Vanessa Morgan's new book Drowned Sorrow

I found an interesting post from Vanessa Morgan about her new book Drowned Sorrow talking about a subject I am very interested in. Memory of Water please stop by and checkout some very interesting facts that will make you think.

http://vanessa-morgan.blogspot.com/2012/03/creepy-facts-about-water.html

New cover for THE ROT

Experimenting with creating a new cover for my book THE ROT

The Lorax- Dr. Seuss App Review

 This an entertaining read every Kindle Fire will Need

What an amazing fun App, Art and graphics are top notch very vivid colors to please the eye and truly light up you Kindle Fire screen. The Auto play reads the words as it shifts your view of the pictures in the book. The voice fits the art excellently and the sound effects of the wind and the animals take you further into the story. The auto play last for 20 minutes of engaging interest.


The story is also a classic taking on industrial progress over nature. You can also read it without the auto play and interact with the art that announces the object you press on and also will read any word you press on.

I bought it for my grandson for when he gets a little older and will enjoy it. If this is what children books are becoming I think it will create plenty of hours of enjoyment for the little ones as they learn the wonder of books.

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My Kindle Fire review

 Nice in Print and on the Fire, March 4, 2012


The photos and info are well organized in both formats of the book in print and digital. High quality Photos in color and the book is a nice size you can carry around if you need some quick tips on working your new Kindle Fire.

Some of the info was stuff I already knew, but I am a bit of a tech head and stuff like tablets and computers come natural to me. There is also some nice little short cuts I never really came across until I read about them in the book. So I think the book is worth it, for some reason I get emails, and messages from friends whenever they have a problem with their Kindles (instead of them calling customer support) so this will help in finding the best way to explain how to fix their problems. And yes I have instructed then to get the book also.

The Kindle Fire is an amazing portable media experience and this book gives you some nice tips to get the most out of it.

Review I WITNESSED A KILLING

One moment in time devastating results, March 4, 2012

Within one moment many lives are affected in this tragic true crime story. A brutal senseless killing of a young man working a convenient store at night. The story gives you a first person perspective of being what the girlfriend of the shooter went through.

The writing style is done in a journal like sense giving you insight of the fear she went through, the fear of her life and the unborn child she was carrying, and the anger she felt for the for the father of that baby for putting them in the situation they were in.

Also included is some of the write ups form the local paper giving the scoop on how the local population viewed the case. The author gives a uninterrupted time line of what she went through from watching the young man die and his last moments of life, her struggle to escape from the monster she at one time thought was going to be part of a her happy family.

Then after the law finally starts looking at them as a person of interest and she go to them for help she finds herself a victim again of the justice system trying to use her to close the case.

A dark, and interesting look into being a victim of abuse and fear, she has found her way to better time and I hope others who read this will realize what situations you can find yourself in if you are not careful.

A True Crime book i'm glad to have in my library and will have me thinking about it for a while.

I Witnessed A Killing

Liz Grace Davis interview

Interview with Liz Grace Davis

1: What is the most productive time of the day for you to write?

I’m a night person. Many times the creative part of my brain just doesn’t seem to function during the day. I have tried waking up early before work, in order to get some writing done. For a while it worked, but then I decided that the last few hours of sleep in the mornings were just too delicious to give up. I get a lot done at night but unfortunately, as a result, I end up going to bed very late.

2: Do you start your projects writing with paper and pen or is it all on the computer?

It varies. Sometimes I start writing on paper but when I reach the stage where pens are running out of ink or I can’t find my writing pad. It all gets on my nerves and I pull out my laptop. In order to be able to write on paper, I need lots of writing pads lying around and a pen that doesn’t leak or doesn’t slow me down. There are some pens that are just too hard to write fast with. But I have to say, when I’m stuck at a certain point in my writing, I make notes on paper and usually it helps me get unstuck.

3: What do you draw inspiration from?

Anything and everything. The world we live in is such a great source of inspiration; magazines, a thunderstorm, music, my life…anything. For me, inspiration can strike anytime. I don’t go looking for it. I just start writing and when inspiration finds me, it’s such a gift.

4: Do you set goals for yourself when you sit down to write such as word count?

No, never, because I never meet my goals. I tend to get more done when I don’t have any goals hovering over my head, intimidating me. Maybe if I had deadlines, I would. As long as that isn’t the case, my only goal when I sit down to write is to just write as much as I can.

5: Are you a published or a self published author and how do you come up with your cover art?

I’m self published and my cover art is done by my wonderful cover artist, Tamra Westberry. She designed the covers of both my novels; Tangi’s Teardrops which is already published and my upcoming novel, Chocolate Aftertaste.

6: What drives you to choose the career of being a writer?

The career chose me. Writing is just a part of who I am and has been for years. If I fall off the writing bandwagon for a while, I reach a point where I’m just not myself and feel almost a little depressed. When I start writing again, it’s always like having a refreshing glass of cold water on a hot summer day.

7: Do you own an ebook reading device?

If the kindle app on my iphone counts, then yes. For now, that’s all I use to read ebooks. But a kindle is at the top of my wish list.

8: Who are some of your favorite authors and What are you reading now?

