New to Book Blogs. Still finding my way around. Don't know what to say for a first post exactly. Having a great time finishing up my latest (untitled) novel set in Ukraine.  And having fun with the promotion aspect of LAND RUN.  I had an agent for Land Run for 6 months. Then a publisher and all that comes with that. Land Run has ben out for only 4 months and already great fun!  It is considered a 'crossover' novel mainly because it does not fit into the mold of 'Christian Fiction'. Niether…

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It is my best guess that as you are reading this, you may be wondering:

 "Hey, Patricia! Where's that book review you promised me?"

(And…

With multiple novels under his belt as well as new upcoming releases Alan Nayes is a very busy kind of guy. He’s writing, he’s fishing, he’s relaxing … then goes back to writing. From thrillers like “Gargoyles” and “The Unnatural” to a romance like “Barbary Point”, he’s delved into a vast…

Psychology can be loosely understood as the study of how thoughts interfere in people’s behavior. So here’s a bit of psychology for you.

The thoughts that cause people most problems are those related with survival and safety. In fact, we will attach ourselves to even the most negative thoughts if we believe they are needed for…

Pump Up Your Book Live! September 2011 Authors on Tour Chat/Book Giveaway Party Tonight!

WE’RE HAVING A PARTY!!!!

Pump Up Your Book is hosting the September 2011 Authors on Tour at a chat/book giveaway party on Friday, September 30, 2011 starting at 8 p.m. eastern (7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. Mountain…

Cody Toye has a way with fantasy/paranormal/ sci-fi/horror. He has done it with his series “Intangibles” and he brings those skills to bear here in “Clone Zone”. The digital short story is quick, furious, and rampaging. This is the 24^th installment in The Author’s Lab/Collaborations series and it is a barnburner. Surprisingly the cast of characters is small yet many, basically because they all look like the same person. This story is under consideration to become its own…

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Here is a review from the premiere "issue" of my movie and book review website. Hope you find it useful! For more, go to http://estellasbooksmarts.weebly.com/

SEPTEMBER 2011

At the promising outset of…

Ever since I saw the book cover last summer for The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta, I’ve been dying to get my hands on a copy. I was thrilled to win this novel in the Back to the Books Giveaway Hop earlier this month. Now I can pay it forward by providing a giveaway of my own so one lucky reader can win this novel!

When all of the media hype was circulating about some preacher predicting a specific date for the Rapture a while back, some of my Facebook friends and I were joking…

Quick Response Codes! I think they are also called 'Semapedia Tags'.  They are those two-dimensional, square bar codes, with lots of tiny boxes, that can be read by most smart phones.  You put them on physical things, like business cards, posters, t-shirts, books, stickers (to stick on things!), billboards, etc. 

The smart phone user scans the code and POOF!!! There are a number of things that can happen!  They can…

 Barbara Ardinger, author of Secret Lives is on Book Tour this month with Pump Up Your Book and her press release appears in the Long Beach Post online edition. Take a look at the press release and then visit her tour page at  Pump Up Your Book.…

Here's the question that will be reposted until Monday. One lucky winner will get one of the first print copies of Bloodbreeders: Living in Darkness. Released in print TODAY!

"If you could be someone else, famous or otherwise, for one day, who would it be and…

Discover more zombie stuff today than you can handle with the Virtual Zombie Walk. All you have to do is come onto my blog and see my zombie post and then there will be a list of links. Click on the next blog on the list and "walk" over there to see their zombie posting, then the next on the list and the next. There are over 50 participants this year. There will be zombie poems, zombie reviews, zombie recipes, zombie films, zombie short stories, and much more. Start here: …

I grew up among bombed buildings and hearing stories from my parents about the difficultes of air raids, so it was little wonder I’d always wanted to write a novel with World War II as its theme. When I found out about the shameful and extraordinarily cruel internment of Italian men in 1940, I knew I had an amazing event around which to build a story. Internment of Italians happened in Britain, where I set the novel, but it also happened in the United States — California recently apologized…

The Curse of a Mind is one heck of a spine-chilling thriller mixed with spicy romance parts ~ Yummy combo. Destiny gives the scoop on herself and her book today at:

http://kaydeeroyal.blogspot.com/?zx=de1c2dfb96cd079a

She’s also offering a giveaway to some lucky commenter.

See you…

THE GIST:

A pair of forensic scientists pair up with a police inspector to solve an escalating series of murders in Victorian England when the science is in its infancy.

THE VERDICT:

Visit A Kindle in Hong Kong to see my thoughts on this cool mystery novel.

New review of "Storm Chaser":

http://readersfavorite.com/review/4859