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January 6, 2012
GIR 12 Days of New Year blog hop: Author Interview: Jonathan Gould
Say hi today to Jonathan Gould as part of the GIR 12 Days of New Year blog hop! Jonathan is the author of Doodling.
Terry C. Simpson: How long had the idea of your book been developing before you began to write the story?
Jonathan Gould: Not really very long at all. I just happened to be in that mood where I was looking for a story to write. I'd just completed a year of studying creative writing and was really tired of doing writing for classwork assignments rather than writing for myself.
It ...
December 21, 2011
Fantasy Author Nyki Blatchley – The Traveller
I get very attached to people. Although I love introducing new characters, both as protagonists and as support, there are certain stalwarts I come back to time and again. Especially the Traveller.
I've known the Traveller since I was at school, when I wrote a poem about a man doomed to eternal wandering. He originally had a name, but I very soon decided that was just the local word for "traveller", which gradually came to be his actual name, sometimes translated when he stayed in one place ...
December 20, 2011
My Proofs came as early Christmas
The first proofs of my book. I'll be drinking tonight and all weekend. Dancing too!
December 16, 2011
Fantasy Author Interview: M. Edward McNally
Yes, yes, today I have the pleasure of interviewing a guy who always manages to make me laugh in the facebook groups we are in. Not only that but he's an author of epic fantasy, M. Edward McNally. As a double treat, I also got to interview his character Matilda Lanai from his Musket & Magic Fantasy, the Norothian Cycle. (The Sable City, Death of a Kingdom, The Wind from Miilark)
Terry Simpson: What is your book about?
M. Edward McNally: Muskets, Magic, and Matilda Lanai. 
Terry Simpson: How...
December 11, 2011
Dannye Williamsen – Author and Great Supporter of Indie Authors
Dannye Williamsen
This morning I was talking with a woman, Terry, who expressed that familiar adage that everyone has a book in them. It made me wonder what that really means. Some writers, I think, are driven because they have a mythical tale to unfold while others have an account from their lives to share. Still others are driven more by the message conveyed within their story. So I asked myself: what kind of book did I have in me?
The answer was that I am not driven by the creation of...
December 9, 2011
Print Cover for Etchings of Power
As the title says, here's the cover for the print version of the book.
December 8, 2011
Terry Persun – A few Ideas about why I write
Today, we the book has been turned over to the hands of Terry Persun. Author of several novels and winner of the Star of Washington Award and a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year finalist.
I carry several ideas for novels around in my head, with half a dozen voices or more clamoring for my attention. This goes on year after year, and has been happening to me for as long as I can remember. Often, an idea will be rattling around up there for more than a year before I actually sit down and begin ...
November 25, 2011
Author Interview: M. J Neary
Today's interview features M. J. Neary. Sit back and enjoy.
Terry C. Simpson: What is your book about?
M.J Neary: "Martyrs & Traitors: a Tale of 1916″ is a historical novel telling the story of the Easter Rising in Dublin through the eyes of Bulmer Hobson, a discredited patriot who had tried to prevent it, because he believed it was a waste of human life. Because of his controversial split from his former comrades, for decades his name had remained swept under the rug and his contributions to ...
November 18, 2011
Today's Guest: Fantasy Author, Ty Johnston
Fantasy author Ty Johnston's blog tour 2011 is running from November 1 through November 30. His novels include City of Rogues, Bayne's Climb and More than Kin, all of which are available for the Kindle, the Nook and online at Smashwords. His latest novel, Ghosts of the Asylum, will be available for e-books on November 21. To find out more, follow him at his blog tyjohnston.blogspot.com.
I'm traveling from blog to blog this month to promote Ghosts of the Asylum, my new epic fantasy e-book...
Epic Fantasy Novel, Prince of Thorns Review
Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
One word. Amazing.
Never have I read a book that made me love the anti-hero more. Then there was the prose. The blurb alone hooked me. "Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire...
