March 2017 Blog Posts (60)

When we perceive a threat, we go into Fight or Flight mode.  It could be a real threat or an imagined one.  

If you are…

Click the link to read the full 5-star review of Murray Pura's "Petals" - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2017/03/review-petals-by-murray-pura.html

You see them on street corners, hiding in doorways, furtively watching, waiting for their next fix, selling drugs, or perhaps they have just had a shot.

When you see drug addicts or alcoholics on the streets, or in the dark corners of bars, do you ever wonder why, and how, they became addicted?

What made this person take that particular route through life, and at what stage couldn’t…

March 18^th. 2017

It’s my birthday today, and the week has ended on a promising note, but also with a cautionary reminder about the cross-promotions I’m involved in. My social media workload went up, not by a dramatic amount, but enough to take up much of my free time, which meant nothing added to my WIP. The promising note I mentioned is the small rise in my book sales, and the addition of subscribers being added to my list every day. Oh, and the birthday cards,…

Ten of author Jay Dubya's (John Wiessner) 89 hardcover/paperback books listed at Textbooks.com are currently "Sold-Out".

The ten titles are:

 The Eighteen Story Gingerbread House, Nine New Novellas Part II, Nine New Novellas Part III, Frat Brats A '60s Novel, Mauled Maimed Mangled Mutilated Mythology, Thirteen Sick Tasteless Classics, Thirteen Sick Tasteless Classics Part IV, Two Baker's Dozen, Fractured Frazzled Folk Fables and Fairy Farces Part II,  and…

Rascally Indian scout Mickey Free is the only one who can save the great Apache leader from a sniper's bullet. A mystery, a western and a romance all in one. http://murderousmusings.blogspot.com/

Hey everyone thanks for adding me. I'm Jonathan Davis and I have 3 books out so far and have been writing for about 4 years. The first two are apart of the same series called the Weird West. The first book is titled the Wendigo and the Werewolf and the second is called Sister Cassidy. The series is a supernatural western story that combine elements from both old westerns and monsters as well as folklore. My third book is a fantasy title called the Child of the Moons. It has a very Dungeons…

It's very unusual for a Black man to talk openly about the abuse he experienced as a child, let alone write three books about it - but that is what Samuel P. Holloway III has done.…

Barb Caffrey is a writer, editor, and musician who holds two degrees in Music.

She has a particular fondness for the clarinet, lived in Nebraska for the better part of three years, and appreciated the ability to combine both her loves with the writing of Changing Faces.

Her other books are An Elfy on the Loose…

You have this amazing energy sparkling away inside of you.  Click here to listen to the audio to find out more.  



Plus…

It’s been six years since I published my first ebook and a lot has happened since. I wrote and edited feverishly, publishing another ten ebooks with four hitting the #1 status on Amazon in multiple genres. To achieve this took nearly all of my time and energy, and after completing my last ebook, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, I decided to take a break.

Someone is stalking Marnie!…

Many people are aware of the fact that Black people, particularly Black men, have been killed by the police in recent years.  But did you know that this has been an ongoing trend for many, many years?  It has been hiitting the headlines recently, in part because more people are filming incidents on their mobile phones. 

Did you know that 75 Black women were killed in…

Most of author Jay Dubya's books are Sold_out at FlipKart, an Amazon.com-type buying portal in India.

https://www.flipkart.com/black-leather-blue-denim/p/itmdyn6zzcp9bqzt?pid=9781931921763&affid=buyhatkegm&affExtParam1=website&affExtParam2=bookSearch

Jay Dubya is the…

After approximately twenty hours work formatting, inputting keywords, checking typo and graphics, and verifying material, my proofs are finally on their way. I can't wait to see all eleven of my books in print form. There is one tiny inconvenience, however...



Many years ago, I did publish three of my books, DEGENERATES, FROSTPROOF, and PULP in print form through iUniverse. What a huge mistake that has turned out to be. Not only was the experience a total waste of money (only about…