Jan Miklaszewicz

Delighted to announce my second Goodreads Giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win a free copy of Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales . Goodreads Book Giveaway Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales by Jan Miklaszewicz Giveaway ends July 18, 2025. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

I recently posted this on X, and it got a pretty good reception. Just shows the potential of a decent prologue, I reckon, so please, be my guest…

So, today marks the end of my very first Goodreads Giveaway. The result was pretty good by all accounts, with far more entrants than I expected, and I just want to say congratulations to the winners—I hope you enjoy reading Eyes Wide Open   as much as I enjoyed writing it—and commiserations to those who didn’t get lucky this time. The good news is that I will be running another giveaway as soon as my next novella comes out. Not sure yet what it’s going to be about, but I’ve half a mind it will be some kind of backwoods horror fest.

Delighted to announce my first Goodreads Giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win a free copy of Eyes Wide Open .   Goodreads Book Giveaway Eyes Wide Open by Jan Miklaszewicz Giveaway ends May 21, 2025. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

Several weeks ago, at something of a loose end, I sat down and started writing a little snippet of horror. Within an hour it became a prologue for something longer, within a day that something longer became the beginnings of a novella, and within thirteen days the entire first draft was written. And though I’ve never compiled a bucket list, having a story fall out like that, no outlining, no discussion, no research, would certainly be on there. Twenty-thousand words in under two weeks is unheard of for someone as slow and deliberate as me. So I’m thrilled to announce the pending arrival of Eyes Wide Open , a little horror tale set in the fictional seaside town of Hartmouth. I’ll sit on the draft for a month, then probably take another two to get the thing edited, proofread, and marketed. And until then, watch this space…

Live every day as if it were your last, they say: a high-stakes game of regret or abandon, stick or twist. How about as if it were your first?