It’s Day Three of the Speculative Fiction Blogger Book Fair! From November 10-14th visitors to the participating blogs will find free and bargain ebooks. They’ll also get a chance to enter drawings for Amazon gift cards ($50, $30 and $20). Be sure to read to the end to enter the giveaways, and then go VOTE in the BBF Reader’s Choice Awards! Please give a warm welcome to our next guest! Rebirth of the Seer (The Vampire Flynn #2) Supernatural/Paranormal | Adult Flynn’s quest for redemption continues in the second installment of The Vampire Flynn. Condemned by the Supernatural Order and […]
Blogger Book Fair and Giveaway! Interview with Tracy Falbe
It’s Day Two of the Blogger Book Fair! From November 10-14th, visitors to the participating blogs will find all kinds of free and bargain ebooks. They’ll also get a chance to enter drawings for Amazon gift cards ($50, $30 and $20). Be sure to read to the end to enter the giveaways, and then go VOTE in the BBF Reader’s Choice Awards! My guest today is the amazing Tracy Falbe. Tracy Falbe is a writer of indie fantasy for people who don’t do what they’re told. She lives between a little lake and a pond. The water is a great comfort […]
Blogger Book Fair and Giveaway! Interview with D.H. Aire
Today we’re kicking off the Blogger Book Fair, master-minded by author and blogger Kayla Curry. The focus this time is on speculative fiction—Yay!—From November 10-14th, visitors to the participating blogs will find all kinds of free and bargain ebooks. They’ll also get a chance to enter drawings for Amazon gift cards ($50, $30 and $20). Be sure to read to the end to enter the giveaways, and then go VOTE in the BBF Reader’s Choice Awards! D.H. Aire has walked the ramparts of the Old City of Jerusalem and through an escape tunnel out of a Crusader fortress that Richard the […]
NaNoWriMo 2014!
Greetings, dear readers! It’s the first Friday of the month, and time for A Drift of Quills to get together and chat about books and writing. You may also have noticed that it is November, and November means NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). While Patricia is off flitting about the countryside, Kristie and I are knee-deep into the crazy, wonderful writing frenzy that is NaNoWriMo. Do you know what that means? Hundreds of thousands of people around the world leap headlong into the challenge of writing a novel (50,000 words long!) in thirty days. (Though if I wrote through Thanksgiving Day, […]
Book Review: The Shadow of What Was Lost
Whim struck, and I went with it. Author James Islington is being compared to the likes of Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss—and while I can see that influence on his writing, don’t let it fool you into thinking he can’t “do his own thang.” He did, and pretty well, too! Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the […]
Getting Up Again
It’s been a busy few weeks—months! Moving from one house to another took up a considerable amount of my time, brain power, and emotion. So does “nesting,” as I try to make this new place feel like home. Twenty-three years in the same house bestows a lot of comfort and familiarity. As much as I love the new digs, I still miss the feel of the old one with its well-known walls, much-loved landscape, and years of memories. Then came the wedding. The first one we planned spoiled me with nine entire months in which to prepare. This time we had two. […]
Wedding Bells—Again!
We are celebrating another wedding! Preparation for this one was crunched into two months, and of course the last bit has been hectic! I was able to design the invitations again—I love that—and the hubster has, of course, done the pre-wedding photography again. So. Tomorrow’s the big day, and tonight there’s a wedding dinner to attend (which is good, because I’ve had no time to cook today!). Sunday I’m taking a looooong nap. (names and information changed to protect the innocent) Isn’t she pretty? And he’s okay, too… 😉 Is the picture too small to see? Click on it. I’ll wait. […]
The Author’s Secret Sauce
It’s the first Friday of October. Already! You know what “first Fridays” mean, right? It’s the coming together of A Drift of Quills to chat about different aspects of reading and writing. It’s the latter we’re focusing on this time, with two questions we often get: Where do we get our story ideas? How do we keep track of them when they come to us? And joining us today we have author Joshua Grasso. Please give him a warm welcome! JOSHUA GRASSO Author of The Count of the Living Death and The Astrologer’s Portrait Joshua’s blog My ideas always come from the same source: […]
Sci-Fi Fantasy FREAK
Sci-Fi Fantasy FREAK. Yeah! How would you like a subscription service that caters specifically to the sic-fi and fantasy genres? I know I would. And when founder Matthew Keith emailed me with the news I whooped a gleeful “YES!” and got up to do a Snoopy Dance. (No, there are no recordings. Too bad, right?) The really cool thing is that I’d just been doing some serious wishful thinking for that very thing. I mean, I enjoy getting announcements the other subscription services, but even though some of them allow you to set a preferred genre, that’s not always what […]
Guest Interview: A.R. Silverberry
Today we get to visit with the wonderful A.R. Silverberry, who writes fiction for adults and children. His first novel, Wyndano’s Cloak, won multiple awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award gold medal for Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction. His newest release, The Stream, has folks waxing poetic. It’s intensely captivating, thought provoking, an exhilarating adventure, wonderfully compelling… So, A.R., how do you do that? How do you come up with such good stuff? Are you a story architect (plotter) or a discovery writer (pantser)? AR: Writing requires strong hoodoo. See, it’s risky business. You never know until you’re finished if you have anything worthwhile. So I […]