Month: January 2013

Norah Wilson Announces New Title

Author Norah Wilson is pleased to announce the release of her new young adult paranormal novel, Comes the Night.

Alex, Brooke and Maryanne are all students in their final year of high school at Streep Academy, a boarding school just short of juvie. Although they share a room, the three girls have nothing in common but their own soul-deep pain. But in the attic of their residence, they find the diary of young Connie Harvell, who was confined there decades ago. But in her desperation, a dark part of Connie found a way out of that attic prison, a way to escape her pain. After reading Connie’s diary, God help them, the girls learn to do it too.

Comes the Night was released on November 27, 2012 and is currently available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and Smashwords.

Sneak Peek: My Name Is Hardly

Today we have a sneak peek from author Martin Crosbie’s new suspense thriller, My Name Is Hardly.

Officially, the British government called it a state of unrest. In Northern Ireland, in 1996, they called it “The Troubles”.

Gerald “Hardly” McDougall is a forgotten man. He’s abused, bullied, and left behind. The only escape left is to join the British Army. At first, he’s a reluctant soldier and the Army doesn’t know what to do with him. Everything changes when tensions in Ireland escalate and the Army need a soldier with a particular set of characteristics. Hardly’s re-assigned and sent into the heart of the troubles, living in the same houses as the IRA soldiers he’s fighting against.

My Name Is Hardly, the follow-up book to the #1 Amazon best seller My Temporary Life, is currently available from Amazon.com, and Amazon UK.

Here is an excerpt from  My Name Is Hardly… Continue reading “Sneak Peek: My Name Is Hardly”

Featured Author: A.C. Flory

A.C.Flory is a science fiction writer who lives with her family, and a menagerie of cats, dogs, magpies and alpacas, on a 1.6 acre block in a bushfire prone part of southeastern Australia. During the cooler months she writes, landscapes her garden and enjoys living in amongst the gum trees. But beauty always comes at a price, so the hot, dry months of summer are spent checking her fire-fighting equipment and biting her nails.

As a writer, she draws upon these contrasts in Australia’s often harsh environment to imagine worlds where aliens must face their own battle with the elements. Yet even when writing about the most bizarre of humanoids, she uses the contrast between ‘them’ and ‘us’ to provide insights into the nature of human beings.

In her spare time, A.C.Flory reads voraciously, listens to an eclectic range of music, plays online games [mmo’s] and maintains her blog, Meeka’s Mind. You can find her at http://acflory.wordpress.com. Continue reading “Featured Author: A.C. Flory”

Getting It Right: The Heart of the Matter

Sixty-one year old Paul Chastain is shoveling snow out on his front walk. The wind is biting cold. The snow is heavy and damp.

As he works, he becomes short of breath. He feels a burning sensation in his chest with each lift of the shovel. Paul thinks he must have pulled a muscle in his chest. He stops for a moment and realizes he is positively drenched with sweat. A sensation of lightheadedness overtakes him. A bit of dizziness comes on. Paul decides the rest of the job will have to wait. He heads into the house for another cup of coffee. Continue reading “Getting It Right: The Heart of the Matter”