Creative Commons On Saturday, April 12, I’ll be showing my paperback books at the Canadian Author Association’s first-ever Book Fest. If things go right, I may even do some live blogging from there. And if you come, we may even have a chance to meet face-to-face! I know I’m excited about it. I look at […]
Creative Commons licence.http://moon.com/2014/03/hiking-and-recreation-in-parque-nacional-torres-del-paine/ A little over a year ago, I wrote a post for the Guild of Dreams blog where I wondered about how important it is for a writer to remain within a genre. Now that I have just sent my third manuscript to an editor, I find myself wondering about that again. Without […]
Image credit: http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2014/03/10-keys-for-brand-persuasion-and-change.html#.UyXBv61dXJ4 You can’t persuade an audience with unproven ideas, nor can you fire one up without appealing to their values. Read this opening to a seminar on secure information technology practices and then answer this question: do you care? “Why is security important to us? Because the effectiveness of our programs, activities and […]
I began reading Gae-Lynn Woods’ The Devil of Light in January, at about the same time I started watching True Detective on HBO, the gritty series starring Woodie Harrelson and Matthew MacConaughey, and was immediately struck by the similarities between the two stories. Both stories feature victims of ritual murders, corpses found in bizarre […]
Image: zoetnet via Flickr/Creative Common In my continuing quest to blow your minds, I again present three very different authors whose answers to the same questions may surprise you. Sydney Landon is a New York Times bestseller-listed author of romances, including the Danvers series; David C. Cassidy’s books, including Velvet Rain and Fosgate’s […]
Guest post by David Small, the Wandering Promoter This Monday blog features guest blogger David Small, author, international hockey coach and entrepreneur. His new book, The Wandering Leader, launched on Valentine’s Day and is already climbing the Amazon bestseller lists in non-fiction. David hails from Kenora, Ontario — I town I spent many summer weeks […]
Creative Commons/Flickr In the sporadic series where I ask bestselling authors about their reading habits and inspiration, I again turn to two very different authors. David Vinjamuri is the author of bestselling military thrillers Binder and Operator, as well as two books of non-fiction. It’s hard to categorize Terry Tyler’s writing other than as “contemporary […]