L. Lane Bailey's Blog, page 23
January 11, 2021
Triple Cross – all 5 excerpts
Triple Cross launched a couple of days ago on Kindle for Amazon. It is available on Kindle Unlimited (if you are a subscriber to KU, you can read it for free) and accessible by any Kindle device or through the Kindle app on your phone or tablet. Best of all, it’s only $2.99. Check it out!Read More
These are not contiguous in the book. I skipped a...
January 8, 2021
Triple Cross, excerpt 5
I’ll be releasing my newest title, Triple Cross TODAY on Amazon for Kindle. You can order it here. In the meantime, I’m posting up a couple of excerpts from the book. Keep in mind that there are still some edits happening, and so things might change a little bit. That said, I am trying to keep any spoilers out of it…
Jason walked across the campus. It was still early, but twilight was setting in. He saw a sign a little way up the street that he recognized. A neon coffee cup. “That might b...
January 7, 2021
Bonus Post – Triple Cross excerpts 1-4
Here are the links for the first four excerpts from Triple Cross, coming out tomorrow for Kindle on Amazon. Even if you don’t have a Kindle device, you can read it on a tablet or phone with the FREE Kindle app…
My goal is to get a real launch on this book and try to have enough sales logged at launch to get Amazon to bump it up in their promotion. It’s only $2.99 for the Kindle e...
January 6, 2021
Triple Cross, excerpt 4
I’ll be releasing my newest title, Triple Cross on January 8th on Amazon for Kindle. You can pre-order it here. In the meantime, I’m posting up a couple of excerpts from the book. Keep in mind that there are still some edits happening, and so things might change a little bit. That said, I am trying to keep any spoilers out of it…
Just to note, I had to edit this one a little to keep in one of the surprises…
As he folded in on himself, he felt Christi’s arms wrapping around him. She was ...
January 4, 2021
Triple Cross, excerpt 3
I’ll be releasing my newest title, Triple Cross on January 8th on Amazon for Kindle. You can pre-order it here. In the meantime, I’m posting up a couple of excerpts from the book. Keep in mind that there are still some edits happening, and so things might change a little bit. That said, I am trying to keep any spoilers out of it…
Jason “JD” Ross stepped off the plane in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. It had been surreal. Wearing his Dress Greens, when the plane pulled u...
January 1, 2021
Triple Cross, excerpt 2
I’ll be releasing my newest title, Triple Cross on January 8th on Amazon for Kindle. You can pre-order it here. In the meantime, I’m posting up a couple of excerpts from the book. Keep in mind that there are still some edits happening, and so things might change a little bit. That said, I am trying to keep any spoilers out of it…
Senator Ted Barris mounted the podium to give a spur-of-the-moment stump speech. It had just popped up on his schedule early that morning, a mess...
December 30, 2020
Triple Cross, excerpt 1
I’ll be releasing my newest title, Triple Cross on January 8th on Amazon for Kindle. You can pre-order it here. In the meantime, I’m posting up a couple of excerpts from the book. Keep in mind that there are still some edits happening, and so things might change a little bit. That said, I am trying to keep any spoilers out of it…
Mary Evans was nervous, excited and hopeful. A blind date, her first in over a decade. The last time she went on a blind date, it resulted in being married f...
December 28, 2020
How I write… 3
This might be 3, 5 and infinity…
I read it. I go all the way through. Start to finish. I find every mistake I can find. Typos, wrong word, continuity mistakes, characters that change too much, don’t change enough or change the wrong way. I make sure everything makes sense to me. Read More
Just note… it usually does NOT all make sense. I make mistakes. Characters appear or disappear without reason. Stuff is introduced or dropped… again, without reason.
That means that right...
December 25, 2020
Grab a FREE one… Merry Christmas!
Last FREE book of the year. Obviously.
Planning Vengeance, my first book, is FREE right now. It has a new cover, and has been newly updated. (found a few more typos…) There is even a new blurb, courtesy of Pat Johnson. It’s pretty great, too.
The blurb: Read More
Love lost, love flourishes, sinister vengeance begins. In this first novel of the series, a bad relationship dies, giving birth to a new love between young friends. The vengeance that creates takes you through the ...
December 23, 2020
How I write… 2
Ok, so we have established that I write by the seat of my pants and have only the barest idea of where a story might go. Now let’s talk about what I do to keep it somewhat organized.
Let me preface by saying that I do NOT have incredible organization in my arsenal of tools. I do have a few things I use, though, and I think they help me a lot. Read More
Rufus from Timeless served as my model for Steve Evans, hacker and computer expert.To start with, I use Evernote. I use it to tr...
