I can hardly believe it, but this morning, the Kindle edition of The Nemesis Cell (cover on right) was placed at #19 in the…

Jynnipher Olbert will be releasing “Vision of The Moons” with Trestle Press this week. Here is what you can expect from it and a little something about the author:

“Madi Baranova has dreamed of her transition into an adult vampire ever since she heard the supernatural body transforms itself into its optimal state around the twenty-fifth birthday. A week past her twenty-fifth birthday, she hoped the numbers on the scale would surprise her, but instead a guy surprised her by looking at…

What happens when your loyalties are in conflict and you must betray your old mentor in order to fulfill your duty? What if this old mentor who used to protect and help you as a kid is now a dangerous drug-and-human trafficking overlord? This is the predicament our protagonist, Tim Kelly, faces at the beginning of this partly autobiographical suspense thriller by talented first-time author Jim…

  Ten Rules To Write Noir by Paul D Brazill

Rules One to Ten, All Inclusive.

‘Whichever I Choose It Amounts To The Same. Absolutely nothing.’ Killing An Arab –The Cure

It doesn't matter.

At the close of what is easily Stanley Kubrick’s best film, The Killing, Sterling Hayden sees all the loot that he’s criminally grafted for, literally, gone with the wind. The cops are closing in but he still has time to get away.…

Award-winning Author Jewel Kats on Blog Talk Radio’s

World of Ink Network show: Stories for Children –November 7, 2011 

Jewel Kats is not shy to say, “I’m a disability activist. I believe all humans and animals have the right to be treated with…

How I Write Historical Fiction

Although there are books on the subject of How To Write Historical Fiction, which are useful, I am sure that novelists develop their own techniques.

I read history books and sooner or later something triggers my imagination.  For example, I read that most of the English nobility disliked James II, his politics and his religion.  After James fled to France, first his older daughter, Mary, and her…

Jewel Kats is not shy to say, “I’m a disability activist. I believe all humans and animals have the right to be treated with respect—regardless of their abilities.”

Jewel Kats is an award-winning author and one tough cookie. At the age of nine, Jewel endured a car accident. Her physical abilities altered forever. She spent weeks in the Hospital for…

Me? A published writer? Don’t be daft…. Yet this week, it actually happened. Still can’t quite believe it but I’m loving every single minute of it. It’s been great to see the look on my colleagues’ faces when I’ve told them. Had all sorts of responses from, ‘Well, you’ll be self publishing,’ to ‘Oh, an e-book, not a proper book.’ Well, stuff the lot of them! Trestle Press is going all out to get some great writers out there so that people can read some fresh new fiction. And e-books…do you…

Probably a bit off-blogtheme, but useful information nevertheless for authors about how the publishing world is changing.

http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/11/freemium-self-published-fiction-china/comment-page-1/#comment-25935

I've been reading a  novel about a writer, and the story describes his book sales as 'modest'.  Well, I guess my book sales can be described that way, too.  But you know what?  I don't want them to be modest anymore, I want them to become 'slutty'.  I guess if people use the word 'modest' to describe less-than-spectacular sales, then I would imagine that 'slutty' would be a good word to describe multitudinous sales.  Yep, I want 'em to be slutty; slutty as the gangbang moll that used to…

Another barnburner of a week here on my blogtalk radio show, The G-ZONE. We start off the week with Amazon Kindle #1 Best-Selling author Karen Anna Vogel. She is releasing her new novel “Knit Together: An Amish Knitting Novel” Monday, so we will be discussing that along with her plans for here her Best-Selling “Amish Knitting Circle” digital short series. Here is the lineup of guests and the times they will be on:

Monday: Karen Anna Vogel-6pm EST

Tuesday-Stuart Nager- 4pm…

I had the opportunity to interview Heath Lowrance on The G-ZONE, my blogtalk radio show Weds, November 2. It was a blast listening to him describe his zombies and the details of what is to come for this new series. B.R. Stateham was also on and he was discussing his latest “A Hamm and a Bean Too Many”, a comedy about two mismatched detectives. Yes ,B.R. does comedy also. The link for the show will be below, listen in to get a feel for these two amazing authors.

Back on point here:…

 My Two Old Friends

            As a writer, characters come and go.  Sometimes writers create a single novel.  They populate it with intriguing characters and an interesting plot.  Yet once it's finished they pop it off to their publisher and wash their hands of it.  The novel is down.  The characters forgotten.  Time to move on to the next project.

            Not me.  Since the moment I wrote my first story there were two things I wanted to achieve; create unforgettable…