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Recommended Reads: A Tree Born Crooked by Steph Post

The Blurb James Hart, with a tough-as-nails exterior and an aching emptiness inside, does not want to go home. Yet when James receives a postcard from his mother, Birdie Mae, informing him of his father���s death, he bites the bullet and returns to the rural and stagnant town of Crystal Springs, Florida, a place where […]

2014 in review

2014 has been��a wonderful year��for me, not just because I published not one but two books, but also because I got to meet so many great people, many through this blog. So thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit, like or comment on any of my posts this year and I look […]

Best Bloggers Blogging … according to me!

Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
I’ve already given you a wrap-up of the best books I read in 2014. As well as being a reader and an author, I’m also a blogger who promotes other authors and doles out advice and information on all manner interesting areas, to me and my readers. Throughout…

Recommended Reads: Yellow Tag by Kep Lagrange

The Blurb He never liked going outside. It wasn���t safe. In close orbit around a violent star, Conroy braves intense heat and radiation to repair the damaged hull of the space survey ship Pervideo. When things go wrong, he races against time to get back inside the ship. Inside to safety… …but sometimes the greatest […]

2014 – The best books I read this year!

Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
I don’t normally do this – recap what I’ve read during the year and choose which have been the best books, but I was tired of scanning the Best of 2014 lists that media and book sites produce, seldom seeing anything at all I’ve read. So I decided…

Recommended Reads: Green Zulu 51 by Scott Whitmore

The Blurb A war of millions is fought by individuals. For sixteen years humanity and the alien Vyptellians have battled in space and on hundreds of planets in a distant corner of the galaxy. Tyko is a teenage space fighter pilot who has never known peace; insulated from the horrors of the battlefield, he���ll learn […]

Top reading tips for writers

It’s coming up to that special time of the year all writers love: Bookmas. Yes, if you’re anything like me then the Christmas holidays are a book bonanza, either because you receive books as presents or – my particular favourite – you receive gift tokens so you can buy the books you’ve been wanting to […]

Recommended Reads: Along Came a Wolf by Adam Dreece

The Blurb “It’s like discovering the Harry Potter of technology, before everyone else” This young adult series is written and layered for the mature reader. Set in a world at the equivalent of the 1800s, the various kingdoms and nations are rapidly approaching a technological revolution brought about by key inventors who are integral to […]

Second Chance ��� Book Review

Originally posted on echoesofthepen:
Second Chance is the first of the Transcendence Trilogy – Book 1. I had been meaning to read and review this book quite some months ago but for various reasons my reading schedule was interrupted. Thankfully though, my blogging, writing, and reviewing schedules are now slowly returning to something approaching normal…

I’ve got it Covered

Originally posted on A Writer's Notepad:
Over the last few weeks I���ve been working on the cover design for Singled Out. Not that I���ve been designing the cover myself… I placed a brief with crowdsourcing design site 99Designs. Here’s how I got on… There are many ways you can get a cover for your…