This writer’s life has certainly had its ups and downs lately. One high point was getting to visit with a unique book club. Most clubs I’ve spoken to had only female members, but this group was made up of a dozen couples. What’s more, the meeting I attended was their 20th anniversary! I was…

PREDATORS IN OUR MIDST

By Bob Hamer

Author of ENEMIES AMONG US and THE LAST UNDERCOVER

This past week Amazon made headlines when it removed from its website a book offering pedophiles advice on having sex with children. Before reaching a corporate decision to pull the book Amazon issued a

statement:…

Hello and welcome to another Self-Published Sunday. Today we start off with the second novel from David Alderman in the Black Earth Series, The Broken Daisy. This novel is a bit longer than usual, 527 pages, but it

seems to go quicker than most I have read lately. David Alderman has put

together a sci-fi/paranormal /futuristic rollercoaster ride that just does not

want to leave your hands. The pages turn quickly and the action is furious.…

I don’t know if there is a hotter author out there right now. I mean someone that is just pumping out quality material and having it hit a nerve. Vincent Zandri is just all that and more: he is putting out novels,

digital shorts, giving engaging interviews to the media and playing the drums

in the band BliSTeRz. The reason I mention the last, is that on Thursday, Turkey

Day, Thanksgiving I am going to be

running a few things on the blog, and he is mostly…

With the approaching holidays we’re all scurrying to get ready, we shop for food, we shop for gifts, we clean and cook; all the accoutrement that go with the season

I wonder,…

Don’t Short the Short:By: Mark Maciejewski

In my opinion the old adage “good things come in small packages” is never truer than when it is applied to works of fiction. The short story format, although less popular and lauded than its big brother “the Novel”

is a very important part of the literary landscape. Over the years in fact it

has grown to become my favorite mode of storytelling.

I think that the…

TGIF to everyone! Today I am featuring two different people I had met over at Linkedin and their studios: Graphic Classics and Latchkey. First up is Graphic Classic Volume Eighteen which is a series of stories

together: Little Women, The Rival Prima Donnas, Buzz, The Piggy Girl, Lost in a

Pyramid, The Lay of a Golden Goose, and A Whisper in the Dark. The back cover

says:” Little Women & Big Thrills! Love and laughter, tragedy and gothic

horror-plus…

LIBRARY JOURNAL has just listed its "best genre novels of 2010". Happily, my book is among them, one of the five mysteries honored.

Lovely!