Cats are lovable, playful companions, and they each have their own personality. Cats all have a few things in common…
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A hitchhiker, a man with no face, a car crash victim, an out-of-work actor, and Death himself all play a part in the macabre stories in this book.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Harry Potter went to a special school for wizards where he learned to control his powers. Teddy Cannon is going to a school where she is learning to control and use her psychic abilities. When the story begins, Teddy has been banned from every poker table in Las Vegas. She has disguised herself and is…
My Little Cities picture books introduce your children to four famous cities: London, England; New York City, New York; Paris, France; and San Francisco, California. Children immediately fall in love with these books because, well, they are books. My grandson Zander loves books, and he claimed them immediately, oohing and aahing over all the pictures.…
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…
How mysterious and scary is your monster? If your monster were to come to life and get lost in your town, would people’s hair stand on end when they saw it? Would they stop whatever they were doing and run from it? Would it cause them to fear for their lives? How do you make…
The research I did for Softly and Tenderly had me delving into things that I would never have learned about just for the fun of it. How fast does a person’s body decompose once they have breathed their last? Just the thought of that gave me chills. When are bugs first attracted to the lifeless…
You can’t see me, but I am here. I do believe I started mid-story. Please, forgive me; let me back up a bit. We are born with the ability to do great things. Will we be the next Beethoven, Shakespeare, or Joan of Arc and transform our darkness into something we can use to overcome…
Imagine that the battle for your soul’s eternal resting place was decided in a courtroom. You are on trial for every little thing, good or bad, that you’ve ever done in your life. Joe has always heard this voice. This voice helped him with his schoolwork and when bullied. This voice helped him with his…
Broken Chains takes place in Azerbaijan, Kenya, and Canada. It is a story of escape from abuse, psychological and physical. It is a story of poverty, deceit, dementia, and alcoholism. It is a story of errors in judgment. The daughter suffers because of her mother’s bad choices, yet she ends up making similar bad choices in…
Whether it be the 1910 horror film, Frankenstein, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, or the 1974 comedy from Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, the image of the monster and his creator are forever etched into our minds. But with all the great adaptations to this fine story over nearly two centuries, we should not…
The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was pregnant with? What became of it?
There are enough rules about when to use a comma and when not to use one to drive any normal person insane. Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are commas between adjectives and sometimes there aren’t? Why is that? Order of AdjectivesDid you know that there is an order in which adjectives should appear?…
Tragedy changes a person’s life. Some lives change for the better; others change in not so great a way. Some are pulled closer to God during times of pain and grief; others push God as far away as they can. Sol Harkens pushed God away. Let There Be Light is a love story. It is…
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…
Idlewild Hall is a place where the girls no one wants are sent. But there is more than learning going on in this boarding school. Then one of the students disappears. There are two timelines in this book: one in the 1950s while Idlewild Hall was an active boarding school and the other in 2014.…
Bring and take are two words that a lot of people are confused about how to use. I’ve heard them used wrong on television shows, in movies, and on radio talk shows. Is there a reason for this confusion? Some people grew up in regions or households where these words were consistently used in the wrong way. Others…
Nathan is not having a good day. He’s on a business trip, but that’s not the bad thing. The bad thing is that the building he’s in is attacked by terrorists who are after him, and he, along with his attorney, must escape them. He doesn’t just want to escape them though. While most would…
Who doesn’t like music? To say music is powerful is the understatement of the millennium. It activates our brain in ways nothing else can. It makes us feel emotions and remember times gone by. We know thousands—if not tens of thousands—of songs, but we think nothing of it. Music is an alphabet of twelve notes…
The words your character just yelled are so very important, and you want to be sure those who will be reading your story notice them. How do you draw attention to those words? How do you convey their importance to your readers?
Political intrigue surrounds a murder and the framing of the son of the president’s right-hand man, and the infamous Russians are involved. The political intrigue, along with the search for the fountain of youth, makes this story hard to put down. A man who appears to be off his rocker forces his way into the…
A monster is defined as a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx. Any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people is also called a monster as is any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the…
Why did Daniel Greene want to write a series about zombies? Which scene in The Rising is his favorite? Which character? Are zombies the only danger the survivors have to watch out for? How hard is it for him to kill his characters? How has writing this series changed his life? What first made you want…
The Strigoi series is addictive. In Strigoi, Marek is betrayed and sent to hell. In Tread the Darkness, Marek is reunited with his family and adjusting to modern times. The focus of Three Come Unbidden is the love life of Marek as well as the love life of Dan. Still unseen by Marek, Ravagiu is…
