December 2011 Blog Posts (192)

Trestle Press will be releasing an anthology December 24^th that will have a special theme to challenge any Paranormal/Fantasy/Sci-Fi author. We are looking for stories that have a New Year’s Eve theme. So get your vampires, werewolves, sorcerer’s, wizards, and time travelers ready to be shot off the e-reader and into readers’ minds and hearts.

Tell your…

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Chapter 1

The Night of the Beast

Timing was crucial. It was the third…

Some time ago, a friend dropped me an email I thought was just delightful. I had never heard the term, don't know if it's even a real word or something someone made up to fit. But, these are wonderful and shows creativity. Plus, they make great story inserts.



A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for…

My dad had never been happier. It was as if all the moderately good feelings of the rest of the family (or at least myself and my mother) had abandoned us to join him. As I woke up and was packed and shipped off, I gained more and more respect for my mom. As my father tutored my brothers as to the intricacies of turning the other cheek and “obeying the powers that be,” my mother was making the ham sandwiches and wedging our futures beside juice-boxes, goldfish, and Oreos, packing them in…

Article by Cheryl Rogers orignally posted at http://john316mn.blogspot.com

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I live in Mt. Dora, FL. I work close to home. I shop close to home. On Facebook, I have "friends" all over the world. Turns out, one of those friends is an author that also lives in Florida. Leona Bodie is the Vice President of the Florida Writers Association and she shared a touching story with me recently. It is about two other authors from Florida and I wanted to share it with you.....

Okay, well… here it is. The $55 article written for me. Now,

the next step is the company will send this to three hundred article submission

services, and people, and companies looking for content. My Blog address and

Author’s Den address will be attached to the article so readers can connect

with me. I reset my site stats to zero and will closely monitor that over the

next ten days (the run I was promised). I average about twenty-five bio hits a

day on my AD site and…

When Aloha!(the first book in the Bruce Gavin Political trilogy) was published in 2011 the fiction was eerily close to the truth. The American economy was facing troubling times and America needed to elect a president with hard hitting solutions for some of the nations most difficult problems. In Aloha readers were introduced to Senator Bruce Gavin who was elected President in 2012. Senator Gavin made bold campaign statements promising he could resolve the National Debt ...and…

  5x5 Fiction: Skillfully Shortening the Short Story

Just about everyone, at one time or another, has read a short story. But ask someone if they’ve ever read any flash fiction, stories told in less than 1,000 words. You’ll most likely get a cocked eyebrow. Ask them about micro fiction, stories told in less than 500 words. It’s probable the reaction will be a deeper…

A TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT’S DREAM IS REALIZED THANKS TO THE DEDICATED EFFORTS OF A VOLUNTEER WITH HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER, DOUG DILLON.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla… Meet Hospice of the Comforter patient Tony Mancuso. He offers you the best smile he can, given his physical situation while at the Garnet Heart group home in Altamonte Springs, Fla. And meet Doug Dillon, a volunteer with…

Nancy is the bestselling author of the four Bella and Britt Series books for children:  One Pelican at a Time (eighteen weeks on Amazon Bestselling List), Sea Turtle Summer, Bella Saves the Beach and Mystery at Manatee Key. All are published by Guardian Angel Publishing.

She and One Pelican at a Time and were featured in the…