Image source: writeshop.com I have been wrestling for years over how to organize my work-in-progress, Walking from the USSR. An almost casual comment from a friend over dinner presented a solution. Now I feel I can wrap this baby up! The book is the story of my father-in-law, Maurice, who served in the Red Army […]
What is style? Written Words continues to explore the issue of style among independent authors. This time, I’ve asked historical novelist Zoe Saadia to weigh in. Saadia is unique among writers of historical fiction. Her novels, like At Road’s End, The Warrior’s Way, The Highlander and her latest, Two Rivers, are set in pre-European contact […]
An Unlikely Goddess launched October 14, 2013. From Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, winner of the SheWrites New Novelist Award, 2011 …The Hindu goddess, Sita, is said to have been born from the Earth. King Janaka discovers the beautiful infant and in her beauty, believes in her divinity. He raises her as his own daughter…… A coming of age […]
Before you say it, I know: I am not in the target demographic for this book, or any of Elise Stokes’ Cassidy Jones adventures. Still, I enjoy reading them — despite the strange looks I get from others on the bus when I’m reading the latest installment in paper form. Elise Stokes hit it big […]
When I tell people I wrote the first draft of my upcoming novel, When Shadows Fall (The First Book of the Small Gods) in fourteen days, they either stare at me with a blank expression, make me repeat it to ensure they didn’t mishear me and I actually said forty, or they ask me how […]
I’m excited: the newest Independent Authors International title and Benjamin X. Wretlind’s third novel, A Difficult Mirror, hits the e-stands September 23. Others agree: “Combining horror, fantasy & mystery with elements of the traditional hero’s journey, A Difficult Mirror contains a unique and detailed plot, rich characterization & a very real sense of danger,” says Michael K. […]
Bruce Blake continues to amaze me with his productivity. He’s launching a whole new epic fantasy series, the Small Gods. On October 1, the author of the Khirro’s Journey trilogy launches the first book in the series, When Shadows Fall. What’s it about? A hundred hundred seasons have turned since the Goddess banished the Small Gods […]