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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 presidentās 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 inĀ 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…
Over forty years ago, I embarked on an incredible journey: digging up the roots of my family tree. It whisked me away to such remote places of the world as the quaint hamlet of Porlock on the southwest coast of England, where I found myself among pirates and smugglers. It dragged me through the bloody…
Traitors’ Fate, published February 13, 2018, is a standaloneĀ book that takes place after the events ofĀ Queen of Thieves, Book 3.Ā It is suggested that you read Child of the Night Guild, Thief of the Night Guild, and Queen of the Night Guild first. About Traitors’ Fate Ilanna, Master of the Night Guild, has waged a war…
Are you scared of what lurks in the dark? The suirlang, a creature you donāt want to meet, doesnāt always lurk in the dark, but it does prefer to come out at night. You will know one is close by the horrendous stench that fills the air around it. The way this suirlang feeds is…
One thing we authors often hear is “kill your darlings.” This usually refers to the parts of our books we really like but may not work in the larger context of the story. That could include certain elements, tropes, or favorite characters. But some authors take a different approach to this. I asked Andy Peloquin,…
How much pain would you be willing to endure to be thought of as beautiful? To what lengths would you be willing to go to ensure that you were thought of as sexy? How much trauma would you be willing to put your feet and your body through? For me, wearing high heels isn’t safe…
What if you learned that your father was bent on destroying you and everything you loved? What if you discovered that your entire life had been a lie? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to grow up in the mob? Reneeās father is a tyrant and underboss for a powerful crime family.…
I started writing when I was a kid. I always loved to read and would get lost in worlds that were so vivid in my imagination. When I was in fourth grade, I entered a young writersā conference and placed second. After that, I started writing short stories in spiral notebooks and eventually had too…
The dreary days and super-cold temperatures of this winter have left me longing for warmer days and sunshine. How about you? Have you ever been to the land of the midnight sun? Do your dogs like to apricate? Have you watched a turnsole follow the movement of the sun? What does alpenglow have to do…
Chase your dreams, they often say. How many truly get a chance to do so? In a world that is dog-eat-dog and whatnot, chasing dreams is something meaningless and devoid of context. It is an empty platitude and nothing more. Something strange happened in my case. The stars aligned and a very special woman made…
Dreams.Ā We all have them, some more often than others do.Ā No matter how often we have them, our dreams take us to other worlds, other situations, other realities.Ā What if while you were asleep at night you could leave your body and go anywhere you wanted? Paul has sleep issues.Ā Itās not that he…
Dreams are the focal point for most of my stories. The four books in The Watchers Series are based on a young man who can leave his body and go anywhere in his dreamsāastral travel. Sway is about a man confronting his tormented past through a recurring nightmare. Until Then Dream Again is about a…
Is the burial of a dead body interment or internment? If a person dies without making a will, do they die interstate, intestate, or intrastate? Is a small island an aisle or an isle? Which one is possessive: it’s or its? interment, internment Interment is the burial of a dead body in a grave or…
How mad would you be if your husband was dreaming of another woman every single night? Would you be jealous? How would you react if he told you that even though she existed only in his dreams that he had fallen in love with her? How real are your dreams? A man is on his…
What would you call the cry of a newborn child? What about the sound that is made when your car runs over a manhole cover? When you’re so hungry you could eat an elephant, what sound does your stomach make? Cachinnation is loud or hysterical laughter. It is when you laugh so hard that tears…
Some people seem to have a knack for getting themselves in trouble and embroiled in hard-to-get-out-of situations. Kate McCall is one of those people. What presents itself to her as a simple case always turns out to be so much more, and because of that, she winds up about to be arrested, handcuffed and arrested,…
Snow is beautiful when it first falls. When its pristine whiteness covers everything, it creates a gorgeous winter wonderland. Unfortunately, it has to melt, and when it does, the beautiful winter wonderland turns into a dirty mess that is not pleasing to look at. Sposh, soft slushy mud or snow, is one of the words…
You think youāve had a bad start to your day? In Tread the Darkness, the second book in the Strigoi series, Marekās day begins in a way that is probably worse than anything youāve ever experienced. In the middle of a cold snowy winter, he is flung naked onto the crowded streets of Paris where…
My father stood by his story that I was named after a 1940’s stripper until his death. I never had the heart to tell him that his claim did not hold up to an internet search. I learned Toni Seven was a starlet, but clearly, his version is so much better than the truth. Iām…
Like any writer of horror, I have a desire to create a monster that will have people trembling in their seats. I have been researching how to do that. Thinking up a monster should be easy, right? Well, in a way it is, but if the readers donāt think your monster is believable, you will…
