Sheila Deeth's Blog, page 9

Don't try this at home: Tybee Isaldn H-Bomb!

Today I get to welcome author Michael Houtchen with his debut thriller, the Tybee Island H-Bomb! Suspense, thrills, mystery great characters, and even some humor awaits you in the book, and here on my blog... the author himself! So, Hi Michael, and welcome to my blog.

They showed me a nice official "author bio" when I invited you here, and I... er... I would love to know more. Is it cheating to ask you to explain before my readers read your bio?I've included it lower down this blogpost, so...

Which comes first: Character, plot, place or picture...?

Today I'm delighted to welcome the Occult Detective, Bob Freeman, to my blog as he tours the internet with Descendant: A Novel of the Liber Monstrorum! It's a tour that will bring you thrills and chills in the heart of the holiday season , and the book is a supernatural thriller that readers of horror will also love. It is interrelated with Bob’s short story collection First Born: Tales of the Liber Monstrorum, but can be read on its own.

The book even includes several original illustrations from Bob Freeman (see below)! Which is why I asked him...


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After Dark: Why Urban Fantasy?

Today I'm delighted to e-meet Joann H. Buchanan, author of the fascinating Children of Nox series of supernatural shifter novels. She is touring the internet with the last of the series, After Dark, and I've been following, enjoying reading her interviews and guests posts. But now I get to read her answer to the question...

Why is Urban Fantasy so popular? by Joann H. Buchanan
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What is it about Princesses?

Today I'm delighted to welcome Rose Marie Machario, author of the Amulet of Elements, to my blog, with an answer to a question that must surely be dear to my English heart...

What is it About Princesses? By Rose Marie Machario

Two Lives?

Today I'm delighted to feature Abbigail Rosewood's If I had two Lives on my blog. I read it recently and loved it:
MY REVIEW OF IF I HAD TWO LIVES: The protagonist narrator of Abbigail Rosewood’s If I had two Lives hides behind other people’s emotions like a child hiding behind her mother’s skirt. But this child, growing up in a Vietnamese military camp, gets little support from her mother and latches onto another lonely girl for guidance and companionship instead.
The first part of the novel gi...

What if the Mad Dog isn't mad?

Today I'm delighted to spotlight the novel Mad Dog by Kelly Watt. It's just been republished in the US and I really enjoyed reading it.


MY REVIEW:
Kelly Watt’s Mad Dog views the idyllic apple orchards of Ontario through the eyes of a lonely fourteen-year-old protagonist who veers between obedient and rebellious as the long hot summer draws on. Her mother disappeared long ago and Sheryl-Ann lives with her aunt, uncle and cousin on a family farm, surrounded by family and isolated from the world....

When were you last carried away by a book?

Sometimes books and stories carry you away, so you're almost not reading about events and characters, just experiencing them alongside the people, part of the world and the story. The characters become completely real and, even if they're people you know you could never meet, you become completely invested in their trials. I guess these books aren't the fastest reads, but then, life usually isn't fast. But they're the deepest reads, the ones that stick in the mind when the last page is turned...

Curious, curiouser and curiousest?

Yesterday's reviews were of short and shorter stories, so perhaps it makes sense if today's are of curious and curiouser tales. Science fiction, historical fiction, or magical realism (or both/all three); whatever, these are three books that I've really enjoyed.

First, because cats are always curious, is Mollie Hunt's Cat Summer, a novel that combines ecological and social concerns... and cats. What makes us human, what makes cats feline, and what makes the planet survive all come together her...

Short, shorter and shortest

Our writers' group is busy preparing our next anthology, to be released for Christmas. We've done one a year for the last few years, and Fine Lines was our last effort, in celebration of the lines on my mother's 90-year-old face.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1731536100/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4Meanwhile members have submitted stories and poems to various anthologies, and one of my friends was recently published in the Itty Bitty Writing Space. So I had to get a copy and read it. And...

What's it about?

A friend phoned the other night. She's in the same writing group as me and she's writing her memoir. She phoned to tell me she'd just listened to a speaker at a different group, the author of a published memoir. Perhaps this author will speak to our group sometime. But in the meantime, my friend had learned that the most important question to ask, over and again, chapter after chapter, is "What's it about?"

"Of course, it's memoir; it's about life, and my life in particular." It's a good answe...