For several years, Aneeta Sundararaj has been helping writers through her website with countless articles, reviews and interviews. Now, she has compiled all her experience and expertise in her new book for beginner writers, How to Tell a Great Story.

After a brief introduction, Sundararaj takes beginners through all the steps necessary to become a great storyteller,…

This is a major piss-off: having no time or energy to write these days.  When not writing, I work as a carer.  This is rewarding and helps pay the bills, at least until my novels pay a bit more of my bills (and there goes a pig steering a hang glider).  Not only have I been mega-busy, I have come down with a beast of a head cold.  Just the sort that makes you feel as though a medicine ball is blocking your sinuses, and a large invisible vise has grabbed your head.  I would have preferred to…

Here are ten short extracts from my last collection of poetry, titled “Five Years and Counting. A Journey into the Mind of Soul Poetry.”

For more information about the book, visit http://www.fiveyearsandcounting.com, Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France), McNally Robinson Booksellers, Lulu.com, iBookstore, and Barnes & Noble NOOK…

Trestle Press is proud to continue to find new and interesting novels, novellas and digital short stories in the fantasy genre. “Roland of the High Crags: Evil Arises” and the soon to be released “Roland of the High Crags: Treacherous Brethren” are a few of the other titles Trestle has. Look for “Norrel” to be released in November. Here is a rundown of the new universe created by Evie Vogel:

“Norrel: Princess of Prophecy is set in the time before Earth was made and was the…

I want to go viral. No, there is nothing wrong with me; several things have recently occurred to prompt this urge in me. The main reason is I think that Paul D. Brazill and B.R. Stateham have an awesome idea and I am hoping that word of it reaches its intended targets; in order for that to happen we need some help, a lot of virality.

To recap, Paul and B.R. were asked what exactly is noir and hard –boiled?I mean I get different answers from different people. Is it a matter of…

The founders of Book Town will be interviewed on The G-ZONE Friday Oct 14 5pm EST 

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Over at MEAN STREETS, I take a look at Declan Burke's Absolute Zero Cool.

Have a gander, if you…

I’ve been wondering how long it really takes for an author

to write a book. I’m not talking about a first draft, I’m talking about the

point where an author says “done!” and then sends it off to the publisher or

agent. For me, it usually takes about six months to write a draft worthy of

revision. But to consider the manuscript completed it takes a lot longer. Since

all of my books have been through the ringer with agents, editors, and

publishers and I’ve used their…

Trestle Press is pleased and proud to announce a new Sci-Fi digital short story series to be launched soon by Paul Guthrie. Here are the details and a little bit on the author:

“Unholy Magic” is a cycle of stories and novels about ordinary people with the talent of working magic. Perhaps everyone has this talent to some degree – it’s difficult to say, because theirs is a world where the monopoly on magic is claimed by religions. A world where unsanctioned magic is…

Join Kimberly Payne, Author of Fit for Faith - 7 weeks to improved spiritual & physical health, for her book launch and receive free gifts:

Yesterday, October 10,2011, I had Paul D. Brazill as my scheduled guest on the G-Zone, my Blogtalk Radio Show. B.R. Stateham was nice enough to help me co-host; it was really fun. In the midst of the interview these two great noir/hard-boiled authors came up with an idea: Why not produce a new Anthology series gathering the best noir/hard-boiled authors the world over? Is noir the same in Levittown,Pa. as it is in Moscow? Hard-boiled fiction, do they tell the same story in Liverpool as they…