Independent presses have a lot to offer today's aspiring authors. The slush pile is smaller and the chance for an unknown, untried author to get a contract is greater. Unlike large publishing houses, there's still very personal interaction between editors and writers. Unlike self-pubbed books, the publishing house takes care of cover art, lay-out, printing and distribution. Authors are nurtured and a bond builds between the author and…

Doug Lucas, author of The Flats Teacher's Test, is my guest today with a post about why he wrote a book that one reviewer called "an explosive story...crossing the boundaries...behind the doors of the educational system". To all my teacher friends and parents, this may be worth your time.



The Flats Teacher's Test is ONLY $4.99 for Kindle (or FREE for Prime users) and you can get it here - …

(« Wilesco D36 steamroller » by Morn)

« Steamroller » is the fourth chapter of « Juggernaut. » In the storyline of the suite, it represents the apex of pain, and the metanoia.

The instrumental is one of the most busy pieces of music that I’ve written up to now, and…

hey all,

been awhile but what can i say i have been busting my butt finishing New Beginnings and i finally finished getting the whole storyline completed. It is all down on my computer now my co-author and I are in the middle of editing,revising, adding and taking away(my favorite thing). I can say that i surpassed my goal for my book to be 400 pages it was at last count 463 and we are just in the early stages of editing so who knows it might be 500 by the time i'm done I also have a…

How to Make a Return on a Non-Refundable Product

Buyer’s Remorse is a retail store’s nightmare. In fact, we downright hate it. But you really can’t blame us since we’re in the business of selling product, not loaning it for an unspecified amount of time. Still, customers returning product is something we have to deal with.

We try and make it easy by posting our Return Policy all over the store at work stations and the front counter, but nobody…

With the forthcoming release of my latest book, Alpha, I know one of the popular interview questions will be: “How did you ever come to write this story?” Another will be: “But wasn't your first book entitled Beta? Why the reverse titles?”

Allow me to answer the first part of the second question. No, my first book was entitled Night Shadows. However, in the Mallory Petersen series, Beta was released before Alpha and this is the story behind the story.

This…

'From Blues to Incendiary Soul'.

  Kindle Books by Author Stephanie Lynne Thorburn.

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For the past few weeks, whenever I had the chance, I've been working on a book trailer for my mystery novel, Mixed Messages, and I've finally completed it.

I'd never done a trailer before and, let me tell you, creating it was both frustrating and fun. I can laugh now when I think about how many times my computer locked up, just as I…

Dr. Snigdhatanu Banerjee

         We have to start from our heritage. India is a country of great culture and philosophy. From time immemorial music has been a part of our civilization.…

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  Here is the blurb for new mystery, TASTE OF FIRE about a female firefighter: 

    A fiery car crash leaves a disfigured arm on the young girl occupant. Supposedly…

I’m part of a generation who had to actually wait at home by the phone if I was expecting a call. Worse than that, if I sent a query to an agent, I had to wait weeks, even months, for a response by snail-mail. What torture. If I had been a nail biter back then, I’d have worked my way to my knuckles in not time.

Hello fellow authors and peers. I just stopped by to say  my sixth novel Shadows of Obsession, is now available through Amazon paperback, in addition, Kindle and Nook, and all online book venues.

Love and hugs,

Kemy

    The basketball player on the cover, captures the mystery of the Phantoms. The fact that you can't see his face adds to the mystery and the intrigue in the book.

    The championship banners in the background shows the final goal of the Phantoms return to Earth.

     Purple Phantoms' one-line synopsis: "Five Ghosts---basketball players whose lives were cut…

My Award Winning Poem (C) 7-2012