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Recommended Reads: The Odd Tale of Winston Riddlebury by Matt King

The Blurb Winston Riddlebury is a man who has a certain fondness for the routine of home life, which is why it’s so upsetting when his computer repair business takes him to a remote island off the coast of England. From the moment he steps foot inside the Montshire Home for the Terminally Aged, Winston […]

Recommended Reads: Lies We Tell Ourselves by Andrew Knighton

The Blurb ���I have no objection to truth,��� I said, ���but I enjoy untruths too, they���re the building blocks of human culture. Actors pretending to be kings, singers faking heartbreak or elation, novelists inventing heroes in their heads to escape the mindless dullards around them. Reality is a vast sea of tedium interrupted by brief […]

27 Author Recommendations for Holiday Gift-Giving …

Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:
No, wait! I didn’t mean you should wrap up an Author and give THEM to your friends, although I’m sure any of us mentioned below are flattered for having been considered gift-worthy … Let’s start over. What could be better than giving or receiving A BOOK (or several)…

Reading Recommendations is back!

Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
This past week I have posted updates for five Authors who were previously featured on Reading Recommendations. Next week I will begin posting promotions for Authors who are new to the site. I already have ten scheduled, but am very interested in hearing from more Authors who would like to…

Everybody fails, it’s how you deal with it that counts

We all fail. All of us. It could be a small thing or it could be an enormous, publicly humiliating failure in front of a global audience, like when one of the rings failed to open at the Sochi Winter Olympics this year. Failure is a natural occurrence. It’s what you do next that’s important. […]

Recommended Reads: The Wool Trilogy by Hugh Howey

The blurb Wool In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Jules is part of this community, but she is different. She dares to hope. And as her walls start closing in, she must decide whether to fight, or […]

What every indie author wants for Christmas

I was going to write a long post on the best things to buy an indie author this Christmas but I hit writers block. It wasn’t that I’d run out of ideas, it was because one gift idea completely swamped the others in terms of relevance. What is it that most indie authors would like […]

Dylan Hearn – new novel update

Originally posted on Reading Recommendations:
Dylan Hearn was previously featured on Reading Recommendations in Aug. 2014. He’s back now to tell us about the second book in his trilogy. Dylan Hearn‘s new release is Absent Souls: The Transcendence Trilogy Book 2. It���s the sequel to his novel Second Chance, which was published in January 2014.…

How to set up a mailing list on WordPress.com

Mailing lists are a key tool to help any author build an audience, and for fans of the author’s work to have access to exclusive content and information about new releases before anyone else. These are not to be confused by your blog sign-up, which informs��those signed up��of new blog posts. At the end of […]

Join my mailing list and get one of my ebooks for #free

If you’ve visited this blog recently you may have noticed a monkey at the top right-hand side of the page. This is mail chimp and he signifies that I have a new mailing list. The mailing list will be used��purely to let you know when I’ll be publishing a new book.��Those on the mailing list […]