All Blog Posts Tagged 'black' (12)

Who is Alexander Steele?

The Alexander Steele File - Confidential…

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Added by Lawrence Johnson on April 20, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

A nice cozy mystery from an Irish Author...

William John Banville, who writes as John Banville and Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist and screenwriter who is recognized for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, and his dark humor. His novel…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 17, 2012 at 11:35pm — No Comments

Get Black Diamond Death FREE for Five Days ONLY!

Starting today, December 25th to December 29th, the first novel in my Sloane Monroe series, Black Diamond Death, is FREE…

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Added by Cheryl Bradshaw on December 26, 2011 at 4:53am — 1 Comment

The Author Blog Hop Has Begun! Hop Around to WIN Great Prizes...

I am sooo excited to be part of the Coffin Hop this year! There are 100 authors participating which means YOU have a chance to win some really cool prizes like a Nook, gift cards, books, t-shirts, and even a chance to have your name in a novel!

Although I'm not a horror writer...YET, I am a mystery/thriller writer. I write the…

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Added by Cheryl Bradshaw on October 26, 2011 at 4:55am — 1 Comment

Noir junkies: Black Heart Magazine has your fix

Hey, noir junkies! Pick up your styrofoam cup and get off the sidewalk. Black Heart Magazine is a kick-ass honest-to-goodness magazine based out of Austin, Texas. It touches on a lot of hardcore themes, including noir in its latest issue.

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Added by Benjamin Sobieck on July 7, 2011 at 11:32pm — No Comments

Getting Inside Your Head: Virtual Reality guru Jeremy Bailenson's Writing Life

Move over cards, cocaine, and nicotine, Virtual Reality is the new addiction. It isn’t restricted to the realms of academe or science fiction. Whether you know it or not, it’s going to change your life. It already may have done so. Stanford University Professor Jeremy Bailenson is co-author of a new book,<a href="http://www.infinitereality.org/"> Infinite…

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Added by Matt Rees on April 10, 2011 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Enter character the Black Swan and Bruce Springsteen way

A writer needs to enter the characters in his novel. I’ve talked about this with other writers, but also found it useful to discuss it with artists from other fields. Two movies I saw in the last week, “Black Swan” and “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town,” illustrate just why it’s so important.

“Black Swan” revolves around the dilemma facing Natalie…

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Added by Matt Rees on January 27, 2011 at 7:19pm — 3 Comments

The Call to Action at KdBlog

Just posted a blog about selling books at KdBlog.It's a thorny problem, trying to jump start sales without alienating people or coming of like a used car salesman. Would love to get a conversation going about how you feel about using social media to sell books. Drop in at, http://kdblog.kdwrites.com and let me know what you think.

Added by KD Easley on June 23, 2010 at 4:32am — No Comments

Murder at Timber Bridge Available in epub formats today!

Book One of the Randi Black Series, Murder at Timber Bridge is now available at Amazon and Smashwords. Print version coming…

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Added by KD Easley on June 1, 2010 at 5:18pm — No Comments

Review of SILVER by Steven Savile

The New Rival to the Davinci Code is SILVER says Robert W. Walker

The New Rival to the DaVinci Code -SILVER

(a review of Steve Savile’s International Thriller Novel)

I recently read a book that was so absolutely riveting, that I loved so much, that I have decided to place my review of this international thrille right here.

SILVER – an International Thriller by Steven Savile/ISBN – 13-978-1-935142-05-8;415 pgs. 25.95 Hardcover, pub date… Continue

Added by robert walker on December 21, 2009 at 2:18pm — No 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

T&T BACKSTORY #2: SURREALIST ART AND MURDER

The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth.

Toros & Torsos (aka, Hector Lassiter #2), spins on the premise that surrealist art and theory may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century — most notably the murder of Elizabeth Short, the so-called “Black Dahlia” as she was dubbed by panting L.A. journalists circa January 1947.

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Added by Craig McDonald on August 25, 2008 at 10:49am — No Comments