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John White's blog:
Please feel free to drop by and visit my 48 Mountains page to take a peek at Part 57 in a continuing series of additional photos and insights along my highpointing journey:
My 44th highpoint - UTAH
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My 44th highpoint - UTAH
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Ajay Kaul's blog:
Thrilled and honored to be a finalist at the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fes,t in the Fiction-Anthology category
http://americanbookfest.com/generalfi...
http://americanbookfest.com/generalfi...
Lou Berthelson's blog:
Thank You American Fiction Awards
Thank You Best Book Awards
Cold Spot, a thriller, was selected as a "Finalist" for best book in the Cross-Genre category as announced July 28 by the 2018 American Fiction Awards.
Now on November 13th, Cold Spot was selected as a Award-Winning Finalist of the Amer... Read more of this blog post »
Mary Mack's blog:
A Christian pastor in Ozark, Missouri, has come under fire in mainstream and social media for expressing several truths about yoga.
Non-Christians are expressing outrage that Pastor John Lindell’s sermon on October 28 caused many in the congregation of James River Church to discontinue yoga class... Read more of this blog post »
Non-Christians are expressing outrage that Pastor John Lindell’s sermon on October 28 caused many in the congregation of James River Church to discontinue yoga class... Read more of this blog post »
Barry Smith's blog:
I'm excited to finally self-publish and share my new Sci-Fi Crime Thriller, "A Wicked Haven". Although the story has action movie potential, the story was originally written to be a live show on the Las Vegas Strip, which I hope to someday produce, but I'm open to all platforms of media.
Before p... Read more of this blog post »
Before p... Read more of this blog post »
Tracey Jerald's blog:
☆.•°*°•.☆Get ready to REJOICE☆.•°*°•.☆
Dr. Jason Ross would like to share his Christmas with you.
Cover Reveal: November 20
Release Date: December 13
● Add Free to Rejoice to your TBR: http://smarturl.it/FTRejoice_GR
● Sign up for the Free to Rejoice Go Live: http://smarturl.it/FTRejoice_GoLive
● Are... Read more of this blog post »
Garrison Kelly's blog:
“That’s right, Oz-Man. Wipe the tide pool from your eyes for just a few seconds. You can get back to crying like a bitch once I’m done showing you something. Don’t worry, this shit will be completely G-rated. Heh, the irony!”
Wacey Judge towered over his opponents just like he always did, a fire-... Read more of this blog post »
Wacey Judge towered over his opponents just like he always did, a fire-... Read more of this blog post »
Darran M. Handshaw's blog:
I'm proud to announce that The Engineer made it as a semi-finalist in Fantasy Faction's group of SPFBO4!!
Susan Buffum's blog:
The Hanging Man and Other Stories was named a Finalist in the Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. If you go to the American Book Fest site and click on Awards 2018 you can find The Hanging Man and Other Stories under the Fiction: Anthologies category.
As a local author who self publ... Read more of this blog post »
As a local author who self publ... Read more of this blog post »
Phyllis Babrove's blog:
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I want to wish everyone a joyful day. I hope that you have peace and love surrounding you.
I also want to thank everyone who participated in all of my giveaways--those who entered and those who won.
I am working on new projects and will keep you informed... Read more of this blog post »
I also want to thank everyone who participated in all of my giveaways--those who entered and those who won.
I am working on new projects and will keep you informed... Read more of this blog post »
Esther Jones's blog:
This bovine has taken to the skies, and we couldn’t have asked for a better welcome than OryCon40 gave us. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate, and can now proudly say, “It’s my cow.” It’s not too late to jump on this flight! Copies are available at many fine retailers online or near...
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Ivy Keating's blog:
I think many people do not reach their goals because they get overwhelmed with the process. A goal is usually something that takes effort and time to accomplish. At the beginning, ambition and determination are working for us. But over time that momentum fades away and we're left feeling what we...
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Lita Richards's blog:
Writing a description for book 5 tonight and trying to format the Paperback version. Word is not cooperating! It is not mirroring the margins correctly even though the settings are the same as prior books....
Descriptions .... how do you outline the entire novel without giving anything away but e... Read more of this blog post »
Descriptions .... how do you outline the entire novel without giving anything away but e... Read more of this blog post »
Joe Halstead's blog:
Katerina - James Frey
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
The Day the Sun Died - Yan Lianke
Jerusalem - Alan Moore
Tangerine - Christine Mangan
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
The Day the Sun Died - Yan Lianke
Jerusalem - Alan Moore
Tangerine - Christine Mangan
Zuzu Lu's blog:
I just want to thank everyone that picked up a copy of my book Winter Delight over the weekend! It went from spot 300,000 down to 108th!! I really hope everyone enjoys it and if y'all wouldn't mind leaving me some feedback (good or bad) I'd greatly appreciate it. One of the hardest things is gett...
