This guest post from Martin Crosbie originally ran on my Blogger blog in 2012, and it’s well worth reading again. Martin’s excellent self-published book, My Temporary Life, achieved a great deal of attention in the major media for hitting number 1 on Amazon. Here, Martin explains how he did it. This topic became the basis of […]
By Kim Cano Kim Cano’s Jet – Rescue, her entry in the Jet Kindle World, is an excellent novella—which is more than I can say for some of the other entries in this oeuvre. Cano rewrote a troubling episode from Blake’s second book in the series, Jet – Betrayal. It’s troubling because it’s about forced […]
Written Words continues to with daily publishing of excerpts from books by fellow author-members of the Jet and Lei Crime Kindle worlds. Today features a dollop of Steven Konkoly’s Kindle World crossover between Russell Blake’s Jet series and Konkoly’s Black Flagged series. By Steven Konkoly Jet pressed her lips together, spreading the burgundy shade of lipstick […]
All this week, Written Words is publishing excerpts from books by fellow author-members of the Jet and Lei Crime Kindle worlds. Today, enjoy this taste of Claude Bouchard’s Jet novella, Nasty in Nice. Maya had been on her return trip to the apartment, grocery bag in hand, when she had seen two young men shove […]
By Julie C. Gilbert Even as Marcella’s eyes widened in alarm, Matt triumphantly stabbed the button to place the call on speaker. Her mother’s excitable voice filled the car. “’Cella! Why you no call? Your papa and I, we wait days to hear from our baby and no calls!” “Hi, Ma,” Marcella said, trying to […]
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 […]