Instrument of the Devil is available for pre-order at Amazon and will be released October 10, 2017. Here’s the link. If you’re one of the wonderful folks who nominated it in the Kindle Scout contest, you should receive an email from Amazon for your free book. I hope you have… Continue reading
Similes, Metaphors, and Food A few days ago, after a brief but welcome rain shower washed the choking wildfire smoke from the Big Skies of Montana, I visited a friend’s cherry orchard on Flathead Lake. Because a glut on the market resulted in low prices, tons of fat glossy sweet cherries… Continue reading
UPDATE: As of 4/3/18, Kindle Scout is no longer accepting submissions. An interesting experiment but, sadly, it didn’t survive. My guest post about winning the Scout publishing contract appears today on my favorite writing blog, The Kill Zone.
[Sound of champagne cork popping] My suspense/thriller Instrument of the Devil “won” the Kindle Scout campaign! The eBook will be published by Kindle Press this summer. Here’s a thank-you toast to all the terrific readers who voted for the book! I couldn’t have done it without your wonderful help and support. When it’s available,… Continue reading
HOT NEWS! I entered my suspense/thriller Instrument of the Devil in the Kindle Scout contest, where readers choose which books they’d like to see published. A sample is online for thirty days, starting June 7. If you like the story, please nominate it. If Instrument of the Devil “wins” and Kindle Press selects it for… Continue reading
We might as well confess. As writers, we’ve been known to eavesdrop on conversations. We wonder, what is that couple at the next table squabbling about? Or we listen over the dressing room partition to young women anticipating their lovers’ reactions to lingerie they’re trying on. Or we’re stuck… Continue reading
UPDATE: As of 4/3/18, Kindle Scout is no longer accepting submissions. An interesting experiment but, sadly, it didn’t survive. By Debbie Burke Kindle Scout has been called American Idol for authors or a Slush Pile Popularity Contest. Amazon defines it as “reader-powered publishing.” Scout has now been around… Continue reading
The saying goes, everyone has a book inside them. Here’s your chance to get it out of imagination and down on paper because November is National Novel Writing Month. Last year’s NaNoWriMo included 431,626 participants in 633 different regions on six continents. Of these, more than 40,000 met the goal of writing… Continue reading
There are writers and there are civilians (AKA normal people). Civilians look at us fiction writers as objects of curiosity…a little odd, but probably not dangerous. They don’t understand how we can happily spend hours chasing imaginary people around in our imaginations. Come to think of it, that does sound… Continue reading
Recently, I became the victim of an attempted sexual assault in broad daylight. An assailant stuck a gun in my back, dragged me into a dark, deserted barn on the county fairgrounds, and tried to rape me. When he put down the gun as he tried to tear my clothes… Continue reading
