Coming July 15: The third instalment in Bruce Blake’s best-selling Icarus Fell urban fantasy series: SECRETS OF THE HANGED MAN. What’s it about? Icarus Fell thought the afterlife couldn’t get any worse…until Hell came looking for him.When you are the orphaned child of a disgraced nun, and you’re saddled with a ridiculous name like Icarus […]
Aww, isn’t that cute? My mighty sons are both busy writing novels. Thinking about that raises a whole bunch of different emotions.Their books actually seem like good ideas. Evan, the elder, is writing a spoof of 50 Shades of Grey, set in Montreal and involving pirates. The hero is a lifeguard, of course (Evan is […]
Collateral Damage is the third thriller in the best-selling Annie Ogden series by Frederick Lee Brooke, fellow member of the BestSelling Reads group. I’m proud to participate in the blog tour launching this exciting title. How good is Fred Brooke’s Annie Ogden series? You could read my review of the first book in the series, […]
Guest post by Stephanie Noel Let me be honest. I don’t like winter; I don’t care if the Montreal Canadians make it to the series or not and maple syrup, although delicious, is not something I pour on everything (I will, however, defend ours as the best in the world. Take that, Vermont!) Yes, I […]
The Communicator’s Toolbox One of the original goals of this blog was to review technology developed for professional communicators. While I have reviewed digital cameras, laser and inkjet printers, software and even the iPad 2, it’s been a long time since I’ve focused on the writer’s tools. I’ve been using the Belkin cover/keyboard combination for […]
I’ve followed communications professional Lloyd Corder’s email newsletter, C-Note$, for years. It’s always full of clear, useful advice—the kind that makes you say, “Of course—why didn’t I see that before?” I asked Lloyd to weigh in on how today’s communications technology, including social media, e-newsletters (like his), blogs and so on have changed the way […]
For Father’s Day, I present a fatherly excerpt from my latest book, One Shade of Red. Picture: Wikipedia Commons Sunday dinner with my parents followed a routine that varied only with the seasons. I’d usually show up after 6, when my Dad would have almost finished barbequing the steaks to black shoe-sole consistency. But since […]