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…
Tag: Sway
Fiction Writing, Guest Posts, Kentuckiana Authors
Why Dreams? – Guest Post by Matthew Keith
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• •Author Interviews
Matthew Keith Interview– Nightmares, Inspiration, and a Nameless Character
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• •Have nightmares ever been an issue for this author? How completely does he develop his characters before beginning to write? Why isn’t the main character’s name ever given? What are his thoughts on self-publishing? Sway begins with the transcription of dialogue between a doctor and his patient. The patient’s name, blacked out except for two…
Book Reviews, Dark Fiction, Fiction Writing, Horror, Kentuckiana Authors, New Words Learned, Suspense/Thrillers, Words
Sway – a Review
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• •Are you in control of what happens in your dreams? If you aren’t, then who is? In this psychological thriller/horror story, you are taken inside the mind of a man who has experienced horrendous things during his childhood. Now that he is an adult, what toll have these events taken on his life? He works…
Book Reviews, Fiction Writing, Horror
Psychological Horror vs. Supernatural Horror
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• •Horror comes in many forms. It can come through a scream heard on a dark night. It can come in eyes wide with terror when something wrong is spotted or felt. Hauntings, sadistic killers, monsters, dragons, a whisper, fear of the unknown, fear of anything, and blood, lots of blood— at least one of these…
Book Reviews, Fantasy, Fiction Writing, Historical Fiction, Kentuckiana Authors, New Words Learned, Science Fiction, Words
Shimmer – a Review
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• •We all studied the lost colony of Roanoke as part of history class when we were in school. I honestly don’t remember much about it. I remember that Virginia Dare, the first child born in the New World, was born in this colony. By this little girl’s third birthday, the entire colony had disappeared. Where…