Showing posts with label Author. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Author. Show all posts
Friday, May 5, 2017
Summer Storm (Author-BOBASEJax-The Enigmas Series) interview on the Hang...
TGIF! This is why we truly love what we do, and feel so blessed. Here we are so fortunate to be hangin with Summer Storm with her very first book from the floor of her very first signing at bobasejax17 Author Page Book Obsessed Babes Author Signing Event-Jacksonville, FL, in Jacksonville, Florida! Thanks for this truly great chance Taira Wilds! It is so terrific to a part of launching this amazing creator's journey!
Thanks to Some'n Unique Magazine, LLC, WordFire Inc & WordFire Press, Florida Book News, Famous Faces & Funnies, and Space Coast Comixx for helping to share such great creators with the web! Here it is, this is what we're truly all about!
Friday, March 31, 2017
Entertaining and Enjoyable Read for People of all Ages! (On A L.A.R.P. by Stefani Deoul)
Entertaining and Enjoyable Read for People of all Ages, March 31, 2017
Not typically one for a YA story, (well not anymore), I am so glad I decided to take a look at this one. Stefani Deoul really put all her knowledge and experience as a story-teller on both the page and the small screen to work to deliver a dynamic and immersive as well as original tale. As she describes, On a LARP introduces us to a young teen coder (That’s compu-speak for all of us middle aged folks). Sid Rubin is a typical teen smartass, well typical if your teen is a super-smart high school kid with a strong conscience and a knack for solving problems. (Happily mine were).
The secret to a great YA story to me is in the point of view. It is important to feel yourself, no matter how old you are in the shoes of the protagonist, and from word one, Deoul puts her readers there fro page one.
“Do any of you know the truly scary part about being seventeen?” Answer: “Your brain doesn't actually know, understand or care what it can't do; and, while this sounds great in theory, in my particular case, my under-developed brain apparently didn't know I couldn't fly. So I jumped . . . And I plummeted . . .”
When young Sid sees the photo of a murder victim during a field trip to the police station, her keen eye soon finds her and her friends chasing a “dark web” (another techno-term I’ve always loved) killer through the middle of a live action role playing game, and hey, who doesn’t want to LARP through a murder mystery.
This story is an energetic and youthful ride that really delves into the fascinating world of interactive role-playing (or L.A.R.P.-ing), Ted Talks, teenage heartbreak, suspicious parents, oh, and some really cool “Cosplay.”
This, of course, is not the first literary run for the award winning Deoul, who is the author of the novel The Carousel, and who has produced TV series such as The Dead Zone, Brave New Girl, and Haven, as well as being the executive in charge of production for the series Dresden Files and Missing, but tackling a YA story might have seemed like the road less traveled to her at first. It is, however, a path she navigated to perfection providing an entertaining and enjoyable read for people of all ages.
https://www.amazon.com/LARP-Rubin-Silicon-Alley-Adventure-ebook/dp/B06X6L1RKY
Friday, November 18, 2016
Coming of Age by G.W. Pomichter
(First printed in the Anthology: An Eternity of Beauty)
We are the children of rebellion, grown from the seeds if idealism,
nourished through the trials of war, strengthened by victories and defeats.
We are challenged by the future and educated by the past.
Our imaginations will shape the world;
it is by our design that ages that follow shall be guided.
Our thirst for knowledge cannot be quenched by tradition;
it must be purged through innovation.
Though bound to our flesh, its shades are no matter;
And steered by our hearts to love in forms less configured,
but greater in capacity and substance,
we are strengthened by our faith,
but the thatch and stone and mortar under which it is learned is of little consequence.
Though, reverent to the creator, whose names are many, they matter not.
We are the future.
We have been called the centennials, the millennials, and Generation X,
but we are Generation extraordinary,
And we are:
Come of Age.
Coming of Age by G.W. Pomichter
(First printed in the Anthology: An Eternity of Beauty)
We are the children of rebellion, grown from the seeds if idealism,
nourished through the trials of war, strengthened by victories and defeats.
We are challenged by the future and educated by the past.
Our imaginations will shape the world;
it is by our design that ages that follow shall be guided.
Our thirst for knowledge cannot be quenched by tradition;
it must be purged through innovation.
Though bound to our flesh, its shades are no matter;
And steered by our hearts to love in forms less configured,
but greater in capacity and substance,
we are strengthened by our faith,
but the thatch and stone and mortar under which it is learned is of little consequence.
Though, reverent to the creator, whose names are many, they matter not.
We are the future.
We have been called the centennials, the millennials, and Generation X,
but we are Generation extraordinary,
And we are:
Come of Age.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining and insightful tale!,
Murder. Mayhem. Intrigue. Racial tensions. When a charred body is discovered in the ashes of the Phoenix Hotel, all of these things are ignited and author Gwen Mayo pulls readers into a complex and well-crafted world of mystery and melodrama.
Mayo’s former Pinkerton Agent turned detective, Nessa Donnelly, is a character that readers won’t soon forget. She left an impoverished past behind to become one of Kentucky's most prominent detectives. Mayo’s thorough exploration of the character makes her all the more sympathetic and is bound to tether readers to the adventure.
This is a story that centers around a murder, but it is easy to suspend disbelief, as Mayo’s reach extends beyond the crime scene into the community and the interconnected lives of its residents.
Mayo writes,”Rival forces are threatening to pull the city apart as the murder ignites old hatreds. Klansmen attack a local police sergeant with family ties to O'Brien.”
This is story strikes a contemporary nerve and is more than a simple murder mystery as it delves into the complex dynamics of racial relations, small town interconnectivity, and human deceits.
Concealed in Ash is a slam dunk and a story that I found both compelling and entertaining!
