Just 99 cents for the first Hawaiian Storm mystery, only until 31 May 2023 Through May, the first appearance of FBI Special Agent Vanessa Storm is on sale for just 99 cents on all the e-book platforms. Choose the format and source you prefer. Torn Roots Vanessa Storm thought her first week on the job […]
A sample from the latest book edited by The Written Word By Elyse Salpeter The weather outside had officially turned. Without any sort of preamble, the sunny sky that had been their constant companion for the past seven glorious days had darkened, thundered sounded and a crazy-colored strobe lightning storm began to streak across the […]
Enjoy this taste of a book edited by The Written Word and then published in 2018 By Roger Eschbacher Galen rounded the corner and heard the sound of broken glass crunching under his boots. He looked down. A small number of broken bottles of ship’s brew sparkled in the emergency lighting. The brew’s pungent aroma […]
The fourth book in the Eva Driscoll Thriller series By Alan McDermott “I’ll say one thing for the locals: they sure know how to make a decent beer.” Eva was studying the menu. “I’m gonna have the Lomo Saltado,” she said. “I’ll have the same,” Sonny told her. He was a big fan of the […]
A Sunday sample from The Bones of the Earth “Why did you take my dagger in the first place?” It is not yours. You are merely the bearer. As was your ancestor, in his time. The dagger is very important. It was made not by humans, but by a member of an older race to […]
Last week, I wrote about a common problem in many manuscripts: unnecessary details. This week, I move on to another common error: shifting point-of-view in fiction, also known as Head-hopping This term describes text that jumping between characters’ points of view (POV). Let’s take a look at this, adapted slightly from a recent project to […]
Writing historical fiction is like driving in a city you’ve never been to before: you have to keep stopping your progress to find out where you are and check that you’re going in the right direction. And you never know when you’ll get detoured. I’m making good progress with my next historical fantasy, The Triumph of […]