Book Signing October 13th

Come to the book signing for Blood Fiction 3! It’s October 13th, 2:00, at The Book Carnival in Orange. There will be snacks. I’ll sign your book or forehead or whatever.

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Reading at Altadena Library

Hello! I will be doing a reading from my latest book, Fanny Fitzpatrick and the Brother Problem, on July 2nd, at 6pm, at Altadena Library, main branch. There will be other writers there, and I will have some books to tell. Hope to see you there!

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Pete and Steve

My short story, “Pete and Steve” is featured in this anthology. My story is about a grumpy old hermit whose life is disrupted when a feral boy shows up on his doorstep.   https://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Country-Alex-McGilvery-ebook/dp/B0D1NHPYH7

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A Biting Clown

My short story, “A Biting Clown” is now featured on Does it Have Pockets. It’s a story about a clown who is sent to clown rehab for his inappropriate clowning. I hope you like it! Here’s a link.https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/dana-hammer

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My Right Foot

My long short play will be having a run in Hollywood, as part of this show. It’s about a woman with body identity integrity disorder whose mission in life is to have her foot removed. So she finds a disgraced surgeon and tries to convince him to cut it off. Get your...

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Oluwale Now

My short story, “Playground” is featured in this anthology. Check it out! https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/oluwale-now-anthology-poetry-prose-and-artwork-responding-story-david-oluwale

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Snakes

Hey, check out my short story in this awesome horror anthology. My story is called ”Snakes” and it’s about a little boy who lives with his abusive bedridden mother…until he gets bitten by a snake and discovers a new power that will change...

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Mammoth

Here is a link to a copy of my screenplay, published by Dizzy Emu. It’s about three men who plan a heist to kidnap a woolly mammoth. Dark comedy.https://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Screenplay-Dana-Hammer/dp/B0BYBFJ9KV

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My Best Friend Athena

Hello!My middle grade fantasy novel, My Best Friend Athena, will be released February 7th, 2023, by Cinnabar Moth! If you’d like to read and review an advance copy, here is a link.https://booksirens.com/book/CLTIKRK/SW3Y85N

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An Incident With an Orca

My play has been published in this anthology. Check it out!https://www.lulu.com/shop/som/contemporary-one-act-plays-volume-5/paperback/product-zg9rvp.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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Blood Fiction Now Available

My short story, “Meteorite” is featured in this new anthology, along with stories by some phenomenal authors who are not me. Here is a link to purchase it — https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Fiction-If-Bleeds-Reads-ebook/dp/B0B86TTV82

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Mowbot – Featured on Horror Addicts

A few years ago, I wrote a short story called “Mowbot”, which was published in the Kill Switch anthology. I was contacted by Horror Addicts.net, and they want to feature it on their show!Check it out — September 2022!http://horroraddicts.net/

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Force of Nature RUSH show

My short play, “Chat Noir” will have a three night run in North Hollywood in May. I was given a location (a park), a genre (film noir), three actors, a director, and a bag of props (flowers, lightsaber, viking drinking horn, flashlight) and I constructed a play using...

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Festival de la Bete Noire

I submitted a play to Festival de la Bete Noire, in Montreal. It’s called I Live Here Now, and it’s a horror one-act about a man whose night is interrupted when a young lady enters his home and refuses to leave — she lives there now.Anyway, after being accepted, I...

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Under the Bed

My one-act, Under the Bed, will be performed at Newport Theatre Arts Center at 8pm, July 31st. Come see it, if you’re in the area!

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I Got a Book Deal!

Guess what? I got a book deal, as you might have gathered from the title of this post. I’ve just signed with Cinnabar Moth Publishing, and my novel, The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting, will be coming to you in 2022! I’m super excited for this, and you should be too,...

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“The Date”

Here is a link to purchase issue #14 of Stonecoast Review - you can read my one-act, “The Date” in it! https://kellysbookstogo.com/stonecoast-review/

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Cooking

There was a time in my life when I loved to cook. I loved learning about exciting new spices and recipes and trying them out in my tiny kitchen, in my 400 square foot apartment. I collected recipes from everywhere — boxes, books, packages I read quickly in grocery...

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Movie Friendships

It irritates the shit out of me in movies and TV shows when the new kid arrives at the new place and is immediately embraced by a group of friends, and now they are all ride-or-die besties.Like, I get that it would slow down the plot considerably to have the new kid...

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Between Your Wife and Me

Between Your Wife and Me I am in love with a married man. That is my tragedy. I love him with a deep and desperate passion that rules me. I want to own his heart and mind and soul. I want to rip the heart out of his body and caress it with my my small hands, feeling...

