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People will ask me what my favorite song is. In truth, I don’t have one. It’s a lot like asking you what your favorite food is. It changes with your tastes at the current time. I like different songs when I’m happy, sad, angry, depressed, driving during the day, driving during the night, with my... Read more of this blog post »

Writing is nearly always hard. Capturing inchoate ideas and feelings and experiences, forcing these into precise words arranged intentionally, demands fierce psychic energy: more with every passing year. It is tempting to say that the drain comes from all that is not expressed, all the ways that...

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June 20, 1975

Dear Diary--

I heard a new song on the radio today, it was really catchy. It's called "Love Will Keep Us Together" by some Captain guy...but a lady singer. I am going to have to listen for it again and figure out who this is. I would buy that single.

It's hot. Stupid hot. I can't go ou... Read more of this blog post »

#NewRelease #JustLove There's a short little something just dropped, the latest addition to my ‘Love Chances’ Series ;) Continue reading ...
https://lsbergman.com/2018/06/20/new-...

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"What are we going to do, Robert?"

"You're just going to have to give it more time, honey."

"I don't want him to be disappointed in another adult in his life ever again. He's been through so much of that already."

"Honey... sometimes... sometimes people have to experience life in their own way. We c... Read more of this blog post »

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What if otters the size of wolves still roamed the land? What if these apex predators had survived, been tamed like wolves, and now some households had giant otters for pets, instead of cats or dogs?

Siamogale melilutra is a species of giant otter that lived during the late Miocene. They were lar... Read more of this blog post »

"At times I felt like I could almost smell some foul, rotten thing coming for me in my bedroom as I read. " Thank you very much to Mindi Snyder for her review of my story collection Bones

You can read Mindi's full review here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9xol8ky

Be sure to follow Mindi for all her latest... Read more of this blog post »

Whoo hoo!! The Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Clockwork Glowbirds Audiobook is on Audible! It should be on Amazon and iTunes in a couple of days.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fan... Read more of this blog post »

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Wow, wow, wow, wow! The new book is finally out! You can get your Kindle ebook copy by clicking the Amazon link below.
The paperback edition should be available within the next few days, Happy reading!

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I'm hosting a giveaway for ten copies of Moira Ashe: Enemy Within.

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Mourning Dove
Claire Fullerton
Forthcoming June 29, 2018
Firefly Southern Fiction, 234 pp., $9.95
Parallel universes exist all around us. One person chucks trash for another to call a treasure. Claire Fullerton’s novel Mourning Dove explores this concept with indulgent detail through a cas... Read more of this blog post »

L.M. Roth The L. M. Roth Quiz of the Day is a quiz for those familiar with the books of L. M. Roth. If you are not familiar with the books of L. M. Roth, you’d better start cramming!

The answer to yesterday's quiz: Ilse was the alias that Princess Adelaide used to hide her identity in Come Back My... Read more of this blog post »

Hello again, everyone! I realize that it has been awhile since I last posted; many, MANY things came up recently that consumed my time and energy, and regrettable I lost track of things outside of those specific troublesome fields for awhile. But I'm back now, asking you to forgive me for my brie... Read more of this blog post »

My good friend and author Harry Whitewolf is having a Kindle giveaway of all his books on Amazon.

Here are two of my favorites that I recommend for download:


https://www.amazon.com/ROAD-PURIFICAT...


https://www.amazon.com/Route-Number-1...

If you get a chance, please download a copy! Read more of this blog post »

***COLD OPEN***

Before I begin with the body of this blog entry, I want to announce that my current creative project will be editing the shit out of Beautiful Monster and turning it into a clean-cut second draft. I’ve edited the first three chapters so far and really all I needed to do was cut out... Read more of this blog post »

I'm here to announce the third book in the series, Confessing! It will be published on August 22, 2018. Add it to your Want-To-Read list now!

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I self published my memoir because no one knows who I am; I have a growing but not far-reaching platform. I received great feedback from agents on Stand Up, but the three agencies that expressed the most interest essentially ended up concluding that my lack of visibility and platform were deal-ki... Read more of this blog post »

A couple of days ago I noticed that Hallmark will soon be having their "Christmas in July", in which they program a massive amount of Christmas romance movies.

