Hi. Allow me to introduce myself. I’ve been an American airman, a technical writer and instructor, a science advocate, and for the past four decades a TV and motion picture technologist working in New York and Hollywood. Recently retired, I’ve decided to reinvent myself yet again, this time as a novelist. Being the older brother of best-selling author/journalist Linda Stasi, I’m hoping there’s a genetic propensity for putting words on paper in a … [Read more...]
Bestselling Author James Byron Huggins Tells The Ultimate Tale Of Survival In CAIN
HE WAS THEIR DEADLIEST KILLER The late Roth Tiberius Cain, legendary CIA hit man, is gone, but not forgotten. A top-secret project code-named Genocide One has given him a chance to live again, and enough firepower to kill multitudes - and survive to kill another day. NOW HE IS THEIR GREATEST NIGHTMARE Grotesquely transformed, Cain has become the ultimate predator: A killing machine with the soul of a devil. And the only force that can stop him is … [Read more...]
WildBlue Press Summer Accolades Include Feature on The Dr. Phil Show
Anne K. Howard’s HIS GARDEN has been featured on news outlets such as AuthorsReading.com, NBC Connecticut, People.com, AETV.com, and The New Britain Herald. William Florence, author of RAPTOR’S RIDGE, has had work published nationally in The Bulletin for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, APMENews for the Associated Press Managing Editors Group, and for travel publications such as Arizona Highways, and Michigan … [Read more...]
[VIDEO] James Byron Huggins Reviews Acclaimed Thriller (3/3)
Video Three in a Three Part Series where James Byron Huggins discusses his writing career and his acclaimed thriller THE RECKONING "In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest - an American executing his country's darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill...." James Byron Huggins was a decorated police detective in Huntsville, Alabama, when he published his first novel, Wolf Story, to … [Read more...]
[VIDEO] Advincula Martial Arts in Thriller THE RECKONING
Video Two in a Three Part Series About James Byron Huggins’ THE RECKONING “In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest – an American executing his country’s darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill…” As James Byron Huggins was writing THE RECKONING, he reached out to Arcenio James Advincula and Jim Hammond about a fighting knife that Gage would thrive with. The Flesheater ‘Dragon’ … [Read more...]
[VIDEO] James Byron Huggins’ Thriller THE RECKONING Features Jim Hammond’s ‘Dragon’ Fighting Knife
Video One in a Three Part Series About James Byron Huggins’ THE RECKONING “In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest – an American executing his country's darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill....” When international best-selling author James Byron Huggins was writing THE RECKONING, he reached out to Jim Hammond about a fighting knife that Gage would feel comfortable using. … [Read more...]
New York Times Bestselling Author John Nance Returns To The Air With New Edge-Of-Your-Seat Thriller LOCKOUT
"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...]
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...]