My intentions started off on the right foot. I wrote 710 words within the first week. Then some health issues knocked me down, which forced me to focus more on some paid venues once the bills started arriving in my mailbox. I’m feeling much better now, but there is no way I can catch up. [...] Read more »
Shutter Island: A Wonderful Mind-Bender
Although I had heard Dennis Lehane, due to his bestselling Mystic River, I had never read any of his books until I picked up Shutter Island. In truth, I would have never thought to read it until I saw the movie previews on television. The previews gave me the impression that the story had some [...] Read more »
Duma Key: Satisfyingly Creepy
Stephen King draws a lot from his experience with his accident when he fleshed out the character of Edgar Freemantle. Freemantle was the owner of his own construction company until a crane crushed him inside his truck and changed his life forever. If you want to learn more about the plot, visit Amazon to get [...] Read more »
The Girl Who Played with Fire: Better Than the First
If you haven’t read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo yet, don’t worry. Larsson gives the reader good, short summaries of what happened to Salander and Blomkvist in this sequel. That said, I recommend that you read Tattoo first so that you can get a better idea of who these characters are so that you [...] Read more »
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I had been wanting to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for quite some time. So when it became my turn to select the next book for my book club, I decided to choose this. It’s the first book of a trilogy written by Swedish author, Stieg Larsson, who passed away shortly after delivering [...] Read more »
Book Design Project: Eternal Quest for Immortality – Finished!
I’m very pleased to announce that John Evans’ book The Eternal Quest for Immortality is published and available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK. This project reminded me how much I enjoy designing books. There was an exciting learning curve, as I had never used Lightning Source before. Their system looked somewhat daunting at first until [...] Read more »
Book Review: Isis, by Doulas Clegg
Douglas Clegg became one of my favorite authors after I read his first e-serial novel, Naomi, in 1999. Since then, I have read several of his books that centered on a haunted mansion called Harrow. Isis is a prequel to his earlier novels, told in the first person POV of Iris Villiers, a girl who [...] Read more »
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