Hale County.
A place where the past isn’t buried—it’s waiting.
When a series of violent crimes and unexplained vanishings unsettle a small Tennessee...
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Chad R Martin
I have dreamed of being a writer ever since I was a little boy growing up in Northeast Texas. My imagination has always been wild and carefree. My first typewriter was a little plastic blue toy typewriter when I was 10 years old. I wore that thing out writing stories and screenplays, even though I didn’t know the first thing how to do so. When I was in high school, I told myself and my friends that I would write a novel one day, and then life happened. All these years later most of those friends are gone, even a friend or two who inspired characters within these pages. It took me 14 years to write my novel, Hale County, the only thing in my life I never truly compromised. While I was writing Hale County I also wrote many other books. So, to that young me sitting on the hardwood floor those many decades ago, typing away, letting that imagination soar, I just want to say, “we did it.”
There are many more stories to tell.
I have dreamed of being a writer ever since I was a little boy growing up in Northeast Texas. My imagination has always been wild and carefree. My first typewriter was a little plastic blue toy typewriter when I was 10 years old. I wore that thing out writing stories and screenplays, even though I didn’t know the first thing how to do so. When I was in high school, I told myself and my friends that I would write a novel one day, and then life...
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Hale County
Hale County.
A place where the past isn’t buried—it’s waiting.
When a series of violent crimes and unexplained vanishings unsettle a small Tennessee town, Sheriff Jake Hooks begins to suspect something far more sinister than ordinary evil. The trail leads to the derelict Hale County Asylum, a decaying monument to long-forgotten patients and...
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Thomas Kaine: A Deed Most Deadly (The Noir Series Book 1)
A Deed Most Deadly is a gritty noir mystery drenched in shadow, smoke, and betrayal.
When the death of a reclusive real estate mogul is ruled a heart attack, private investigator Thomas Kaine smells something fouler than the Dunsmore sewers. The man had secrets—powerful ones. And a deed. A single forgotten property deed that could unravel a...
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The Midnight Rodeo
The Midnight Rodeo
The storm rolled in with no warning.
By morning, Still Creek found itself cursed.
A strange rodeo appeared overnight—an arena of blood and dust where pale riders watch from the shadows and the clowns don’t just juggle... they hunt. As the townsfolk are drawn into a nightmare they can’t escape, a handful of survivors fight to...
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Other Writing
In the brutal world of independent pro wrestling, villains Big Daddy Storm and Brody Hawk enter a high-stakes tag team match against fan favorites Mic Vicious and Solomon Hyde. But when the action hits a fever pitch, one misstep changes everything. Told from Storm’s raw, unfiltered perspective, this true story captures the chaos, pain, and unshakable code of the ring—because in wrestling, no matter what happens… the show must go on.
The Treehouse is a Southern Gothic horror tale set in the eerie woods outside Oakridge, Mississippi, where an ancient pecan tree holds a long-forgotten secret. High in its twisted limbs sits an abandoned treehouse—once a childhood refuge, now a place of whispered legend. When Ellie Granger returns home to care for her ailing father, she finds herself drawn to the treehouse that claimed a boy years ago. But beneath the rotting floorboards lies something far older and far hungrier than she...
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