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December 28, 2012
Book Review: BUTTERFLY POTION by Trent Zelazny
4.7/5.0 stars
Perry got rolled last night during a blackout. He’s looking for what he’s lost, and that’s more than his wallet and cell phone. He finds Talia; Talia finds him.
Reading Zelazny is like going on a drinking binge and waking in the gutter. But among the messy people in a sad, depressing world is existential philosophy cocooned in beautiful writing. Zelazny has a knack for turning phrases—not just on the page, but in your mind.
Along with despair, there...
December 12, 2012
Read the 1st Chapter of DEATH PERCEPTION
My current work in progress is DEATH PERCEPTION, a supernatural crime story corrupt with horror yet preserved by a sprinkling of black humor. The skinny:
Nineteen-year-old Kennet Singleton lives with his invalid mother in a personal care home, but he wants out. He operates the crematory at the local funeral home, where he discovers he has a gift for discerning the cause of death of those he cremates—by toasting marshmallows over their ashes.
He thinks his ability is no big deal since his custom...
December 5, 2012
Coming Soon: DEATH PERCEPTION
Here’s the cover of my forthcoming supernatural crime novel, DEATH PERCEPTION. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
November 25, 2012
Book Review: MERLYN’S RAVEN by Rose Vanden Eynden
5.0 stars
I recently finished an excellent first novel by a long-time student of Arthurian legend, Rose Vanden Eynden. MERLYN’S RAVEN from Soul Mate Publishing is a romantic fantasy set in fifth century Wales.
Gwendydd, the illegitimate child of an allegedly wild woman, suffers her mother’s reputation, but longs to know the truth of her heritage. Slated for a loveless marriage to her chieftain grandfather’s political ally, she meets and falls in love with a d...
August 7, 2012
Hazard Yet Forward for Donna Munro
Seventy-six writers connected to the Seton Hill University Writing Popular Fiction program contributed to a multi-genre anthology, HAZARD YET FORWARD. All proceeds from this project benefit Donna Munro, a 2004 graduate of the program. Munro, a teacher living in St. Louis, Missouri, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. An active member of the SHU WPF alumni committee, Munro helps organize the school’s annual writ...
July 10, 2012
Insights from Nikola Tesla
Tonight I watched the 1980 biopic, The Secret of Nikola Tesla. Production values were poor, but I was nonetheless inspired. Here’s what I felt Tesla saying to me on this, his 156th birthday.
You can speak to departed geniuses. If they talk back, treasure their advice.
Follow your dream, do your best work, and these will make a way for you.
Don’t compromise what you know to be true, even if no one else agrees.
Screw the good old boy network. Those a-holes will be gone tomorrow.
Do honest work that...
June 30, 2012
“Psychic Development for Writers” Available on CD
Do you want to develop your psychic skills to write better fiction?
In this 47-minute live audio recording presented at Seton Hill University’s 2012 In Your Write Mind writer’s workshop, writer and medium Lee Allen Howard teaches about psychic development for fiction writers. From the presentation:
Inspiration comes from the same source as psychic information, and delivers creative information along the same channel. By learning to open your psychic channel, you become better able to receive in...
June 23, 2012
Selling, Signing, and Smiling
Here’s a photo of me yesterday at the Seton Hill University IN YOUR WRITE MIND workshop. I presented on “Psychic Development for Writers.” We had a massive book signing in the evening, and I sold and signed a number of copies of THE SIXTH SEED and THOU SHALT NOT.
It was great to see old friends and make new ones. Keep plugging, keep writing, and keep smiling!
June 4, 2012
Psychic Development for Writers
I’ll be presenting at Seton Hill University’s IN YOUR WRITE MIND writer’s workshop on Friday morning, June 22. My topic is “Psychic Development for Writers.”
Psychic development is not just for a gifted few. It’s for everyone human, and especially for you as a storyteller.
This workshop will help you discover the innate skills of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience. By exercising your psychic sensing mechanisms, you widen your inspirational channel, empowering you to create stories...
May 16, 2012
THE SIXTH SEED Available in Trade Paperback
THE SIXTH SEED is finally out in trade paperback!
To celebrate its release, get $3 off the list price when you order by the end of the month. Apply discount code XE3FX6EB at the CreateSpace checkout.
