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Christine Haggerty’s Writers’ Workshop: How to write fight scenes
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
In response to my idea to launch a writers’ workshop, Christine Haggerty author of The Plague Legacy has offered to start things off with an article about one of my pet hates: the fight scene. How many times have you skipped pages in a book, flipped through looking for…
A Fete Worse than Death, by Dolores Gordon-Smith
Originally posted on Blogging for a Good Book:
Another post-WWI mystery series! This is the first entry featuring Jack Haldean, late of the Royal Flying Corps and a successful writer of mysteries. It’s pretty lighthearted compared to, say, Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge mysteries or even Elizabeth Speller’s Lawrence Bartram series; in fact it’s almost a cozy and…
Intergalactic Travel via Hypervelocity Stars from Centauri Dreams
Posted: 26 Jun 2014 07:19 AM PDT We’ve been looking at not just interstellar but intergalactic crossings in the past few days, something of an homage to Carl Sagan, whose enthusiasm for continuous acceleration at 1 g and relativistic time dilation was immense in the years shortly after Robert Bussard’s key paper on interstellar ramjets. Without […]
Can You Be too Professional?
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Amateurish! There are many ways that a book or author may be perceived as amateurish. Many of these correspond to doing what seems intuitive or convenient: Commenting on reviews. Not realizing that the cover is a visual representation of what quality to expect. Including the word “by” before your name. Using…
The Owl of the Sipan Lord by Viv Drewa
Another 5 star review! Shadows of El Brujo? By John R. Dizon The Owl of the Sipan Lord by Viv Drewa is an action-packed adventure novel centered on the exploits of Clare Montgomery, a widowed 52-year-old archaeologist. She goes on a vision quest to Peru along with Cord Willoughby, intent on discovering the secrets of […]
Shush! Cue Music Please…
Originally posted on A Blog Less Traveled:
Sleepless Nights Us together has been a waste of time But getting up and walking out is never that easy Our time together has been forever and a day We need to forgive and forget before we go our separate ways We need to learn to laugh instead…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 