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Excerpt: Temperature: Dead & Rising by Adam Santo

dead and risingEarlier while waiting for the pizza to arrive, Sally and Bo had alternated taking showers. They both needed it needed it badly, what with her blood on him and the grit from the road all over her. Now that the pizza was delivered they had wasted no time setting up a fake pizza bar across the dresser top with the two boxes Bo ordered. With Sally occupied by hot melted cheese trying to escape the rest of the pie, Bo took the opportunity to start the conversation back up. “Exposure to full daylight can drain the powers of the undead […]

2014-01-15T15:04:34+02:00January 15th, 2014|Categories: Book Excerpt|

Excerpt: Amphigory Almanac “Meet Mr J” by Brandon Craig “Diddy” Jones

Screen shot 2014-01-11 at 3.28.30 PMMeet Mr. J, a mouth-breathing-barbaric-lousy-writer so self involved that he failed Astronomy 101 because he literally thinks the world revolves around him.

Parenthetically, Mr.J’s style of writing is like solving the Rubik’s Cube…color blind.
In consequence, Mr.J is to language what hemlock is to Socrates, what Pontius Pilate is to Christ, what Harvey Lee Oswald is to JFK, and what Rush Limbaugh is to credibility of Rush Limbaugh.

Incidentally, Mr.J tergiversatingly-types-top-ten-tips-totally-to see if you too are an Aerosol Spray Can causing global warming on our Proverbial Planet Populated Preponderantly by a Parade of Pompous Populations, Pretentious Postulations, & Precipitiously Pedantic […]

2014-01-11T16:29:36+02:00January 11th, 2014|Categories: Book Excerpt|

My Father’s Passion By Blair Schweiger – From “Ole!”

My father is a bullfighter. I grew up in Spain and Latin America due to this passion of his. Though I have suffered for it, I would not trade the journey for the world. I have learned to embrace it as part of who I am. I am a bullfighter’s daughter.

I was born in South America. My parent’s indulgence of their passions set my fate. Though they both are products of the American Southwest they both share the spirit of the wanderer. My mother was intrigued by Latin America, and my father by bullfighting. My father went to an […]

2013-11-24T13:29:29+02:00October 26th, 2013|Categories: Book Excerpt|

Excerpt: The American Book of the Dead

Here’s what I hope to be a new feature on SPR: book excerpts.  If you’re interested, follow these instructions to post an excerpt.  The novel can be purchased here.

This is the introduction to the novel.  People either love this book, or they’re mystified – which is to be expected, as I was going for some level of mystification. Some have criticized that I should get to the action sooner.  Some haven’t.  The point for me is to get inside the narrator’s head and to set up the scope of the story.

Eugene Myers is working on a novel

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2013-06-18T16:54:51+02:00June 15th, 2013|Categories: Book Excerpt, Lead Story|

Excerpt: Scarlet and the Keepers of the Light by Brandon Charles West

Chapter One: A Surprise Gift

In the eyes of his daughters, there was no greater hero than Mr. Hopewell.  The fact that in many senses of the word he was a hero by traditional standards had little to do with why they felt so strongly about his status as the world’s greatest man.  That fact was do entirely, this day at least, to the unusually calm German Shepherd puppy he was cradling in his arms as he tenderly wiped away a large amount of grit and grime from the puppy’s face. An hour prior, when Mr. Hopewell had been simply […]

2014-05-18T16:10:37+02:00November 19th, 2011|Categories: Book Excerpt|

Building Your Book Audience

(Excerpt from The Indie Journey: Secrets to Writing Success by Scott Nicholson)

There’s a common belief among writers that the route through New York and then to America’s bookshelves is the best way to build an audience. Certainly, there are plenty of advantages to letting someone else worry about all that paperwork, especially when they are earning most of the money.

But I don’t think we can automatically assume that being on store shelves is going to grow your audience better than self-publishing. In fact, I believe the exact opposite. I believe anyone wrapped up under contract for the next […]

2011-05-18T12:30:35+02:00May 18th, 2011|Categories: Book Excerpt, Features|Tags: |

Free eBook – A Heart to Mend and Excerpt

What is A Heart to Mend all about?

It is a romantic suspense novel. It has been proven that the best romantic novels are the ones that go beyond the genre. What does this mean? It means that while the main narrative of a romance novel may be the story of love between the main characters, there has to be much more. Extra plot layers, a strong sense of place, three-dimensional antagonists, secondary characters with their own stories—all these are important. As are a hero and heroine whose worlds are large and who have other interests beyond just their love […]

2020-02-21T06:04:46+02:00June 28th, 2010|Categories: Book Excerpt|Tags: |
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