February 2012 Blog Posts (117)

Hi all!

I wonder if anyone would like to help me out? I'm fairly new here, and I've recently written a book (it's not a great paving slab of a thing, and is still in progress) and I'm thinking of perhaps trying to get published. The problem is, I don't really have an exact audience. I asked around my friends, and my best friend said that it was most likely a book for (particularly mad) teenagers, and another of them said it could be anything depending on how you thought about it…

Dixon Lampier is the subject of the seventh installment of Reprisal. He goes to college, but not as a student in A Mind of My Own.…

If you are trying to decide what type of book to submit to us here is a list of genres. (Varies)



Romances

Westerns

Mysteries

Science fiction

Historical Fiction

Non-fiction

Fiction

Fantasy

Action

Thrillers

Horror

History

Adventure

Weight loss

Autobiographies

Biographies

How to

…. Etc.



NOTES:

• Genres are not set in stone they can…

Hello every one I'm new to this site.   I was looking for  groups to  join where other authors come and learn from one another. I became a first time author last year. My first book At a Glance was published in March which I wrote when I was 17 and my second On the Bedroom Wall was published in September. November it was featured at the International Book Fair. I am currently writing the follow up to OTBW (New Beginnings) as we speak.  And then end that series with Sins of the Father. So…

Unless you’re the prude of your generation, everybody likes a humorous story. Some light-hearted anecdote to bring a smile or a gentle chuckle.

Many authors will insert humor into their stories, even if the subject matter is serious or the tone is dramatic. Humor gives the reader a rest, a small break before diving back into the deep end. My favorite example comes from the Hitchcock movie “Topaz”. The entire movie concerns spies. However, the one small moment comes near the…

Ralph Hawk speaks: A few weeks ago I promised you what I consider a well written chapter from my friend F. John Surells.   

                       DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE

    

                               Written By:  F. John Surells

 Recently, in the evening of a mid-week summer day, I sat at home alone with certain

windows opened, and attempted to compose an essay, or whatever one might wish to term one’s

analysis of the words of…

I just started an account with Createspace and submitted my new bok "Christmas Treasures" so far I have talked to several people on the phone and they were all very supportive.  It is not free!  But they do provied a lot of services for the fee. 

Did you get that? In one hundred days, a couple things are going to happen. One, a bunch of kids are going to be out of school for the summer. Two, The Empyrical Tales Book III: The Secret Queen will be available from Comfort Publishing. What a perfect way to start that summer reading adventure!…

LASTEST BLOG POST ALERT! The Great Seducers (part 3) - The Ideal Lover. The first two parts of this series looked at the siren (who masters by manipulation) and the rake (adores but unable to commit). Today's post and our third type of seducer, is 'the ideal lover', who in theory should be less threatening to our composure, but in reality is every bit as dangerous. The ideal lover feeds off people's dissatisfaction and in a world of disillusionment he or she is gifted in the illusion of…

Spellbound 2011

by Isabelle Kane, Audrey Tremaine, John Mecom, Walt Trizna,…

Ever wonder what hell is like? How a medieval civilization functions when the people in it can fly? Do you consider what aliens think of us? Just what can a genetic hackers do when they really put their mind to it? Have you fretted over entities from outside the known universe? What really happens in those mission chapters of human history?



Now you can discover.



-John Steiner…

Hello everyone! I wanted to personally invite you to the ONLINE party coming up Feb. 26th. It's a novel release and birthday celebration all in one! Visit Janet's Novel Release Party and Birthday Celebration! for details on the event. And the cool part is, you can invite all of your friends!  I'll be giving away one autographed collector's edition of Maycly to one lucky winner! …

Who has anything to say about David Malouf?

I'm going to be displaying a sneaky peek from my first full length novel exclusively on Authors.com.

Anyone who wishes to see further chapters please let me know, I'm looking for constructive feedback.

I will displaying said peek later this week.

I have been blessed with so many readers of Set Free: An Amish Journey. I had the chance to try something different and I hope you'll like it.



Mark Miller (http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Miller/e/B002BOE0WC) is a talented writer who I've come to know through my new journey as an author. He has a monthly series called Mark Miller's One. It is a…

The February story (#6) of the One series is available now. For the second month in a row, we are fortunate enough to hear from a best-selling author. That's not all - there's another exciting change to the series.

Consider this; you have just finished your first book, you are so proud of your achievements and luckily you have found a small publisher to publish your work. Your’e excited and this is understandable and soon your excitement breeds a new dream. You dream that you will buy a new house with the proceeds that you will make, or perhaps a new car. You believe that when your book comes out, you will be rolling in the money, no more financial concerns, and you can pay your medical bills that have…

A soft thud in the night. A creak in the hallway outside your bedroom. A lonely road cutting through a dark forest. All of these can cause fear. However, fear need not be felt in these creepy, eerie locations. One can experience fear when going in for a job interview, on the first day of college, or even writing your first novel. We fear the unknown. What made the thud upstairs? The creak in the hall–just the house settling or something else? What if the car stalled on the road? You wonder…

I am lost in pages.

Words leading me a fool.

Each paragraph loses me as the sentences come together

None really making any sense.

Jumping from idea to idea

none commiting

always failing

dieing

or losing grasp from my hands.

Stories lost like legends

but these are never finished

nor will they be ever heard of again.

My sword weakens as it scraps against paper

scratching and scraping for anything to…