2013

Independent book launch: Heart of the King

Book Three in Bruce A. Blake’s best-selling Khirro’s Journey trilogy launches today. And as if that’s not enough to get you excited, and maybe even forgive Amazon its many sins, the first book in the series is just 99 cents — for a limited time. What is Khirro’s Journey? It began with a vial of […]

An independent book review Bruce A. Blake’s first novel is a thoroughly entertaining, as well as thought-provoking and heart-wrenching novel that breaks the author out of obscurity as well as out of several genre conventions.Blake demonstrates from the first sentence that he’s a professional writer, a novelist with chops: “I stood with my back to […]

Don’t miss this REAL iPad Mini raffle

 February is the best month. Why? Valentine’s Day,  Photo by Kathy Ophelia http://kathy-ophelia.deviantart.com/  and … BestSelling Reads’ month-long giveaway! The best authors in new fiction are celebrating the grand opening of BestSellingReads with a giveaway all February long.BestSellingReads brings some of the most loved fiction under one roof. We’re best-selling authors, but […]

Fantasy book launch: Blood Skies, Book 5: The Witch’s Eye

Steve Montano is a fellow member of the Guild of Dreams Fantasy Author’s Collective, and author of the Blood Skies fantasy series. The latest installment, book 5, launches today. Here’s a little more about it: THE WITCH’S EYE (Blood Skies, Book 5) The war continues, and a new evil is born.The Ebon Cities have created […]

NRA proposals: a new low in misdirection

Creative Commons photo by Ed Schipul “Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” asks the National Rifle Association in its latest video. “Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school? Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share […]

I miss winter

My house in winter: a source of inspiration. Ever since I read Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, I’ve wanted to write about the power and majesty of winter. Helprin wrote about images of frozen lakes, mountains of snow, impassable drifts and sharp, bright stars in a sky frozen to crystalline clarity. I remember similar images from […]

One Shade’s progress

 By Tania Saiz [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons  An in-progress view of collaborative publishing Now that I’ve finished my first draft of my current novel, I’ve decided to share with you blog readers a real-time look as this work progresses through collaborative publishing.Regular readers will know that my current work-in-progress is One Shade […]