Month: April 2013

Video Trailer: The Great Promise

The Great Promise is journey into the hell of war, the hearts of the men engaging in battle, and the search for closure for those left in its wake. Intimately descriptive and bracingly honest it transcends the reader beyond the historical depiction of war, transporting them into the trenches through the use of compelling journal entries. It is also a story of a promise made between four friends prior to their first battle; a promise unkept for nearly one-hundred years, until a grandson attempts to fulfill it.

The Great Promise, the World War I historical book by Frederick L. Coxen, is available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon UK.

Don’t forget, you can cast your vote for trailer of the month on April 27, 2013 at 5 p.m. Pacific time.

Book Brief: The Farewell Season

The Farewell Season
by Ann Herrick
Genre: Young Adult Coming of Age
Word count: 43,500

A story of how love endures and love heals.

Eric and Glynnie go from butting heads to grudging friendship to something more…

Eric used to think he’d live forever, but not any more. Now football season is about to start, and Eric hopes he can live life normally again after the

death of his father through his participation in the sport. He doesn’t yet realize that he is angry with his father for dying.

Eric’s refusal to truly face his grief results in unexpected feelings such as anger at his coach, increased fights with his sister, resentment of added

responsibilities in helping his mother, and disillusionment with football. He even gets into a fight with his best friend, Rolf, who never fights anyone.

Eric rails against his mother’s friendship with Paul Lindquist, his father’s business partner, and he’s suspicious of the guy in a black pickup who keeps showing up around town. He’s also ticked that even his coach seems a little too interested in his mother.

It takes a special relationship with Glynnie, a new friend, who is dealing with the divorce of her parents to see that the only way to get through his grief is by grieving.

This book is available from Amazon as well as Barnes & Noble.

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A Helping Hand…Confound those compounds

Compound adjectives (modifiers):  another department in the punctuation shop with which (unedited) books seem to be inundated…uncompounded.  Writers (and their editors) seem to struggle with them. Compound adjectives are when two words are linked with a hyphen to form one descriptive word. So, let’s try and make it simple…

The room was furnished with a four-poster bed

The room was furnished with a four poster bed would be incorrect. If you were to take out one of those words describing the bed, you would be left with a four bed or a poster bed; and that makes no sense, does it? Hyphenating four poster makes the idea a single one. Continue reading “A Helping Hand…Confound those compounds”

Sneak Peek: Convergence of Valor

Today we have a sneak peek from author Guntis Goncarovs’ historical fiction novel, Convergence of Valor.

The Federal blockade was strangling Charleston into submission. The Confederacy was struggling to maintain existence. General Pierre T. Beauregard listened as President Jefferson Davis promised the people of Charleston they would never fall. On the Cooper River dock sat Beauregard’s only hope to meet Davis’ promise — a submarine that had already taken thirteen sailors to a watery grave. He needed to find eight more brave men to take the vessel on one more suicide mission. Convergence of Valor is the story of how the lives of those eight brave men converged in Charleston and marked history on the night of February 17, 1864.

Convergence of Valor is available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and Amazon UK.

Here is an excerpt from Convergence of Valor… Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Convergence of Valor”