It was a typical morning at the IU Staff cantina. Chris James and Cathy Speight were making a pot of coffee. L.A. Lewandowski and Carol Wyer practiced some yoga asanas in the corner. Yvonne Hertzberger and Carolyn Steele were testing a new recipe for lime Jell-O. I started reflecting on the amazing depth of experience our members bring to this blog. They write, they edit, they inspire, and some of them are so talented, Rich Meyer wants to set them out on the nearest street corner with a tin cup so we can make a few extra bucks. I wished I knew so many dedicated professionals when I was just starting out. So I asked our illustrious contributors what advice they would give a beginning or aspiring author, and here are some of the cleaner things they said: Continue reading “What Would You Tell a New Writer?”
Month: February 2013
Michael James Gallagher Announces New Title
Author Michael James Gallagher is pleased to announce the release of his new espionage thriller, Tsunami Connection.
A Mossad sleeper, the clever and striking protagonist, Kefira, stumbles into a deadly world domination plot. A diabolical Russian Oligarch devises a frighteningly effective weapon of mass destruction, while the CIA knowingly lingers and procrastinates to see if the weapon’s target succumbs. An evil Fenian terrorist goes rogue during the ‘Arab Spring’ in a destabilized Middle East. All the while, a despotic Russian President plots in an effort to influence prices in crude oil markets. To top it off, a sinister, though little known, powerful, yet clandestine, Chinese General watches events, waiting to pounce, using a new, highly secret weapon of mind control developed and tested on unwitting prisoners in the North Korean ‘Gulag’.
Tsunami Connection was released on January 2, 2013 and is currently available from Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
The 2012 Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Anthology
Are you in it? The Indies Unlimited 2012 Flash Fiction Anthology is now available.
Not a part of this amazing collection of stories? Then hop to it and start entering in this year’s challenges. You have another 47 chances to win! We’re still accepting entries for this week’s prompt here.
The Indies Unlimited 2012 Flash Fiction Anthology, will be free through Kindle Select on February 14 to February 17 at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
Sneak Peek: Darkness Falls
Today we have a sneak peek of author Mathieu Gallant’s apocalyptic science fiction novel: Darkness Falls.
Robert Hendricks is coming home, whether he likes it or not.
Troubled by the thought of seeing the Earth again after 153 years in deep space, Hendricks isn’t so sure he wants any part of a mission there. But with the Galactic Empire at stake, he has resolved to try, at least. The first step: finally tell his story to the extra-terrestrials who rescued him from the apocalypse consuming planet Earth in the year 2026.
Why has he spent a century-and-a-half trying to forget he’s human?
Darkness Falls is available through Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
Here is an excerpt from Darkness Falls… Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Darkness Falls”