Fascinating Authors

Writing the Exhilarating Detective Thriller by David Snowdon

Writing the Exhilarating Detective Thriller A detective story is a novel in which a detective sets out to resolve a crime. The crime in question could be a murder mystery or another kind of mystery. But there’s always a mystery to solve. In some cases, the detective might know the killer, but still has to [...]

Book Excerpt: A Crime To Be Rich by David Snowdon

A Crime To Be Rich by David Snowdon London, England April 2008 Chapter One It was another one of those routine days. Not extremely busy, but ticking over nicely. The phone started to ring and I grabbed the receiver. “Shane Turnbull,” I said, in my public school accent. There was a pause. Then someone started [...]

Book Excerpt: The Whole-Brain Path to Peace

The Whole-Brain Path to Peace by James Olson Chapter Nine Peace The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between violence and non-existence. —Martin Luther King Jr. Is the United States a peace-loving nation? Based on an annual comprehensive survey of the world’s nations, apparently not. A worldwide team of experts organized [...]

Author Profile: James Olson – The Whole-Brain Path to Peace

Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. I recognized that I had been blessed by being able to spend so much time to explore the worlds of mind and spirit, and believing that I had learned some valuable information in my quest to understand the nature of life on earth, I wanted [...]

Author Interview: James Olson – The Whole-Brain Path to Peace

Q. Tell us a little bit about your book. A. The right-brain’s perspective is radically different from the left-brain’s. It’s much more complex. It doesn’t really have a perspective. It sees in all directions. And it assembles wholes, whereas the left disassembles. They are opposites in many ways. For most left-brain dominants, without help the [...]

Author Profile: Lisa Espich – Soaring Above Co-Addiction

Why did you decide to write this book? I wanted to write the book that I always hoped I’d find on the bookstore shelves when I was struggling. Most of the books available are written by doctors or counselors. While many of these were helpful in my recovery, I wanted to touch women and families [...]

Guest Blog: Kris Sedersten – Mojo

Hey! My name is Kris Sedersten and I am an author of paranormal fiction. I am a budding paranormal investigator with a passion for the unexplained. I enjoy the challenge; the search for evidence that could help to prove whether or not the paranormal actually exists. I love a good ghost story so it follows [...]

Author Blog: Craig Garner – The Hospital Stay

Charting the Changes in the Doctor / Patient Relationship Hippocrates wrote: “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” Part science and part art, the practice of medicine has changed drastically in the six thousand years since Hippocrates first uttered [...]

Chapter Excerpt: Caridad Pineiro – Stronger than Sin

Jesse wasn’t in his bed when she walked into the room. Closing the door and locking it behind her, she glanced around the large suite and noticed that he was out on the balcony that faced the beachfront. Striding toward him, she stopped to put down the bag of take-out she had brought on a [...]

Guest Blog: Caridad Pineiro – Stronger than Sin

When I first started writing STRONGER THAN SIN, there were a few big social issues that I wanted to touch upon:  Genetic Modification of Organisms, the Cult of Celebrity and Domestic Violence against women. Whoa, a lot of heavy concepts to tackle in a paranormal suspense and yet, each contributed to the growth and development [...]