If you’re a new writer, you’ve heard this caveat ad nauseam: start your novel in the middle of the action. And it’s good advice, so you jump into the story, set your scene, and plunk your hero smack dab into the eye of the storm – and then you pause, fingers poised above the keyboard. […]
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I write thrillers. More specifically, paranormal thrillers. Sometimes horror. My novel Seed should hit the virtual shelves just in time for summer vacation 2020. Like most writers, I’ve been influenced by the masters. The following books and authors entertained me, enlightened me, taught me and scared the dookie out of me. Here they are, in
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Writers are weird ducks. And the wives of writers find themselves putting up with mood swings, inexcusable inattention at inappropriate times, and what probably seems to them like vapor-brained absent-mindedness. Now to me, having a book ready and close at hand is one of life’s necessities. Think blood to a vampire. It wasn’t long before
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