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January 3, 2015
Cliffhangers - A Good Idea or Not?
So I have recently received some feedback from a few readers that they can’t wait for the third book in my Derivatives of Displacement series. Part of the reason they can’t wait is that I left some things dangling at the end of book two. This made me start thinking a bit more about cliffhangers and how they are used for good and for bad in books, movies and TV shows.
We all know those books, movies, and TV show seasons that end with a cliffhanger that enrage some fans. Do a search on cliffha...
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas
Over the holidays, I participated in the twelve blogs of Christmas with eleven other amazing writers including Martin Crosbie, Wendy McClelland, Sara Lane, Helga Zeiner, Dianne Greenlay, Roberta Kagan, M.L. Gardner, Laurie Boris, Heather Haley, Jamie Lee Scott, and RJ Crayton. Each author posted a Christmas blog and on that author's appointed day we all posted a link to that blog post. It was great fun.
This is a compilation of the links to all of those posts all in one place in case any of yo...
December 24, 2014
On the Twelfth Blog of Christmas
The 12th Blog of Christmas is written by bestselling author, Martin Crosbie. Martin lives on the west coast of Canada and has written five books including Amazon bestseller My Temporary Life. His popular Christmas novelBelieving Again: A Tale Of Two Christmases is available in e-book format inthe US and UK as a Kindle Countdown Deal fromDec. 24-27 for only 99 cents.
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by t...
On the Eleventh Blog of Christmas
Wendy McClelland is a business pioneer; as one of the first small businesses to get online in the mid 1990’s, her first website was chosen by the NY Times as “one of the best biz sites on the ‘net”. She is an award winning entrepreneur as well as a past nominee for “Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year”. She has spoken to over 10,000 people in live audiences throughout western Canada and the U.S. Wendy’s newest project is her book “27 Steps to Freedom – What Learning to Walk Ag...
December 23, 2014
On the Tenth Blog of Christmas
Dianne Greenlay is the author of the award winning action/adventure QUINTSPINNER SERIES , and also of THE CAMPING GUY , a humorous short story, which is an award winner in its theatre script version. She lives and writes on the Canadian prairies, home (most years) to 6 or 7 months of winter. Yeah, she never puts her parka away, just in case. (Is it any wonder that she fantasizes and writes about pirates and adventure in the sun splashed tropics?)
She chose to write her first no...
December 22, 2014
On the Ninth Blog of Christmas
Sarah Lane is the Canadian author of The God of My Art, a quarter finalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and available on Amazon and Chapters. The God of My Art is the coming-of-age story of a young artist set in Vancouver and an imaginary town in northern BC. Lane's other fiction and poetry have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Roar Magazine, and Quills: Canadian Poetry Magazine.
Lane is currently writing a psychological thriller about a salsa dancer and her doppelgäng...
December 21, 2014
On the Eighth Blog of Christmas
Roberta Kagan is an American writer of Jewish and Romany decent. She writes Historical Fiction and Historical Romance, most of which is set during the holocaust. Although she never discounts the horrors of the time period, the main focus of her work is on ordinary people who prove to be strong heroic characters in unfathomable circumstances.
Bubby’s Christmas Angels
Hey Everyone! Today, I am the featured blogger. It is a true honor to be included in a program with such talented a...
December 20, 2014
On the Seventh Blog of Christmas
M. L. Gardner is the bestselling author of the 1929 series. Gardner is frugal to a fault, preserving the old ways of living by canning, cooking from scratch, and woodworking. Nostalgic stories from her grandmother’s life during the Great Depression inspired Gardner to write the 1929 series—as well as her own research into the Roarin’ Twenties. She has authored eight books, two novellas, and one book of short stories. Gardner is married with three kids and three cats. She reside...
December 18, 2014
On the Sixth Blog of Christmas
Laurie Boris is a freelance writer and editor living in New York’s lovely Hudson Valley. She is also the award-winning author of five novels, including the Trager Family Secrets series, she's been writing fiction for over twenty-five years. In her spare time, she likes to cook, read, and help other writers as a contributing author and editor for IndiesUnlimited.com.
Drawing Breath, her coming-of-age novel about art, love, chronic illness, and human dignity, will be on sale for 99...
December 17, 2014
On the Fifth Blog of Christmas
We are almost halfway through the 12 blogs of Christmas. Today we have Helga Zeiner, a fellow British Columbian whose writing I have had the pleasure of reviewing.
Helga Zeiner
Helga Zeiner is a German born Canadian author. She left her home town Augsburg at age 18 to explore the world. In the following 14 years she has lived and worked in Australia and Asia. Her amazing experiences in those foreign countries are woven into all her thrilling novels.
Since 2004 she has lived with her husband on...
