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February 9, 2011
Review: TAG by Simon Royale
4 of 5 starsBig brother is watching. Author Simon Royale takes this premise to a new and terrifying reality in his novel Tag. Fast forward into the next century and we find all humans are identified by their PUI (Personal Unique Identifier). The government knows everything about you, everywhere you go, everything you buy, literally everything. A scary thought in itself.
Book blurb: In the
Book blurb: In the
Blog Tour Stop: Tommy Batchelor
Thirteen-year-old Tony's parents are in the middle of divorce, his mother sends him to his Grandpa's along the banks of the Flint River in Southwestern Georgia. With his younger cousin Kathryn, they set out to look for a Christmas tree for the holidays, along with Grandpa's aging beagle, Sally. The three become lost in a snowstorm, Finding shelter in a hidden cave,
February 8, 2011
Interview with Tara L. Masih
Available at Untreed Reads Publishing
Briefly describe your journey in writing your first book. The stories in this collection span over two decades. I started writing publishable work in graduate school, and continued at my own pace, which is on the slow side. Work, parenting, etc., gets in the way, and I find I don't have the output some writers have or the ability to
Briefly describe your journey in writing your first book. The stories in this collection span over two decades. I started writing publishable work in graduate school, and continued at my own pace, which is on the slow side. Work, parenting, etc., gets in the way, and I find I don't have the output some writers have or the ability to
February 7, 2011
Interview with Dana Taylor
Briefly describe your journey in writing your first book. How long did it take you to finish that manuscript?While I'd been writing in various formats (magazines, scripts), it took being fired as my husband's legal secretary to finally sit down and start a novel in 2001. His contentious clients had driven me a little crazy. Writing Ain't Love Grand? was marvelous therapy and took me about four
Interview with Christopher Divver
Briefly describe your journey in writing your first book. I began writing Time in a Bottle, in September of 2009 and finished in December. I wanted to write a story that, while a suspense/thriller wasn't a "cookie cutter" of the genre and offer something different that the reader may not have expected or read before.
Did you query agents or traditional publishers before
Did you query agents or traditional publishers before
February 5, 2011
Blog Tour Stop: Rose A. Valenta
Rose A. Valenta is a nationally syndicated humor columnist. Her irreverent columns have been published in Senior Wire, Associated Content, Courier Post Online, NPR, Newsday, USA TODAY, the WSJ Online, and many other local news and radio websites.
She is the author of Rosie's Renegade Humor Blog. This is the blog for people who would be knowledgeable about current events and politics if only
She is the author of Rosie's Renegade Humor Blog. This is the blog for people who would be knowledgeable about current events and politics if only
February 4, 2011
Blog Tour Stop: Willie Meikle
THE STAIRWAY TO (TRADITIONAL PUBLICATION) HEAVEN
Hi, I'm Willie, and I'm a writer.
If that sounds like an AA introduction, it might be more apt than you think. Writing is an addiction, and I'm hooked.
I started nearly twenty years ago now. Since then I've had over 200 short stories and ten novels published in the horror and fantasy genre press
In this chapter I'm going to share what I've
Hi, I'm Willie, and I'm a writer.
If that sounds like an AA introduction, it might be more apt than you think. Writing is an addiction, and I'm hooked.
I started nearly twenty years ago now. Since then I've had over 200 short stories and ten novels published in the horror and fantasy genre press
In this chapter I'm going to share what I've
February 3, 2011
Does Marketing Kill Creativity?
As every author knows, it's not enough to write a fantastic novel with great characters. The truth is you could have written the next great novel, but if the readers don't know it's out there, then it doesn't matter what you wrote. That's a fact and probably one that authors think about as much as they think about their next book.
Marketing your newest release takes a great deal of effort
Marketing your newest release takes a great deal of effort
February 2, 2011
Blog Tour Stop: John Booth
Jake is 18, unemployed, unskilled and still lives with his parents. But Jake has a secret in his bedroom, under the carpet - a hopscotch court.He can use it to take him to strange and wonderful worlds. It took him to his dragon. It helps him find missing people. It helped him find Jenny, his girlfriend.Jake has strange powers but he doesn't have a clue.Jenny doesn't think
February 1, 2011
New Release: DEAD OF WINTER by Robert J. Duperre
Book Blurb:
Winter arrives, and with it the Storm. Snow piles up, turning the landscape into a white prison. The survivors of Wrathchild's plague struggle to survive. With loneliness and doubt creeping in, they must choose: stay in isolation with their dwindling resources, or journey south, taking a chance in a realm where the undead walk.
This is the terror facing the characters in Dead of
Winter arrives, and with it the Storm. Snow piles up, turning the landscape into a white prison. The survivors of Wrathchild's plague struggle to survive. With loneliness and doubt creeping in, they must choose: stay in isolation with their dwindling resources, or journey south, taking a chance in a realm where the undead walk.
This is the terror facing the characters in Dead of
