August 2010 Blog Posts (223)

Florida Author Kelly Abell wants to encourage teens to read. After writing her first young adult novel to inspire her daughter to read, Kelly wants to spread the word that Reading Is Cool.

With the new age of video games and MP3…

I was fortunate enough to find three excellent digital shorts to read and post on this week. Personally I have fallen in love with many things about the ereader platform and what is just being discovered can be

done with it. The place that the digital short has in my week for me is an

important one now. I get the enjoyment of full length novels, the fun and

escapism of the graphic novels and then at any time anywhere I am I can pop up

the digital short…

Each week as I hunt for a digital short to present for you, I learn something new about the process that these authors go through to bring their hard work, their soul, and dedication to their craft to you in ways that

are imaginative and for me in many ways amazing. Sara Morningsky is a free

download on Smashwords and available on a few other carriers. You can down load

it from Smashwords to any device that you are able to read a story. My choice

was the…

I have begun publish ebooks via Smashwords.com. Dark Bites is a horror short story collection focusing on the classic creatures we love to fear: zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts and

more. In part 1, "Windy City of the Dead," Crow needs to get out of Chicago fast with just her wits and any weapons she can find. But between her and escape are hordes of brain-chomping…

From “Spinetinglers”:

On the Verge of Madness

By George Wilhite



“I wake up in a world of utter silence...”



All of us are haunted by something—our pasts, fear of our futures, even the memory of a departed loved one. The questions remain: Do we let these demons that haunt us destroy us? Do we let them make us obsess? Do we surrender to them? Do we let them to take us to the brink? Do we fight them or do we stay on the…

Yeah, serious title I would have to say. The graphic novels of the forgotten realms are fun. I am not gifted enough descriptively to relay to you accurately what happens in the pages within the graphic novel so I going

to defer to the back cover to do that for me; otherwise I may not convey the

proper sequence of events. Here it is: “Fantasy’s most popular character

returns in the fifth chapter of R.A. Salvatore’s Legend of Drizzt series! After

many…

Happy Friday to everybody!! I don’t know if it is just me or what, but this week seems to have an extra day or two in it. My Hawaiian shirt has been ready to be worn since Wednesday but I digress. The reason I mention

my general funk is that I was lucky enough to run into Leonardo Ramirez here in

cyberspace. He energized my day and week. I already had a post ready for today,

you can see that later on today, but his enthusiasm…