Let me wrap up some of the great reads of 2017. I have read some terrific books in the last quarter of this year, and realize I haven’t posted all of them. So here, in digest form, are the 6 terrific books I’d like to share with you!
Year: 2017
It’s Day One of Virtual Fantasy Con! To celebrate, I’m giving away Book One of my Arthurian Fantasy novella series ANYA: HEALER OF CAMELOT.
The EDGE OF DOOM is the second book in the Haruspex Trilogy, and it’s a doozy!
What I’m listening to: “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About” by Bonnie Raitt Insert Tab A into Slot B repeatedly until physical release is obtained. I believe I’ve just written the world’s most boring sentence about sex! But at the end of the day, that’s all sex is. It surely doesn’t feel that …
Bonnie Milani’s LIQUID GAMBIT is an outstanding piece of writing. Rarely does a writer give us the feel of an alien—their abilities to perceive (in this case smelling emotions), the way their bodies interact with their emotions (ears, fangs, paws/claws, their ruff), and so quickly establish a complex societal structure. The stakes are high …
You become a writer by writing, the same way you become a trombone player by playing the trombone (tromboning?). One word after another, you pile them up until they are poems, flash fiction, short stories, novellas, novels, epics, serials…. you get the point.
A recent post in the SciFi Roundtable Facebook page asked authors what their characters looked like. Many drew their characters. I can hardly draw a straight line, so I’ve never attempted that. Instead, I found pictures online.
As mentioned in my previous post, I finished the rough draft of the second book in the HEIRS TO CAMELOT series: THE SOLSTICE BRIDE. I also said it needed a lot of work.