Halloween & Horror

It's Halloween! Time for scary & chilling stories.

Actually, I'm not sure I could write a horror story. As with thrillers, I don't feel my style of writing could reach that level of intensity. My values would prevent me from writing on certain subjects as well, although I do enjoy a good horror film. Note I said GOOD - not torture-porn or slasher flicks.

I do have an idea for a werewolf story, although with my style it would be more relationship-based as opposed to chilling. But I think the dynamics of dealing with being a werewolf or coping with someone who changed once a month into something more primitive and animal would be an interesting topic to tackle!

I'll add it to my list...

Google & Amazon Lawsuits

Apparently the Google lawsuit has been settled, and they will be required to compensate the author for downloads of their work. For more details on that, go to: http://www.publishers.org/main/Copyright/CopyKey/copyKey_01_03.htm

Meanwhile, the Amazon/BookSurge Antitrust Lawsuit is still pending. Since Amazon enacted their policy of requiring that all digital books be printed through their company, Booksurge, they have created a monopoly and hurt many small publishers. For more information on this lawsuit, go to SPAN's website: http://www.spannet.org/amazonantitrust-home.htm

Author Patti Lacy

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing
An Irishwomans' Tale Kregel Publications (July 8, 2008)
by Patti Lacy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Patti Lacy graduated from Baylor University in 1977 with a B.S. in education. She taught at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois, until she retired in 2006 to pursue writing full time. She has two grown children with her husband, Alan, and lives in Illinois.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Far away from her Irish home, Mary Freeman begins to adapt to life in Midwest America, but family turmoil and her own haunting memories threaten to ruin her future.
A shattered cup. Cheap tea. Bitter voices asking what's to be done with the "little eejit." Mary, an impetuous Irishwoman, won't face the haunting memories--until her daughter's crisis propels her back to County Clare. There, in a rocky cliffside home, Mary learns from former neighbors why God tore her from Ireland forty-five years earlier. As she begins to glimpse His sovereign plan, Mary is finally able to bury a dysfunctional past and begin to heal. Irish folk songs and sayings add color to the narrative.

If you would like to read the first chapter of , go HERE
The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0825429870

A Chance to Write Again...

I had a couple down days (what on earth are those?) and actually began writing again.

I'm still doing final revisions on Book V, but it's refreshing. I've also been working on some new articles, too.

I love the promotions and everything else I do, but now and then it's nice to get lost in a story again. That's why we write in the first place I think!