Archive for the ‘Guest Blogs’ Category
Inspiration
James Davis is the author of 1930’s Soho crime thriller Noho, published in September 2011 by Wild Wolf Publishing. A keen writer from childhood it was perhaps inevitable that after university James would end up hunched over a keyboard in London’s Fitzrovia, scratching a living from writing freelance magazine commissions whilst working on his fiction. [...]
February 3, 2012
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Seeing What Writers Write And Why
Jeffrey Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant. Although he moved with his family at an early age, the family frequently told stories about Grant and the people of the small farming community. At the age of twelve, he was introduced to the works of Agatha Christie via her [...]
January 31, 2012
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Do Books Make You Hungry Or Is It Just Me?
Liz Jasper always enjoyed writing, but in college and graduate school dutifully studied things that would make her “marketable.” Fortunately, she loved her stint as a middle school science teacher (most of the time), her time working as a business analyst and still really enjoys her most recent career switch into financial planning. And yet…while [...]
January 27, 2012
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You’ve Changed—Has Your Website?
Returning guest blogger Sunny Frazier, whose first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, Fools Rush In, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association, is here to remind us all that freshness is not just important for food. sunny69@comcast.net http://www.sunnyfrazier.com http://www.oaktreebooks.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Websites are now as important for establishing identity as a [...]
January 24, 2012
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Setting As Inspiration
Nancy J. Cohen is an award-winning author who writes romance and mysteries. Her popular Bad Hair Day series features hairdresser Marla Shore, who solves crimes with wit and style under the sultry Florida sun. Several titles in this series have made the IMBA bestseller list, while Nancy’s imaginative sci-fi romances have garnered rave reviews. Her [...]
January 22, 2012
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Beginnings and Endings
Lucy Burdette (aka clinical psychologist and mystery author Roberta Isleib) is the author of the Key West food critic mysteries including An Appetite for Murder (NAL.) You can read more at her website www.lucyburdette.com or follow her on Facebook www.facebook.com/lucyburdette and Twitter www.twitter.com/lucyburdette. The happy pooch with Lucy is Tonka. My mother’s not around to [...]
January 20, 2012
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Why I Love Working With Words
Sheila Dalton is the author of several books for children, teens, and adults, including two literary novels, Tales of the Ex Fire-Eater, and The Girl in the Box. Her YA mystery, Trial by Fire, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis, Canada’s major crime writers award, and all her children’s books bear the Canadian Children’s Book [...]
January 17, 2012
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A Canadian Town Full Of Books
In an era when people are traveling less and are buying fewer books, the small seaside community of Sidney has managed to buck both trends by making itself a destination for book lovers. This small town of 11,000, about 2 hours by ferry from Bellingham in Washington State, used to be known mainly as a [...]
January 15, 2012
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The Hidden Effects of Climate Change
Jeanne Matthews was born and raised in Georgia, where owning a gun is required by law in certain places and “he needed killing” is a valid legal defense to homicide. Jeanne’s debut novel, Bones of Contention, published in June, 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press, features a conniving Georgia clan plopped down in the wilds of [...]
January 13, 2012
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On Winning the Lottery—And A Contest To Win A Book!
Lois Winston is the author of the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries published by Midnight Ink. Assault With a Deadly Glue Gun, the first book in the series, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. The new year brings with it the release of Death By Killer Mop Doll, the second book in [...]
January 10, 2012
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