Review: The Little Boy Who Was Precious by Reagan Chesnut

The Little Boy, Who Was Precious by Reagan Chesnut My rating: 4 of 5 stars What were the main themes of the book? Being away from a loved one isn’t easy, especially when you are a little one. This book is about a little boy whose parents need to make an overseas trip and he stays with his grandparents....

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Lady Grace & The War For A New World Excerpt Two by Sandy Nathan @sandyonathan

How to Make Your Characters Believable “Characters you’ll want to hang out with—where does Sandy Nathan find these people? They live, they breathe. You love ’em. You hate ’em. And, you care about them. That’s what makes their story so engaging.” — Laren Bright, award-winning writer and three-time...

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Author Interview – Reagan Chesnut @reaganchesnut

Where do you get your inspiration from? Snippets of life.  Someone will say something in a conversation, and I’ll take the phrase and build a scene.  I’ll see something happening and speculate about what’s going on.  For the children’s books, I draw the inspiration from my own life...

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Author Interview – Ramz Artso @RamzArtso

Have you always enjoyed writing? I started out by drawing, as a child. That, with time, segued into writing. So, I guess one could say I was born a storyteller. What motivates the most? Readers. The notion of millions of people being able to read and relate to the characters I write about is an...

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Author Interview – Robyn Roze @robynrozeauthor

What genre of books do you adore? I enjoy a good science fiction/fact book—James Rollins (SIGMA Force Series), Scooby-Doo for adults—Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Agent Pendergast Series), ‘bad boy’ books—Lisa Renee Jones (Inside Out Trilogy—LOVED Chris Merit), and humorous rocker erotica—Kendall...

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Author Interview – Jessica Bell

Have you developed a specific writing style?Yes. My writing is quite literary in nature, but I also think it has a decent amount of commercial appeal; a balance of both. What is your greatest strength as a writer? I have a real knack for cinematic writing. I’d probably beat you in a “show-off”. ...

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Massimo Marino – I Write Naked @Massim0Marin0 #SciFi

I Write Naked By the time you leave here, fellow writers, you’ll be writing naked, or discover you always did. Many writers fail to reach their readers because they write fully clothed. They come out with fanciful plots and complicated character development. They sin with flowery prose and use words...

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Nobody Has to Know by Frank Nappi @FrankNappi

Nobody Has To Know, Frank Nappi’s dark and daring new thriller, tells the story of Cameron Baldridge, a popular high school teacher whose relationship with one of his students leads him down an unfortunate and self-destructive path. Stalked through text-messages, Baldridge fights for his life against...

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Author Interview – Wolf Pascoe @WolfPascoe

When did you first know you could be a writer? This is hard to say. For me there came a moment when the answer to the question, “What do you do?” changed from “I want to be a writer” to “I’m a writer.” It was well after my first book found a publisher. I needed to learn that unpublished writing could...

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Constantinopolis by James Shipman @jshipman_author

His father! Mehmet stewed when he thought of him. His father had never shown him any real affection or spent significant time with him. He was not, after all, originally the heir to the Sultanate. He was a second son and only became heir when his older brother died. Mehmet had been forced from then...

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Author Interview – Regan Black @ReganBlack

How do you work through self-doubts and fear? Hang on? Do you mean you’re supposed to work through those? Just kidding. A little. Maybe. I’m not sure authors ever truly shed that bizarre sense of insecurity no matter how well we’re doing in the current work or in the current market. Doubt seems to...

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Nobody Has to Know by Frank Nappi @FrankNappi

Nobody Has To Know, Frank Nappi’s dark and daring new thriller, tells the story of Cameron Baldridge, a popular high school teacher whose relationship with one of his students leads him down an unfortunate and self-destructive path. Stalked through text-messages, Baldridge fights for his life against...

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Author Interview–Parker Paige @parkerpaige86

If you could have a dinner party and invite anyone dead or alive, who would you ask? It would have to be Larry David. Larry David is just the most amazing character. He’s an eccentric to a fault and I find him terribly entertaining. What color represents your personality the most? Black. Black is...

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In Love With My Best Friend by Sheena Binkley

1 Camille How did my life get so complicated? One minute, I, Camille Anderson, was living a pretty normal life in which nothing ever happened to me, and the next I'm practically being hauled away from the premier wedding venue in Houston, The Corinthian, by security because of my sudden outburst to...

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Layce Boswell – How to Make Your Characters Believable @markdmajor

How to Make Your Characters Believable by Layce Boswell When illustrating, it is the artist’s job to create believable characters based on what the writer has provided. Beyond writing, how does an artist take verbal definitions of who a character is into a visual state that agrees with what has been...

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Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone @stone_rik

Otto’s mind takes him back to finding his mother at the Serbsky Institute. Inmates had jittered and made signs at him as he made his way through the corridors. “Please help me,” he heard from some and, “They have me here because of my political beliefs,” from others. They’d reached out to him as he...

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The Color Pink by Parker Paige

Can wearing the color pink attract true love? That is the question Summer Jones intends to answer. In her early thirties, Summer Jones thought that she had found the perfect man, the man she planned to marry until she learned that he still had feelings for his first love. Now, at age thirty-five, Summer...

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Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone @stone_rik

Set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia, Birth of an Assassin follows the transformation of Jez Kornfeld from wide-eyed recruit to avenging outlaw. Amidst a murky underworld of flesh-trafficking, prostitution and institutionalized corruption, the elite Jewish soldier is thrown into a world...

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The Photo Traveler (The Photo Traveler Series) by Arthur J. Gonzalez

CHAPTER ONE I can’t ask for a better day to be out shooting. Man, what a view. Something about how the sun’s rays press against the faint distant outline of the mountains. Sick! If it can seem so dominating from all the way over here, I can only imagine what it must feel like up close. I don’t know....

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#Free–Penalty Clause by Lori Ryan @loriryanauthor

Penalty Clause by Lori Ryan Amazon Kindle US Genre – Romantic Suspense Rating – R 4.5 (42 reviews) Free until 24 October 2013 To keep her, he'll have to gamble it all! Andrew Weston and Jill Walsh had to be the two most unlikely people to fall in love. When Jill's first husband's love for her simply...

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The Colors of Friendship by K R Raye @KRRaye

The Alpha Party – January 2000 “Whew, we made it,” Melody Wilkins said with a laugh as she, Lance Dunn, and Imani Jordan escaped the throng of fraternity partygoers. Imani brushed past Melody, eager to enjoy the relative oasis of the makeshift bar.  She pulled up a stool and swallowed her disappointment. ...

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Author Interview – Pete Clark

What is your favorite quote, by whom, and why? I love quotes. I have many favorites but I can only narrow it down to a top three. “Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” Poe. Just pure beauty of establishing the mood and perfect word choice. “I fall upon the thorns of life;...

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