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George Garrigues's blog:
Here’s something on a Goodreads blog to pull you in:
[W]riting is only half my life. Well, half my professional life--the other half is taken up running a small business selling fruit .
Yes, I sell fruit for a living. I also write fantasy novels. Y'know, normal stuff.
Makes me want to keep track o... Read more of this blog post »
[W]riting is only half my life. Well, half my professional life--the other half is taken up running a small business selling fruit .
Yes, I sell fruit for a living. I also write fantasy novels. Y'know, normal stuff.
Makes me want to keep track o... Read more of this blog post »
Oak Anderson's blog:
Did you read or are you thinking about reading, Take One With You? Yeah!? Cool.
For being super cool, I'm going to email you TOWY Episode #2 to check out.
Send me an email at info@takeonewithyou.com and you'll have a copy in your inbox soon afterDEAD EVEN - TOWY Episode #2.
Thanks for being a fan o... Read more of this blog post »
For being super cool, I'm going to email you TOWY Episode #2 to check out.
Send me an email at info@takeonewithyou.com and you'll have a copy in your inbox soon afterDEAD EVEN - TOWY Episode #2.
Thanks for being a fan o... Read more of this blog post »
Andrew Seiple's blog:
Evening, all!
My audiobook producer continues their exemplary work; Dire:Seed will be out come 20 November in audio format. After that, Dire:Time should follow on 18 December. And the last three will come one per month, through January, February, and March if all goes to plan.
Also! I have caved in... Read more of this blog post »
My audiobook producer continues their exemplary work; Dire:Seed will be out come 20 November in audio format. After that, Dire:Time should follow on 18 December. And the last three will come one per month, through January, February, and March if all goes to plan.
Also! I have caved in... Read more of this blog post »
Jeremy Maddux's blog:
Fanny Mills's blog:
Hi there! I currently have multiple projects in various stages of completion, so not yet sure which one will be the next to be published.
The contenders:
“Capivated” - based on an 18th century classic, this is a novel with dark romance elements.
“Initiating His Ward” - Charlotte Langsdale is initia... Read more of this blog post »
The contenders:
“Capivated” - based on an 18th century classic, this is a novel with dark romance elements.
“Initiating His Ward” - Charlotte Langsdale is initia... Read more of this blog post »
Linda Carroll-Bradd's blog:
I'm excited the release of Dulcina book 5 in the Widows of Wildcat Ridge series is in only 2 days.
The setting is 1884 Utah Territory and each story in the multi-author series features a woman who was widowed in a mine disaster.
Reach more on today's blog post at:
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The setting is 1884 Utah Territory and each story in the multi-author series features a woman who was widowed in a mine disaster.
Reach more on today's blog post at:
http://blog.lindacarroll-bradd.com... Read more of this blog post »
Nicki Rowe's blog:
I have been working super hard on Wally, the first book in my new One More Shot Series, and have a release soft release date for March 15. Mark your calendars and get ready to meet the OMS crew!
Right now the books stand at 4 with each employee getting their own HEA. The order will be:
Wally
Mich... Read more of this blog post »
Right now the books stand at 4 with each employee getting their own HEA. The order will be:
Wally
Mich... Read more of this blog post »
William Wendell Walters's blog:
I am nearing completion of my new novel called NewCastle. I hope you like it?
New Castle, the plantation home of the influential Richards family, is hurtling toward a cataclysm. It sizzles beneath the early spring heat, bubbling over with anger, resentment and the desires of the influential family... Read more of this blog post »
New Castle, the plantation home of the influential Richards family, is hurtling toward a cataclysm. It sizzles beneath the early spring heat, bubbling over with anger, resentment and the desires of the influential family... Read more of this blog post »
Justin Daniels's blog:
In this fresh, compassionate approach to addiction recovery, Justin Daniels shares his path to clarity and uses his experience to motivate other addicts to find their own path to recovery. Justin speaks from the heart and offers guidance and solutions leading to empowerment. The second edition, n...
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Mark Marinovich's blog:
I studied journalism in college, wrote for several newspapers, cranked out ten screenplays, and became a freelance copywriter. Soon after I began writing my first novel, The White Boats, I realized there remained a yawning deficit in my experience and capabilities—I didn’t know how to write a no...
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Carlos Loaiza's blog:
Escribí algo curioso hoy en Twitter: "Es curioso que en los últimos años me he emocionado más por películas, series y libros, pero muy poco por música".