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The Horseman

Here’s a short story for you. It’s my imagining of how it went the first time a person tried to ride a horse. The Horseman Jalk was pleased as he looked up at the puffy white clouds. Those kinds of big, billowy clouds, like overgrown sheep, meant that there would not...

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Happy Easter

Last year, my sister and her kids came to visit on Easter. I was super excited, because cousins spending Easter together is wholesome as fuck. However, I was dealing with extreme nausea and vomiting, coupled with fairly debilitating lupus symptoms at the time, so I...

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Spider

Roxanne had just arrived home from the party, and her feet were killing her. She dropped her purse on the floor, kicked off her extremely high stripper heels, yanked off her bra from under her shirt, and collapsed on the couch. Her stomach sloshed, unpleasantly full...

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Book Signing October 13th

Come to the book signing for Blood Fiction 3! It’s October 13th, 2:00, at The Book Carnival in Orange. There will be snacks. I’ll sign your book or forehead or whatever.

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Ali and Amy

Fanny Fitzpatrick and the Brother Problem

Now on Amazon!

Dion Isaacs (the reincarnation of Dionysius), Athena’s brother, is wreaking havoc. After to an unfortunate bee-venom poisoning at his wine business, he is down on his luck and crashing at Athena’s place. But the former god of wine, feasting, and excess is a bad influence on Fanny’s best friends, with his partying, wacky business schemes, and general debauchery. Sure, Dion is a fun guy. But there is such a thing as too much fun, and Fanny seems to be the only one who sees it.

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My Best Friend Athena

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Fanny Fitzpatrick has the coolest best friend ever. Athena is smart, and pretty, and brave, and kind. Fanny loves her friend, but sometimes, she feels a little jealous of how perfect Athena is.

But even “perfect” girls make mistakes, and Athena makes a big one when she accidentally turns the school bully into a cockroach. He was picking on their friend Gemma and Athena lost her temper and her magic powers just slipped out right in front of Fanny.

Now Fanny knows that Athena isn’t an ordinary girl – she’s the reincarnation of a Greek goddess, powers and all – and now she needs Fanny and Gemma’s help to hunt down the bully-turned-cockroach and turn him back into a human boy.

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The Cannibal's Guide to Fasting

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Igor Fenenko, a former research scientist, is a scary, scary man. Not only is he a massive bodybuilder with a spider tattooed on his face, he has also been infected with Pestis Manducans — viral cannibalism. Igor tried to resist indulging, but his research specimens smelled so delicious. Who did it hurt, really, to nibble a corpse?

Caught, disgraced, and sent to a ‘rehabilitation’ center, Igor is now forced to live in a government-mandated Containment Center. He spends his days pressing wildflowers, growing blueberries, and doing his best to avoid human meat. More than anything, he wants a cure for the virus that has ruined his life.

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The Retreat

 Winner of the 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest 2020!

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A mother and son are kidnapped and forced to spend a weekend with a religious cult.

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The Binge-Watching Cure II: An Anthology of Horror Stories

Tom is a ghost, trapped in his apartment. In order to pass on to the next world, he must make amends for his past mistakes.

Pick up your copy of The Binge-Watching Cure II: An Anthology of Horror Stories to read Dana Hammer’s new short story – Tom the Ghost!

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Kill Switch - A Horror Anthology

It’s a self-operating lawnmower. What could go wrong?

Pick up your copy of Kill Switch to read Dana Hammer’s new short story – Mow Bot!

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Dead Viking Rehab

Now on Amazon!

When Haldor the Viking is killed in battle, he expects to be welcomed into Valhalla, as a warrior should be. Instead, he is sentenced to guardian angel duty, watching over his thoroughly modern great-granddaughter. In order to be admitted to Heaven, he is tasked with finding her a man to marry — and he cannot use violence. If he fails, he will be sentenced to Hell for all eternity. 

Dead Viking Rehab is a hilarious tale of redemption, love, and so many killings.

Pazuzu Versus the F***ing Fairies

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Pazuzu the demon’s desires are simple. He only wants to have some father-son bonding time in the forest, and engage in some light arson. But his sensitive artistic son wants nothing to do with it, preferring to play video games and befriend the whimsical, brightly-colored fairies who dwell in the woods. 

Pilcrow & Dagger: January 2019 - The Survivor

Pick up your copy of the January 2019 issue of Pilcrow & Dagger to read Dana Hammer’s new short story – Community!

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The Rabbit Hole: Weird Stories Volume One

A woman with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder is trapped in her home, when it becomes covered in birds.

Pick up your copy of The Rabbit Hole to read Dana Hammer’s new short story – Birds!