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Life After Lucky (The Philandering Fella)
PREVIEW
It was 7:30am on a hot August morning. The alarm clock rang out, murdering a restful night’s sleep. A knock at the door seemed to echo through his one room loft apartment and office.Will slowly sat up from the sofa where he’d laid all night. He rotated his legs to one side as if they were weighted — first one and then the other. The rhythmic knocking continued and hastened.
“I’ll be right there!” Will said as he stood abruptly, shaking the final moments of his slumber from his muscular shoulders.
As he passed by his desk, he pulled off its top a half-full coffee cup, and smelling it first to test it, he took a sip and placed the cup on the side of a small sink that appeared to jut from wall of the room. As he turned the sink on, he reached behind him to the doorknob on the left, turned the knob and opened the door dismissively.
“Good morning, sleepy head,” said the bouncy Molly as she walked happily into the room.
Molly had been coming by each morning, almost without exception, since Lucky had left the police force and moved from his apartment into the office flat. Each day she brought Will a fresh cup of coffee and a cardboard take-out container in a plain, brown paper bag, filled with eggs and bacon from the corner drug store.
As she had done hundreds of times before, it seemed, she swept through the door while Lucky washed his hands and face, and placed the plain paper bag on the desk. She proceeded to walk to the sofa, pick up the blankets Lucky had strewn beneath, folded them and placed them gently on top of a steel filing cabinet in the corner of the room.
“How’s tricks, Will?” She asked cheerfully.
Lucky turned from the sink and passed Molly as he reached into a pile of clothes on top of an end table near the sofa and grabbed a clean shirt.
“The same as yesterday,” he said half-heartedly, holding up his shirt before he put it on. “Just doing somebody else’s laundry.”
A few months after leaving the police force, Will had applied and been granted a license as a private investigator by the city. The past several months since hadn’t been exactly the life he thought it would be.
Most of his clients were middle-aged men or women, looking for an estranged spouse or sibling that had disappeared quite intentionally. Some were jilted lovers or wives and husbands suspecting unfaithful partners. The work was more jading than adventurous.
“Nope,” said Molly. “Today is going to be the day you get a big case. I just know it! At least you’re not stuck in the basement digging up old ‘perp files for that ritzy robbery case they’ve all been figuring.”
Lucky finished dressing and searched from the coat rack to the table top for his favorite tie. Finding it rolled up on the corner of the desk, he wrapped it around his neck and began to fumble with it.
“I sure hope so,” he said, reluctantly surrendering to her optimism.
Molly stepped toward Will and finished adjusting his tie and folding down his collar. As she stepped back away, she smiled.
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| G.W. Pomichter's The Lucky Marks Mysteries |
“I’ll see you tonight?” she queried playfully. “We’re going to dinner after I get off at the station, right?”
“Sure thing,” Lucky replied. “I can’t wait.”
He smiled back at her. He couldn’t help but remember how dismissive he had been to her when he first arrived home from the war. He wondered, now, why she was so happy to be around him after all that had happened.
“Stay out of trouble, and I’ll see ya later, handsome,” she said as she straightened her hat on her head, opened the door and left, pulling it closed behind her. The foggy grey glass window on the door made a rattling sound as the door latched.
Lucky waved as she departed and smiled as he peered at his companion through the etched letters, that from his vantage point, spelled out “Lucky Marks: Private Investigator” backward in the grey glass.
He reached behind him to the coat and hat rack, grabbed his suit jacket and slid it on confidently, then rounded the corner of the desk and sat behind it in the wheeled wooden chair. He placed his interlaced hands at the back of his head and rocked back and forth with a satisfied contentment. No longer in surrender to Molly’s morning cheer, he could feel his own sense of hope and optimism rising inside him.
“Today’s going to be a good day,” he said rhetorically.
Get The Philandering Fella on iTunes for iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1073313650
Get The Philandering Fella on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Philandering-Fella-Files-Lucky-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B01ADJMZ46
Monday, October 19, 2015
Web Show Aims to Use the Internet to Share Indie Artists
MELBOURNE, FL—In August 2015 indie author and journalist G.W. Pomichter of Melbourne launched a new web based interview show aimed at sharing up-and-coming independent artists with the public.
The YouTube based show, titled "Hangin With" is formatted as an informal talk show features Pomichter interviewing a variety of authors, artists and filmmakers in a wide range of settings from his living room studio to conventions and conference centers throughout the state.
“For me this was an opportunity to use my experience to help other independent artists to get the word our about the projects they’ve worked so hard to
Pomichter said he started the show when he attended the Independent BookFest in Orlando in August as a way to distinguish himself in a large group of other authors.
“Like everyone, I had a desire to stand out in my market,” he said. “But, after talking with a few authors about their work and the shared difficulties each had getting their message to consumers, I knew we had something more.”
After interviewing authors that weekend, Pomichter said he spoke with his family about ways to create a regular program to help his peers.
Since then, Pomichter has interviewed more than 40 artists including fellow authors and filmmakers as well as costume creators and even a chocolatier, at venues such as the Speculative Fiction South East Conference in Orlando and Necronomicon in Tampa, and he has set his sights on many more.
“The past decade, weather as a product of the economy or technology or any number of factors has really been a new renaissance of creativity and entrepreneurship,” Pomichter said. “But, there is a need to give these creators a voice in a global emerging market. I want to be a part of that. I want to use the skills I’ve been blessed to learn through experience to help create a new age of imagination and innovation.”
Hangin With ™ is regularly produced and episodes can be found at YouTube.com/user/GarrettPomichter and are available in the iTunes store as podcasts.
Find out more about show host and creator G.W. Pomichter at: gwpomichter.wix.com/gw-pomichter
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