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Read Fresh Flesh excerpts
New 12/11/11! Excerpt #7 - Amazing clearing.
Excerpt #6 - Torque
Excerpt #5 - Alone
Excerpt #4 - Meet the rescuer.
Excerpt #3 - A woman washes ashore.
Excerpt #2 - A beautiful woman awakes to a stranger.
Excerpt #1 - Richard Templin is about to be executed.

Bonus short from the Fresh universe: "Kollection Collection" - A woman screaming in the deep woods draws a man to a horrific scene.

31 day countdown of facts about Fresh Flesh leading up to launch day. Follow Todd on Twitter starting August 31, 2011 to learn each fact: @Todd_Russell

31. Aug 30: #FreshFleshFact 31: Richard Templin scheduled to die October 17,1982 by #electrocution #horror bit.ly/rjP6g5
30. Aug 31: #FreshFleshFact 30: "A work that took roughly 25 years of aging to come to fruition." + CONTEST bit.ly/qNGNEO #horror
29. Sep 1: #FreshFleshFact 29: "A smoky haze, a shape entirely formless. Something fresh..." bit.ly/qXUoVC #horror #PsychologicalThriller
28. Sep 2: #FreshFleshFact 28: A PAC-MAN maze for Fresh Flesh coming September 29, 2011: http://bit.ly/pv0w9h #games #horror
27. Sep 3: #FreshFleshFact 27: "A severed hairy arm with a smashed, paper-thin hand, complete with five twisted digits." http://bit.ly/qXUoVC #horror
26. Sep 4: #FreshFleshFact 26: "There is a place on earth where unrestrained evil flourishes..." bit.ly/jfD3HU #PsychologicalThriller
25. Sep 5: #FreshFleshFact 25: Villainous Kyle 'Kollector' Roberts appears in flash fiction "Kollection Collection" bit.ly/mU1gWp #horror
24. Sep 6: #FreshFleshFact 24: "He had the unpleasant odor of dead fish; a salty, dank scent" bit.ly/ocxTPJ #horror #excerpt
23. Sep 7: #FreshFleshFact 23: "She told herself it wasn't the man who frightened her. It was his grotesque debilitating body." bit.ly/pqGgpK
22. Sep 8: #FreshFleshFact 22: The official webpage is updated regularly with bonus FRESH material, see bit.ly/oAoMUB #horror
21. Sep 9: #FreshFleshFact 21: Enter FREE to win a signed paperback of Fresh Flesh bit.ly/qrG6V4 #horror #contest
20. Sep 10: #FreshFleshFact 20: Rough draft first query letter sent to prospective agent February 17,1989: They wanted to see more bit.ly/osTJo7
19. Sep 11: #FreshFleshFact 19: February 28, 1989 agent responds to query letter. Let's see more: http://toddrwrite.com/fresh/flesh/2-28-89-agent-1st-response.jpg #horror
18. Sep 12: #FreshFleshFact 18: March 4,1989: Response to agent, synopsis and sample chapters used capitalized words vs. italics http://bit.ly/qH9yvL
17. Sep 13: #FreshFleshFact 17: What does the writing work log look like for the first draft? See: http://bit.ly/qd12hQ #horror #novel #writing
16. Sep 14: #FreshFleshFact 16: "We would like to see the remainder of the manuscript to seriously consider for representation." http://bit.ly/nWM3Li
15. Sep 15: #FreshFleshFact 15: May 19,1989 agent response letter to full reading, offering representation! http://bit.ly/oPJb4F
14. Sep 16: #FreshFleshFact 14: Aug 2, 1989 - Second draft edit done, letter sent back to agent bit.ly/qFTcct
13. Sep 17: #FreshFleshFact 13: Unboxing the paperback proof for the first time #video bit.ly/ng7MwJ #PsychologicalThriller #horror
12. Sep 18: #FreshFleshFact 12: Read excerpt - Alone: "...something rustling in the bushes nearby." http://bit.ly/nCG7vL #SampleSunday #horror
11. Sep 19: #FreshFleshFact 11: Originally written as a standalone novel but during the 2011 draft future story ideas emerged http://bit.ly/nSteZB #horror
10. Sep 20: #FreshFleshFact 10: First draft work log shows incorrect completion date. Actual year was 1989: http://bit.ly/qOuzkp #horror
9. Sep 21: #FreshFleshFact 9: 10/24/89 Agent: "An...editor at Dell feels you write like Stephen King as Richard Bachman" http://bit.ly/piKEKk #horror
8. Sep 22: #FreshFleshFact 8: In 1989 six photocopies of the original manuscript cost $65.48, see receipt: bit.ly/qln45e #horror
7. Sep 23: #FreshFleshFact 7: Character Saruwatari Naoki's ???? name means "monkey on a crossing bridge" and "honest wood"
6. Sep 24: #FreshFleshFact 6: In the first two drafts the exact coordinates of the island were shared.
5. Sep 25: #FreshFleshFact 5: Torque is paroled on Valentine's Day 1992 and looks for love and trouble #SampleSunday bit.ly/nqRre3
4. Sep 26: #FreshFleshFact 4: Latin phrase "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (do not speak ill of the dead) changed to a Japanese phrase in the final draft
3. Sep 27: #FreshFleshFact 3: I've known one of the proofreaders since 1994. She didn't know I wrote this book until 2011.
2. Sep 28: #FreshFleshFact 2: One of the people the book is dedicated to flew 25 #WWII B-17 bomber missions. He read the book in 1990 and died in 2000
1. Sep 29, 2011 Fresh Flesh now available!

Live in person book signing with author Todd Russell
When: November 11-12, 2011 11am-3pm PST
Where: Orting Eagles #3480
112 Bridge St S
Orting, WA 98360
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