Es verdad. Cuando inicié mi blog lo comencé como un espacio para hablar de cultura pop, con el tiempo sabía que no iba a lograr mantener actualiz... Read more of this blog post »
Es verdad. Cuando inicié mi blog lo comencé como un espacio para hablar de cultura pop, con el tiempo sabía que no iba a lograr mantener actualiz... Read more of this blog post »
Mia Malone's blog:
Hey - tomorrow Day is released, finally!
I hope you'll enjoy my charming, restless and just slightly troubled man and the woman who’s there for him when shit hits the fan.
And... I planned to tell Mac’s story next, but the calm, cool man with a white picket fence and just a little bit more of an ed... Read more of this blog post »
I hope you'll enjoy my charming, restless and just slightly troubled man and the woman who’s there for him when shit hits the fan.
And... I planned to tell Mac’s story next, but the calm, cool man with a white picket fence and just a little bit more of an ed... Read more of this blog post »
Amanda J. Greene's blog:
November 20th - Fade to Night Cover Reveal
When a nest of fledgling vampires arise in New Orleans and begin murdering indiscriminately, leaving their victim’s bodies strewn across the streets it doesn’t take long for the Under Realm Syndicate to respond. Oder and peace is priority among the Other... Read more of this blog post »
When a nest of fledgling vampires arise in New Orleans and begin murdering indiscriminately, leaving their victim’s bodies strewn across the streets it doesn’t take long for the Under Realm Syndicate to respond. Oder and peace is priority among the Other... Read more of this blog post »
Ivan Kal's blog:
Hello all!
Universe on Fire book 2 is finally here and I hope that you like it!
I've been wanting to reveal something about my books for a while now, and I've been waiting for the right moment. Originally I was going to let you all know about this after I finished Rise of the Empire series, but I t...
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Hugo Negron's blog:
Who is Jeremy Silva? Well, here is a quick "mini-bio" from IMDB.com:
"Born just outside the "Chocolate City" of Hershey, Pennsylvania, this Chicago transplant has been making headway in the Midwest since 2010. With focuses in directing and screenwriting, Jeremy Silva dove into the independent scen... Read more of this blog post »
"Born just outside the "Chocolate City" of Hershey, Pennsylvania, this Chicago transplant has been making headway in the Midwest since 2010. With focuses in directing and screenwriting, Jeremy Silva dove into the independent scen... Read more of this blog post »
Allen D. Lyons's blog:
I knew this day would come. But just like everyone else, I didn't want it to. Yesterday, one of my greatest idols had left this world. I always wanted to meet him. But since I know his characters so well, I felt like I already knew him personally.
All four of the founding members of Marvel are now... Read more of this blog post »
All four of the founding members of Marvel are now... Read more of this blog post »
Rhonda Fink-Whitman's blog:
Congratulations and a heartfelt THANK YOU to 7th and 8th grade History teacher, Mrs. Sheryl Barreto, who just purchased a classroom set of 94 Maidens for her students at Austin Meehan Middle School in Philadelphia, PA!
Mrs. Barreto will use 94 Maidens and its free downloadable teacher's guide (ava... Read more of this blog post »
Mrs. Barreto will use 94 Maidens and its free downloadable teacher's guide (ava... Read more of this blog post »
Zoltan Istvan's blog:
Some of my #transhumanism work newly out internationally (#Armenian, #German, & #Polish). Also a new pic from a recent talk at the FAST Global Innovation Forum! I'm off to Dubai for my next event now! https://haykakan.top/h1-tv/show/13617...
Some of my #transhumanism work newly out internationally (#Armenian, #German, & #Polish). Also a new pic from a recent talk at the FAST Global Innovation Forum! I'm off to Dubai for my next event now! https://haykakan.top/h1-tv/show/13617... &
https://www.pcwelt.de/autoren/zoltan_... &... Read more of this blog post »
https://www.pcwelt.de/autoren/zoltan_... &... Read more of this blog post »
Betsy Flak's blog:
During the launch of A Brush with Betrayal (The Clan-Vampire Clash: Book Two), I noticed something interesting. Amazon added a brand-new category called "Vampire Suspense" (Amazon.com at least added it; Amazon.co.uk has had it for a while). So I thought to myself, "Hmm, interesting, I'll have to...
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Karina Bliss's blog:
All first books in my three series are free or heavily discounted for the next forty-eight hours. That's Rise (1.99), The Soldier's Wedding (previously Here Comes The Groom - FREE) and Mr. Imperfect (0.99)
Links and excerpts on my website:
(link: http://bit.ly/2DBghYC)
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Links and excerpts on my website:
(link: http://bit.ly/2DBghYC)
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Ivy Smoak's blog:
CHAPTER 7
THURSDAY
James hadn’t taken his eyes off of me since I laughed at our apparent meet cute. A coffee shop? Too cliché to have really happened, but a dream was supposed to be cliché, right? But him being my professor on top of that? Ludicrous. Hilarious. Absurd. So why wasn’t he laughing?
