June 2011 Blog Posts (199)

As usual, when I woke at 6.am, I went downstairs to make a mug of green tea sweetened with organic honey, and flavoured with a wedge of unwaxed, organic lemon.  While the kettle boiled I turned on the tap to water part of the vegetable plot.  I then wasted a lot of time trying to adjust the spray. 

By 6.20 I was checking my e-mails and replying to some of them.  Recently, junk mail has been appearing.  How do I get rid of it? I changed my password for one e-mail address but…

It was a pleasure to attend the London Chapter Meeting of the Romantic Novelist’s Association on the 21^st May, 2011, at which our guest speaker was Helen Hollick, whose novels I enjoy.

For thirteen years Helen worked as a library assistant at Chingford library.  During those years her interest in and passion for King Arthur and the Dark Ages grew.  As a result she wrote the first of her trilogy, Pendragon’s Banner, which Heinemann accepted three days before her…

The Art of Conflict in Writing Conflict

By Lorilyn Roberts…

In between stepping out and achieving successful outcomes, people often experience phases of hard times. How they handle those moments of ‘dryness’ when desired success appears elusive ultimately determines whether or not they reach their desired destinations. One of such colourless phases is at the actual start of the journey to significance: the period of humble beginnings. It is important to realize that great enterprises hardly begin in great ways. Enterprises don’t…

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“What did God say about healing? What did He say about sickness and where did He put Himself in the fight against disease? Where did sickness come from? Did God bring sickness if He was almighty and reigned?” If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, then Helen Phillips’ spiritual memoir, Fly with Me: A True Story of Healing from Multiple Sclerosis is for you.

In this relatively short volume of only 150 pages, Phillips shares a lifetime of experience with…

My name is Jerry Pitts and I recently completed my first book titled, Reflections: My Personal Journey. The book is essentally my life's testimony and the amazing works God has done in and through my life. The book is filled with deep, personal events from my life from my early years of overcoming drugs to the dealing with my youngest sons suicide in 2009.  It is my prayer that this book will demonstrate the faithfulness of our Lord as He has been my refuge and strength, my everpresent help…

I doubt that I'm talking in a vacuum when I mention in a forum such as this that it's very difficult for an independent author who has published an ebook on Kindle, or Nook, or various other devices, to get the attention some of us deserve.

Okay, so I'm pretty much talking about me. Although the reviews I've received from my novel 5IVE SPEED have been fabulous, the selling of Kindle editions have not been so…

Tomorrow’s Children

Legends of the Ells

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I am a fan of Tom’s work. I enjoy his take on things and his ability to present them. I think that when someone is trying to be funny, face to face or in a group setting where eye contact can be made or body language can be seen is one thing. The humor is then three dimensional, or if you subscribe to Big Daddy Abel’s thoughts four dimensions, go figure, but who am I to argue. Back to my point, Tom Sumner has a way with words and can execute the punch lines in writing. He hammers home his…

This is a good question.  It’s a solid, straight to the point question about writing.   It’s a question I’ve been asked quite a bit lately. 

How long does it take to write a novel? 

I’ve heard answers from it takes a lifetime to however long it takes you to read a book times a five hundred.  These responses make me laugh and are honest, but…

Welcome to the weekend everybody. Today I am popping in two posts on two totally different types of digital short stories. Later on I will drop one in on Humorist Tom Sumner and his series, “All I Wanted Was a Haircut” .  Lets get to Samantha Weiler’s digital short story. She is a Summer Submission Contest Winner with Trestle Press. Personally I enjoyed this story immensely; it has a nice edge to it that I think if you get to download it you will…

 In the work "Oracle of Compassion: the Living Word of Kuan Yin" ancient deity, Kuan Yin answers what may be the most important question of ours or any other era: who we are as a species. The current state of affairs of war, poverty and environmental degradation cause many modern philosophers to question whether we are inherently…

I wanted to end the week with a bang and I chose this novel to start it off.

Let’s get rolling on” Misery Bay”! Here is the synopsis:

“On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him 36 hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call…