Month: May 2014

Video Trailer: Miami Mummies

miami_mummies - Web nobadgeThe legendary mastermind criminal and mummy thief, Kyzer Saucy, strikes again. Part-time tomb raider and full-time real estate broker, Wendy Darlin joins her lover, archaeologist Roger Jolley as they struggle to save a rare Miami mummy from the clutches of this evil genius. Can Saucy be stopped before he kills again? Meanwhile can Wendy keep her promise to Alfred Hiccup as he attempts to transmigrate from the afterlife? Or has Wendy finally made one promise too many?

This book is an homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock… who is probably turning over in his grave.

Miami Mummies, the Wendy Darlin Comedy Mystery, by Amazon.com bestselling author Barbara Silkstone, is available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and other online retailers.

Don’t forget, you can cast your vote for trailer of the month on May 31, 2014 at 5 p.m. Pacific time.

The Cliché

clicheLike every subject to do with writing, this is a theme that comes up ‘time and time again’; there that didn’t take long did it?

The origin of the word cliché is, not surprisingly, French. The French first used the word to describe the sound that a matrix, or a mould with letters on it, made when being dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate. Well, the meaning has certainly come a long way since then.

There are various interpretive descriptions of ‘the cliché’, depending on which dictionary or thesaurus you consult, but this one describes it well enough for most readers to grasp its meaning: an original saying, phrase, work of art or part thereof that, through continual use, becomes trite and unimaginative; or this, the cliché can be an expression imposed by conventionalised linguistic usage. Continue reading “The Cliché”

Anthems for Authors – The Book I Read

When you’re writing a book, you need a lot of words. Pretty much, right? But songs don’t need a lot of words – and sometimes, it doesn’t take a lot of words to say how a book makes someone feel. Here, in The Book I Read by The Talking Heads, there aren’t a lot of lyrics – but any author can appreciate the ones that are there: “I’m writing ’bout the book I read / I have to sing about the Book I read / I’m embarrassed to admit it hit the soft spot in my heart / When I found out you wrote the / Book I read”  Have a listen … and smile.

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Book Brief: Delaney’s Hope

Delaney's HopeDelaney’s Hope
by Ed Griffin
Genre of this Book: social science fiction
Word count: 99,000

He never thought they’d agree. A prison without walls. Inmates managing themselves. One last chance to turn their lives around.

When warden Tom Delaney proposes a new style prison he never imagined the head of the prison board would give him funding. When he gets the green light there is only one condition-the inmates he’s assigned will be the toughest, most dangerous criminals in the state.

Men and women desperate to break free from their bonds.

A sadistic prison governor with his own agenda.

And Tom Delaney, the warden who wouldn’t give up.

Delaney’s Hope is the story of the prison that should never have worked.

This book is available at Amazon. Continue reading “Book Brief: Delaney’s Hope”