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October 15, 2020
Audio Excerpt: Dark by Paul L. Arvidson
A science fiction by Paul L. Arvidson Narated by Benjamin Fife
Length: 9 hrs 2 mins
In the strange labyrinth of pipes on the planet called Dark, things are falling apart. Dun doesn't want to be a hero, he just wants to find an answer to the terrifying dreams he's been having. But the answers, the real answers, are going to take him places he's never imagined and tear him from the only home he's ever known.
With a half-finished map from his missing father, an old friend, a new friend, and t...
October 14, 2020
Excerpt+Giveaway: The Rose by P.D. Alleva
A science fiction by P.D. Alleva
A masterful, dystopian science fiction thriller of underground genetic experiments, telepathic evil greys, mysterious rebellion, conspiracy, martial arts, and Alien Vampires.
Sandy Cox believed WW3 was over. But for those Alien Vampires, War Has Just Begun.
Forty-eight hours after a World War III treaty is signed Sandy Cox awakens in an underground compound unable to move. Tied to machines she screams for help but no one answers. At least NO ONE HUMA...
October 13, 2020
Mindfulness: Read it. Lern it. Live it.
Image by Jared Rice from Unsplash.Like many (many) others, I picked up The Hunger Games shortly after it was published. Now, I picked it up because it was required reading for school (Seton Hill MFA program—this is my only plug), but for the purposes of what I’m about to unpack, the reason doesn’t matter so much. The important thing is that I read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and then Mockingjay within a few days and loved the everything out of them. The first-person present tense was engagi...
October 12, 2020
Excerpt+Giveaway: The Secrets of Gable House by Nancy Fraser
A paranormal romance by Nancy Fraser
Noah Miller is shocked to learn that an unknown great uncle has named him heir to the family fortune, including the residence known as Gable House. Built by Noah’s fifth-back grandfather, the house is ripe with family secrets and unusual occurrences.
Maggie Shephard has spent the past ten years researching the history of Willow-By-The-Sea, including that of her own ancestors. Considered an authority on New England history, she’s o...
October 11, 2020
Review+Giveaway: Georgian Romance Revolt by Lucinda Elliot
A romantic satire by Lucinda Elliot
Elaine Long is trapped in the body of the heroine in a warped cyber version of an historical romance. Something has gone drastically wrong, with the characters talking and acting outside the script, and her coachman is exactly like one of the author’s Golden and Reckless hero types.
Worse, the disgraced earl turned highwayman anti-hero - one of the author's Dark, Mean and Moody hero types, has stolen the heroine’s betrothal ring, wh...
October 10, 2020
The Sunday Post: Fall, Halloween, and Jumanji
Monday: "Show, Don't Tell" Shown: How Not to Report Your StoryWednesday: Excerpt+Giveaway: Fly Twice Backward by David McCracken
Thursday: Review+Giveaway: Sannah by Miriam Newman This Week’s Posts Links go live at 12:30 AM US eastern time.
Monday: Review+Giveaway: Georgian Romance Revolt by Lucinda Elliot
Thu...
October 9, 2020
Tips 'N Treats
New releases from this weekCurrent or coming-soon ebook deals Have an upcoming release/book deal? Email me at mdesantis924@gmail.com
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Review+Giveaway: Sannah by Miriam Newman
An ancient historical romance by Miriam Newman
Barely more than a girl, Sannah is taken by a man who is both warrior and shaman in a winter raid on her Stone Age camp. But Memmet believes the spirits have given her to him and he will keep her at any cost.
Two strong people must find the reason they have been brought together, because lives depend upon it.
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ExcerptStumbling through snow, she looked up at the...
October 6, 2020
Excerpt+Giveaway: Fly Twice Backward by David McCracken
An Alt-History Sci-Fi by David McCracken
You wake back in early adolescence, adult memories intact, including ones that could make you very wealthy now. Your birth family is here, alive again, but your later families are gone, perhaps forever. What has happened, what should you do about coming problems like violence, ignorance, pollution, and global warming? You realize one key connects most, the fundamentalist strains of all the major religions, disdaining science, equality,...
October 4, 2020
"Show, Don't Tell" Shown: How Not to Report Your Story
Image by Kenny Luo from Unsplash.Point of view, which to use? It’s one of the first questions authors answer (or have answered by their WiP) when they start a new project. The choices are simple enough: first-person (I/me), second-person (you), third-person limited (he/she/xe only), third-person omniscient (he/she/xe everyone). There are some other, less common choices, but these are the big players, as it were. I won’t get into the nuts and bolts of each. That isn’t what this post is about. If ...
