It’s week two of the tour. Drop by for interviews, excerpts from Toxic Relationship, book reviews and a promotional giveaway for readers of the blogs — a $10 gift certificate for Amazon. Yeah, cool. So come along for the ride. The stops this week are: September 24 – Books For Me September 25 – My Reading Addiction […]
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Week Two: Toxic Relationship Virtual Book Tour
Posted: 24th September 2012 by jazzdog in Author Interview, Blog Tour, promotional giveaway, TOXIC RELATIONSHIPTags: author, blog, book review, books, Richard Hacker, toxic relationship
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The Big Question
Posted: 3rd September 2012 by jazzdog in Creativity, Publishing, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, WritingTags: author, blog, books, creativity, fiction, novel, Richard Hacker, toxic relationship, writer
Author Chat: Cathy Coburn and Duaine Neill
Posted: 13th August 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Interview, Novel, WritingTags: author, books, CathyandDuaine, creativity, fiction, interview, novel, Richard Hacker, writing
I want to thank Cathy Coburn and Duaine Neill for joining me today. These writing partners have an adventurous streak — zip lining, scuba diving and oh yes, doing jumps in four wheelers off sand dunes! When they aren’t risking life and limb, they’re writing. Their novel AFTER THE MIST released by Champagne Books is […]
Pacific Northwest Writers Conference 2012
Posted: 23rd July 2012 by Richard Hacker in Conferences, Creativity, Novel, PublishingTags: author, blog, books, conference, creativity, fiction, novel, PNWA, Richard Hacker, writing
I just got back from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. “Just got back” is a bit of a stretch, since the conference happened in Seattle, just a quick twenty minute commute from my house. Writers gravitate to these conferences for a number of reasons: to see colleagues and be with other writers, to attend workshops […]
Author Chat: Brian Braden
Posted: 16th July 2012 by Richard Hacker in Author Interview, Novel, PublishingTags: author, books, creativity, fiction, interview, novel, Richard Hacker, writer, writing
I want to welcome Brian Braden to the blog today. Now retired from the military, he served as an officer in intelligence and as a combat helicopter pilot. In addition, he’s been a corporate executive and a freelance columnist featured in defense publications including Military Times and Air Power Journal. Brian and I know each […]
Author Chat: Angelica Hart and Zi
Posted: 25th June 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Novel, UncategorizedTags: author, blog, books, champagne books, creativity, fiction, novel, writing
I’m excited to have Angelica Hart and Zi in the blog house for an interview. To say these two authors combined, have been prolific, is a bit of an understatement. Between them they have thirty seven titles published and over five hundred shorts in various magazines and newspapers. And the awards! EPPIE finalist for three […]
So You Want to Get Published…
Posted: 11th May 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Publishing, UncategorizedTags: author, blog, books, creativity, fiction, novel, publishing, Richard Hacker, writing
Where’s the Line? Limits to Language, Sex and Violence in YA Novels
Posted: 9th April 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Digital Media, Novel, Publishing, Uncategorized, YATags: author, books, creativity, fiction, novel, Richard Hacker, writing, YA
As an author writing a YA novel I face the conundrum of determining how much graphic sex, violence and profanity my characters will experience in the course of the story. YA presents a challenge because you’re dealing with a broad spectrum of intellectual and emotional capacity to understand what is being presented. The distance between […]
Avoid the Trope Cliche
Posted: 23rd February 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Novel, Science Fiction, Teleportation, TropesTags: author, blog, books, creativity, fiction, novel, Richard Hacker, sci-fi, teleportation, trope, writer, writing
Book Review: Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
Posted: 7th October 2011 by Richard Hacker in Book Review, Crime, ThrillerTags: author, blogging, book review, books, crime, fiction, french, Izzo, novel, Richard Hacker, thriller
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the first in a trilogy set in Marseilles. Izzo’s Marseilles takes the city off my list of places to visit. The town, dark, gritty, with a raging undercurrent of bigotry, however, provides fertile soil for a crime thriller. A flawed protagonist moves […]