It... Read more of this blog post »
Victoria Manning's blog:
My new poetry book will be released by the end of this month! I have to add a book I published a year ago, on here. So this will be my 5th book published. So excited!
J.N. Morgan's blog:
4:46PM
Not much writing lately. Nothing today, and I don't think anything yesterday either. Was a bit hung-over, I think I just stumbled home after the pubs and passed out rather quickly I assume. I don't remember getting home, though I do think I remember leaving the pub. Spoke some politics as I... Read more of this blog post »
Not much writing lately. Nothing today, and I don't think anything yesterday either. Was a bit hung-over, I think I just stumbled home after the pubs and passed out rather quickly I assume. I don't remember getting home, though I do think I remember leaving the pub. Spoke some politics as I... Read more of this blog post »
Karin Shah's blog:
Since it’s NaNoWriMo, I’m going to share a writing struggle.
Every one of the Chimera Chronicles was inspired by something.
1. In Like a Lion has heavy the Pretender overtones.
2. Entity Mine was inspired by an episode of Discovery channel’s old A Haunting.
3. The Lion’s Share is inspired by an episo... Read more of this blog post »
Every one of the Chimera Chronicles was inspired by something.
1. In Like a Lion has heavy the Pretender overtones.
2. Entity Mine was inspired by an episode of Discovery channel’s old A Haunting.
3. The Lion’s Share is inspired by an episo... Read more of this blog post »
Sebastian Rotella's blog:
I'm happy and grateful to report that Kirkus Reviews has named Rip Crew one of the best mysteries and thrillers of 2018. Very nice to be included included along with such names as Laura Lippman, Daniel Silva and Dan Fesperman.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/b... Read more of this blog post »
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/b... Read more of this blog post »
Arelya J. Mitchell's blog:
Review by Arelya J. Mitchell
“The wretchedness of apartheid is ostensibly over, so the suffering of blacks, under the rule of other blacks, is somehow less sinister— which does not change the fact of its horror.”
I really did not want to start this review of Sisonke Msimang’s “Always Another Coun... Read more of this blog post »
“The wretchedness of apartheid is ostensibly over, so the suffering of blacks, under the rule of other blacks, is somehow less sinister— which does not change the fact of its horror.”
I really did not want to start this review of Sisonke Msimang’s “Always Another Coun... Read more of this blog post »
Laura Miller's blog:
Coming 2019! #newbook #forbiddenromance #smalltownlove
M. Gail Grant's blog:
Excited to announce that Magdalena Gottschalk: The Slippery Slope, is a 2018 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Juvenile Fiction!
J.B. Richards's blog:
Amanda returns to a brand new beginning in Amy Proebstel’s epic saga, “Answering Ascension: Book Five of the Levels of Ascension” as her life shifts in mysterious and complicated ways when the creator of the universe reveals her destiny.
Prophecies loom large and destinies are met in Author Amy P... Read more of this blog post »
Keri L. Sparks's blog:
I love polls. When it comes to voting on favorites, or dislikes, or winners, or themes, or anything, I can't help myself: I vote. Regardless of whether or not I know what I'm voting for.
Take Goodreads Choice Awards currently going on. I think I read one book out of all the selected options in all... Read more of this blog post »
Take Goodreads Choice Awards currently going on. I think I read one book out of all the selected options in all... Read more of this blog post »
Arun D. Ellis's blog:
43Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mackie sipped his tea, strong and dark, just how he liked it, and bit into a large slice of Angel cake whilst Alb, Gerry and Mags looked down the inventory list he had made. Gerry whistled, Alb beamed and Mags ticked it off mentally ag... Read more of this blog post »
Suzanne Halliday's blog:
If you know anything about me you've probably heard the crazy story about how I stumbled into #AuthorWorld. It's a great tale full of snark, some sadness, karma and a huge dollop of humor.
I wrote my first book to kill time - keep my hands busy - and to give my bestselling author daughter, Ella Fo... Read more of this blog post »
I wrote my first book to kill time - keep my hands busy - and to give my bestselling author daughter, Ella Fo... Read more of this blog post »
Melissa Foster's blog:
How exciting to see Zane and Willow on this list! Have you picked up THE REAL THING?
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#primereading #KindleUnlimited #popularbooks #romance
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#primereading #KindleUnlimited #popularbooks #romance
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John Hunt's blog:
The FreeBooksy promotion for The Tracker was yesterday and look what happened! #1! Holy Cow! It’s currently #2 in the paranormal category, #6 in the fiction category, and #28 overall. Like #28 in all the categories! And today it will be on BookBub! So, if you haven’t already, get your copy today!...
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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
