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About Jon Dobbin
Jon Dobbin was born and raised on the east coast of Canada. Holding degrees in English and Education, Dobbin spent several years teaching high school English before moving into child and youth work in residential care. He has published two Western Horror novels with a slight dalliance into Fantasy for his third book. When not writing, he tries to catch up on reading his ever-expanding book collection and spends time with his family. Dobbin currently lives in Newfoundland with his wife, three kids, a dog, and (begrudgingly) a cat.
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Blog postThe 48-Hour Writing Marathon, which happened from June 23-25 2017 at the T.H.E. Tutoring Center, was a well-fought competition between peers to see who could get the closest to writing a full novel in 48 Hours of near non-stop authorship! It was difficult: there was little sleep, much junk food, any many distractions. f over … Continue reading WINNER(s) of the 48 Hour Writing Marathon: Kelley Power & Jon Dobbin! →5 years ago Read more
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When four tourists set out on the Terror Nova bus from St. John's to hear spooky tales and visit strange locales, they had no idea who their mysterious tour guide Simon was, nor the horror that awaited them in the rocky inlets and winding roads.
Featuring twelve terrifying short stories from Newfoundland's top talents, including two-time Nightmare on Water Street winner Josh Goudie, Erin Mick, Paul Carberry (Zombies on the Rock), bestseller Ali House (Chillers from the Rock) and many more!
Hired as a guide and guard, Colton leads them to a local wonder— a large sinkhole made of red rock. There the archaeologists begin their exploration, and people start dying.
Problem is, the dead don’t stay dead.
With a handful of survivors, and the town of Crimson Hollow in danger, Colton is faced with the choice to either be a leader and take a stand or leave them all to die.
Either way, Colton is going to be haunted by the ghosts of Crimson Hollow.
The third adventure in "The Colton Chronicles" from groundbreaking new Western author Jon Dobbin!
Jim Colton has returned to the West. Seeking to connect with his roots, he endeavours to find his old family home in the mountains of northern Colorado. When a freak blizzard delays his travel, Colton is forced to take refuge with a strange group called the Order of Chthar. The Order is made up of the rich and influential, but they welcome Colton as a guest to wait out the storm.
The longer he stays at the castle, the stranger it gets. He is plagued by terrifying dreams that seem all too real, and then there's the matter of the sounds that only come at night.
Colton must solve the riddle of the castle or risk losing his sanity and maybe his life.
The second adventure in "The Colton Chronicles" from groundbreaking new Western author Jon Dobbin!
Jim Colton has had enough of the Eastern U.S. with its big cities and bigger buildings. He longs for the quiet, untouched beauty of the West where a man like him can make it on his own. When his old friend, Alexander Price, offers him a ticket on a train bound for California, he takes it. How can he refuse?
Train life isn't what Colton expects, especially when there's an attempted train robbery by infamous bandit Scratch Maynard. But that's just the start of his strange ride through the United States. When people start dying in ritualistic murders, Colton doesn't know who he can trust except himself and his gun.
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What happens when our world -- and everything in it -- goes wrong?
Explore that question in thirty-two short stories written by a diverse mix of the best authors in Canada, including award-winning veterans of their craft, and brand new talent.
Featuring the work of Jed MacKay (Daredevil: Man Without Fear, Edge of Spider-Geddon), Ali House (The Six Elemental, The Fifth Queen), Jon Dobbin (The Starving), and more.
Edited by Erin Vance and Ellen Curtis, this collection showcases the talent, imagination, and prestige that Canada has to offer. From stories of censorship gone awry to sentient buses, global warming to corporate-branded culture, this collection has it all!
He's a man of the West. He knows it -- its land, its people, its stories. It was where he had plied his trade, hunting men for money. His life had never been easy -- even before Colorado -- but it had been predictable.
That all changed when he met Sister Mejia on his way to meet death in the town of Millwood, a town with a terrible man at its head and a terrible secret at its heart. Weston has faced ancient evil before, but can he do it while retaining what's left of himself, and save a young boy from the same fate?
Fight the darkness within, or succumb to the darkness without.
In the year since the release of the bestselling TERROR NOVA, the author of the cult-classic has been roaming the countryside to promote the book, all while struggling with writer’s block that is hindering its sequel.
When the invitation comes to spend Halloween weekend at a centuries-old merchant estate for a writer’s retreat, he thinks it might be the solution to his problems.
He doesn’t expect to find that some scary stories write themselves...
Featuring twelve terrifying short stories from Newfoundland’s top talents, including the alter-ego of USA Today Bestselling author Kate Sparkes Tanith Frost (Resurrection), horror short-fiction master Kelley Power (Tombstories), the talented CH Newell, Paul Carberry (Carcharodon), Jon Dobbin (The Starving), Brad Dunne (The Gut), and many more!
The most amazing collection of chilling short stories available today!
Twenty-five short stories written by a diverse mix of some of the best suspense and horror authors in Atlantic Canada, including both award-winners, veterans of their craft, and brand new talent.
Edited by Erin Vance and accomplished genre author Ellen Curtis, this collection features the thrilling, creatively charged, astonishing fiction that showcases the talent, imagination, and prestige that Atlantic Canada has to offer.
Featuring the work of Paul Carberry (Zombies on the Rock), Kelley Power (Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters competition), Matthew LeDrew (Coral Beach Casefiles, Infinity, Xander Drew), Ali House (The Six-Elemental), an introduction by Dale Gilbert Jarvis, & much more!
That legacy of the new, the different, and the strange lives on today in the minds and pens of genre writers all over the world.
This collection honours that legacy with twenty-two short stories highlighting the best of the modern interpretations of Pulp Science-Fiction, from minds like Ali House (The Segment Delta Archives), Jon Dobbin (The Starving), and Sherry D. Ramsey (Beyond the Sentinel Stars)! With introduction from sci-fi legend Kenneth Tam!
"This is a highly entertaining anthology. The editors asked for stories faithful to pulp fiction but with modern twists that subvert, or perhaps I should say “transcend” its limitations. The writers delivered. For them as likes old-fashioned SF it is a wonderful bunch of stories. And for them as wants to avoid the same-old, same-old, there is an abundance of original touches. Best of both worlds if you ask me. I had gleeful good fun reading this. Maybe my tastes are bizarre to the point of being uniquely unique, but I doubt it. Strongly suspect many people are going to love this anthology as much as I do, which is my subtle way of saying I recommend this book!" -- Amazing Stories
Table of Contents
1. "Family Trait" by A. F. Stewart
2. "The Inevitable" by Ali House
3. "Insurance" by Chantal Boudreau
4. "Anchored" by Jeff Slade
5. "The Chosen" by Jon Dobbin
6. "Airborne" by Kerry Campbell
7. "The Waystation" by Michelle Bryan
8. "Bakunawa" by Nicholas Morine
9. "Zombies on the Rock: The Island of the Damned" by Paul Carberry
10. "A Friend in Shadow" by Peter J. Foote
11. "First Flight" by Peter Gillet
12. "The Girl in the Stones" by Sherry D. Ramsey
13. "All Wood Dreams of the Sun" by Steve Vernon
Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!
Cassidy ventures to a strange new world of advanced technology where one artifact — the Digital Heart — promises total control over the world’s technology! Can she secure it before it’s too late?
Written with bestselling award-winning author Jon Dobbin in his first Young Adult novella! Start the adventure now!
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