At first it just made me smile, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that would be a great time to also release my newest n... Read more of this blog post »

I recently wrote and published Shattered Dreams and Broken Hearts 'Fentanyl the Killer'. It is a true and disturbing book, but it has to be read. My son passed away April 19 2017 of unsuspecting fentanyl. We mourn his loss everyday and I needed to find a way to help others. This was my last gift... Read more of this blog post »

This weekend several friends and family members along with me traveled to St. Louis, Missouri to take in the Cubs/Cardinals ballgame on Saturday night. It was hot and steamy and we saw an excellent game with an excellent outcome. (The Cubbies won!) On Sunday, I was in the city I took the opportun... Read more of this blog post »

When the children of Atlas arrived on this earth, it began the Fourth Age of the Golden Aspen according to the Sylvan Chroniclers. More precisely, it was Sylvan Year (SY) 3487 or approximately 15,000BC, during the time of the Younger Dryas (mini-ice age). Much of the northern hemisphere was cold... Read more of this blog post »

I'm so excited to say that Hostage is out! Book 5 in the Prison Planet series features Sylvie Wolfe's brother Sebastian, a convict sentenced to death by combat. Sebastian crashes a ship full of Universal Authority employees and executives on the surface of the planet Rhodon and takes one of them... Read more of this blog post »

So anyone who has bought a copy etc can now re-download it and get the updates. Nothing major was changed, just a bit of dialog as well as error fixes.

I thought about doing a complete collection but went against the idea. It's still kind of early since I ended the series just last month.

It also s... Read more of this blog post »

I've seen a mockup of the front/back covers for Mardi Gras in Kodachrome, and it is glorious. Now to finish editing the contents. Deciding which of the vintage pictures won't make the cut is going to be exquisite agony.

Medical doctor and author Atul Gawande has been named CEO of the JP Morgan Chase - Amazon joint health venture. He's written some great books on medicine and health, including the checklist manifesto.

Details on the new position:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/20/atu... Read more of this blog post »

Still playing catch up!
#SummerZombie
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Day 19
Teaser from Good Boy by Tom Clark: http://www.jaywilburn.com/4786-2/
Why I write Zombies by RJ Spears: http://www.jaywilburn.com/write-zombi...
Dogs as Food by Kenny Van Dyke Jr.: http://www.jaywilburn.com/dogs-food-s...
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Day 20
The Science Behind Death... Read more of this blog post »

دومین کتاب پژوهشی ام پیرامون روایت شناسی کتاب تذکره الاولیا به پایان رسید
در این کتاب شگفت کاری هایی که در کتاب تذکره الاولیا روایت شده اند دسته بندی می شوند و با روایت شناسی اسطوره شناختی شکل گیری آن ها و شگردهای روایتی آن ها بررسی می شوند

It has been almost a year.

Almost a year since half of what made me has called or cared about my wellbeing or that of his grandchildren.

However it has been many days out of every year that he has been absent.

People tell me that it has made me stronger.

Maybe it has.

All I feel is the hurt it leaves... Read more of this blog post »

My short story "The Stupid Third" is up today in the new issue of The Critical Pass Review.

http://www.criticalpassreview.com/wp-...

I'm so excited! Today is the day! The Moon Faerie's Night Sky is officially live! I'm blown away by all the positive responses I've already received on this story, and would love to share some in my first Goodreads blog post!

"Beautifully rendered, touching, with a light air of humor, this story h... Read more of this blog post »

Well, not so much love today. I haven't gotten a lot of writing done today. I went over to my sister's house for most of the day and my twins took a nap while my sister and I went shopping, something that I rarely get to do without my kids around for. Grandma stayed with the kids, so it was a nic... Read more of this blog post »

LOVE LIKE OURS, book 3 in my Sugar Lake series is releasing on Sept 11th. If you haven't read the first two titles, why not start today! FREE in KU!

💕THE REAL THING (Book 1)
The last time Willow Dalton and Zane Walker made a pact she handed him her virginity. Now he needs a fake fiancée. What could... Read more of this blog post »

I don't remember what it was: a tweet, an email, or a message of some kind, but once upon a time, a reader wrote to me about Wolfsong and said that it was "unrealistic" that everyone would be gay.

In a book about werewolves.

Unrealistic.

IN A BOOK ABOUT WEREWOLVES.

Hi, welcome to week 4 in my blog po... Read more of this blog post »

My new MM contemporary rom-com 'Taking Love's Lead' will be released on Amazon on July 9th. No pre-orders this time so it won't be available to purchase until it goes live.

Blurb is below.

Zachary Cole's new personal shopper is stunning in more ways than one. Gone is the staid, professional Jonatha... Read more of this blog post »

horror, adj.
inspiring or creating loathing, aversion, etc.

sleaze, adj.
contemptibly low, mean, or disreputable

trash, n.
literary or artistic material of poor or inferior quality

Welcome to HST Quarterly, the curated collection from Horror, Sleaze and Trash.

Featuring poetry by Winter Zakalwe, John D... Read more of this blog post »

Insta-ReadersChanging the Writer's World


The world is changing drastically. No big surprise there. So if your business, whatever it is, is not changing, there's a good chance you'll fail. We have new consumers, new producers, new challenges.
Let me bring this back to the writing world. The other n... Read more of this blog post »

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If you were given the chance to choose between accomplishing your dream or keeping love, what would you choose?

Does love alwa... Read more of this blog post »