Welcome to the next stop on the Beyond the Wail Blog tour. In honor of these 12 Grave Stories of Love and Loss which released yesterday, today I will present to you this amazing anthology and one of its featured authors, Alex McGilvery.

About Beyond the Wail: 12 Grave Stories of Love and Loss

What is it about fear and the unknown that pulls so passionately at the human heart? Perhaps we are drawn not to the darkness itself, but to the resolution, the overcoming of what we most deeply dread. After all, the more terrible the struggle, the greater the victory when it comes at last. Presented in this anthology are twelve remarkable stories of the darkness that overshadows us, and the resolution that may be found beyond them. They are stories of fear and oppression, but ultimately stories of hope, stories that will take you BEYOND THE WAIL.

This is one amazing group of authors and I'm not being biased just because I'm one of them. Though each story is different and unique in its own way, they all share a wonderful depth to them and I enjoyed it from start to finish.

Now I give you an insider's peek about Alex McGilvery, author of St. Peter's Fish.

ST. PETER’S FISH- Sam is a walking disaster of biblical proportions, but how much is he willing to sacrifice to escape, and will the Powers That Be allow it?

About Alex McGilvery:

Alex McGilvery is an author living in Flin Flon, Manitoba with his wife, Alex, and three dogs. He has been an avid reader all his life and wrote novels in his early teens. He has been writing short stories and poetry ever since. In addition to his first twenty-year work, he writes a novel every year through NaNoWriMo and another with the 3-Day Novel contest. He also writes reviews, specializing in indie authors, and works on short stories for contests.

He has now published five books, most recently Sparkles and Blood, a collection of horror novellas, edited an anthology along with the Flin Flon Writers Guild, and continues to be active in the Guild. In order to pay for his writing habit, Alex works full time as a minister in the United Church of Canada. Some of his parishioners wonder at the occasionally dark and twisted nature of his writing.

How did you come up with the title?

The fish in the story burps up gold coins. It is a direct reference to a fish Peter caught to pay taxes.

What was the most surprising part of writing this book?

The fork. I had no idea that blasted fork was going to show up and confuse everyone. In the end I like the concept.

What is your preferred writing genre?

I don’t write heavy romance or hack and slash horror. Other than that I think I have stories at least in just about every genre imaginable, and a few you’d probably never think of.

How does writing impact other parts of your life?

Sometimes people who hear my more twisted stories worry about my mental health.

How do you unwind?

When I’m not writing, I like shooting pictures with my camera. I’ve been planning to make a few more knives for my collection, but it will wait until warmer weather now.

What is your advice to writers?

Write. Really. You aren’t a writer if you don’t write. Then find someone to help you deconstruct your writing to help you make it better. Then write some more.

Is there anything else you'd like your readers to know about you?

My wife is named Alex, same as me. My first published book was written as a gift for her. She is in some way the inspiration for all my stories, but she doesn’t read them. She makes me read out loud, usually in the middle of the night.

Now for the lighter stuff:

Star Wars or Star Trek?
As a kid, we watched Star Trek every week, but I don’t have a strong preference.

Hunger Games or Divergent?
Neither

James Bond or Jack Ryan?
Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana

Sherlock: Robert Downey, Jr. or Benedict Cumberbatch?
Not a Holmes fan.

Spock: Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto?
As an old fart, Nimoy.

Vampires or Werewolves?
Carnivorous Frogs

To learn more about him or read some of his other works, visit:

http://alexmcgilvery.com

http://celticfrogreviews.com

https://www.facebook.com/Author.AlexMcGilvery

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114087438435065925650/posts

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6900023.Alex_McGilvery

https://www.pinterest.com/alexmcgilvery/

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00GTQYDJS

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Book Release Blog Tour

Featured Author: Danielle E. Shipley
	Saturday, October 10, 2015 Are you Afraid of the Dark? John's Writing Spreading the Writer's Word
Featured Author: Alex McGilvery
	Sunday, October 11, 2015 Ash Krafton: Emotion Between the Lines Scott E. Tarbet, Author Writer's Law of Motion
Featured Author: T.N. PAYNE
	Monday, October 12, 2015 Melissa McShane Author Sarah's Secret Stash Notes from Author Ginger C. Mann
Featured Author: Ginger C. Mann
	Tuesday, October 13, 2015 L.K. McIntosh J S Brown Fairies & Pirates
Featured Author: L.K. McIntosh
	Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Rampant Games Scotty Watty Doodle All The Day Terra Luft — View From the Crystal Ball
Featured Author: Jay Barnson
	Thursday, October 15, 2015 A Storyteller's Journey Creativity from Chaos Christine Haggerty
Featured Author: A. F. Stewart
	Friday, October 16, 2015 Tales by Julie Perpetual Chaos of a Wandering Mind Anna Winter
Featured Author: Amanda Banker
	Saturday, October 17, 2015 Sebastian Bendix Alex Campbell Semi Short chic
Featured Author: Julie Barnson
	Sunday, October 18, 2015 The Ink Caster The Road to Nowhere
Featured Author: Sebastian Bendix
	Monday, October 19, 2015 The J. Aurel Guay Archive :DandiFluff...
Featured Author: Tirzah Duncan
	Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Alex McGilvery's World A.M.Harte
Featured Author: F.M. Longo
	Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Ever On Word The Cult of Me