Big. Fat. Mouths. by B.C. Brown

Author B.C. Brown

What do writers do? We write; we sculpt and mold words into breathtaking displays of art that will, hopefully, endear themselves to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world.

How do writers do this? We touch fingertips to keypads, or mar clean, white paper with ink or graphite sticks; we lay down lines of scratchy, spidery letters or pound out digitally-formed words until letters transmogrify into ruthless villains, romantic love interests, or thrilling action sequences.

What keeps a writer from doing all this? Our Big. Fat. Mouths.

I’ve been in the writing game a lot of years. I picked up a pencil to write before I understood rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling properly. Those things are important to publishing but not to writing. What is important are the stories. Continue reading “Big. Fat. Mouths. by B.C. Brown”

Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines Wins Silver Medal in 2012 Indie Book Awards

Indies Unlimited contributing author Carol Wyer just spent two weeks in France to organize venues and interviews for the big release of her upcoming novel,  Surfing in Stilettos.

When she arrived back home in the UK, she was greeted with the news that her novel, Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines, had won a silver medal in the 2012 Indie Book Awards. Carol’s book took honors in the humor category. See a complete list of winners and finalists HERE.

From the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Website: “The Next Generation Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 60 different categories, for the year, and is presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (www.IBPPG.com) in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency.”

Carol says, “I couldn’t collect it from New York in person so the organisers sent it via the postal service along with some shiny stickers for my novel (The book now has more stickers than it can display. At this rate you won’t be able to read either the title or the author’s name.)”

The award-winning Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines is available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Please join Indies Unlimited in congratulating Carol for this exciting accomplishment!

Congratulations to Author Robert K. Blechman

Executive SeveranceThe Media Ecology Association (MEA) has awarded Executive Severance, the mystery novel by Robert K. Blechman, with the 2012 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work.

Originally posted in real time tweets on Twitter, Executive Severance is a laugh-out-loud comic mystery novel that shows off what can be done in the 140-character form with style and mastery. Executive Severance is a cornucopia of word play, comic misdirection and a total lack of adherence to the old “rules” of storytelling. Robert K. Blechman’s delight in the language shows in every tweet – that is to say, every thread of the story. His plot is tight, tingling, and diverting.

Executive Severance is available in paperback from Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.You can learn more about Robert and his book on his blog, and you can read the full announcement on The Media Ecology Association’s website here.

Sneak Peek: Beyond the Will of God by David Biddle

beyond the will of godToday we have a sneak peek from David Biddle’s mystery novel, Beyond the Will of God:

Police detective Jill Simpson investigates the murder of an Amish teenager. Tabloid reporter Frank Harris investigates mysterious Elvis sightings in Missouri farm country. As these two work first separately and then as a team, the plot progresses to include many of the legendary conspiracies people pondered during the ‘60s and ‘70s. Threaded through the story is the question of the power of music, especially loud guitar music, and whether we have missed out on identifying secret dimensions of human perception here in the 21st century. Beyond the Will of God is an off-the-grid mystery.

Beyond the Will of God is available through Amazon.com

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