Feb
02
2012
By Guest Blogger Chris Bryant Over the years, people have lost the true meaning of the word hero. Whether due to the imagery portrayed on television or what’s posted online, or even what’s on products these days, it has become apparent. The concept of a true hero has been lost to society and there’s [...]
Feb
02
2012
By Guest Blogger Daniel McNeet Good day, good people. I know a panegyric is a speech providing accolades. But if it is written, I would call it advertising, marketing and publicity. If written by a person about one’s self, I would call it self-promotion. Self-promoting is embarrassing to me, and I do it grudgingly. It appears [...]
Jan
30
2012
By Guest Blogger Kris Sedersten Hello! I’m Kris Sedersten, author of the new paranormal mystery-thriller, Lost Mojo. Although second in the Mojo Series, Lost Mojo is the prequel to Mojo. It was originally published under the title The Spirit Seekers in 2008. I wrote it as a goof; a shout out to my friends from [...]
Jan
24
2012
By Guest Blogger Chris Bryant There was a time, a long time ago, when I wasn’t where I am now. I didn’t used to examine every detail. I didn’t try to explain everything as something else. The time I refer to is when I was a child. As a child, I didn’t have a [...]
Jan
24
2012
By Guest Blogger Daniel McNeet Good day, good people. For devotees of the English language: invidious is an adjective which demonstrates jealousy and hostility. How to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone? “Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be [...]
Jan
16
2012
By Guest Blogger Guy Quigley When I met my wife Wendy in Majorca in 1968, the last thing on my mind was falling for a twenty-year-old girl from Zambia. In Africa, she lived on 100,000 acres cattle ranch and that summer she was vacationing in Palma Majorca with her parents. As fate would decree, I [...]
Jan
16
2012
By Guest Blogger Guy Quigley Previously I had blogged about meeting my wife in Majorca and ended it there. However, when I wend out to Zambia to marry her, and the aircraft landed amid gunfire, I though, just my luck. Here I am in Africa, against the advise of everyone and landing right in the [...]
Jan
16
2012
By Guest Blogger Guy Quigley This is my first blog and what a “LULU” it is. My friend Joe (Surname withheld) who lives between Dublin Ireland and Durban South Africa had to come to the United States on August 2nd 2011 to attend a deposition in a vexatious litigation case brought upon him by a [...]
Jan
16
2012
By Guest Blogger Eugene Bull So my political thriller, The Persian Gambit, debuted on Amazon recently and I couldn’t help thinking about the old philosophical question about whether a tree falling in a forest makes a sound if there is no one around to hear it. And the best answer to that question is [...]
Jan
16
2012
By Guest Blogger Eugene Bull I suppose every writer has a preferred mode of creation—that combination of place, sound (-lessness), and tools that triggers something and causes the words to begin flowing. OR NOT. I say or not because I haven’t quite yet discovered mine. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been at writing long [...]