marshes.
Don't forget to mark November 28 on your calendar. It's a Friday, and Discovery's Destination America Channel will be showcasing a 60 minute version of the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time.
A lot of people have told me that the segment I am featured in is compelling, so I sure hope I don't get cut out.
Here's an excerpt from a Summertime article in the Boston Sunday Globe:
It was a late-night walk in a Raynham neighborhood silent and still, lost in sleep.
Suddenly, William Russo’s dog, Samantha, began to shake and quiver — as he describes it, “rattlin’ like an old Chevy.”
Russo looked around, listened, and finally heard what was terrifying her.
“Eh wan chu. Eh wan chu. Keahr. Keahr.”
A sort of high-pitched wail.
And then he saw it.
Illuminated in the circle of a street light was a creature unlike any he’d ever seen: 3 to 4 feet tall, potbellied, big-eyed, covered in hair, unclothed. Later, as he struggled to make sense of what he’d seen, Russo realized that whatever it was, it was beckoning him: “We want you, we want you . . . Come here, come here.”
But he never saw it again.
These are the sorts of stories — seemingly endless and diverse, bizarre and flouting reason — that emanate from the so-called Bridgewater Triangle, the subject and title of a full-length documentary by local filmmakers Aaron Cadieux and Manny Famolare (to whom Russo told his story).
The film, making the rounds in local screenings, weaves history, paranormal research, first-hand accounts, police reports, and urban legends as a means to explore, if not completely make sense of, the “how” and the “why” of this infamous area’s multitude of unexplained phenomena. “Our goal was to present information from eyewitnesses and experts in a neutral, journalistic way, and let the viewer make their own determination,” said Cadieux, a Dartmouth resident.
Don't miss the upcoming screening on Destination America. To see the full film, you can go to the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary website. Aaron and Manny have set up an online store with DVD and Blurays available as well at tee shirts mugs and more. There's also a link to watch the film on line as well as lots more news of the 'Triangle'.
The two creatures shown in the
photos are from filmed accounts of my encounter. The one directly below was created by
the artist for the Bridgewater Triangle Documentary. The second one, is a photo of a costumed actor, created by the Discovery Channel for Monsters and Mysteries in America Season Two Episode two 'Puckwudgies', in which I am featured.
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