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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. Iām busy editing, writing, and promoting my dystopian sci-fi and fantasy book series,Ā Mystical Slayers. I grew up playing dungeons and dragons, and my…
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…
Betty has lost her mind. Iām not sure that she was ever sane. Of the opinion that everything and everyone in her life has always been against her, she resents those she calls the Beloveds, people that she feels have everything going their way and who are getting all the things that she deserves. When…
Have you ever walked around in Alabama with an ice cream cone in your back pocket? I hope you’ve not put salt on a railroad track while there either. When you were flying over Alaska, were you caught staring at a moose out of your plane window? Would you be brave enoughāor stupid enoughāto wake…
In just ten weeks, Kate McCall has used her acting expertise, her theatrical flair, and her dramatic savvy (her words) to solve not just one or two, but many cases. It all started when her father was found dead, tied to a chair with his eyes blown out. He left Kate his private detective business.…
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. Itās 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 personās 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.Ā 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.Ā 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 soulās eternal resting place was decided in a courtroom. You are on trial for every little thing, good or bad, that youāve 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,Ā 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 motherās 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 personās 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 monthās 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.…
BringĀ andĀ takeĀ 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. Heās on a business trip, but thatās not the bad thing. The bad thing is that the building heās in is attacked by terrorists who are after him, and he, along with his attorney, must escape them. He doesnāt 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 thousandsāif not tens of thousandsāof songs, but we think nothing of it. Music is an alphabet of twelve notes…
