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Author Spotlight: Morgan David

Morgan David

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Morgan David is a multicultural European male writer. Born in France in 1964, he has lived abroad most of his life, from California to Denmark. He has spent years of his business life studying ‘people from the inside’, analyzing the drivers of human emotions throughout the prism of different cultural backgrounds and drawing parallels between ethnicities. Morgan has a keen interest in liberal arts and especially in piano music and European graphical … Read more

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Point of View: Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay

Gay gay gay

I’m an out gay man. I lived for two decades in the closet, ashamed of who I was. I knew I was different when I was five or six, and by the time I was fourteen, I knew what to call it. Gay. And I knew what others called it. Queer. Homosexual. Peverted. And the “F” word I still have a hard time bringing myself to say. It wasn’t until I was twenty-three that I finally came out and claimed it – and stood before the world proud of who I was. I’ve never looked back. And yet, sometimes I … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Georgina Jeffery

Georgina Jeffery

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Giveaway Grab The Jack Hansard Series: Season One for FREE from Smashwords today! This offer is only available to readers of this blog for the next 48 hours via this exclusive coupon code: FF59G Go to the book on Smashwords below and enter the code at checkout to reduce the price to FREE!  The Jack Hansard Series: Season One on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1049448 Today: Georgina Jeffery is a British author of speculative fiction. Her stories often blend elements of fantasy, humour, … Read more

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Point of View: Reading in Nostalgia Mode

A Brightness Long Ago

I’m reading a book. Which is not news, in and of itself, although regular readers will know that I somewhat famously went for years without reading any, due to my insane work demands and habits. But this is different. I’m reading an actual physical book – a hardcover, in fact – something I can hold in my hands that doesn’t disappear when I set it down (though it often does flip back to the first page). It was my birthday gift to myself – the work of an author I love that I can actually touch and smell. OMG, I … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway: Sundowners – R.L. Merrill

Sundowners - R.L. Merrill

R.L. Merrill has a new MM paranormal romance out: Sundowners. And there’s a giveaway. Vampire Creed Lowell drifts from town to town working with the elderly as a night nurse and looking to avenge his harrowing past. His youth and vitality make him a favorite of his patients and his gifts bring them peace. At long last he’s arrived in the place where he hopes to find the truth about those who betrayed him…but first he finds an unexpected love with a man who might understand him—or end him. Grad student Roman San Angelo is struggling to handle his courses, … Read more

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Review: Shafter – Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Shafter - Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Genre: Sci-Fi, Colonization Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Born in the abandoned subway shafts beneath First City, Trina measures life in the coin she steals from her wealthy father’s people living above. She gives little weight to her dying mother’s fairy tales about how her father will rescue Trina and her twin sister, taking them away from this planet. Yet the stars catch her attention every time she goes to the surface. Trina is the protector, a role she created more from heroic tales in books her father gave them than anything in a shafter’s life. … Read more

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Point of View: Filling in the Gaps

filling in the gaps

Doctors read journals and take continuing education courses to learn the latest techniques for their specialty. Teachers attend seminars and learn new teaching methods to help their students learn better. Even artists often pick up new mediums and styles throughout their careers… how many periods did Picasso go through? Writing is no different – we thrive when we spend time in the medium that we write. I grew up addicted to reading. I would often read a new book in days, sometimes staying up until three in the morning to finish a particularly addicting tale. I read thousands of different … Read more

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New Release: Mystic Guardian Audiobook – Mary Rundle

Mystic Guardian Audiobook - Mary Rundle

Mary Rundle has a new mm paranormal romance out in audiobook format, Blackwood Pack, Book 9: Mystic Guardian. The Blackwood Pack saga continues… This is part of an on-going series by Amazon International Bestselling Author, Mary Rundle – catching up on previous titles is advised. Readers of previous books will enjoy meeting old friends once more as the pack does what it does best ̶ caring for one another and helping shifters everywhere. Carson never dreamed his six bothers would get their fated mates before he did and now, hanging on with the barest of hope he’d be next, he … Read more

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Author Spotlight – David Viner

David Viner

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. David’s Book Splinters will be free on Amazon from Sept 12-16. Today: Ex-punk rock guitarist David Viner’s working life started in electronics before migrating to computer programming in the mid-1980s and on to website design in the late 1990s, going self-employed in 2005. David has been a member of the Redwell Writers Group (www.redwellwriters.org) in Norwich, UK since 2006, which helped him find his feet in the connected worlds of writing, editing and … Read more

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New Release: Veggie Burgers to Go – Karenna Colcroft

Veggie Burgers to Go - Karenna Colcroft

Karenna Colcroft has a new MM paranormal / urban fantasy romance out, Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat book 2: Veggie Burgers to Go. And there’s a giveaway. A member of Boston North Pack is attacked by humans who say they were hired by a shifter. The same night, Melia, the wolf who changed Kyle Slidell, returns to Boston. The pack suspects Melia of arranging the attack, but Kyle believes someone else is behind it. He just doesn’t know who. The following day, at the regional Alpha gathering in Pennsylvania, Kyle finds his answer. Saul Hughes, another Alpha, has a long-standing … Read more