"A wild ride through the night sky" - Capt. Sully Sullenberger, author of #1 New York Times bestseller "SULLY"Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own.The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first sense nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled … [Read more...]
Suspense Author Janice Boekhoff: Are Writing and Storytelling the Same Thing?
All of us who write love to pour our words onto the page in new and different ways. We strive to get just the right image, just the right tone, just the right nuance. But are these efforts in vain? Has anyone ever recommended a book because of the tone?Sometimes when I get book recommendations from friends, this is what it sounds like:Friend: You’ve got to read this book by so-and-so (name withheld because I don’t want to get sued … [Read more...]
Janice Boekhoff’s CREVICE Cover Contest
Help Us Finalize A Cover for CREVICE, A Romantic Suspense Novel by Christian Author Janice BoekhoffPlease vote on the cover for Janice Boekhoff's romantic suspense novel, CREVICE, that you think works best for the synopsis below.The synopsis: Desperate to save her family’s struggling gold mine, Elery Hearst orders her crew to dig a new tunnel in a last-ditch effort to intersect the original gold vein. Rather than saving her … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin on the Gothic Roots of Horror
There is much that is Gothic in The Pure And The Hated, my novel about the past, about revenge and lawlessness. In many ways revenge may be seen as lawless justice.As I examine what horror fiction means to us and how it relates to crime fiction, I want to trace its roots. I want to show that the two genres are not that distinct.In the latter part of the eighteenth century there was flowering of Gothic literature in England that ran … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin: The Bad Guy in Crime Fiction
Savage Highway is about bad guys and the breakdown of law and why justice fails. In a lawless world revenge is justice. I want to discuss other authors here before I focus on the novel itself. Savage Highway is about the frontier.Both of the authors I will be discussing today portray bad guys in a variety of ways. In Burke we have the pairing of two lawless cops, Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcell. And Purcell is an extreme example of the bad … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin’s THE PURE AND THE HATED Cover Contest
Help Us Finalize A Cover For Richard Godwin's Thriller THE PURE AND THE HATED Please vote on the cover for Richard Godwin's THE PURE AND THE HATED, that you think works best for the synopsis below.The synopsis:A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past. A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting and … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin’s SAVAGE HIGHWAY Receives Great Review from Dead End Follies
International bestselling author Richard Godwin's new thriller noir book, SAVAGE HIGHWAY, received a great review from the Dead End Follies blog. SAVAGE HIGHWAY follows the mystery of the disappearance of women from a truck stop on a remote highway in Arizona and was released from WildBlue Press on January 19th, 2016. Get your copy of SAVAGE HIGHWAY today!"Richard Godwin writes the extreme and the disturbing very well. He's very good at … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin on His New Thriller Noir Novel SAVAGE HIGHWAY
Cameron Bane Finds Inspiration Writing at Home and On the Road
From a young age the necessity of travel has always been a large part of my life. Therefore I’ve spent a lot of time on the road, in hotel lobbies, airport terminals, train stations, restaurants, and clubs. I’ve always enjoyed meeting people from different cultures and all walks of life. To quote Will Rogers, “I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.” Everything I’ve learned about them has become fodder for my writing. I’ve found inspiration from the … [Read more...]
Cameron Bane’s PITFALL Named as One of Patricia Statham’s Books to Curl Up With
"I started reading [PITFALL] at the doctor's office and got so entranced in the book , that I almost missed my name being called. I so got sucked into pages from the first chapter. Let me introduce you to John Brenner a retired army ranger and ex cop. He has had a very hard life and most of all he is a southern gentleman. He takes a case that was suppose to be easy but when is anything ever easy. He is confronted with an evil that reaches high … [Read more...]
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