November 27, 2018, marks the one year anniversary of The Boss’s Daughter, the first book in The Black Rose series! My debut novel. My dream come true. For those who have not read it yet (whaaa?), here’s the gist: Renee Parnell is raised in the world of organized crime. When she discovers her mob-boss father wants…
My books are about my favorite things—grace and friendship, home, and small-town living—spiced up with mystery and murder. I write about friends you can’t lose, even when you do something dumb. The friends in my books may shake their heads or laugh at each other, but they’re loyal and true. I write characters into my…
The French are a strange race. I have heard it said that they are like their bread: crusty and hard on the outside, soft and malleable on the inside. Because of this, the veneer of standoffishness occasionally slips and we are given a look at what lies beneath. I can exemplify this by relating one…
I’ve been writing now since 2012. Just to think about that passage of time is pretty scary. Since then I’ve turned out lots of books, one of which has been adapted into a film for which I also co-wrote the screenplay. Other titles have since been translated into multiple languages all over the world which…
I can still remember the day I hit Amazon’s “publish” button for the first time. Afterward, I told my wife, “If even one person reads this book and likes it, that’ll be enough for me.” That was in November of 2013. I’d just finished my first novel, a one-hundred-ten-thousand-word, year-and-a-half-long project that had been one…
The best lie has a nugget of truth. Likewise, the best fictional story has a nugget, or maybe an entire Happy Meal, of reality. Check out any fantasy book, and you’ll find parallels to either present or historical elements. They might be leaders, wars, or social movements. So why is truth stranger than fiction? In…
Jodie M. Swanson, a graduate from Owen-Withee High School, has served in the US Air Force and writes what her dreams tell her to. Sometimes she blurs the genre line when writing fantasy, paranormal, military/conspiracy, and alien contact. In her science fiction writing, she uses lots of real-life conversations and experiences. Her first work, Another…
Well, here I am. Each day, I escape to another time period, sometimes even to another planet. This is the life of a writer. Hi, everyone. Today is not unlike most days. I’m busy editing, writing, and promoting my dystopian sci-fi and fantasy book series, Mystical Slayers. I grew up playing dungeons and dragons, and my…
Hello, everybody. My name is Stephen Helmes, and I am the author of the Nightly Visits series. I was born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in the U.S.A. It’s a nice place to Google if you enjoy reading about historical locations. Fort Oglethorpe and Chickamauga are places where one of the major battles of the American…
For this month’s Author Spotlight post, I interviewed Atty Eve, the author of the dark and powerful My Beautiful Suicide series. Was there anything that happened in your life that inspired this series? Anything you noticed going on in the world? The original inspiration for this series was the first line of a letter I…
