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A Chat With Tjalara Draper

This week, I interviewed Tjalara Draper whose debut novel Shards of Venus is coming out soon.

Hi, Tjalara! Thanks for joining me today. It's good to finally put a face to the name.

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Interview with Blair Denholm, Author of Sold, and Sold to the Devil

This week, I interviewed Blair Denholm, which I found an immense pleasure. I read his novel, a crime noir tale called Sold, last year and loved it. You can read my review on this blog. So when Blair took time out from his travels for the interview, you can imagine my elation.

Blair Denholm is a freelance writer and translator who has lived in Moscow, New York, Munich, Abu Dhabi and Australia. He has written content for commercial websites and done corporate voice-over work in English and Russi...

Early Morning Spelling

Be careful of going online too early in the morning.

I mis-spelled the site for facebook.com and ended up at faecesbook.com

It's Not How - It's Why

Someone asked me the other day: "How do you do it?"

"You work in this godforsaken thankless job, yet you also work as an entertainer (at corporate events and private parties) AND you find time to write books. How do you do it?"

I never gave an answer. Most people won't understand until they do it.

1) I love hearing, and seeing, people's expressions of enjoyment in my work. Whether I have recited someone's thoughts on stage (I'm a mentalist), astonished them by causing a spoon to bend between the...

What Were We Singing In The Eighties?

Over the past few months, I've been composing a story I originally conceived in 1988. I had already written a number of novels, still unpublished today, and I wanted to take a change in pace. My first four-or-five novels were what we might today consider Young Adult Thrillers. The principal characters were high school kids based upon myself and my friends. So this particular novel followed a remarkable pace.

Things have changed - kind'a sort'a.

I wanted to take another break from Craig Ramsey...

Are You My Daddy?

This is an unusual post for me. It's about you, a bit about me, and how we fit.
Two weeks ago, I took my 2yo daughter who loves playing outside to the park. There's a certain tiny swing she loves that's suspended by two chains under a slide. It's unstable to sit upon, can tip either way. And it's high. But she keeps trying.
Ever the daredevil, she lunged across it, probably meaning to hang by her stomach. But she went too far, sliding headfirst to the ground.
Luckily, I caught her before she h...

Inspiration Comes From...?

It is 44 days until DEMON BLADE hits the electronic bookshelves.

Already some friends and readers have asked me what inspired me to write about a serial killer based upon Jack the Ripper.

My answer: Jack the Ripper was only one identity of this killer. There were many more, and possibly, there will be many more. For the creature in DEMON BLADE is older than old. It's ancient, and being drenched in prehistoric legend, it has always been with us.

For there is more to DEMON BLADE than the killer. E...

If You Came In Late

If you have read Dead Cell, you will remember bits and pieces seemed to hang loose like an empty noose in the air.

One particularly strange piece was when Craig Ramsey's adopted nephew Tyrone received a visit from a dark spirit. It said there was only one way to catch his sister who had been murdered before his eyes in the drivers seat beside him.

Then after that, Tyrone "disappeared". He was rarely home when Craig came back, and then there was the ending when Craig picked up his mobile phone t...

The End - Sweet Beginnings

THE END.
They're the words a lot of authors enjoy reaching after labouring for a year on their masterpieces. It marks the end of creation, the stress of maintaining a novel's continuity, knocking out the perfect words and phrases, and the telling of a story in a way we hope readers enjoy.
But when I reach those words, I also think about how it's like the days when I would finish a school year. Summer break is about to begin, Christmas is coming, and I won't see my friends until the new year whe...

This October...

Books by Chris Johnson

This October, expect to find something under your bed!

Confront the mysterious and unknown with Twelve Strokes of Midnight

Pursue a killer from beyond the grave in Dead Cell

Track the many faces of Jack the Ripper before he catches you in Demon Blade

Travel back in time to before your birth in Bootstrap's Journey

You can do all this and more with the books found at https://books2read.com/ap/RavAKn/Chris-Johnson