The Reel Deal Finals!

Well, I've made it to the finals.  I'd like to thank everyone for their support, but I need to ask one more thing.  It's up to America now to decide my fate.  With your help, and your votes, you can put me on the show.  Help me make it the rest of the way!!

So, it's a little bit confusing. Let me walk you through it 

1. Click the link below.
2. Click VOTE FOR ME, beneath my picture.
3. Log-in using FB to create a quick Squerb account, the system used for tallying the votes.
4. Find my name in the list, under writers.
5. Click "SQUERB it", pick a compliment from the grid, then rank me 1 (if I'm your first choice) beneath the grid, then Click VOTE.

Sounds complicated, but it only takes about 60 seconds .

You guys are amazing for giving me the votes I have already, and it's only been an hour and a half. Lets keep the momentum going, so I can bring that title back home 

So, it's a little bit confusing. Let me walk you through it 

1. Click the link below.
2. Click VOTE FOR ME, beneath my picture.
3. Log-in using FB to create a quick Squerb account, the system used for tallying the votes.
4. Find my name in the list, under writers.
5. Click "SQUERB it", pick a compliment from the grid, then rank me 1 (if I'm your first choice) beneath the grid, then Click VOTE.

Sounds complicated, but it only takes about 60 seconds .

You guys are amazing for giving me the votes I have already, and it's only been an hour and a half. Lets keep the momentum going, so I can bring that title back home 

REEL DEAL AUDITION - Andrew Saxsma - WRITER

Reel Deal Audition

Like and share my audition Vid!  Help me get on the show!  #NeedYourSupport!

Locked In...

In less that 6 hours, I'll be locked in the Lincoln Heights Jail in LA, reportedly one of the most haunted places in Southern California, along with the Los Angeles Paranormal Association.  I will be recording the experience, and hopefully will have something fun, scary, definite to post about the night.  I live for this stuff!  So excited!

Do you believe in Ghosts?

Two boys go on a hunting trip...

and never come back…

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Rewrites in progress...

Write Like A Wizard: Writing Challenge With Andrew Saxsma!

A few months ago I was challenged with a writing prompt and featurette for this wonderful woman's blog. This short story was a blast to write, and it's truly one of my favorite genres; SPACE HORROR!

A family, on a 15 year flight from Earth to a colony deep in our galaxy, delivering cargo, lose everything.  Field in the Dome, a space, agricultural terror treat.

Write Like A Wizard: Writing Challenge With Andrew Saxsma!: The challenge: In 3000 words or less, write about a widow/widower that talks to themselves. Are they crazy, or are they still seeing the afterthoughts of love?

An End to a Beginning - A blurb of words...

I made an announcement earlier today, that I was offered a contract on a short novella I shopped around last year.  This little story has seen so much hardship.  To date, I've gotten around 25-30 rejections on it, people saying "Not quite our style!".  Which is fine, that's great.  My work, it ain't for everyone!  That's for sure.

But, perseverance pays, literally $$.  All it took was one guy, in one office, reading one story, my story, and that was it.  This will be my fifth book, and I couldn't be more excited.

I promised a blurb, and here it is.  The release can be expected in early 2014.  Enjoy!

"You're standing outside the house of the man who helped murder your eight-year-old son.  You have a gun in your pocket, one you've never fired before, one you've never had to.  You're nervous, and you threw up a few minutes ago.  Some of it is still on your sleeve.  You've heard the body has a strange way of coping with things that don't agree with it and, well, this is definitely one of 'em.  

Right now, you're in Brian's shoes, and he's been waiting five long years to be where he is at this very moment.  He's dreamed, fantasized about it.  He's planned this.  Not in a sick way, at least he'd say so, but in the way a pencil eraser makes mistakes disappear.  He wants to make it right, and even worse, as the night takes him from a dilapidated drug house to a shady motel outside of Toledo, Ohio, he already knows where everything will end."

-2014