In the opening of my review of Peter Atkins” MOONTOWN, I mentioned meeting Peter at a group signing event held at the Dark Delicacies bookstore in Burbank, CA several years ago.  In one of those fits of coincidence that the universe likes to through our way from time to time, last night while hunting for something completely unrelated I stumbled upon two pcitures that were taken of my end of the sigining table that day.
Here’s the first one - Del Howison (owner of Dark Delicacies) is standing on the right.  …

Moontown
I met Peter Atkins several years ago at the group signing event Del Howison put on in Burbank for the Dark Delicacies charity anthology FRAMED. I ended up seated next to Peter and as a result, spent an afternoon laughing my ass off thanks to his witty sense of humor. I’d never read anything of length by him prior to receiving my reviewer’s copy of MOONTOWN and so I was anxious to see if his writing lived up to his personality.
Happily, I can say without hesitation that …

The Writing Show
As I’ve mentioned earlier on this blog, I’m serving as one of the final judges in this year’s First Chapter contest put on by The Writing Show.
A few weeks ago I received the writing samples from each of the finalists and have spent considerable time reviewing each sample and ranking them based on a number of criteria, including storyline, style, character, dialogue, mechanics, and overall quality. I’ve now made my selections of those I consider the top of the pack and sent them on the show’s producer, …

Many of you know I run a multi-author site about writing and publishing called Storytellersunplugged. (If you don’t, where have you been for the last three years?  Get over there and start reading!  With more than a 1000 posts on writing and publishing by thirty different authors, how can you afford not to do so?)
Well, for the past couple of years, Michael Stelzner of the Writing White Papers blog has done a “Top 10 Blogs For Writers” post, and it has been amazingly successful in terms of driving traffic to …

I was quite happily surprised to receive an email from Ralf Muller, CEO of Droemer-Knaur, this past week informing me that my novel DER ENGEL was one of only fifty titles specifically selected by DK to be featured in the launch of their new ebook program. “Dear Author, We are excited today to inform you of our new eBook channel, and we are happy that your book/s will be part of this new distribution channel. During the past 6 months we’ve set the course to be the …