Location: Netherlands
Member Since: Feb. 11, 2011

A. Rosaria


Biography

Alex Rosaria writes mainly horror stories, but also likes to branch out to other genres when his creativity demands it.

He loves the freedom writing gives in creating any story that transforms in his mind, and to share this with anyone willing to read it.

Contact:

Website: www.alexrosaria.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/adarosaria
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alex.rosaria#!/
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4719199.A_Rosaria

Where to find A. Rosaria online

Twitter: adarosaria
Facebook: Facebook profile
Blog: http://creationofanovel.blogspot.com/

Books

Hush Up    by A. Rosaria
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Published on February 11, 2012. Fiction.
Melvin Armstrong in his first year working as a journalist for the Metropolitan News Agency, uncovers a secret that may become the story of the year and propel his career sky-high. However it won't be that easy as he thought it would be. Secrets exist to stay hidden and certain people will go to great lengths to keep it that way.
Death's Given Chance    by A. Rosaria
Price: $0.99 USD. 5960 words. Published on January 20, 2012. Fiction.
Unemployed, lonely, his life in a crisis not having met any goals he set out for himself. With the last of his money he buys a ticket back to his home town to attend a funeral. A chance meeting might change his life forever.
Gone World    by A. Rosaria
Price: $0.99 USD. 8370 words. Published on January 6, 2012. Fiction.
(1.00 from 1 review)
In its aftermath of a nuclear war the world has been left in rubble, with pocket of resistance fighters still fighting the invaders, the Sino-Russian Alliance. Nick and Tina, two rebels, just having survived an ambush, need to find a way to escape. Will they get out? Will Nick and Tina, manage to do deal with the hopelessness of it all, surviving in a gone world?
Absentis    by A. Rosaria
Price: $0.99 USD. 6210 words. Published on December 26, 2011. Fiction.
Young detective Pamela Pearson, following up on a missing persons lead, knocks on the front door of an old mansion at Silvermine Street 20. The door opens with no one standing on the other side. Despite her reservations she upholds her duty and enters the mansion. Will she find who she is looking for or will something else find her first?
F.C.F. That Within    by A. Rosaria
Price: $1.99 USD. 15700 words. Published on April 24, 2011. Fiction.
His unit was betrayed, ambushed, and killed. He was left stranded on the moon, with the outpost a distance away, and his oxygen almost depleted. All the while a bug infestation was going on, leaving Sergeant T. Black, the only survivor left, to exact revenge for the betrayal. Revenge in space is the sweetest.

A. Rosaria’s tag cloud

betrayal    bonding    coverup    death    ghost    government    grim reaper    haunted house    hiding    horror of personality    infestation    insects    journalism    lonliness    mansion    missing persons    murder    nuclear war    occult    psychological horror    reapers    relationship    republicans    resistance    revenge    secret    short stories    space colony    space marine    space outpost    suicide    survival    warfare   

Smashwords book reviews by A. Rosaria

  • I Eat Butterflies: Tales of Vampires, Mages & Mutants on May 28, 2011
    star star star
    The stories in themselves are okay to good: Velocity Syndrome being the better one. While reading I had the feeling that the author was new at the craft of writing. This was evident from his overuse of "purple" prose, so much it distracted me from reading his story, which is a pity. Luckily he improved. In his third short story "Velocity Syndrome" he writes much more fluent and readable. Because of that I could immerse myself better in the third story than the previous two. The brides was a drag to read. The story is an interesting one. It's a new way (for me at least) describing vampires. However the writing was distracting, and this made reading it less enjoyable. For example in the story the brides talking amongst themselves about the past, one retells the story how they started. A flashback by retelling. It's nice getting some back-story, but it's weird and awkward way of doing it. Why would one of the three people, who have lived and experienced the event, retell this to the other two who lived it along with her? It's made it too obvious it being a flashback, and this can distract readers. The story picked up when the brides found a new prince. The writing started to flow better at the end. This made it more a pity, that while improving in his writing style, the story suffered a little fall. It felt chunks were left out, and stuff started happening ad hoc. The ending was a little abrupt and left things not so clear. It felt it rushed by leaving me to ask my self; "What happened!" MERLIN’S KNOT is less flowerly written. The story follows a clearer path than The Brides. It has an interesting take on magic and technology. Too bad the story gets convoluted by having too much going on at once. I'm sure some will like that. To me it has an B action movie feel to it. There are things added to the story that I felt were not there to add to the story(because it didn't make sense), but for the cool factor. However the writer is improving in his craft. Merlin's knot is less a drag to read. Velocity Syndrome is more coherent and read fluent compared to the first two, it is less distracting written. I enjoyed reading this one. The setting is great and the story draws you in. At the end it has a twist, only too bad it is a tad confusing. From reading "I Eat Butterflies: Tales of Vampires, Mages & Mutants" I have come to believe Raven c.s. McCracken has an imaginative mind and that he shows he improves with every word written. If he keeps writing I'm sure he'll come to a point he'll be writing great stories. These being his first, they are however not so great, but still worth reading.