August 2011 Blog Posts (139)

I am pleased to announce that Tod Goldberg and Mark Miller will be my guests this coming Tuesday , August 9^th @4pm EST on my blogtalk radio show The G-ZONE sponsored by Trestle Press. Here is a little bit on both authors and the link to the blogtalk radio show:…

Busy day, busy week, oh man,I have thought long and hard on what I want to try to say about this novel. Here is the thing, I am fortunate to read a lot of different stuff, not just in form but in genre. This novel just stands apart from anything I have read of late, what type of words should I use, how should I say it? Let’s get to the synopsis first and I can ponder it a bit more:

“No one wants to know everyone& their darkest secrets, especially not police officer, Nicole Keenan.…

Trestle Press is proud to announce that Darren Sant will be starting a new digital short story series entitled “A Good Day”. Here is what to expect:

“Housing estates, council estates or "schemes" as the Scots refer to them are places where you can find a broad cross section of society. There are the salt of the earth folk. People who will cross the street to help a friend, a neighbor and even a stranger. These folk know the true meaning of the word community, to them it is not just a…

Do you watch the show? I am going to let you in on a few things here in this post: for one, I do. Usually I get to catch it on the DVR so I skip commercials. My wife and I do not have nearly the number of kids they do; we just have eight, but we share many similarities and I found for once that reading non-fiction is not a chore. Do I agree with everything in this book? No, it isn’t made to be that way. My wife read it also and I think the best thing to come from reading this book is the…

Hey check it out! On Monday @6pm I have a great show coming at you: Joan Meijer my collaborator on the recently released “The Rescue” from The Author’s Lab/Collaboration series, and our good friend Beth Groundwater has rounded up some of her fellow authors from Midnight Ink to form an Author’s Panel for us. I have no idea what element of writing will we be discussing. I just host the show. Listen in as I am certain that we will be able to pull a few pearls of wisdom from these…

    'Chuck's Unique Poetry' is an extensive assortment of over (130) poems and writes by Chuck Keyes. They cover a wide range of emotional subjects, including: Love, Passion, Sadness, Dark, Sci-fi, Mystery, Comedy, Political, Happiness, and Friendship. Unique and awesome is what they are! Unlike today's jumbled up poetry of rambling, misunderstood verses, Chuck's style is simple and straight to the point.…

I don’t know if you can tell from the cover, but this isn’t set in Levittown or Trenton for that matter. The kangaroo should have given it away, and the sun is in the wrong place, thus the “Down Under” part. Sylvia Massara the main author in this installment is an Aussie, and still lives there; so we thought why not lets set it down there. To make it more interesting I brought in a Facebook friend of mine that is also an Australian resident to round things out. If you are looking for action,…

Trestle Press is proud to announce a new series by author Karen Anna Vogel: “The Amish Knitting Circle”. Here is the synopsis:

 “Granny Byler is praying for five women in her Old Order Amish community in Smicksburg, PA., but nothing seems to be happening. Spinning wool one day she ponders the fact that fibers wrapped around each other make a yarn that’s hard to break.  Maybe the women she sees unraveling need to spun together so they don’t break.

So Granny starts a knitting…

Q1: Thanks for participating in our Authors.com Spotlight Interview series Beth! Please introduce yourself and your book to help our readers get to know you.

A:  My name is Beth Mahoney and I'm a military brat turned military spouse and mother of three with over 30 years of military life.  I am…

Andrew Gross, author of a number of NYT Bestselling novels, will return as a guest on Giovanni Gelati’s blogtalk radio show The G-ZONE on August 10^th at 5pm EST. The focus of the discussion will be Andrew Gross’s current NYT Bestseller “Eyes Wide Open”.

Here is an interview from Andrew Gross’s website to get to know the author a bit better:

http://www.andrewgrossbooks.com/index.html   

OKAY, SO I WASN'T…

Included in the synopsis is a complete listing of the authors of the Top Suspense group.Take them all in they are some heavy hitters. The story itself and the experiment read like a good time, like the authors were enjoying themselves and totally in the zone as they ran off each other and tried to top one another with their prose and descriptive ability. I am a fan of many of the authors of this group and enjoyed trying to pick out what portions they may have written. My percentage of…

Author W. Bruce Cameron will be on The G-ZONE, Giovanni Gelati’s blogtalk radio show, to discuss his novels , in particular “A Dogs Purpose” and “Emory’s Gift”.  “Purpose” has spent 19 weeks on the NYT Bestsellers list as well getting 516 starred reviews on Amazon, including 463 five star reviews. Dreamworks will be making the novel into a movie. “Emory’s Gift”   will be available for sale on Sept. 1^st, 2011.

Here is a short…

The cover is simplistic for a reason; I really didn’t want to give much away with but, the fog does play a part in the story. That being said, Angelique Lafontaine’s writing style has grown on me. Her viewpoint is different; she finds a good way to twist things unexpectantly, and she seems to have fun with the story. I thoroughly enjoy that when it comes out in the story. The bang for the buck is here; don’t hesitate to download this story or any of her others: “The Matriarch”, and “Gone is…

If You Forget Me

 by ~Pablo Neruda~



I want you to know

one thing.



You know how this is

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red…