About your Book: Discontented with the passivity of an early retirement, the author went to live and work for two years with a small native band (300 people) in a remote location in Canada’s far north, in search of adventure and a deeper meaning to life. Cultural differences and a challenging environment caused a paradigm shift in his spirituality and life philosophy. When he left the north, he changed his life’s direction and went to less developed countries in Asia and Africa sharing his … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Awakening in the Northwest Territories – One man’s search for fulfilment by Alastair Henry
Love Editing? Help Edit Steve Jobs Biographer’s New Book Via the Internet – Guest Post by Dave Price
Apple CEO Steve Jobs changed a lot of things in the world of computers and the internet, and now his biographer Walter Isaacson is changing the way books are edited--using the internet, of course, perhaps in a kind of homage to the late Mac founder, whose biography Steve Jobs was a 2011 New York Times bestseller. Crowdsource Isaacson's New Book Online Taking the internet phrase "open source" into the world of professional literary editing, Isaacson has released chapters of his next book on … [Read more...] about Love Editing? Help Edit Steve Jobs Biographer’s New Book Via the Internet – Guest Post by Dave Price
Excerpt From Lucy Green Eyes by Paulette Benjamin
About your Book: Lucy Green Eyes is a story based on actual events in the life of Merlene McDaniel as told from her eyes growing up in the small town of Swansea South Carolina. It is a happy, sad, joyous and humorous cacophony of a little girl’s relationships with life, loved ones and herself. The story touches upon racism, abuse and the humanism of a young girl learning to deal with loneliness, rejection, admiration and feelings of illegitimacy. Although Merlene spends much of her early years … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Lucy Green Eyes by Paulette Benjamin
A Must Read for Detective Writers – Guest Post by Geri G. Taylor @g2taylor
While searching the internet for material for my next novel that features law enforcement officer and detectives as the main characters, I discovered this pearl. Michael W. Quinn, a retired Minneapolis Police Sergeant, whose autobiographical accounts in, "Walking with the Devil: The Police Code of Silence: What Bad Cops Don't Want You to Know and Good Cops Won't Tell You", take a huge risk in revealing his secrets of "The Code of Silence" making his self-published work of nonfiction a must … [Read more...] about A Must Read for Detective Writers – Guest Post by Geri G. Taylor @g2taylor
Book Excerpt: The Clouds Still Hang by Patrick C Notchtree @pcnotchtree
About your Book: A trilogy telling a story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; novels that chart one man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood; the story of a gay man's life and consequences of repressed sexuality. Targeted Age Group: 18+ Genre: LGBT, memoir, boigraphy, The Book Excerpt: … [Read more...] about Book Excerpt: The Clouds Still Hang by Patrick C Notchtree @pcnotchtree
