Still Looking For A Publisher? Why?

My dear friends, it's Sunday, and I was going to take a break from blogging. It almost worked! I was just ambling along in the blogosphere, and tripped over a very edifying discussion between an author and her publisher, Kensington Publishing Corp. Delilah Marvelle is setting things into perspective with great wit and finesse here. …

Review: Secrets Room, by Kim Faulks

Amazon US Amazon UK Another razor-sharp, super-intuitive read from this amazing author. Secrets Room is every person's worst nightmare, horror like you've never read before. Whatever unresolved issues you may have in your life, fix them, before it's too late. Because, once in the room, it'll be almost impossible to face your fears whilst fighting …

Equality, you say? Not if you’re an indie!

I've poked my head out of my writing cave for a few minutes, having finished work on my Valentine's Day release, Not Juliet. Yes, it's done! Ok, back to business. I was seeking reassurance, I suppose, that my work would compete on the same level with all the others out there, and that quality will …

Review: The Darkness Comes, by Bruce Blake

Universal link When Shadows Fall, The Darkness Comes... Please tell me you can see what the author is doing with this series. The names of the books, when in order, will create a coherent sentence. That is clever, and symptomatic of this author's thinking. It would be easy to say this is no less than …

New Release: The Darkness Comes, by Bruce Blake

Amazon US   Amazon UK universal link When shadows fall, the darkness comes... A disgraced Goddess Mother wanders blind and alone, praying for her agony to end. When a helpful apostle finds her, could it truly by salvation, or does worse torment lie ahead? A sister struggles to understand a prophecy that may not be meant …

New Release Review and Excerpt: Identity X, by Michelle Muckley.

Amazon UK Amazon US Synopsis Ben Stone is a scientific genius.His determination is driven by a genetic disease that tears through his family and which snatched his father away years before.He will forsake anything to find the cure and save his own son from the same fate.Then that day arrives and NEMREC, a serum that can restructure and recode …

Review: Bad Girls, by Michael Chambers

. Amazon US Amazon UK A murder mystery with a thriller element and a dash of St. Trinian charm to it, Bad Girls has proven to be a very enjoyable read. What a treat! I honestly didn't expect to love it quite so much. I mean, look at the cover! It doesn't say 'murder mystery' …

Authors’ Resources – Poll

Many of you know that one of the things I wish to do is provide a wide range of resources for authors and authors-to-be, so that, at a glance, simple yet popular issues could be clarified in one minute flat. Issues such as customary phrases people get wrong on a regular basis, for example. Some …

Publishing, Human Nature and a Question of Ethics

Is it only me, or have all of you been brainwashed with the same 'be nice' repetitive stanza until that's all that rolls around in your heads anymore? No, I don't blame you! How could I? I got the same treatment, and only recently discovered that ingrained idea needs a little adjustment. It was probably …