Series: Elemental Assassin 3 Format: Mobi Eelease Date: September 28, 2010 Publisher: Pocket Books Recommended by: Amber I. Source: Awesomesauce Book Club Genre: Urban Fantasy Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository What kind of assassin works pro bono? It’s hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab …

This spellbinding work of historical fiction offers the eyewitness account of 15-year-old James, son The Pinnacle of History through the Eyes of a Boy This spellbinding work of historical fiction offers the eyewitness account of 15-year-old James, son of Joseph bar Jacob, and the dangerous and heartrending choices his family must make in the days leading up to Joseph’s relationship with Mary, and the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. With crisp prose, tangible …

Tom Clancy, Danielle Steele and the rest turn out successful potboilers. Do you think that is easy? They may not be geniuses but they have industry, savvy, and a whole lot of energy. If you are a serious writer and you have talent, you will write books that reflect that but you may also take the path of a lot of serious (but not best selling) writers who write mysteries or thrillers under pseudonyms to pay the rent.Dream Review of Tin God: Mystery/Thriller …

Once again,Washington-area writer Alice McDermott is in the running for the National Book Award. Her new novel,“Someone, ” about an Irish American family in New York,is among 10 titles on the “longlist” announced this morning for the $10, fiction prize. McDermott,who teaches writing at Johns Hopkins,has been a finalist twice before and won the award in 1998 for “Charming Billy.” The longlist includes several of America’s most celebrated novelists,including …

Its actualy a fairly common fantasy :) I d say its a kidnap D/S romance If you re looking to read fiction with similar themes there s - they have everything from really rough stories to some farily romantic ones - they are free. and then there are a crapload of romantic erotica publishers (including plenty of kidnap fantasies - both gentle and rough ones) a lot of them sell their e-books on then, there s always the library :) yes, you can find erotica …

Young-adult fiction (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 13 to 21. Young-adult fiction, whether in the form of novels or short stories, has distinct attributes that distinguish it from the other age categories of fiction. The vast majority of YA stories portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child. The subject matter and story lines are …

In my constant search for more ways to sell more books I have decided to take a closer look into Amazon’s Listmania! Many consumers enjoy sharing a great find which is why many companies covet the most powerful marketing strategy which is word of mouth marketing. In the world of modern-day technology word of mouth marketing is like hitting a gold mine. So Listmania! becomes a great way for authors to maximize exposure for their books. This post is …

Updated Jan. 22, 2011 12:01 a.m. ET A barrier divides the diminishing numbers who lived through the Holocaust from the generations that can only know it second- or third-hand. Yet in literature there is an oddly reassuring continuity between past and present attempts to make fiction from the facts of genocide. To Holocaust survivors, the question has been: How can I possibly write about what I ve seen? To contemporary novelists, the question is: How …

Pierson s puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with …

[A note from James: Wait - what?! Fiction?! On a blog for businesspeople? You bet. In many interviews, I ve mentioned that learning how to write fiction can definitely boost your copywriting skills - the two skill sets cross over more than you d think. So when Kari pitched me the idea for this post, I was all for it. You don t need to go off and write a novel, but you should definitely pick up one of these books to learn better writing skills that …