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Ink In The Skin

When I'm not obsessing over a word or turn of phrase on a manuscript, or the word count on a short story of mayhem and suspense, I'm busy at my day job sticking needles into people. While ink on paper is my obsession, ink in the skin is also something I'm passionate about. But if you've ever read my blog or you're following me on Twitter, you might notice I don't tweet about tattoos or have tattoo artist followers (okay, maybe a couple that slipped in somehow). I don't blog about tattooing ei...

Trestle Press & QR Codes (what the heck are they?)

Guest Post by Giovanni Geleti from Trestle Press...



Starting today just about every author involved with Trestle Press will have a QR code for their work, not just their novels, novella's and digital short stories, but also their own blogs, websites….What exactly is a QR Code? Here is a little something from Wikipedia I hope that will help to explain it and then I will go into how and why we are implementing this immediately:



"A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a specific m...

Satan's Daughter Is On The Loose...

Excerpt from The Devil's Music, Book 1 Raised In Hell

By Julia Madeleine



Out on Beale street I recognized his soulful voice immediately, the cry of the blues guitar chords rising up and swelling around me like a heartache in the Memphis night air. I stepped through the front door and the smell of bourbon, tobacco and sweat crashed into me, igniting my senses. Through the dim light and a layer of smoke hovering above the room, I made out his figure on the stage at the far end of the dingy j...

Mountains Of Smoke By Frank Duffy

Mountains Of Smoke (e-book) by Frank Duffy
Sideshow Press (April, 2011)

Frank Duffy's novella, Mountains Of Smoke, is the story of a fiction writer and his wife who buy an ancient gothic castle called Rock Hill that sits on the edge of a cliff overlooking a river. The couple, along with their young son, move into Rock Hill and for years everything is wonderful. But then one winter a tragic death. To cope with his sorrow and loneliness he immerses himself in his writing but not the usual drama t...

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah
Penguin Canada (Aug. 6, 2011)

While browsing through a real estate website on the internet one sleepless night, Connie Bowskill makes a shocking discovery when she clicks on the virtual tour button of one particular property. The body of a woman lying in a pool of blood. Connie wakes up her husband Kit, to show him. But when he checks out the pictures there's no body, leaving Connie questioning her own sense of reality.

From there the story takes a mysterious an...

Dead Line by Richard Sanders: Review

Dead Line by Richard Sanders
Createspace (Feb.2011)

In Richard Sanders latest novel, magazine publisher Trish Fenellosa, is experiencing a break with reality where she actually believes she has being possessed by the spirit of the late prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi. And her psychosis goes back further, right to her early teens with the brutal murder of her sister. Even though her body was never found, Trish was convicted of the crime and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison.

When t...

The Knowledge Of Good And Evil

Today is the official release day of Glenn Kleier's much anticipated second thriller, The Knowledge Of Good And Evil. Judging from the great reviews it's already receiving on places like Goodreads, and a mesmerizing book trailer, this book looks like it's going to be one thrilling ride.

I'm very pleased to have Glenn drop by for an interview today to talk about his new release...

Tell us what your book is about.

KNOWLEDGE is about a defrocked priest who embarks on a perilous odyssey through t...

Attack Of The Zombie Strippers!

I've discovered abandoned houses, abandoned cars, furniture, appliances, various items of clothing and kittens, but never in my lifetime have I come across a bona fide abandoned strip club. This was a first. Well...it wasn't genuinely abandoned if you consider the man living in the attic, selling a variety of junk, his inventory spread haphazardly throughout the strip club as if a tsunami had blown through town and heaved the wreckage of neighbouring houses inside...and he was offering it all...

Interview With Thriller Writer Gerard de Marigny

Thriller author Gerard de Marigny has dropped by today to talk about debut novel, The Watchman Of Ephriaim. Not only does this book sound like a winner, but Gerard is truly an interesting guy. And the story behind his book is as fascinating as it is heart-breaking. Today especially being Independence Day in America, it seems like the perfect day to talk about this book and why Gerard wrote it...

Your debut novel, The Watchman Of Ephraim, a political thriller, has just been released this year. ...

Frank Duffy's Review of No One To Hear You Scream

Talented horror writer Frank Duffy, author of Mountains Of Smoke and forthcoming, The Signal Block, has reviewed my book, No One To Hear You Scream. I'm ecstatic to share his review here. He actually threatens me with bodily harm, which is kind of a motivational technique I'm thinking. Although, I'm having some disturbing visions of Stephen King's Misery. I think I might need to get a bigger dog.




Julia Madeleine's second crime novel, No One To Hear You Scream, is a genre book with wit, style, ...