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March 7, 2011
Thriller Writer Joan Hall Hovey
I'm am so excited to have fellow Canadian thriller writer, Joan Hall Hovey, from St. John New Brunswick, as a guest blogger. Joan's latest novel, Night Corridor, has just been released February of this year and it promises to be quite the thrill ride. I love the premise of this novel; a woman released from a psychiatric hospital who's being stalked by a killer. The idea of that just gives me chills.
Here is a brief synopsis of Night Corridor: At 17, Caroline Hill lost the love of her life. Th...
March 6, 2011
Dark Valentine
The Spring Issue of Dark Valentine Magazine is now available for download: http://darkvalentine.net/index.php/2011/03/rites-of-spring/
New fiction by some great authors: Kristen Davis, Tonia Brown, Matthew C . Funke, Mike Chinn, Berkeley Hunt, Paul D . Brazill, Trost, Alejandro Omidsalar, Sarah Vaughn, Jeannine Dotts, John M . Radosta, Katherine Tomlinson, Caitlin Hoffman, Allan Leverone, James Valdis.
Well? What are you still doing here? Go on, my twisted little thriller fanatics, go read it...
February 27, 2011
Finding Happiness In Everyday Life
I admit this isn't the usual type of book I talk about, nobody is maimed, murdered, or even bruised. Then again, it's not a thriller, but it is worth talking about. Jo Ann Hurst whose inspirational debut book, Looking For The Good, A Journey To Finding Happiness In Everyday Life, has visited today to share with us how this book came about.
"Looking For The Good" began as a silly amusement just to pass time and has since evolved into a lifestyle. A much better lifestyle than the one I had befor...
February 25, 2011
Friday's Forgotten Books
"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." - KURT VONNEGUT
The Executioners, by the late and great John D MacDonald, author of 78 books, was originally published in 1957. In the 60s it was adapted into the movie Cape Fear, staring Gregory Peck. Scorsese did a darker and more brutal remake of it in the 90s with Robert DeNiro cast in the role of Max Caddy.
Cape Fear was a huge movie and anyone who's seen it k...
February 21, 2011
What Writers Need For Success...
Since I started this blog just last month and signed up for Twitter, I'm amazed at how much I'm enjoying blogging and tweeting. I feel like a kid with a new toy. I'm a little late to the game I know, but I've always been the last one to jump on a bandwagon. Let all the guinea pigs go first and then I'll decide, that's my attitude. Same thing when it comes to upgrading my technology. If it wasn't for my husband I'd still be using a VCR. But, when it comes to all the social media I do notice on...
February 18, 2011
Friday's Forgotten Books
Street Raised by Pearce Hansen, Point Blank Publishing 2006.
Product Descripton (from Amazon): When Speedy raises from Pelican Bay State Prison, he hitchhikes home to Oakland only to find his little brother Willy a homeless crack addict, and his best friend Fat Bob bouncing in SF's underground punk clubs. When two of their childhood homeboys get wrapped in chains by Nuestra Familia drug dealers and thrown in the American River alive, our heroes somehow get it together enough to plot revenge. S...
New Book Release Date!
No One To Hear You Scream has been delayed by one month. The new release date is June 1, 2011. So...in honour of my writing style, I'm keeping you all in suspense. (Mmwahaha! Wickedly rubs hands together and salivates.)
February 16, 2011
Flash Fiction Challenge
This is a flash fiction piece I did for Patti Abbott's "Scarry Night" fiction challenge where we have to use the line "I don't mind the scars". It's going until the end of the month. More info here: http://pattinase.blogspot.com/2011/02/flash-fiction-challengescarry-night.html
Celeste by Julia Madeleine
The microphone stand was a lame crutch keeping him vertical on the stage. But Drew needed something, if not just the illusion of being anchored in place. Through a haze of alcohol, and too many ...
Celeste by Julia Madeleine
The microphone stand was a lame crutch keeping him vertical on the stage. But Drew needed something, if not just the illusion of being anchored in place. Through a haze of alcohol, and too many ...
February 13, 2011
You Never Could Have Done This Before The Internet
How did mankind survive before the Internet? For the entire generation of pre-twenty-something-year-olds, you wouldn't understand what life was like before the internet but this is what we had to do when we wanted information: Look it up in an encyclopedia (google that word if you're unfamiliar with it), go to the library and hope the page in the book you need hasn't been ripped out, call up Mom or Dad or another of our smart relatives. Like Grampa who is a wealth of information, or Uncle Joe...
February 10, 2011
Final Vector by Allan Leverone Lands Today!
Thriller writer Allan Leverone's debut novel Final Vector is coming in for a landing Friday February 11th. And Allan has been good enough to give us all a sneak peek at his book right here. Judging from the excerpt, it looks like this book is going to be keeping a lot of folks up late at night turning the pages. A little less sleep is worth it though. Who needs sleep when you've got books like this one? Here is Allan Leverone, the man who's going to be responsible for all those people sleepin...
