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3. Cover for the first book in the Rest in Grift series, Undertaken.

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Cover for Book I in the Rest in Grift series: Undertaken by Bailey G. Albreit Blurb: Haunted by his best friend's ghost, a gay teen framed for arson by a vampire pimp is informally adopted by con artists and become Herman Smith, grifter. Fourteen years later, Herman and his brother John are morticians hiding their grifting past from their partner, Robin Peters, who left medicine after accidentally killing a patient. When Herman and John's former grifting partner turns up Undead on their doorstep, can they learn who left him like a ticking bomb, defy incompetent vampire hunters, content with a rival mortuary trying to shut them down, and plan a funeral for their worst enemy in six days without anyone realizing that they killed him? Undertaken begins the Rest in Grift series, as two former grifters and an erstwhile aspiring doctor navigate a vampire- and ghost-ridden town rife with murky deaths, dark whispers, and secret societies--though the most explosive secrets may be those they're keeping from each other.
August 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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5. I write in the afternoon & after midnight rather than evening (when I watch TV with the spouse). I read in the late morning and right before going to sleep.

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August 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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23. Herman, John, and Robin regroup after slaying Joey-Four-Fingers, their former-grifting-partner-turned-vampire.

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“I haven’t seen one for almost fourteen years,” I said. “I had hoped I’d seen my last.” Robin stared at us. “You’re joking.” “It’s not exactly something you mention if you don’t want to be fitted for a straitjacket. But vampires, ghosts, and zombies are only ‘made up’ if you don’t know that vampires aren’t.” She sat on a stool, pressing a cloth to her neck. “So—why isn’t he Joey Four-Fingered-Pile-of-Dust?” I sighed. “Because this is real life and we don’t have special effects people to conveniently turn vampires to dust for us,” I explained to the one person in the room who’d been to medical school. Undertaken by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter Three – Undeadened Rest in Grift Book #1
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October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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28. Snippet: Reprieve

Phyllis goes to the Easter Eve vigil service after a series of vampire deaths has rocked the town and taken the lives of more than one of her teachers.

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“Good evening, Principal Harper. I thought I heard a lovely soprano during the Psalm. If Meg had seen you, she might have tapped you to be the cantor. She gave Geoff the night off.” “I assumed. Poor boy! He deserves a reprieve.” “You know Mr. and Mrs. O’Neill, of course?” He turned to them. “Of course!” Mrs. O’Neill said a little too loudly, her plate of refreshments shaking alarmingly, though nothing fell. She gripped a cane with her other hand. “Bernie loved working for Phyllis, didn’t she?” she said to her husband, who tipped back a champagne flute. Its diameter was considerably smaller than his mouth so it was a struggle. Some dribbled down his chin but he lacked a free hand to wipe it, grasping a walker with his other hand. I restrained myself from using my hankie to clean his chin. Requiemed by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter Twenty – Stung Rest in Grift Book #3
August 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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30. Robin is first on the scene when there's a tragic death on the Ferris wheel during the town's Mardi Gras carnival.

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“Oh, dear,” a familiar voice said. “I saw who it was.” Phyllis Harper was beside me. I jumped a little. “Bernadette O’Neill. My home-ec teacher. Heavens, it’s almost impossible to find subs for core subjects! But a home-ec sub? Oh, I must sound callous. She was Gus’s friend.” “Exsanguination,” I whispered. “The killer wore a long purple dress, a purple, green, and gold wig, and a purple and gold feathered mask. And was tall.” She gazed at me, concerned. “Maybelle Spurlock’s tall.” Gus’s friend had been murdered. I couldn’t help thinking that dating a man whose ‘late’ wife was likely Undead meant it was only a matter of time before she tried to come after me. Requiemed by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter One – Eternally Rested (Requiem Aeternam) Rest in Grift Book #3
August 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Writing progress! I'm right on schedule. Chapter 1 written in three days, just over 6400 words, to be edited down later. Tomorrow: forging on to Chapter 2!

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September 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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17. A minor local celebrity, a TV news reporter, is introduced in Book #2 of the Rest in Grift series, when readers get a peek into her homelife and family. The mayor of the town is also introduced.

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August 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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15. "Crashing noise posing as music was projectile-vomited from speakers above my head."

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July 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Getting so close! I finished Chapter 21 of Requiemed, Book #3 of the Rest in Grift series. Now I just have to write Chapter 22 and the rough draft is DONE. Woohoo!

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June 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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27. Favorite part of the writing process

Editing, hands down. There's nothing like the thrill of taking a mess and sculpting it into something that just flows.

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April 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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16. They're as unlucky as I can make them and still have MCs to center the story around. And they're lucky when I don't make it worse for them!

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June 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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22. John, Herman, and Robin are all singing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody together, in harmony, then playing air-guitar!

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August 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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10. The tagline is still a WiP, but what I've got so far is:

"Morticians-in-training don't take Dealing with the Undead 101--but maybe they should."

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August 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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10. Something visual--the cover of the first book in the Rest in Grift series!

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August 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I've now finished Ch. 9 of the WiP and shortened Ch. 8. They're still both monsters: about 6.7K and 5.7K. But both had to have a lot of stuff in them. On to Ch. 10!

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March 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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4. Nightmare in WIP

Robin is alone in the house while both of her business partners go out for the evening...

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Menacing figures swarmed my dreams, out of my range of vision, but when I confronted them, they vanished. Fantastic. Another night of waking frequently and having difficulty falling back asleep. Counting in my head, I took deep breaths. Whatever Catalano had put into me, its effects seemed to have dissipated, but I still wanted to see a lab report. Vampires didn’t have to be supernatural. There were many reasons doctors sometimes thought people were dead who weren’t. An explanation for Edwin haunting me was another story. The most likely one wasn’t great: I was nuts. I mostly ignored him in the prep room today. I’d had some practice. It was easier to work with Frankenstein peering over my shoulder, and I’d had more than one nightmare about her. I’d have traded Edwin for her in a heartbeat. Despite being crazy enough to think I was regularly seeing a ghost, I wouldn’t give up on facts and the scientific method. But it was difficult to feel rational when ominous shadows loomed malevolently around my bedroom, abetted by moonlight spilling through the bay window. I breathed deeply, eyes closed, hoping for no more bad dreams. I longed for a good old-fashioned college or med school nightmare: sitting down, naked, of course, to take an exam and finding that I hadn’t gone to class all semester. Ah, good times. Rest in Grift Book 1 – Undertaken by Bailey G. Albreit Chapter 17 - Bitten
May 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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26. Herman confesses ulterior motives for attending a viewing at the rival funeral home.

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July 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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19. Snippet Saturday: Suspicion

From the beginning of Chapter 5 of Undertaken by Bailey G. Albreit

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April 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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7. Dialogue snippet

“I forgot to ask Ted and Fabio for my tips until this morning. The kid saw them pay me and told his boss I was freelancing.”

“Huh. A vampire pimp.”

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August 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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16. Herman encounters a vampire after going to an Ash Wednesday service.

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August 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM