Category Archives: Writing
Outline, Revise, Submit
Last week I began the first exercise in The Writer’s Adventure Guide: 12 stages to Writing Your Book, by Beth Barany. I posted the results for the first part of that writing exercise in my blog entry titled, An Adventure in Writing. The second part of the exercise involved discovering how my writing goals have …
“The Demon Is In the Details”
The Demon is in the Details, by Harris Channing, is a fast-moving paranormal romance. As part of The Immortal Protector series, Zane has been charged with the task of killing demons of all forms and protecting Stella, even at the cost of his own existence. A story of horrific childhood haunts Stella, but when she returns to scene of …
Adventures in Writing
Last week I started reading The Writer’s Adventure Guide: 12 stages to Writing Your Book, by Beth Barany. The first stage that she outlines involves beginning where you are, but you must discover where that is first. The first exercise involves a 20 minute timed writing that discusses what writing means to you, what your …
Cynthia Vespia is an author at heart
There’s more to writing than just putting a pen to paper or typing out words on the keyboard, and no one knows this better than author Cynthia Vespia. She writes short stories and novels, does the artwork for her book covers and successfully promotes her work with video trailers that she creates. Her most recent …
Author Tim Baker tells how to “kickstart” your writing project
Today, I’d like to let my readers know about a new site, called Kickstarter, that may be very useful to struggling authors, who are looking for ways to fund their publishing costs for their books. So I’ve invited someone who knows about the site and its program to tell you all about it. My friend, …
Bond Girl is an Unsuspected View of life on Wall Street
Bond Girl, the debut novel by Erin Duffy, is fresh and entertaining, offering readers a female take on the inner workings of the Wall Street scene. Since she was a young girl, Alex had known that she wanted to work on “the Street”, like her father. She knew that it wouldn’t be easy as a …
Hurry Up and Wait
My fingers fly across the keys As fast as they can go. I hit publish and wonder why The Internet is so slow. Hurry up and wait! Hurry up and wait! Seems that’s all I ever do. If my computer would go faster I’d already be through. I watch the little hour-glass That tells me …
“The Green Lamp” sheds a light of a different color
The Russian flavor in Mishka Zakharin’s The Green Lamp makes this collection of short stories, parodies, poetry and plays delightfully different. The poetic plays are true tragic comedies, (or comic tragedies), reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett and other Dada playwrights from the era of the Theatre of the Absurd. In fact, much of …
Blind Fortune captures the reader’s heart
Blind Fortune, by Joanna Waugh is a most engaging historical romance set in 19th Century England. Within the first few pages, Waugh captivated me. I had to read more. Blind from birth, Lady Fortuna Morley has been schooled in all of the proprieties of the bourgeois society, but shielded from most social interactions that would …
Get wrapped up in Tim Baker’s “Pump It Up”
I am privileged to be able to do the first review on Tim Baker’s soon to be released, Pump It Up. This fast moving story about the underground world of black market cosmetic enhancement draws readers in quickly and doesn’t let go. A cover up of an accidental death, a kidnapping, a car chase and …
