Giovanni Gelati's Blog – July 2012 Archive (42)

Following the tradition of Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) and Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery), Amish Friends Knitting Circle is a continuing story, broken down into 8 parts. If you liked receiving the installments of the best-selling, Amish Knitting Circle Series, (the prequel to this series), then join Granny Weaver as she invites her friends from the…

Weds. @ 1.30PM EST Beth McMullen returns to The G-ZONE.I really enjoy her work and love her characters. Here is the link for the show, something about her latest novel and a bit about her:

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The Diaries of Pontius Pilate opens when a member of an archeological team is murdered along the shores of the Dead Sea.  We learn that the murderer and victim are both spies, observing the expedition and grappling with the fact that the team has just discovered some controversial artifacts.

                In fact, Archeologist Kevin Elliot and his Deputy,…

Hummingbird is the story of Lexa Morales, a misfit. Abandoned as a child, Lexa is Mexican by ethnicity and American at heart, but feels more like the dash between the words that compose the term Mexican-American than anything else. In her struggle to arise from the ghetto of her youth, Lexa commits a crime and flees south of the Border to escape prosecution.…

Here is a snapshot of the upcoming schedule for my blogtalk show The G-ZONE. We are fortunate to have some incredible guests!

Monday July 30- Gay Balliet- 9AM EST

Weds. Aug. 1- Beth McMullen- 1.30 PM EST

Thursday- Aug. 2^nd- D.P. Lyle- 4pm EST

Tues. Aug. 7- Matthew Dunn- 4PM EST

Weds. Aug.8 –Joseph Max Lewis/L.W. Rondeau-7PM EST

Thursday Aug. 9^th- Thomas Sullivan- 7PM EST

Friday Aug. 10- J.T. Lewis- 7 Pm EST

Looking…

I have a habit that irritates my wife.

 (Author’s Wife’s Note: It’s not the only one.)

It happens whenever we’re watching TV and one of those Criminal Minds/Law and Order/CSI comes on.  Within the first five minutes, I tell her who the bad guy is.  I’m right about 90 percent of the time.

“How do you know?” she asked me one time.

“Look…

Earlier in the week I was fortunate to have De Miller & Amanda Ward on The G-ZONE. We covered a variety of topics and covered a lot of ground: everything from De Miller’s upcoming movie and his many writing franchises to Amanda Ward’s new romance series and the Olympics. Amanda Ward lives in England and the Olympics are happening right in her neighborhood.

Her is…

 The Fear of Things You Know Don't Exist

Now obviously when you write horror what you're shooting for is a fear reaction from the reader. I take it as a compliment when people get immersed enough in what I've written that the impossible seems plausible. But I do expect that the average reader to be able to put the book down and know that its safe, or at least…

          Nearly one hundred years after he died in the Mexican desert, Raul Sanchez has been miraculously resurrected to deliver incredible offers to skeptical twenty-first century occupants of Washington, DC

           These are not offers they can’t refuse; they are merely an opportunities for continued life, differently fashioned for each person. But if…

A change of pace and a serious them tonight on The G-ZONE! Front and center: Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, The Middle East, and who knows what else Pola Muzyka will bring to the table to start the show tonight. Her novel “Abducted To Kill” deals with all of that and much more. This novel will challenge the way you think on many levels, I kid you not. Here is the link to…

  The Law of Attraction Works

The law of attraction works! Image If you’re always striving to achieve other goals and plans, you’re going to love this post! It’s all about letting go, because the Law of Attraction works best when we’re happy, relaxed and peaceful!

It makes perfect sense when you think about how the Law of Attraction works; we create our lives…

100% of the author’s proceeds will be donated to Give Kids the World, a charitable organization where children with life-threatening illnesses and their families are treated to weeklong, cost-free fantasy vacations. www.GKTW.org. The authors, creator and publisher are in no other way affiliated with this…

Writing for Detail and Rhythm:

Take a look at the two writing samples that follow.  The second is a better version of the first.  Can you tell why?

First sample:

“The old, wizened man walked merrily down the gravel driveway.  He was the town dwarf and was known to everyone in the neighborhood as the go-to guy.  When anyone had a…

I was fortunate today to have William Tooker & Lindsay Beth Goddard on The G-ZONE today. The interview went off at 1.30 PM EST. I have the link right here for you as we discussed many things, chief among them the new release by William Tooker: “Slouching Toward Bethlehem- Volume 6- Broken Toys” and “The Invisible Society” series. Without further ado, the link, and some…

Does God’s grace know no bounds? That question didn’t even enter Gerry Ficus’s mind until the day he laid eyes on 28-year-old Shelia Bryant, wife of one of his charges at the local police department. Gerry, a 40-year-old pillar of the Mound City community, a ranking officer with the local police department and a lay pastor at the First Methodist Church of Mound City, put away…

     Since its beginning as a small Dutch hamlet, the trading post at the mouth of the Hudson has had a history unmatched by any other settlement. Over the centuries, its landscape changed and with it the city itself. From its humble beginnings, it soon became the magnet for the thousands of refugees escaping the oppression overseas in the hope of finding freedom and…

Summer break is only a week old and already Pepper Jones is bored stiff. Finding herself with oodles of free time, she had been spending her mornings at the local library, rereading her favorite mystery series from when she was a kid.

As a last-ditch effort to save herself from the slow death of monotony, she pleads with Nancy Drew to throw an extra case her…

Hummingbird is the story of Lexa Morales, a misfit. Abandoned as a child, Lexa is Mexican by ethnicity and American at heart, but feels more like the dash between the words that compose the term Mexican-American than anything else. In her struggle to arise from the ghetto of her youth, Lexa commits a crime and flees south of the Border to escape prosecution.…

Interlacements Yarn to Spin Colors for Karen Anna Vogel’s Books.

Karen Anna Vogel’s knitting teacher, Susan Grim, is the character Suzy is Amish Knitting Circle Series and Knit Together. Having a successful yarn shop in Smicksburg, spinning, dying, and teaching classes, Susan is a busy woman. But not too busy to be thinking up another color for…

Come for a visit to Karsten Field with these Biblically inspired stories of home and family.

Best-selling author George Michael Loughmueller goes back to Karsten Field for a new series of short stories. Each stand-alone story takes place in the district where Allan Howarth was set free. Almost eight years after his journey began, Allan and Mary now have two…