Everyone loves a happy ending. Even the darkest of stories have one if you know where to look for it. It’s a time when villains become heroes and it’s cool for them to do evil deeds. The trick in locating the dark fiction HEA is to skew your head sideways. Conventional thinking won’t help you …
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Today’s crime-solving is easy. You take a swab of some icky stuff left at the scene of a crime, do something science-y with it, and a mystery gets solved. A bad guy goes to jail. Everyone sleeps at night. Perfect. It’s the happy-ever-after we expect for crime events. We assume that DNA sequencing has been …
Judge. Jury. Executioner. That’s why the ‘bird’ is perfect. It gives us the power to be all three — and it feels so great. It’s the perfect pick-me-up to dealing with the shitty people we encounter during our day. Think about it. When a flip takes place, we’ve decided there was a crime, who did …
People say, don’t judge a book by its cover but most of them aren’t authors. For many readers, a cover is all they have to go by when they’re choosing a new book. The front surface (and its back) of a book, is the face of a story. The graphic offers clues to it. In …
Choosing The Perfect Graphic For A Book Cover Before Sending It To Print Read More »
Dependable Mitchell comes with bucket loads of amiability. A joke accompanies most conversations. His warm smile melts anyone’s ice. There’s a wonderful sense of calm surrounding our reliable, likable protagonist. Mitchell Felding. His light hearted character is welcoming, especially when it’s placed against that of his wife’s, Sam, who spends her time worrying while checking …
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