October 2011 Blog Posts (464)

I enjoy sharing stuff to read with my younger kids. This is such a story. In fact this is something that besides being an enjoyable read is also educational, and we can all use a bit of that on occasion can’t we? I like the mix, and it fits right in, it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Mark Miller has introduced some nice characters, doesn’t speak down to a soul, and carries off a very difficult high wire act. That for me is a bargain at any price, this just happens to be…

I’d meant to do a blog of my own about the Writers of Mass
Distraction, but my hands have been full the last few days so I thought I’d let
my fellow WMD writer William Kendall explain it, instead. Besides, he explains
it so much better than I would:

http://williamkendallbooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/we-can-be-found-everywhere.html

Come share in the fun at Kristi's Book Nook. It's a birthday book giveaway!…

It’s summer vacation and Deborah Walker invites childhood friend Kimberly Foster to stay in her parents’ cottage retreat in Wisconsin. High School graduation is behind them and now it’s time to let their hair down. Besides partying and being on…

SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK

            There’s probably no better timed holiday than Halloween. After all, it comes just before the two most frightening times on the calendar: Winter, and elections.

            It’s hardly surprising, then, that one popular Halloween mask is any famous politician. Two years ago I went out as then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, stopped all the other Trick-Or-Treaters, and collected 28% of their candy. The only real drawback was…

Filmmaker cum author Dan Bessie stopped by The Untreed Reads Blog to bring a little family history to light in honor of Gay History Month.

At age fourteen, I’d never heard the term “gay.” It wasn’t used during my formative years, from the mid-1940s into the 50s. My pals…

British scribe Sharon Bidwell swung by The Untreed Reads blog to contribute to our celebration of Gay History Month. Here's her tale of becoming an established author.

I always say I write as I read, meaning anything and everything. From the…

I have had the good fortune to have interviewed Natasha Deen on a few different occasions on The-GZONE, my blogtalk radio show. She is a blast; please go back to the interviews and get a feel for this fun, energetic author. She infuses this story with plenty of eye wink-wink fun, merriment and tongue in cheek craziness. Her plotline is unique, the narrative right on the mark, and the prose is just too much. If you have not yet had the chance to read one of her stories, please take the time…

The week just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Today I have at least three authors on the blogtalk radio show at 5.30 pm EST today. They are in no particular order: Karen Anna Vogel, Karen Malena and Roger Rheinheimer. Will we have fun, you bet, that was a bad question.

Karen Anna Vogel is the author of the hugely successful “Amish Knitting Circle” digital short story series. Her first one “Beginnings-Volume 1”, hit Number One on the Amazon Kindle charts for short stories. Not in its…

Once I saw the book cover for Vacation by Matthew Costello and read the publisher’s blurb, I knew I had to request an advance reader’s copy (ARC). Luckily I scored a hard copy for one lucky reader to win in a giveaway – thank you St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books! They even included a brochure for the Paterville Family Camp. I cracked up when I saw the brochure. Their marketing team obviously has a great sense of humor. Although this book definitely qualifies as…

   AND SUCH GREAT NAMES AS THESE - ALLEN MAKEPEACE

THE CRUELTY OF EXCLUSION

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For ninety-nine cents, what the heck am I getting? In most cases a lot! Think about this moment and follow with me. When you went to the supermarket last time what did that buck grab you? A pack of gum, no, a 20 oz. carbonated beverage, again no, toilet paper, one roll and a little change maybe, a loaf of bread, again no. Enough of that? Good. Now picture an author hard at work on a story. How long do you think they labor over a digital short story? Minutes, an hour, more? I go with the more…

Meet Laura Bickle, paranormal suspense romance author of Embers and Sparky ~ the Anya Kalinczyk series.

Talk about ghosts, dragons, firefighters, salamanders (yea, you heard me right), you gotta hear about these books ~ and it’s possible to win one. Come and join the fun at: http://kaydeeroyal.blogspot.com/?zx=454da0d4b008ac9  

Kay…