Month: February 2013

Sneak Peek: Comes the Night

Today we have a sneak peek from author Norah Wilson’s 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 is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and Smashwords.

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You Tell Us…

The talented and underfed staff at Indies Unlimited cuts a wide swath through subjects of interest to our readers, but that doesn’t mean we have covered every topic imaginable or of interest to you.

Sure, we could continue to use our amazing mental powers to divine your areas of interest; or we could just ask you what you’d like to see addressed. That’s the whole point of our reader request feature, You Asked For It.

What’s on your mind? What issues, areas, controversies, tutorials, surveys would you like to see IU undertake? Our staff will divvy up the requests and hand-craft posts to tackle the questions asked.

Book Brief: CIA Fall Guy

CIA Fall Guy: A Spy Thriller
by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Genre: Romantic suspense spy story
Word count: 36,800

This romantic suspense spy story takes place in 1997 when Beth Parsons is called to CIA headquarters and asked to identify someone from when she worked for a U.S. Army intelligence unit in Munich, Germany.

When what Beth is told doesn’t add up, she fears she may become a fall guy for the CIA. She escapes her CIA “babysitter” and sets off to discover why she is suddenly back in the world of espionage.

Her quest takes her to Europe and then back to the U.S., and pairs her with the man who may have been responsible for her husband’s death.

If you like spy stories and tales of intrigue — especially ones with a dash of romantic suspense, CIA FALL GUY is for you!

This book is available from Amazon.

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Five Tips for Using What You Know to Write Fiction

A Guest Post
by Steve George

It’s an old saw for new authors: Write what you know. The advice explains why so many memoirs and how-to books are being published these days, but it’s small comfort for the beginning novelist whose life experiences don’t include travel to exotic locations, knowledge of police procedures, or service in the CIA.

Like many aspiring authors, I tried writing a novel—in my case, a political thriller—without a clue about the subject. About halfway through, my ignorance caught up with me. I never finished it. I had always heard the mantra, “Write what you know,” but I couldn’t imagine how what I knew would interest anybody. One day, when I was looking out my home office window, I thought, “What if my main character works at home? And what if he’s a do-it-yourselfer? And what if he likes to help his neighbors with their home projects and that gets him into trouble somehow?” I could write a story about that. Continue reading “Five Tips for Using What You Know to Write Fiction”