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March 9, 2015
Author/Novel Spotlight: Tito Martinez Barberi, The Pinnacle of Power
Today I talk to Tito Martinez Barberi, author of The Pinnacle of Power, Book 1 in the Keeper of the Balance saga. Tito was born in Mexico City, in 1970. He spent many years working as a translator and copyrighter, and his experience in these fields, added to what Tito himself calls his “hyperactive imagination” […]
March 7, 2015
Dreams and Shadows Excerpt: Illusions
Few walk knowingly on evil roads. For such paths are strewn with colour and laughter that call enticingly, deceiving even the cautious. It is only when despair’s pit has ultimately grasped a soul irreversibly within its hold that the man or woman finally understands that the allures that brought them there were mere illusions, carefully […]
March 6, 2015
Suspension of Disbelief in Fantasy
Fantasy is a curious genre of book in that, by definition a suspension of our disbelief is required. After all, whether it be dragons, or powerful magic; whether the story includes the traditional dwarves and elves or whether it tells of more original strange races; these are all the stuff of imagination. We don’t expect […]
March 3, 2015
Dreams and Shadows Excerpt: Journey
Scattered throughout Dreams and Shadows are words of wisdom from a legendary figure called Ashael. In this one, the ancient woman states: “As a man takes his first steps on a path never before walked he may be filled with excitement to learn of the trail’s destination, or with fear of what lies hidden along […]
March 2, 2015
Author/Novel Spotlight: Kara Jorgensen, The Winter Garden
In this post I hear from Kara Jorgensen about her forthcoming novel, The Winter Garden, the second book in the Ingenious Mechanical Devices series. Kara Jorgensen is an author and professional student from New Jersey who will probably die slumped over a Victorian novel. Midway through a dissection in a college anatomy class, Kara realized […]
