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Book Review: A Field Beyond Time (Lesley Hayes)
In her first career, Lesley Hayes was a professional writer, and in her second, a psychotherapist. The result, upon her return to fiction writing, is an elegant style informed by insights into the human condition that most authors would be unable to tweeze out of the confusing lives that surround them. read more…
Sample Chapters Posted from The Lafayette Campaign
As promised, here’s an earlier than planned look at the first few chapters of my second Frank Adversego cybersecurity thriller, called The Lafayette Campaign, a Tale of Deception and Elections. It’s a timely ride piggybacking on a U.S. Presidential election, and the action begins just about now relative to the current madness.
Final Blurb, Endorsement and Brief Bio
With the assistance of faithful readers of this blog, I’m ready to send the back cover text for the print version of The Lafayette Campaign off to the cover designer; the same material will go on the book’s Amazon page. My sincere thanks to each of those that have commented. Your input has been invaluable
Book Blurb, Take Three
Many thanks to those that have continued to help me tighten up the blurb for The Lafayette Campaign – it’s now much better than my original draft, and also much better than I would have been able to make it on my own. read more…
Book Review: Darkly Wood (Max Power; Fantasy)
Darkly Wood is an evil place, one to be avoided at all costs, and never to be ventured into under any circumstances. Except in print, in which case your curiosity will be very well rewarded indeed. It’s imaginative and well-written, and despite the fact that it follows in the grand tradition of evil lurking in dark forests, you’ll find surprising twists and an ending that you won’t see coming. read more…
Book Blurb, Take Two
With thanks to those kind enough to comment on my first take at a book blurb, here’s Take Two. As before, comments are very welcome.
Book Review: Skin Cage (Nico Laeser; Fiction)
Nico Laeser’s Skin Cage is a provocative read that begins as one type of story and then, all of a sudden when you’re not looking, crosses effortlessly into another that you (or at least I) did not see coming. It’s a compelling and engrossing read that you’re not likely to forget.
It’s Book Blurb Time Again
It’s a safe bet that writing the blurb for a new book wouldn’t make any author’s top ten list of joyously anticipated tasks. And yet there it is, as necessary as it is tedious, and not to be neglected before the book itself is presented to its hoped for audience. I’ve just written the blurb for my new book, and I’d love to know whether your think it does what it’s supposed to do.
Egregious Nonsense Regarding eBook Standards
It takes something truly ridiculous to make me write an out and out rant. Still, every now and then I read something that I can’t avoid responding to, because of the degree to which it misrepresents reality in an area I both care about and am knowledgeable in. Yesterday I had that experience when I read an article contending that proprietary eBook formats are good rather than bad, and that while “someday” we may have a truly interoperable eBook format, for now we should just sit back and appreciate proprietary formats in this area.
What rubbish.
The Book’s Done; Now the Hard Part Starts
Today I made the very last corrections and improvements to the text of my second book of fiction, now retitled and subtitled The Lafayette Campaign, a tale of deception and elections. As the title hints, it’s a thriller with a presidential campaign as a backdrop. It’s been three years of very hard work getting this far, and now the promotional phase begins. Sigh…. read more…
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