With this post, I’m reviving a Written Words tradition: posting brief samples of my upcoming work on Sundays. I’m aiming to publish One Shade of Red, my spoof of Fifty Shades of Grey, in about a month (hopefully less). And to give you a taste, here’s a bit of Chapter 1: Falling Down, where the […]
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 […]
A new book by Scott Morgan, my brother from another mother and father … and country … who somehow got all the good looks … How To Be A Whiny Beeyotch: 71 Writing Excuses Meet the Back of My Hand Okay, I gotta whine: I didn’t get around to blogging about this before February 8, […]
How important is writing style for the author and the reader? This week, Terry Tyler, independent author of four (soon to be five) novels that, like most of those I enjoy most, defy genre boundaries. How would you describe your own writing style? In some ways this is very difficult to answer, Scott, because I’m […]
An independent author interview Most authors strive to stay within a genre, occasionally mixing horror with romance or science fiction with mystery and throwing in a love interest for good measure. I’ve never before come across an author who aggressively tosses as many different genres into the mix as Steven Montano, whose Blood Skies series […]
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 […]
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 […]