I Think I Made A Sale...?

I think I made a sale on Amazon...?

 

I got this email...

 

This royalty payment notification is for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) sales recorded in the US Kindle Store. Payment will be made to your bank account and should appear in your available balance within 2 to 5 business days after the Payment Date. Details of the payment will be available on the Payment Report ( https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/reports) after it has been processed by your bank. If your KDP account is registered on the KDP Japan site, you can check your Payment report at https://kdp.amazon.co.jp/self-publishing/reports.

Payment made to:	ERIK DAVID HARSHMAN
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Payment date:	2026-06-23T00:00Z

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And I got $1 and change deposited into my bank account.

 

Well, that's awesome.

 

Not because of the money. But because someone is actually reading something I wrote.

 

 

Ideas

First, I think I have an idea for a new David Kemp novel.

I need to run it by my boy Tim Scott before I meditate on this further. 

But I think (I hope) it's a good one.

I have also realized that I need to come up with a really good cosmic horror idea.

Something entirely me, but born of my admiration for Lovecraft, Dan O'Bannon, Junji Ito/Uzumaki and Bloodborne. 

 

Two More Screenplays... Live on Kindle!

 So... I have put two more of my horror screenplays up on Kindle.

Both are werewolf (perhaps my favorite monster to write about after demons) screenplays.

One is an allegorical story about divorce and the hell children are put through by their parents (and surrogate parents) called Cubs.

The other is my love letter to Hammer films and period-piece gothic horror movies like From Hell (2001), Brotherhood of the Wolf, Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves and Nosferatu. It also takes place in the German countryside... perhaps my favorite place in the world (and where my family originates from). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLATDOG is live!

 My 2008 (revised in 2015) horror screenplay Flatdog is indeed live on Amazon.

  

Today's Toiling

 So... today.

I published on my Amazon author page (on Kindle) my 2008 horror screenplay Flatdog.

Here is the mock poster designed by me, Matt Albers (RIP) and my forever comrade, Timothy Scott in summer of 2015 (one of the best years of my life... if nothing else than for the fact that I wrote Personal Demons that summer). 

 I also updated my bio on my Amazon page to reflect my most recent accomplishments (the writing of my 19th screenplay) and to update my bio (so I could brag about all the accolades Personal Demons has received in the last few years).

I plan to throw a bunch more of my work (starting with screenplays) up on Kindle in the coming weeks.

Incidentally, I created a whole poster (partly using AI... which I know if evil, but their "image creation" tool saves me time and money making covers for my books, so... if this is all I use AI for I think I'm doing okay... ) and was about to publish my 2006 horror screenplay One Night in Town, but I re-read parts of it and found it to be... problematic. So I am going to hold off on that for now.

 

Last Night and Today

Well, last night kind of sucked.

I did indeed finish revising Invoking Henry.

The downside?

I realized that I had renamed a few characters and forgot which characters were renamed what and now I have to go back through and make sure everything lines up in terms of character names, who says and does what and who survives, etc.

Also, one of my best friends from college recently passed away, and as I was revising Invoking Henry I remembered the time in which I wrote it (late 2004 - early 2005). During that time I talked on the phone with this friend nearly every day. 

On the plus side: I figured out how to add new books to my Kindle Library on my Amazon author page.

My anthology Shades of Darkness (written between 2000 - 2008, but "published" in  2009) should be available soon.

Update: It is now available here.  

After that I plan to publish on Kindle every single novel, short story (collected into anthologies) and screenplay I've written up to this point. 

 

 

 

Tonight's Writing Goals

1.) Clean off my digital voice recorder (already done).

2.) Finish editing Invoking Henry

3.) Finish submitting Personal Demons to all the agents in the 2019 "Agent's Guide" put out by FadeIn Magazine.

4.)  Finish my horror story "In the Barn"... which I may post on my blog... I will await the advice of the esteemed Mr. Timothy Scott for that.

5.) Begin my latest horror screenplay Depravity. 

 

Update: "In the Barn" has been finished and sent to Tim.

I am now fully engulfed in revising Invoking Henry.