Nancy May's Blog - Posts Tagged "fiction"
Giveaway!
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Blog Tour for Mystery Lovers
Join me for the following blog tour! Starting June 7.
Clusters : Case of the Missing
by T.M. Williams
Seven year old Olivia Baxter and her dog vanish while playing in the front yard of her family's home. After a week of searching, Olivia's body was suddenly found in the closet, even after the police had thoroughly investigated the home.
Ethan Franco is a troubled journalist working for the Washington Gazette. His inability to move on from the past has deflated the passion he had for his career, causing him to lose his edge. Frustrated with Ethan Franco, but not wanting to lose his once star journalist, Editor-in-Chief, Jameson Stone assigns him a story to cover as a last chance to prove he could be the reporter he once was.
Ethan Franco begins his investigation into the mysterious death of Olivia Baxter and other unexplained disappearances, believing there may be a connection in the cases. No sooner did Franco begin his investigation then he realizes he is being tailed by government agencies.
Large footprints in the woods, strange sounds, foul stenches, and a looming government presence become pieces of the puzzle in cases of the missing.
Inspired by real events, the author of the Bohemian Grove trilogy and the Apocalypse brings forth a story that has been kept a secret for over a century -- a story that a large group of people are still trying to keep under wraps.
Mystery
Hardcover, 290 pages
Published February 4th 2015 by AZ Publishing Svcs
LINKS
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=x...
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clust...
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About the Author
T.M. Williams began her writing career by accident when a song inspired a story. Once she discovered the writing bug she couldn't stop. Since starting her writing career late in 2012 she has gone on to write several more novels, including two Amazon best-sellers.
Genre: Experimental Fiction and Non-Fiction
To stay up-to-date on her work, book-signings, and events, you can follow her on her website or her blog.
She is published by AZ Publishing Svcs. Undead Winter, the novella, is a self-published piece.
LINKS
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Website: http://www.theaccidentalwriter.com/
Blog: http://theaccidentalwriterblog.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imTMWilliams
Clusters : Case of the Missing
by T.M. Williams
Seven year old Olivia Baxter and her dog vanish while playing in the front yard of her family's home. After a week of searching, Olivia's body was suddenly found in the closet, even after the police had thoroughly investigated the home.
Ethan Franco is a troubled journalist working for the Washington Gazette. His inability to move on from the past has deflated the passion he had for his career, causing him to lose his edge. Frustrated with Ethan Franco, but not wanting to lose his once star journalist, Editor-in-Chief, Jameson Stone assigns him a story to cover as a last chance to prove he could be the reporter he once was.
Ethan Franco begins his investigation into the mysterious death of Olivia Baxter and other unexplained disappearances, believing there may be a connection in the cases. No sooner did Franco begin his investigation then he realizes he is being tailed by government agencies.
Large footprints in the woods, strange sounds, foul stenches, and a looming government presence become pieces of the puzzle in cases of the missing.
Inspired by real events, the author of the Bohemian Grove trilogy and the Apocalypse brings forth a story that has been kept a secret for over a century -- a story that a large group of people are still trying to keep under wraps.
Mystery
Hardcover, 290 pages
Published February 4th 2015 by AZ Publishing Svcs
LINKS
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=x...
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clust...
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About the Author
T.M. Williams began her writing career by accident when a song inspired a story. Once she discovered the writing bug she couldn't stop. Since starting her writing career late in 2012 she has gone on to write several more novels, including two Amazon best-sellers.
Genre: Experimental Fiction and Non-Fiction
To stay up-to-date on her work, book-signings, and events, you can follow her on her website or her blog.
She is published by AZ Publishing Svcs. Undead Winter, the novella, is a self-published piece.
LINKS
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Website: http://www.theaccidentalwriter.com/
Blog: http://theaccidentalwriterblog.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imTMWilliams
Fiction is Good For You?
The classics (Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities are my most recent classic have-reads for my Goodreads reading challenge), have always been a stumbling block for me and often I am tempted to give them less stars than they deserve just because I "didn't get it". If not for the Reading Challenges, I'd just shelve them under the did-not-finish shelf.
