All Blog Posts Tagged 'author' (185)

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #3, JAMES ELLROY

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Pete Dexter, Alistair MacLeod, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore Leonard and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis about the craft of writing. During the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a little background about… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on April 5, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Writers community BookRix offers free print-on-demand program

Hi everybody!

You should check out www.BookRix.com, the new community for writers and readers.

Create your books online using your own design and make your novels, short stories, poems, comics etc available to the public. Meet like-minded people in the BookRix forum, make new friends and reach new readers. Your books can even be embedded on your website, MySpace or Facebook profile via code! Promote your works online! It’s… Continue

Added by Nils on April 3, 2009 at 8:53pm — No Comments

March Blog Tour

Do author blog tours work, or are they a big waste of time and energy?

Follow my experiment at http://tinyurl.com/cdcc7q

Added by JA Konrath on March 13, 2009 at 12:47am — 1 Comment

OUR SOUTH magazine editor Joanna Holbert interviews author Darden North

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OUR SOUTH Midwinter 2009

THE DOCTOR"S WRITINGS by Joanna Holbert, editor of Our South magazine

When nurse Taylor Richards is found dead in

her bathtub, it’s a loss for the hospital staff,

but no one seems… Continue

Added by Darden North, MD on February 28, 2009 at 2:57pm — No Comments

Planting clues in a Mystery

Today I am over at THE BOOK STACKS chatting about planting
clues in a mystery if anyone would be interested. FYI, if you leave a
comment you will be eligible for a drawing to win a $50 gift
certificate if you are an unpublished author, and a free virtual book tour if you are published.

Added by Kim Smith on February 26, 2009 at 1:50am — No Comments

Hijacking and Book Trivia

Hey y'all!
Come visit me over at As the Pages Turn and see what advice I have for the new President.
http://www.asthepagesturn.wordpress.com

and I am also hijacking Eve Summers blog today... and promoing my book...
http://www.yewalus.blogspot.com

This is day three for my book tour. Don't forget some lucky commenter will be winning prizes!

Added by Kim Smith on February 5, 2009 at 2:25am — No Comments

Review of Avenging Angel, A Shannon Wallace Mystery

Review by Aaron Paul Lazar

A great read doesn't have to be fancy, full of literary allusions or deep musings. Nor does it need a ritzy setting, plots that twist your brain into a pretzel, or elite protagonists.

What a great read does need is a story that moves, characters who linger in your mind, and a voice that calls you back to its pages. Avenging Angel by Kim Smith accomplished all three.

Smith has written a suspenseful cozy mystery set in the south in a… Continue

Added by Kim Smith on January 27, 2009 at 3:48am — No Comments

The ARCs are here! The ARCs are here!

Yesterday I opened a box of Advanced Review Copies (ARCs) of my May, 09 release, To Hell in a Handbasket. Even though this is my second published novel, I was still thrilled to hold a professionally printed version of my words in my hands, complete with a beautiful cover, bio, cover blurb, acknowledgments, etc. Now comes the hard part of deciding which lucky reviewers I will send those very few copies to. :-) My publisher sends out a couple dozen ARCs to the big-name reviewers and my copies go… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on January 17, 2009 at 2:53pm — 3 Comments

An Interview with a Gazette Newspaper Columnist

Anita Miller is the new "Book Groupie" weekly columnist at the Colorado Springs Gazette daily newspaper. When her first column extolling Harlan Coben's books appeared in early December, I emailed her to tell how much I enjoyed it. I thought he might enjoy it, too, so I sent him a link to the article. My email initiated a conversation with Anita about possible future column topics, and one thing led to another. She put my book, A REAL BASKET CASE, on her reading pile, enjoyed it, and asked me if… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on January 10, 2009 at 3:37pm — 2 Comments

Free First Chapter of The Dead Guy

I forgot to mention that anyone can go to HewittsBooks and open a FREE PDF file with the first chapter of The Dead Guy.

Why not give it a quick read? It's a short chapter, and if it doesn't hook you, fine. But you might find that you need to read on ...

Thanks!

Doug…

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Added by Doug Hewitt on January 6, 2009 at 2:06pm — No Comments

First Appearance of 2009

A few months ago, the moderator of the Book Club at the John C. Fremont library in Florence, CO contacted me to arrange for me to speak to her group in January. Then the Writing Club at the library found out about the event and asked if they could come, too. Then the Assistant Director of the library found out about it and asked if other library patrons could attend if they wished. I'm always of the mindset "the more the merrier" so I ageed to all the changes.

