Female characters are killing more people than ever before. The Hunger Games was one of the top 10 grossing films last year, a first for a heroine thriller. But there were plenty of thrillers featuring heroines in 2012: Snow White and the Huntsman, Underworld Awakening, Resident Evil: Retribution, and Brave to name a few. Women […]
5 Things I Tried to Accomplish
Along with thousands of other people in the last thirty days, I’ve released a thriller. It’s fun, exciting, and unputdownable or your money back*. But with all those competitors out there, the question I asked was, how do I make mine stand out? What niche is out there that would make mine unique? I hope […]
Review: The Girl Who Would Be King
The Girl Who Would Be King — by Kelly Thompson $4.99 E This book is better than Hunger Games. A hell of a lot better. More exciting, more innovative, more fascinating. And yet Traditional Publishers won’t touch it. Why? Because it doesn’t fit their formula. It has no genre, no shelf at B&N, no section […]
Review: Operator
Operator — by David Vinjamuri $3.97E / $9.97 PB Some columnist quoted me in Forbes — obviously an indicator of an advanced intellect — so I read his bio and discovered that he’d written a thriller. Any writer smart enough to quote me deserves to be read. I bought it, I read it … and […]
Review: Murder Takes Time
Murder Takes Time – Giacomo Giammatteo, $17.99 Soft, $4.99 E This is the best book I’ve read this year. I’ve never read the Godfather. I’ve never been drawn to gangster novels. I’m not even big on gritty crime dramas. I couldn’t tell you why I bought this one. Maybe it was the feeling I got […]
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