But I know, as George Castanza would say, "it's me not you." In my case, it's me and not the book.
After all, these books have been and will be around a lot longer than I.
So this recent article (http://blog.theliteracysite.com/ficti...), inspired me to keep reading those hard to read fiction books. Seems they help you become a more empathetic person, a more broad minded person.
Well, I kind of already knew that, but here science proves it.
On another note, just finished Clusters: The Case of the Missing by T.M. Williams. Talk about page turner! Look for my review next week.
But I know, as George Castanza would say, "it's me not you." In my case, it's me and not the book.
After all, these books have been and will be around a lot longer than I.
So this recent article (http://blog.theliteracysite.com/ficti...), inspired me to keep reading those hard to read fiction books. Seems they help you become a more empathetic person, a more broad minded person.
Well, I kind of already knew that, but here science proves it.
On another note, just finished Clusters: The Case of the Missing by T.M. Williams. Talk about page turner! Look for my review next week.
Review: Clusters: A Case of the Missing
A little girl quietly played in her yard with her dog in a house that's tucked away near a national forest, then inexplicably goes missing. A small bicycle with pink tassels sticking out of the handle bars remains out in the yard, a reminder of a young life that ends mysteriously and tragically. So starts Clusters: A case of the missing, T.M. Williams' intriguing un-put-down able novel.
The novel starts with tugs at the heartstrings and goes on to grip the reader's curiosity the way highway accidents invite rubbernecking fascination. Williams uses a clever technique of interspersing real life cases of missing persons to mingle with the fictional cases, as a way of blending fact and fiction.
Ethan Franco, a journalist for the Washington Gazette, is assigned by his editor- in-chief Jameson Stone to find out why there are so many unsolved missing person cases going on in national parks. Franco's failure to overcome past troubled relationships has recently caused his work to suffer. Stone pushes his once stellar investigative reporter to get him out of his slump.
After researching other cases, Franco discovers that there may be a pattern in all of these mysterious cases. Fiction, or perhaps just what many would consider wild conjecture, takes over the last part of this novel that will satisfy fans of Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
The writing is crisp, inventive and rather skeletal, giving just enough information to leave the reader to flesh out the relationships and personalities of the main characters. At times, the characters could have more vividly drawn, particularly the relationship between the main character, Ethan Franco and Sheriff Moore. What made Sheriff Moore take a particularly paternalistic friendly interest to an otherwise typical nuisance of a reporter? Yes, he saw the Franco's vulnerability but what made his so unique that the sheriff formed an instant bond? As a reader, these things have to be accepted at face value.
Nevertheless, Clusters: A Case of the Missing is highly recommended as a satisfying read.
The novel starts with tugs at the heartstrings and goes on to grip the reader's curiosity the way highway accidents invite rubbernecking fascination. Williams uses a clever technique of interspersing real life cases of missing persons to mingle with the fictional cases, as a way of blending fact and fiction.
Ethan Franco, a journalist for the Washington Gazette, is assigned by his editor- in-chief Jameson Stone to find out why there are so many unsolved missing person cases going on in national parks. Franco's failure to overcome past troubled relationships has recently caused his work to suffer. Stone pushes his once stellar investigative reporter to get him out of his slump.
After researching other cases, Franco discovers that there may be a pattern in all of these mysterious cases. Fiction, or perhaps just what many would consider wild conjecture, takes over the last part of this novel that will satisfy fans of Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
The writing is crisp, inventive and rather skeletal, giving just enough information to leave the reader to flesh out the relationships and personalities of the main characters. At times, the characters could have more vividly drawn, particularly the relationship between the main character, Ethan Franco and Sheriff Moore. What made Sheriff Moore take a particularly paternalistic friendly interest to an otherwise typical nuisance of a reporter? Yes, he saw the Franco's vulnerability but what made his so unique that the sheriff formed an instant bond? As a reader, these things have to be accepted at face value.
Nevertheless, Clusters: A Case of the Missing is highly recommended as a satisfying read.
