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The ReadingDiva Review is In …
ReadingDiva featured The Scourge last week, and now her review is in! I couldn’t be more pleased to hear how much she liked it. Thank you again, RD!
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The Scourge featured in July Dystopia Month on ReadingDiva.com
The Scourge, and yours truly, is featured this month on the fabulous book blog, ReadingDiva.com! Take a minute to check it out, and to rate The Scourge while there. The Diva’s review is forthcoming, but I’m blushing at what she said in her Blogger Note: “I read The Scourge, I will be posting my…
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If you could be a supernatural creature, what would you be?
Author Adriana Ryan recently blogged about what superpowers she wouldn’t want. She ruled out fat manipulation, a prehensile tongue, or bubble generation. Gotta agree with her on those. The post got me thinking about supernatural creatures, and more specifically, which one I would choose to be if I had to be one of them. Think…
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Breaking 1,000
Tuesday was an exciting day. I don’t know if it was the holiday week or what, but The Scourge shot through the #1,000 rank barrier in the Kindle store. As I write this, it’s ranked #681 overall (up? down? from about #1,400 overall Monday!), #9 in Children’s Action/Adventure and #17 in Fantasy and Magic. Here’s…
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Time Suck: The Sequel
This post goes under the category of Just For Fun, or alternately, Time Suck. I came across the website for Book: The Sequel which was a project to create a book comprised of readers’ ideas for first lines of (unwritten) sequels to famous books. This may have been big in 2009 when it was being…
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Because I Said So: Wool by Hugh Howey
This week’s post is a recommendation of a series of science-fiction short stories called Wool, by Hugh Howey. There’s an interesting backstory here. Howey, an Indie author, wrote the first of the Wool stories and offered it on Amazon one year ago. There was such a clamoring for the tale to continue that he wrote…