With Reckoning, RS Guthrie takes the fiction writer’s rule book, shreds it in mighty fingers and reassembles it into a new way of engaging audiences. Reckoning is the third of Guthrie’s books to feature Denver Detective Robert Macaulay, also known as Bobby Mac and also known as the heir to the occult power of Clan […]
Ben Wretlind has broken new ground as an author with his novels Castles: A fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors and Sketches from the Spanish Mustang, and with his collection of short stories (which he wrote over several years), Regarding Dead Things on the Side of the Road.All his writing displays a distinctive, poetic […]
Rule of Fire launches on the solstice: June 21, and you can see the fantastic cover here, right now! Six friends stand alone against the combined Orders of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth, protecting a girl whose forbidden abilities have condemn her to death. Now they are joined by a man who was once the […]
One of my favourite middle-grade adventure superheroes is Cassidy Jones. The brainchild of independent author Elise Stokes, Cassidy Jones became a hit about a year and half ago, when a middle school in the US took Stokes’ debut novel, Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula, as a school project. And now, you can enter a […]
The heat is on. Summer is here in Ottawa. Even though I’m spending a lot of this weekend in cold water, the air is heavy and thick with moisture. This week’s sample is from my erotic romantic comedy, One Shade of Red. Most of you already know that it’s a spoof of the biggest bestseller, 50 […]
“The global electronic marketplace is rapidly depleting authors’ income streams,” wrote Scott Turow, author and President of the Authors Guild., in an op-ed in the New York Times in April. E-books, pirated copies and changes to copyright laws will cause the “slow death of the American author.” Photo: Evan Long by Creative Commons Turow documents […]
Despite the weather, summer is coming fast. So for this week’s Sample Sunday, here’s an excerpt from my hot summer novel, One Shade of Red. This one introduces the reader to the hero’s long-time girlfriend, the girl next door: Kristen. Image: Angry Girlfriend by jasonippolitoLicensed under Creative Commons Argument with Kristen “Well, look who’s […]