What is eBookBetty? Who is the founder of this site? Why was this site started? Of what benefit is this site to authors and to readers? What genre of books are accepted by eBookBetty? First of all, for those who are unfamiliar with sites like yours, I suppose we should clarify—what service does your site…
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Author Interviews, Fiction Writing
Joshua Hampton Interview – Outlines, Medieval Dialogue, and Music
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• •Action/Adventure, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Kentuckiana Authors, Science Fiction
Crowns of Silver & Ash: Book 1: The Seven Stars – a Review
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• •Crowns of Silver & Ash: Book I: The Seven Stars is a fantasy lover’s dream book. Fantastic characters—some of them completely human, some not so human, and some magical—pull you into the story and make it hard to pull away from. Starting with the first sentence, the words flowed smoothly together as though they had…
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts
The Pros and Cons of Having a Cliffhanger Ending – Guest Post by Matthew Keith
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Matthew Keith Interview – Inspiration, Research, and a Deadly Rain
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• •What was the author’s inspiration for this series? Which of the characters would he like to sit down with and have dinner? What is the biggest misconception that he had about being an author before he became one? What was the inspiration for this series? A news report? Random thought? A dream? My wife and…
Book Reviews, Confusing Words, Kentuckiana Authors, Paranormal, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Outpost: Survivor Chronicles of the Great Rains: Book One – a Review
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• •When the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down in “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day,” the only thing Pooh Bear was worried about was saving his jars of honey. When the great rains came down on Elizabethtown, Kentucky, it was nothing to sing about; it was something to fear. This rain didn’t provide…
Confusing Words, Words
Confusing Words from Home to Hurtle
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The Cutaway – a Review
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• •A woman, Evelyn, disappears into thin air. For some reason, her disappearance intrigues Virginia Knightly, a journalist. Virginia wants to know what happened to Evelyn, why she simply vanished into thin air while on a walk. Maybe her curiosity is piqued because she recognizes this woman from a video clip she has seen. She just…
Fiction Writing, New Words Learned, Words, Writing, Writing Prompts and Exercises
The Writer’s Journal
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• •Do you dream? Do entire novels play themselves out in your imagination each night as you are peacefully, or not so peacefully, slumbering? Perhaps you daydream. Do you lose track of where you are and what is going on because you have been sucked into a world your mind has created? Does it distress you…
Author Interviews, Fiction Writing
Phyllis Edgerly Ring Interview – The Holocaust, Eva Braun, and Friendship
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• •What inspired Phyllis Edgerly Ring to write about the friendship of two lonely women in Nazi Germany? What would she say to schools that are now teaching that the Holocaust was just a political scheme and never really happened? What is her favorite thing about writing historical fiction? When you first learned about Hitler and…