Month: September 2012

Featured Author: Reggie Ridgway

Reggie Ridgway always dreamed of becoming a writer. As an avid reader from an early age, he found a wonderful escape in stories. After graduating high school, he served for 7 years as a medic in the Air Force. He went on to study medicine, but love and family life put his plans for becoming a doctor on the back burner.

He obtained a BA in computer science while holding down a day job as an x-ray tech in Southern California. He taught math and computer programming in a local junior college. After some encouragement from his creative writing professor, he began to pursue his ambitions as an author.

His writing infuses his experience working with computers and in the medical field into his own blend of high tech drama.  He draws inspiration from medical thriller writers Peter Clement and Michael Palmer.

Reggie lives with his wife in a house which looks out on Lake Isabella, in Southern California, where he derives much peace and inspiration. Continue reading “Featured Author: Reggie Ridgway”

Can You Tell A Lie?

Welcome to The Learning Curve. I am chronicling my journey as a new writer in hopes of inspiring you to put that bag of chips down, step away from the television, and tell the world a good story.

Can You Tell A Lie?

In the documentary post I made a couple of months ago (A Writers Truth), I mentioned that telling a good story requires the skill of an experienced liar. Well, I may not have put it exactly like that, but close enough. Why do some books succeed while others sit on the shelves gathering dust, or in Amazon’s case lazy little electrons that refuse to budge? Who knows? Perhaps it was the cover, or the title. It could have been the blurb didn’t sound interesting enough. For whatever the reasons, these books just didn’t appeal to an audience. Art is subjective. More on that in a moment. Let’s talk about truth and lies for a bit. Continue reading “Can You Tell A Lie?”

John Wayne Falbey Announces New Release

Sleeping Dogs_The AwakeningAuthor John Wayne Falbey is pleased to announce his new techno-political thriller, Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening.

Nature’s beta models of the next evolutionary leap forward in human beings were molded into the blackest of black ops units. It was dismantled and the men ordered terminated with extreme prejudice. Faking their own deaths, they went to ground for twenty years. Now they’re being reunited to stop a foreign power from destroying the US from within. Someone let the Dogs out. This book works the same side of the street as Brad Thor and other modern thriller writers. Closely tracking the issues behind today’s headlines, the plotline weaves cutting edge developments in technology, weaponry, and genetics research with the political intrigue occurring inside the Beltway today.

“Falbey offers a bold, gritty spy thriller…conjures memories of Lawrence Sanders and his hero Edward X. Delaney….” -Kirkus Reviews

Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening was self-published by John Wayne Falbey in June 2012. It is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Kobo, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble.

Sneak Peek: Seed

SeedToday we have a sneak peek from author Frank Fiore’s new action/adventure novel, Seed.

Jeremy Nash arrives home after a harrowing trip by plane across the Atlantic in terrible weather to find a Hopi Indian maiden waiting for him at his sister¹s house. She tells them she has something for the eldest son of his father that will prove his parents were murdered ­ and lead him to who killed them. She gives him an invoice for a Kachina doll order with strange code words on it that leads to a series of clues to the 2012 End Times Hopi predictions ­and the secret organization that murdered his parents for what they discovered.

Seed is available in free installments on Smashwords.

And now, an excerpt from Seed: Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Seed”