November 2010 Blog Posts (195)

PREDATORS IN OUR MIDST

By Bob Hamer

Author of ENEMIES AMONG US and THE LAST UNDERCOVER

This past week Amazon made headlines when it removed from its website a book offering pedophiles advice on having sex with children. Before reaching a corporate decision to pull the book Amazon issued a

statement:…

When I was about sixteen, there was a song out that was very popular: 'Centrefold' by the J Geils Band. I'd hear it on the radio, and my shoulders would twitch in time with the upbeat melody and oh-so-catchy hook. However, the narrator of that song really is a hypocritical, self-delusional, passive/aggressive turd with a galloping Madonna/Whore complex, don't you reckon? No? Well, I'll explain the reasons for my admittedly unqualified diagnosis.

He's in the newsagents and…

Hello and welcome to another Self-Published Sunday. Today we start off with the second novel from David Alderman in the Black Earth Series, The Broken Daisy. This novel is a bit longer than usual, 527 pages, but it

seems to go quicker than most I have read lately. David Alderman has put

together a sci-fi/paranormal /futuristic rollercoaster ride that just does not

want to leave your hands. The pages turn quickly and the action is furious.…

The author book signing is a time honored marketing event used by publishers to promote authors and sell books, but I've never attended one that wasn't, well, boring. How many times have you attended a book signing that followed this formula: read-sign-go home. That's no fun.

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I don’t know if there is a hotter author out there right now. I mean someone that is just pumping out quality material and having it hit a nerve. Vincent Zandri is just all that and more: he is putting out novels,

digital shorts, giving engaging interviews to the media and playing the drums

in the band BliSTeRz. The reason I mention the last, is that on Thursday, Turkey

Day, Thanksgiving I am going to be

running a few things on the blog, and he is mostly…

Dead of Knight: A Jack Staal Mystery

William R. Potter

RealTime Publishing (2009)

ISBN 9781849610261

Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (11/10)

I was…

Don’t Short the Short:By: Mark Maciejewski

In my opinion the old adage “good things come in small packages” is never truer than when it is applied to works of fiction. The short story format, although less popular and lauded than its big brother “the Novel”

is a very important part of the literary landscape. Over the years in fact it

has grown to become my favorite mode of storytelling.

I think that the…

Well, started my official 'book tour' today. I drove to two different stores, two hours away from where I live (I nearly ran over a dog on the way - man, was I pissed off and upset!). The first store had set up not only my lastest novel, 'Abernethy', but also my first novel, 'Calumny while reading Irvine Welsh'. I sat at the table expectantly, and waited and waited and waited. Finally somebody came over. It was not a purveyor of fine fiction, like I had hoped. It was an aging Jesus-freak who…

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TGIF to everyone! Today I am featuring two different people I had met over at Linkedin and their studios: Graphic Classics and Latchkey. First up is Graphic Classic Volume Eighteen which is a series of stories

together: Little Women, The Rival Prima Donnas, Buzz, The Piggy Girl, Lost in a

Pyramid, The Lay of a Golden Goose, and A Whisper in the Dark. The back cover

says:” Little Women & Big Thrills! Love and laughter, tragedy and gothic

horror-plus…

My publisher www.DancingLemurPress.com is offering a buy one - get one free deal on all titles.…

Well, 'Abernethy' was successfully launched last Friday night. It was a good night, although it went a tad too quickly for my liking. I was stressed to the nth power in the week leading up to it because my husband suffered a fall with a sub-arachnoid bleed, most likely trauma from the fall. He's doing well, now. Oddly, just prior to the launch of my first novel, 'Calumny while reading Irvine Welsh' last year, he had a small heart attack(and he had only just turned 43 at the time, and he is…

Things sure aren’t what they used to be. When I started my book, Ties, I was still a starry-eyed college student at Savannah College of Art and Design, dreaming about drawing for a living. That was until

I actually found out what it takes to get a book published. I found alternative

comics a puddle within a tiny koi pond, and sharks lived there. So it was my decision to try the

self-publishing…