Review of Evil Ways, by Justin Justainis

From the pen of Justin Gustainis comes another page turner… Quincey Morris and Libby Chastian are not your everyday, ordinary private detectives. They specialize in supernatural cases that involve witchcraft, vampires, werewolves and all sorts of preternatural creatures. In this story, an eccentric billionaire named Walter Grobius has one thing in his agenda: to control [...]

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Review of The Devil’s Trill, by Gerald Elias

Devil’s Trill By Gerald Elias Minotaur Books ISBN: 0312541813 Copyright 2009 Hardcover, 306 words, $25.99 General Fiction Devil’s Trill, a first-time novel written by violinist, composer and conductor Gerard Elias, is a fascinating story that explores the complex and tumultuous underworld of classical music, priceless violins and virtuoso performers. Our protagonist, Daniel Jacobus is a [...]

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Interview with Ruby Dominguez, author of The Peruke Maker

My guest today is horror author Ruby Dominguez.  She has book out–actually, a script–about the witch hunt in Salem titled, The Peruke Maker, the Salem Witch Hunt Curse.  She has been a recipient of the "Editor’s Choice Award," by the National Library of Poetry in 1999 and in 2007 for her published poems in the [...]

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Interview with Romantic Suspense author Susan Crandall

Susan Crandall is an award-winning women’s fiction, suspense, romance and mystery author from a small town in central Indiana. A lifelong reader, she began writing with her sister after raising her two children and retiring from her first career as a dental hygienist. Her first solo-book and first published work, Back Roads, won the RITA [...]

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Guest Post by Lori Armstrong, mystery author of NO MERCY

Writing about the darker aspects of human nature doesn’t come easily to me. Not because my life is rainbows and butterflies, but it seems every time I head down that path, my personality changes and I become even more reclusive than I normally am. I write like a demon to get rid of the demon, [...]

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Interview with Stephen Tremp, author of BREAKTHROUGH

In a world where the Information Age is moving at breakneck speed, breakthroughs in areas of science that were once fodder for science fiction are now becoming a part of our everyday life. A group of graduate students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have stolen a breakthrough in opening and stabilizing Einstein-Rosen Bridges, or wormholes, [...]

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Review of How to Write Fast Under Pressure, by Philip Vassallo

Although this book is meant primarily for business people who have to write reports on a regular basis, I asked for a review copy because the title intrigued me. As an author, I’m always interested in writing advice, especially when it’s related to writing fast and, as the title states, under pressure. As it turned [...]

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Guest Post: “What Makes A Successful Author?” by Barbora Knobova

Many authors ask themselves what it means to be truly successful. Many of them believe that success comes with fame. Others think that success comes with money. Others long for a bestseller status. What does success mean to you? Yes, fame is cool and royalty checks are something no author complains about (the more the [...]

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