The following is a post from a community discussion on Amish books I found several years ago and took to heart when I write my Nurse Hal Amish series.

THIS is the kind of SIMPLE, AMISH reading that I'm talking about. I want to read about living, working, growing up, BEING --AMISH!!! Tell me (in detail) about collecting the eggs from the hen house and the…

CAN ANYONE WRITE A BOOK?



If you can write then yes you can write a book. Essentially, a book is just a bunch of words.  A better question would be can anyone write a good book? And then the answer would be a categorical no. But don’t let me discourage you. Chances are if you have a passion for writing then there is a reason for it. And usually passion is enough to create success.





SO YOU ARE READY TO WRITE





Begin forming ideas and jot them down.…

To structure or not to structure, that is the question

The people I mix with have got somewhat bored with, and no longer wish to think about or discuss church structure.  That’s rather a shame as I believe it’s important and perhaps seminal to the current time and the cultural collapse.

If pressed into a debate they say that it doesn’t matter what form of…

Haha! Here is my first ever interview with a fifth grader. Please check it out!

http://kids.kindlenationdaily.com/2013/02/fifth-grader-interviews-kindle-author-neil-ostroff-looks-at-the-kids-book-of-the-week-silent-invasion/

It is amazing how this novel, although fiction, follows the current events within the Vatican.  It is almost as if the author was a mole within the walls of Vatican City.  A must read!http://thevaticanconspiracies.com

This novel, although fiction, follows the current events in the Vatican! It is almost as if the author was a mole within Vatican City for years!

http://thevaticanconspiracies.comJames "Mac" McCarty, published The Vatican Conspiracies! It is the provocative and gripping new novel that reveals a story about good and evil, virtue and lust, power and frailty, right and wrong, and the sacred and the profane...all played out in…

Join author and illustrator, JD Holiday on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 10AM est,  9AM cst, 8AM mst & 7AM pst ~ for two stories: 

Curly Top by Michelle Nelson ~ "Curly" really dislikes her bouncy curls. They always get in her way when she plays. Will she convince her Nana to get…

Amazon promotion this weekend. The kindle ebook edition of The Shylmahn Migration is available for free this Saturday and Sunday.

The miniseries screenplay adaptation was the winner of the Pacific Northwest Screenwriting Competition a couple of years ago.

Hope everyone checks it out, downloads a copy. Epic science fiction. 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0077QOO7K

visit my blog at:…

** Sky Tinted Water ** (Christian Mystery Series) Book 1

Three new reviews in on Amazon!

"Romance, humor, conflict, and action. Can't wait for the sequel!" 5 Stars…

A Fun Caper With Lovebird Bank Robbers

 Bottom line: free on Kindle today and tomorrow.

Next to the bottom line: I’m crusin’ hard for reviews and think you’ll enjoy this enough to give me some stars.

BAILIN’ started life as a screenplay.  But if there is one thing harder to sell than a novel, it’s a movie script.  So, on the advice of TVwriter.com guru Larry Brody, I…

Join Fran Lewis every Thursday for a great discussion by authors about their books.

Today at 4pm EST we will be discussing Michael Palmer's Political Suicide and James Grippando's Blood Money.

Listen to the show here:…

Award Winning author Rebecca Cantrell was on The G-ZONE earlier in the month. We covered a variety of topics including her recent nomination for the coveted “Mary Higgins Clark Award”. If you haven’t had the chance to listen in, here is the link for the show:  

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Are you up for listening to an audio book sample? Here is Best- Selling author Karen Anna Vogel’s “Amish Knit Lit Circle – Volume 1 – Pride & Prejudice” as Narrated by Big Daddy Abel!

Big Daddy Abel is on a roll narrating audio books for Helping Hands Press. Waiting for release right now is “The Defective Amish Detective – Volume 1 – The Whoopie Pie…

Recently, I started a discussion on Crimespace (a crime/thriller uber-fan sight I highly recommend for those obsessed with city lights, cigarettes, bad women and rye whiskey). I posed this question: Is there a place for humor in a hard-boiled thriller/noir? The answers I got were mixed, but there was a hesitancy that trended towards “No.” One Crimespacer quoted Otto Penzler – “Noir requires a sense of bleakness and despair, and characters so flawed, their failure is in their…

Back in February, we were supposed to let out a collective cheer when European governments said they had “frozen” the assets of Hosni Mubarak, the toppled dictator of Egypt. Switzerland, Britain and other European states said that they had heeded calls from Egypt’s new leadership to seize the wealth Mubarak had hidden in their cities, and to return this money to Egyptian taxpayers.

The British “discovered” assets worth £85 million that Mubarak…

Militarism and Arms Trade

The Real Enemy Against Development and Environment

Vijay Mehta

The Nobel Laureate Konrad Lorenz in his 1973 book. Civilised Man’s Eight Deadly Sins alluded the paradoxical relationship between market economics and the threat of ecological catastrophe, when he addressed:

"All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds…