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Book Review: The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming by Michelle Browne

11 stories in 1   Title: The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming Author: Michelle Browne Genre: Horror, Mystery Standalone or series: All standalones except ‘The Underlighters’, which is Part 1 of The Nightmare Cycle   Blurb: Nightmares bleed into the waking world. Featuring a full-length novel, “The Underlighters”, and eleven stand-alone short stories, this collection […]
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Crossing The Language Barrier – Is It Worth Translating Your Books To Gain A Bigger Audience

Crossing The Language Barrier – Is It Worth Translating Your Books To Gain A Bigger Audience I enjoy reading books by authors whose first language is not English. Just like foreign movies, they have a different voice, a different way of telling the story. I love the writing of Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, Venezuelan Gabriel […]
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Embracing my hidden greenie in The Greenland Breach

Title: The Greenland Breach Author: Bernard Besson (translated by Julie Rose) Genre: thriller, political, international espionage Standalone or series: I believe this is standalone but I could be wrong (I hope there is more to come) Publisher: Le French Book   Blurb:  A cracking ice cap, rival multinationals, cutthroat espionage… What does global warming really […]
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Odd Koontz: How my first foray into Koontz left me bewildered and disappointed

How my first foray into Koontz world left me bewildered and disappointed   Everyone I know who has read Dean Koontz raves about him, so needless to say, I was really keen to be reading my first ever Koontz novel. The man is a master – one of those great authors I can only aspire […]
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Book Review: The Lonely Mile by Allan Leverone

by Mark Combs Title: The Lonely Mile Author: Allan Leverone Genre: Thriller Series or Standalone: Standalone   BLURB When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson witnesses a kidnapping in progress, he reacts instinctively, breaking up the crime and saving a young girl. But the kidnapper, a sociopath known as the “I-90 Killer,” escapes and vows […]
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Changing lanes – transitioning from non-fiction to fiction

Transitioning from non-fiction to fiction   Fiction writers come from a variety of places. And by “a variety of places,” I’m not referring to a physical location; I’m referring to our writing experiences.   Some of us began writing in childhood, and improved our writing at school. For others, we wrote up until we graduated […]
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Write for Life of Riley

Want to write about lifestyle and entertainment?   Do you have a passion for lifestyle and entertainment topics? Do you have access to celebrities, musicians, authors, and interesting personalities? Do you love reading, movies and music and want to share your love with others? If you answered yes to any of these, we’d love you […]
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A Guided Tour of China

A Guided Tour of China by Mark H. Bloom When I say “guided tour,” I mean that I had a Chinese guide and the tour consisted of a singular place where I had some business. I’m telling you this up front so you understand what a pathetic “tour” this story relates. Like all of my […]
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Digital didn’t kill the paperback book

Digital didn’t kill the paperback book   Ever since ebooks took off, people have been predicting print books were a thing of the past; that the sky would fall on traditional publishing; that only the old die hards would continue to buy paper books.   You know, like video killed the radio star…   Well, […]
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