As some of you may have noticed the counter for my blog has exploded. For the last week, I’ve been averaging about 600 hits a day and it’s going up. Yesterday, I got 1,700. It seams the search engine optimization is kicking in after all, and it will only get better over time. It’s a bit overwhelming to think that so many people are reading my posts and checking out the kinds of books I write. Every morning I jump from bed, come down to my office, and check my stats on my various sites. It’s…

The Shadow of al-Khayal

I know – the heading makes it sound like a Lovecraftian pastiche, but bear with me – there’s a point here somewhere.

My wife asked me when I started writing. After some serious thought I answered that I probably started in earnest sometime around 2004 but I’d been writing off and on since late 2001. Although September 11^th wasn’t a source of inspiration for my urge to write I would have to admit that it provided a form…

© 2010 Bob Stockton. Excerpted from 'Listening To Ghosts' (Xlibris Press) by Bob Stockton. All rights reserved.



It was the winter of 1959 and our destroyer was  docked at Pearl Harbor while shipyard workers and a few civilian contractors loaded some sophisticated electronic equipment  and antennae aboard that was to be set up in a…

Reprinted w/permission from Yahoo Finance:

4 Risky Places to Swipe Your Debit Card

Q: In The Demi-Monde you introduce a myriad of religions that are loosely based on ones that exist today (e.g. UnFunDaMentalism, HerEticalism etc.). Why did you decide to incorporate these into the story?

When I was first designing the Demi-Monde I wanted each of the four books to be set in one of five different Sectors so that…

I wish you all a blessed and happy holiday period and a very abundant New Year.

John Kremer, founder, The Book Marketing Network

Saving Elizabeth is currently #1 on the Kindle Store's Hot New Releases in Religious Science Fiction & Fantasy List! It's currently #53 on the Best Sellers in Religious Science Fiction & Fantasy List. If Santa brought a Kindle for Christmas, hop on over to Amazon and check it out! If Santa brought a Nook, don't be dismayed. You can find …

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The world has undoubtedly taken a huge leap from the time that the Internet was created. We could certainly speak of a before and after in terms of communication and technology. The network of networks is omnipresent in all activities of our daily life. It has  gotten into our daily lives in a swift and fierce way

Before; we had to wait in line to buy tickets to a movie, take the trouble to go to a bank to pay the electricity or credit…

I know we all live in uncertain times, but just keep going each day without worrying about tomorrow which is what the bible tells us.   I pray a blessing to each and everyone.  God Bless You and Keep You in his care.  Rejoice - I say - Rejoice.

Right in time for Christmas, here is the next story in Mark Miller's One from Trestle Press:

The first ads of my winter campaign are live. The combined cost for both was $100. They will run for the next two weeks right on the home pages of these sites. This should give the ads about 100,000 views at least.

http://litopia.com/

http://www.yareads.com/

Now, I’m not expecting to sell 250 books because of these ads, which is what I’d need to break even, what I’m looking for now is exposure, plain…

New Releases from Trestle Press in time for Christmas!!

Trestle Press has released another bunch of incredible stories just in time for Christmas to feed those hungry ereaders. Without further ado, here they are:

FULL LENGTH NOVELS:

J.T. Lewis- Murder! Too Close to Home

Paul Grzegorzek-The Follow

Paul D. Brazill- Brit Grit Too

David L. Hoof-Triple Jeopardy

Michel R. Vaillancourt-The Sauder Diaries: By Any Other…

A World of His Own is an enjoyable historical novel set in New Orleans in the early 1800′s. The novel spans a few years and centers around the life of Andre Raphael de Javon, an ambitious and handsome Frenchman who comes to America in order to become one of the richest plantation owners in Louisiana.

The story begins when he’s just arrived by ship to New Orleans in the company of his friend Charles, who’s spent the last six years studying in Europe. Charles comes…

Review of the latest twist on the zombie novel: 'Blue Bloodbath' by Katrina Von Kessel via @amazon

ICE - International Community of E-Publishing

Goal:

• To recognize and promote work of independent authors, agents, editor, publishers and other e-publishing professionals.
• To be able to vet outstanding writing and to provide assistance, via connections to other e-pub professionals to help an author produce quality work and product.

Membership:

• Open to all participants who are working to produce emedia…

Do you have anything to do with ebooks? Aldo Calcagno has an extremely good idea he is reveling today at 5.30 pm EST on The G-ZONE. Tune in or catch it on the archives, you do not want to miss out on this.

Here is the link for the show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gelatisscoop/2011/12/21/aldo-calcagnoanastasia-v-pergakis-and-cheryl-riker

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Pioneers or Settlers 

Mission stories for Our Lab

Story 10…