Now the event is being… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on January 4, 2009 at 3:56pm — No Comments

Cheap reads and PROMO

Battling wintertime woes? Fighting the flu? Want a great book to keep you thawed out and entertained? Red Rose Publishing is having a half price sale on all ebboks for ONE day only. January 1, 2009 is the sale day and includes book being released that day also.

Why don’t you be daring and try out a mainstream fiction novel, a cozy mystery from me?

Here is a blurb for you and the purchasing info. I hope you will try out my book since it will be at the lowest price ever… Continue

Added by Kim Smith on December 30, 2008 at 3:36am — No Comments

A Rolicking Good Time at Adams Mystery Playhouse!

Thursday evening, my hubby and I joined 28 other stalwart sleuths from the Rocky Mountain chapter of Mystery Writers of America for our holiday party at the Adams Mystery Playhouse, complete with dinner and a mystery play (http://www.adamsmysteryplayhouse.com/). The play was "Death for Dinner." It included a police detective who sounded like a cross between Borat and Inspector Clouseau and who had the audience in stitches with his impromptu asides. Our table was one of three who correctly… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on December 15, 2008 at 9:34am — No Comments

My First Guest Visits my Author Blog on Saturday

I will be hosting my first guest on my author blog (bethgroundwater.blogspot.com) on Saturday, December 6th, and I hope folks will stop by and read the blog and comment on it. My guest will be Jean Henry Mead, who writes senior sleuth mysteries and western historical novels. She's a former award-winning photojournalist and magazine and small press editor as well as a news reporter/editor. The book that will be featured in this blog visit is A Village Shattered, the first novel in her Logan… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on December 6, 2008 at 10:01am — 1 Comment

A Late Fall Newsletter and Website Updates

My website guru, my handsome husband, has made quite a few tweaks to my author website (bethgroundwater.com) in preparation for promoting the release of To Hell in a Handbasket next year. The covers of both A Real Basket Case and To Hell in a Handbasket now appear on the Books page and you can click on either one to go to its individual book page complete with reviews, excerpts, etc. Also, we’ve updated my Frequently Asked Questions page and made some minor updates on just about every page of… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on November 30, 2008 at 1:16pm — No Comments

A Writer's Week

Little did I know when I embarked on this new career as a writer how much of my time would be spent on tasks OTHER than writing. This past week I did the following:

- Contacted a bookstore to determine the status of my payment for consignment books, then deposited the check when it arrived,

- Mailed a copy of A Real Basket Case to a Japanese publisher interested evaluating it for publication in Japan,

- Participated in a 20-author library signing event,

-… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on November 15, 2008 at 3:07pm — No Comments

For the love of language (and politics), plus comments on a few of the latest books I've read

I find myself compelled to point out that Sarah Palin is suffering from "Aleutians of grandeur."

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I just finished a few books sent to me by my brother, lent by friends, and some that I even purchased (that should make the authors here happy, though if they only knew how many books I have, they might forgive my current quasi-moratorium on buying more). These… Continue

Added by James K. Bashkin on November 13, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

If This Is Thursday, We Must Be In...Where Are We?

I wrote last week about easy jobs, and one that used to look easy to me was public speaker. On the surface, the person breezes in half an hour before her speech, checks out the sound equipment and lays out some materials, and then talks for an hour or two. Afterward she gets a nice check and goes home to count her earnings. Since I love to talk, it seemed like money for nothing, lunch for free.

It does get a little hectic, though, now that I'm doing it. Scheduling is not particularly… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on October 16, 2008 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Contract with Wild Child Publishing

Currently under contract with Wild Child Publishing for Sheryl Locke Holmes Mystery Series, which features Amber's Mysterious Death, Ruby's Deadly Secret and Opal's Disappearance. When I get more details, I'll post them. Until then, let's dance.

Added by Carol Exline on September 29, 2008 at 6:09am — No Comments

JONATHAN MABERRY COMING TO ACME AUTHORS LINK - FRIDAY, SEPT. 5

Acme Authors Link at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com is proud to host Jonathan Mayberry, our Man of Mystery this week.

Please stop by on Friday and leave a comment for him. If you forget, do it when you remember.

Thanks,

Morgan Mandel…

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Added by Morgan Mandel on September 3, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments