I have a great cover designer, Victor Habbick, who provided the image for my SF Thriller, Seeds of a New Birth. As I'm drawing close to finishing book two of the Kindred Series, I asked him for some cover ideas and boy did I get some great one. In fact, they're so well done I could use some help choosing the one to use. So, below is a synopsis of the story and the four covers [...]
If you've not heard about NaNoWriMo...well, what rock have you been living under? I mean, here's what it is. It's National Novel Writing Month where some 300,000 writers go for NaNo gold which is to write a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. I'm participating for the third year in a row and I just reached the 50K goal with 13 days left working on book two of the Seeds of a New Birth series. [...]
In preparation for conducting a major relaunch of my favorite science fiction thriller, Seeds of a New Birth, I'm looking for a few more Amazon reviews. Do you enjoy thriller type books with a science fiction theme? Books like those written by the late, great Michael Crichton, or Robin Cook? How about movies like Blade Runner or the more recent Lucy or Edge of Tomorrow? If so, I believe you will also enjoy my SF bio-genetic [...]
Like most authors reading a 'bad review' of a book that I've invested hundreds (or thousands) of hours writing can be...well painful, a little like having one's fingernails pulled out one by one. Sure, there are those who say that any review is a 'good review,' and at some level I agree with this...especially when they're not about one of my babies. However, I must admit to roaring with laughter when I read a 1-star review [...]
Charles Dickens built his amazing career as a writer releasing his novels in serial forms. According to the Boz Project: Every one of Charles Dickens’s novels was published serially--that is, the novels appeared not all at once, but in parts or installments, over a space of time. Publishing his novels in serial form expanded Dickens’s readership, as more people could afford to buy fiction on the installment plan; publishers, too, liked the idea, as it allowed [...]
Like many people I've been appalled by the horrendous killing of thousands of majestic elephants by poachers over the past several years so I've decided to do my part to spread the word so this senseless killing can be stopped before it's too late and elephants become one more species that no longer exists on our Earth. Ivory is the working title of the book. It'll be the third book in the Zak Bates Eco-Adventure series [...]
I read a post this morning by my good friend and fellow writer, Joseph D'Agnese as he shared about the books of a children’s book author named Clifford B. Hicks. As Joe wrote: "He [Clifford B. Hicks] wrote a series of books about a kid named Alvin Fernald, who was sort of the MacGyver of the kid world. With a toothpick, a piece of string and leftover jelly sandwich, Alvin could build a contraption to save [...]
We were originally called the Project Purpose Writing Team but then, when we outgrew that name, we became the Visionary Writers On Purpose Team. We met weekly on the phone via teleconferencing and we'd share our writing projects, our successes, our failures, and our breakthroughs. We varied in number from a half dozen to a dozen or more scattered all over the country (including Canada). And we wrote. We wrote magazine articles. We wrote poetry. Several [...]
It was a good week and a very creative one. I started two new book projects as well as starting my first pastel painting in over fifteen years. I love times like this and it's one of the joys of being a writer. The first project was inspired by my listening to a new audiobook by Spider Robinson, Stardance. What prompted the new project was that the book was recorded by the author. I'd enjoy recording [...]
Some indie authors (and not so indie) authors have been doing a blog-post-chain-letter thing called The Next Big Thing. It has finally reached me through my good friend and fellow author, Joseph D'Agnese. It’s an ongoing process where one writer answers a series of questions (see mine below!) about a current book or upcoming book, and then tags 5 others writers (see below the below!) who get to do it all again the following week. Confused? [...]
