It’s here—launch day for my fifth book-length fiction, Torn Roots. Torn Roots joins the Lei Crime Kindle World, a set of short stories, novelettes and novellas based on characters, settings and situations created by bestselling author Toby Neal in her Lei Crime series. The series is about Hawaiian police detective and sometimes FBI agent Leilani […]
Torn Roots, my first Kindle World title, publishes July 31. For you, my faithful readers, here is a preview: “They’re after me.” Sam rubbed his eyes and looked again. No, I’m not dreaming. “Rowan?” The tall woman pushed past him and shut the door. “Geez, will you ever clue in. What do you think it […]
Writing fiction is different from writing non-fiction. It’s harder. With non-fiction, you may answer a need: “How to hammer nails straight,” or “How to deceive yourself into believing that this diet will actually work next week.” In fiction, however, it’s completely up to the writer to make the reader need to read the content. And […]
Some days, I wish I had never met that woman A couple of years ago, The Magic Appreciation Tour challenged writers to start a short story that begins with the words, “Some days, I wish I had never met that woman.” I was inspired to add to the story of the Witch’s Son, which begins with […]
My Temporary Life Martin Crosbie, 2012 This was so good. The traditional publishing model is broken indeed if a string of publishers rejected Martin Crosbie’s excellent first novel. I can’t imagine what made them turn it down. The plot is engaging from the beginning, filled with grabbers like high-school bullying and drunkenness and a strong […]
By Samreen Ahsan This review is long overdue, but A Silent Prayer is a book that deserves all the attention it has received. It’s been just over a year since it was published, and in that time, A Silent Prayer has won first prizes at book fairs in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Paris, first prize […]
A couple of years ago, I participated in a Web and social media initiative called Six Sentence Sunday. The idea was to publish six consecutive sentences from a writing project—book, story, play, whatever—link it to the Six Sentence Sunday page and then, every Sunday, read the samples of other participants. Six Sentence Sunday has since […]