There are a lot of authors I like but in the list you’ll find Lesley Pearse, Jodi Picoult, Louise Bagshawe, and Jane Green. I’m currently reading Flawless (A pretty little liars novel) by Sara Shepard and Jodi Picoult’s Sing you home.

9: What do you think of book trailers and do you have any plans to have any?

I love book trailers. I can’t say for sure whether they influence buying behavior, but I do love watching them and creating them. That’s why I’ve created book trailers for both my novels.

Here are the links if you’d like to see them.

Tangi’s Teardrops (A YA fantasy novel): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XOJlUn3VHc

Chocolate Aftertaste (A contemporary Romance):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGUsL75OB0

10: How did you come up with the title of your latest book?

Chocolate Aftertaste is the title of my upcoming contemporary romance novel. The chocolate symbolizes the small town my main characters escapes to in order to find herself. The town is well known for having a large chocolate factory that produces great chocolate. Aftertaste symbolizes the consequences or traces left behind by the choices she comes to make while living in that particular town.

11: What are you working on now that you can talk about?

I’m currently finishing up with the edits of Chocolate Aftertaste. The novel will be available for purchase in March. In a nutshell, Chocolate Aftertaste is a story of choices and how they impact our lives. For years, Nora, my main character has allowed her controlling father to be the man behind the steering wheel of her life until one day she realizes he isn’t always right. She then decides she wants the control of her life back in her own hands. As a result, she risks losing the only family she has but stands to gain her freedom and hopefully find love.

Thank you so much, Kipp for featuring me on your blog today. I’m really honored to be here.

Amazon links

eBook: http://www.amazon.com/Tangis-Teardrops-ebook/dp/B006ZQU4BI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329768324&sr=8-1

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/Tangis-Teardrops-single-change-everything/dp/1469989816/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329768324&sr=8-2

Blog

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JM Winspear interview

1: What is the most productive time of the day for you to write?

Anytime when there is some peace and quiet; which is rare to be honest. With young kids in the house I find I crash down in front of the keyboard at about 8pm and struggle on until exhaustion takes over (about 8.50pm).

2: Do you start your projects writing with paper and pen or is it all on the computer?

I do all of my writing on the computer. What does go in notebooks, are the little pieces of storyline that come to you at strange moments. I also write a lot of dialogue passages in notebook form; these also come at odd times, usually when I am in the woods with the dog. Where they come from I don’t know, but am thankful all the same. Having read all of this, it does seem to cancel my initial statement! I’ll amend it and admit that I do an awful lot of scribbling in notebooks.

3: What do you draw inspiration from?

I was looking inside a John Connolly novel the other day to see how he manages to move between his protagonist’s first person voice and the third person voice of everyone else and not get at all lost with who knows what and still manage to be frightening. The answer is that he does it quite naturally and brilliantly. That’s inspiring to me. Fantasy wise, I revisit the works of Conan’s creator Robert E Howard and marvel at the darkness and strangeness of his worlds.

Closer to home, I think of my late aunt, Violet Winspear, who wrote like a demon for Mills and Boon Romance (Harlequin) right up to her untimely death;  a  real writer who just got on with the job every single day, even when very poorly.   

4: Do you set goals for yourself when you sit down to write such as word count?

No, my only goal is that I sit down and do something every day. I rarely get beyond 2500 words with 1000 being the norm. I must add that this is done in the two hours of writing time that I might get in a day.

5: Are you a published or a self published author and how do you come up with your cover art?

I’m self published through Amazon KDP.

 Artwork wise, I’m a bit of a tight wad with no money at all for art or marketing. I knew my sister was doing an art degree course so I decided to offer her some work to practice on. I let her do the cover of Aelfric – Bloodied Spears in return for 10% of any profits that might accrue. At the time this seemed quite generous; she now realizes that I still only owe her about two Dime bars.

6: What drives you to choose the career of being a writer?

The dream of not getting in the car at 0600 or 2200 and driving to work for a long day’s drudge, but just to walk out to my studio and crack on with some writing.

7: Do you own an ebook reading device?

Hell yes, I couldn’t be without my Kindle keyboard 3G!

8: Who are some of your favorite authors and What are you reading now?

I love all of John Connolly’s Charlie Parker books, they are fantastically written, exciting, and sometimes downright creepy - The Lovers gave me chills big time. Fantasy wise I read and read again all of R E Howard’s stories, especially Conan; I don’t think anyone has written with such skill and scope and lonely darkness as Howard did.

9: What do you think of book trailers and do you have any plans to have any?

I’ll be honest and say that I don’t know much about them, my marketing is not brilliant. It’s something I’d certainly look into if the cash started coming in.

10: How did you come up with the title of your latest book?

I originally wrote the story in answer to a website’s request for some old fashioned pulp fiction. Its original title was something pretentious and not at all pulpy, so I changed it to something bloody. Of course I then found out about KDP and went for that instead.

11: What are you working on now that you can talk about?

I’ve just finished the follow up to Aelfric – Bloodied Spears, and am awaiting artwork. I’m actually writing something more contemporary at the moment; I think I needed a break from the fantasy world, and sometimes characters speak to you from nowhere and you just have start writing before they disappear. A friend asked me what it was about and I mumbled that it was crime or something. I then settled on ‘Essex Noir’ or ‘Contemporary Gloom’. Maybe when it is finished it will be a new genre, you never know. 

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