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Laurel Johanson's blog:
The lesbian space opera launches
On February 22nd, my novella All Things Mortal was officially released to the public. I'm so grateful to all the friends and family that came out to support me that night at McNally Robinson Booksellers. If you weren't able to attend, here's a transcript of the speech that I prepared for that ni...
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Mary Catelli's blog:
remember the MacGuffinosity
It's easy to start out with a MacGuffin. If the characters need something to motivate them, put in a quest object where the details don't matter, and have them chase after it. It might acquire enough details during the course of the story to make it no longer a MacGuffin, or at least not so sev...
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Richard A. Knaak's blog:
BLACK CITY DRAGON NOW OUT!
Well, a lot still in flux here, but happy to announce that, FINALLY, BLACK CITY DRAGON, the third in my BLACK CITY SAINT urban fantasy series is finally releasing today! Huzzah! Slowly showing up, but that should pick up! Please check it out! Great reviews from bloggers up through Publishers Week...
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Peggy Kopman-Owens's blog:
Robert G.C. Jackson narrates & produces FRANCESCA'S STORY-THE INTERVIEW
Official Audio Book Trailer: FRANCESCA'S STORY-THE INTERVIEW (Mrs Duchesney Mysteries)
Available AMAZON, Audible, iTunes
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Neil D. Desmond's blog:
Vermont Author
Hello! I am Neil D. Desmond and I authored a short story collection entitled "Angels of Stockholm: Short Stories." It is available on Amazon and was published by Adelaide Books of NYC. Acclaimed author Howard Norman, a two time National Book Award Finalist and author of the "The Bird Artist," des...
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Lili Naghdi's blog:
Combining Eastern and Western literature
Many of my readers and friends have been asking me what made me decide to intertwine Persian literature such as poems from Rumi, Hafez, Khayyam and Forugh with quotes and works of Western or other parts of the world's literary legends such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bertrand Russell, Hugo, Dumas, etc. i...
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Jay Kerschner's blog:
Character Portraits from “The Death of Us”
Early on during the creation of my short story The Death of Us, I commissioned some character portraits from the wonderful Sarah De Buck, with the intent of including them in the story. Since then, my ideas of what artistic "look" I want the Chronicles to have has changed such that I no longer fe...
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Carl Alves's blog:
Movie Review: Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel felt like a movie designed to wet audience’s appetites prior to the release of Avengers:End Game. It was a good but not great movie that served its purposes. Disney went to their game plan of plucking out lesser known characters and then making them a big deal to the masses, and ba...
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Brenda Jernigan's blog:
BOOKBUB SALE – until April 14th – 99 cents
Thank you for making LOVE ONLY ONCE #1 REGENCY AND #1 ANCIENT WORLD.
I’ve extended the sale until April 14th – Hope you enjoy the book.
Find out what happened to Jonathan & Elizabeth from THE DUKE’S LADY
Bitter Betrayal – Jonathan Hird wants sweet revenge on Elizabeth Trent for leaving him at t...
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Aric Sundquist's blog:
The U.P. Reader Issue #3 is now available for purchase from the fine folks at the UPPA. It contains my story latest story, "Catching Flies." Available on Amazon.
Available from Amazon HERETable of Contents:
“The Purloined Pasty” and “The Amorous Spotted Slug” by Larry Buege
“Grand Island for a Grand Time” by Mikel Classen
“# 2 Pencils” by Deborah K. Frontiera
“The Rolls K’Nardly” by Jan Kellis
“Seeds of Change”, and “The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me” by Amy... Read more of this blog post »
Justin Alcala's blog:
Crimson Street Magazine Contracts Short Horror Story "It Dances Now" By Justin Alcala
When Cecil Gibbs's mind shatters during the American Civil War, he becomes a battlefield horror. The man slips through the shadows, carving the wounded like art as the war's first serial killer. However, once word of Cecil's atrocities hits the ears of Union command, they send in a Pinkerton by... Read more of this blog post »
Barton Jahn's blog:
A Popular Defense of the Bible and Christianity
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 1
A murder mystery fiction novel has a precise combination of letters comprising words, spaces between the words, paragraph indentations, commas, semi-colons, periods, good grammar, and artistic compliance with the general rules for characterization, pa... Read more of this blog post »
A murder mystery fiction novel has a precise combination of letters comprising words, spaces between the words, paragraph indentations, commas, semi-colons, periods, good grammar, and artistic compliance with the general rules for characterization, pa... Read more of this blog post »
Felix F. Giordano's blog:
Of Angels and Miracles
Do we ever really consider how events on this Earth transpired? Do we ever look at gaps in the historical record and wonder, what if?Of all the events that occurred in our lives do we sometimes look back with regret and wish they had happened differently?
What happens when we die? Are we aware of... Read more of this blog post »
Joshua E. Bigger's blog:
Just 'cause I ain't gonna be around no more,
don't mean I don't care for ye.
Don't matter where I was to be.
We'll always be friends.
You and me made friends right off the bat.
Can't nobody change that.
--Sling Blade
Don't matter where I was to be.
We'll always be friends.
