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Keith Deininger, Violent Hearts: A Haunted Journey review
Originally posted on Horror Novel Reviews: Reviewed by Paula Limbaugh If you like reading stories of the battle between good vs. evil along the lines of King’s, The Stand or Swan Song by McCammon you are going to love this! Keith Deininger is at the top of his game with Violent Hearts. A well-plotted story…
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Richard Farren Barber, The Living and The Lost review
Originally posted on Horror Novel Reviews: Reviewed by Paula Limbaugh Richard Farren Barber has written plenty of short stories and novellas but never a full-length novel, this is a first and a brilliant one at that! The Living and the Lost is a uniquely different type of ghost story, a supernatural tale that takes ghostbusting…
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Taking A Lesson From George R.R. Martin – Guest Post by, Jaq D Hawkins…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: Have you ever set out to write a long series? I haven’t. I’ve had two trilogies manifest organically out of what was intended to be stand alone novels, but I’ve never committed to anything longer. With my reader hat on, I see a lot of long…
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You Don’t Have to Write Every Day — But You SHOULD Do This
Originally posted on Meg Dowell Writes: “If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day.” This is quite possibly the most controversial piece of writing advice out there. The reason it’s so widely debated is because many people fall into the “because it worked for me, it will work for everyone”…
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How Novelists Can Say More with Less – by C.S. Lakin…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: on Live Write Thrive: Less is more. More impacting. More riveting. More intriguing. Throughout history, marriages have failed and wars have been won or lost over a mere word or two. Jesus said, “Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no.” Simply stated, as…
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Lord of the Deep: Stepping beyond…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: When Lord of the Deep was being written, decisions had to be made about which elements of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh to include, which to leave out altogether and which to adapt to aid the flow of our story. We do not slavishly follow historic texts, as,…
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Ruby Wax-What’s So Funny about Mental Illness!
Originally posted on juantetcts: The most important lesson learned since 2010, is not allowing my son’s walk with mental illness to control my life. I was definitely consumed the first four years of his diagnosis because I needed a crash course in mental health. I knew nothing about Schizophrenia, or that it ran in my…
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Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author 