October 2011 Blog Posts (199)

13. Each character with his own shape, style, mannerism and speech. We should be able to identify each if we hear their voice coming out of the darkness. It’s best if each character has his or her own ‘range’ – the way they would speak, even under stress – for example, Jaws as horror has Richard Dreyfus, on being the first and only one on the boat to see the shark, relays to the others in the cabin: “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” In the Roy Scheider character’s role, this moment…

The baseball playoffs are heating up, but I have a double header of my own planned for Friday, an Amish one, with two amazing International Best- Selling Authors-Karen Anna Vogel and Beverly Lewis. Both of these authors currently are high atop the Kindle charts, dominating, taking no prisoners. It makes me beg to ask, “What is it about this genre that draws so many readers, loyal, faithful, devoted, readers to this type of work?” Hopefully I will be able to extract that answer from my guests…

Have you missed my talks on Organizing a Disorganized Writer? Don't worry. I just posted a brief overview of the topic on my new hubpage. Feel free to check it out and leave a comment at the bottom.

http://amandajbarke.hubpages.com/hub/Organizing-a-Disorganized-Writer

FREE! FREE! FREE! Yes I wrote free. B.R. Stateham, the author of “Death of a Young Lieutenant”, “Roland of The High Crags: Evil Arises” ,and the “Call Me Smitty” Series, is offering the first in the “Call Me Smitty” series, “The Beginning” for free, no strings attached, just email me or B.R. Stateham to get it. We are more than happy to hit you with it.

Why you ask is he willing to do this? What is the catch? I mean really, come on.…

Alexandrea Weis makes New Orleans dark side sizzle in “The Keeper of the Dead”

NEW ORLEANS – This second installment of Alexandrea Weis’s “NOLA Series”, “The Keeper of the Dead” , has Angele Soule’s quiet job as Director of Cemeteries turned upside down when body parts of a coworker begin appearing in front of the tomb of the famous Voodoo Queen,…

Two months ago my debut thriller “BRAINRUSH, a Thriller” was sitting in a drawer.  A few weeks later it was ranked #315 overall on Amazon and #18 on the Action/Adventure bestseller list.  Without the Kindle, Nook, and other eReaders that would have been impossible.

So how did it happen?  Let me start with some background. 

I finished Book-1 of the series 18-months ago.  It wasn’t ready to publish yet—I needed advance reader feedback first.  So I uploaded it to Authonomy.com (a…

Sexless marriages are shocking but common. It is difficult and painful for a mate to feel…

In earlier posts, I’ve often said that I think the 99 cent price on Kindle books seem to cheapen the worth of the book. Now, I’m not reversing that conviction completely, but what I will say is that 99 cent books

appear to be selling many more copies than those books priced just a few

dollars higher. Why? Let’s put it in terms of a used bookstore that has a rack

of books for 99 cents and a rack of books for three dollars. As a reader, which

shelf are you likely to check out…

VOODOO

CQ Scafidi

If you believe in the paranormal, then you just know.  Trying to explain it to people is impossible without sounding like someone who needs therapy but doesn’t keep their appointments.   Here, in a city like New Orleans, most people have a belief of some kind, be it paranormal, Roman Catholic, Voodoo, Freemasonry, Protestant, Unitarian, Jewish, Native American, etc. or usually a combination of everything, the same recipe…

Diary of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker

By Marla Martenson

Bettie Youngs Books (April 15, 2010)

http://www.bettieyoungsbooks.com/

info@BettieYoungsBooks.com 

15608 South New Century Drive

Gardena, CA…

David Hoof is the author of “Sharpshooter” and the soon to be released full length horror novel “Landfill”. He was nice enough to give us his thoughts on what makes a great story. After all this is the “Harbinger of Horror”

REQUIREMENTS OF GOOD HORROR

(+ ) where Landfill has this where other horror films don’t or where this feature in Landfill exceeds or surpasses its use in most other horror films.

1. (+) An…

People cringe when they hear the word "meditation." It sounds so spiritual, right? A picture of the Dalai Lama zooms into view and sweat begins to stream down towards the pounding heart.

What if people heard "silence" instead? Silence is used and practiced more popularly. Parents tell their children to hush; teachers instruct their students to quiet down; movie-goers respectfully turn off their conversations and cell phones. Clearly, silence has value.

What if…