You and me made friends right off the bat.
Can't nobody change that.
--Sling Blade
Alyssa Meyer's blog:
Goodreads Author
Hello everyone. I'm excited to share that I've been accepted as a Goodreads Author! I love the community of Goodreads and always look forward to hearing about what you all are reading or planning to read.
If you have read my children's book, The Boy Who Found His Colors, you can now add it to you... Read more of this blog post »
If you have read my children's book, The Boy Who Found His Colors, you can now add it to you... Read more of this blog post »
Sharon Kay Penman's blog:
A king's legendary luck finally runs out
I’ve been called upon to do some unexpected work on the new book, but I had to play hooky long enough to post this, for today was a very significant date in medieval history and in my books. This was also one of the most challenging deaths I’ve had to write about, for it was such a drawn-out, dre...
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Marc Stevens's blog:
Errol Fern's blog:
Great news everyone for PH and Asia readers!
Hi guys!
I recently made a deal with a local publishing house and I am happy to announce a great great news!!!!!
...There would be hard copies for my three books!
The Caterpillar, Stag's crown and Hermit Crab!
Would be available in the Philippines and nearby locations.
More updates to follow so stay t... Read more of this blog post »
I recently made a deal with a local publishing house and I am happy to announce a great great news!!!!!
...There would be hard copies for my three books!
The Caterpillar, Stag's crown and Hermit Crab!
Would be available in the Philippines and nearby locations.
More updates to follow so stay t... Read more of this blog post »
LaTorre Mays's blog:
‘Well, Fuck...’: How I Fell into SyFy’s THE MAGICIANS’
SyFy had let me down way too many times.From Sliders
to Farscape to that one season of...
to Farscape to that one season of...
Craig Enger's blog:
AUDIOBOOK NOW AVAILABLE
Audiobook of "Ten Tales" Now Available! Great performance by UK Narrator A W Dickson..."nailed" both the American and British accents/characters, capturing the "Classic" Mystery vibe.
(GooglePlay, Kobo/Walmart, soon on Amazon-Audible, Apple, and more). Samples here:
https://play.google.com/store/a... Read more of this blog post »
(GooglePlay, Kobo/Walmart, soon on Amazon-Audible, Apple, and more). Samples here:
https://play.google.com/store/a... Read more of this blog post »
Helene Cardona's blog:
Fabulous review by Rich Follett of Birnam Wood in Readers' Favorite
https://readersfavorite.com/book-revi...
Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona is an elegant, epic, fecund odyssey of lyrical imagery, steeped in time-honored mythic tradition and yet endlessly inventive. Cardona is alternately stentorian and coy – his imagery swells like distant thunder even as it d... Read more of this blog post »
Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona is an elegant, epic, fecund odyssey of lyrical imagery, steeped in time-honored mythic tradition and yet endlessly inventive. Cardona is alternately stentorian and coy – his imagery swells like distant thunder even as it d... Read more of this blog post »
J. E. Pinto's blog:
What am I reading?
I recently finished the book, "Becoming." I listened to the version from Audible.com, narrated by Michelle Obama herself, and enjoyed the experience. I felt as if the former First Lady and I hung out at my kitchen table for a long chat. I could relate to much of what Obama had to say in her book...
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David Amerland's blog:
Writing And Marketing
As usual, when I head into this space, it is an aside to some other activity I am engaged in. A particularly hard section in a book I am writing where I am stuck, an article that just doesn’t want to make sense no matter how hard I try to word it or an idea that’s swirling around my head looking...
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George Salis's blog:
"Lure" - Unreal Magazine
“The inventor Théodore Carmagnolle, testing an atmospheric diving suit at ocean’s bottom, the face an iron compound eye allowing him to peer out of window stalks at various angles, saw fish swimming in sync to grander bodies, onyx-eyed sharks inhaling microscopic currents of blood, and colorful c... Read more of this blog post »
Paul Shemella's blog:
The Jungle Rules Trilogy
Jungle Rules is the first book in a planned trilogy about a small group of retired SEALs who fight for justice. They work undercover for three-letter government agencies against great odds. The missions depicted in Jungle Rules - and those books to follow - are quite realistic in terms of what we...
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Interview with Barbara Kingsolver
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Interview with Barbara Kingsolver
What happens when you've done everything right, but you can't pay your bills?
That's one of the questions Barbara Kingsolver probes in her new novel, Unsheltered . Weaving between the present and the past, it follows two families in Vineland, New Jersey, living in different moments of cultural crisis....more
That's one of the questions Barbara Kingsolver probes in her new novel, Unsheltered . Weaving between the present and the past, it follows two families in Vineland, New Jersey, living in different moments of cultural crisis....more
Interview with Tana French
Dublin crime novelist Tana French has the kind of critical reviews that other writers would…well, die for. Her debut murder mystery,
In the Woods
, won rave reviews and multiple literary prizes upon its release in 2007. Since then, her books have tended to haunt the bestseller lists, on both sides of the pond, and for months at a time. British newspaper The Independent has dubbed French "The First Lady of Irish Crime," and The Washington Post says she is the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past ten years. ...more
