What is writing style? How important is it to the reader, to the writer and to the writer’s success in reaching an audience? This week, I asked Martha Bourke, author of the Jaguar Sun series of “young adult” novels and fellow member of BestSelling Reads about the importance and impact of her writing style. How would […]
Creative Commons License. Some rights reserved by Reinis Ivanovs One Shade of Red is now in front of its editor! I have promised to keep you faithful readers apprised of my progress in publishing my second novel. So there it is: now with editor Gary Henry, author of American Goddesses and What Happened to Jory, member […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]