Author Interview: Novel Talk with Michael January

Michael January discusses his historical novels with Wendy Kendall and Carl Lee. A frank conversation about the writing and themes of “Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley: The Frankenstein Diaries” and the research and thrilling style of “Aces: A Novel of...

Amazon KDP Book Series for Authors

Favorite Castles Series Amazon has created a new site function for books. A separate marketing/purchase page for a Series, either in order or out of order, hopefully to engage readers of one book to buy the other books in the series. An author who publishes on...

Alex Cord, actor, dies at 88. A writer’s hero!

I noticed while watching the 2021 Creative Emmy Awards memorial that Alex Cord had died this year. Looking up a death notice I found a headline in some papers “Who was Alex Cord and what was his cause of death?” The article said he died at his home in Texas and was...

The Boy King’s Tale a Finalist Page Turner Awards

So, as an inaugural post, I have an announcement! My next book still in progress “The Boy King’s Tale: as Told by Geoffrey Chaucer”, the true thrilling and as yet untold adventure of the young years of England’s King Edward III has been announced as a Finalist in the...

The Beginning!

So, a test page. Gotta start somewhere. “It was a dark and stormy night…” Great! Good start. Okay, now what?