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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – “An Emotional Affair/Intimate Rivalz” by Lamont Wright

JoeyPinkney.com Book Review
“An Emotional Affair”
by Lamont Wright
5 of 5 Stars

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Lamont Wright infuses his unique lyrical abilities into the “An Emotional Affair/Intimate Rivalz” installment of his Poet’s Pursuit of Pleasure series of novels. The main character, Bleu, is a poet/web designer who ran a popular poetry site. A lover by nature, he yearns for a creative soul akin to his own in feminine form. He finds her in a woman with the online stage name of Black Butterfly. Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – “An Emotional Affair/Intimate Rivalz” by Lamont Wright

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Nancy Hendrickson, author of How to Write for Kindle

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Nancy Hendrickson, author of How to Write for Kindle
(Green Pony Press, Inc.)

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“How to Write for Kindle” helps authors get published (and sold) on Kindle by showing them how to quickly write a quality book. The book also guides the reader through the best practices to make sure the book is found by buyers.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “How to Write for Kindle”?

Nancy Hendrickson: I have published many Kindle books. Having gone through a long learning process of how to format a book, and how to maximize Amazon’s own system for authors, I wanted to share the information with other writers. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Nancy Hendrickson, author of How to Write for Kindle

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jonathan Moeller, author of Ghost in the Blood

JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Jonathan Moeller, author of Ghost in the Blood
(Azure Flame Media, LLC)

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Caina Amalas, is a nightfighter of the Ghosts of the Empire. She’s essentially a secret agent of the Emperor, and she travels around the Empire dealing with corrupt nobles, evil sorcerers, slave traders, and occasionally far more dangerous things.

In “Ghost in the Blood”, Caina goes to the city of Marsis to track down a particularly vicious group of slave traders. When she finds them, she discovers that the slavers are working for an ancient sorcerer of immense power and cruelty, a sorcerer who is preparing a spell that might shatter the world.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Ghost in the Blood”?

Jonathan Moeller: Long story.

In 2007, the anthology “Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress 22” opened up for submissions. I spent several weeks carefully writing and polishing a story. The editor liked it, but said it wasn’t the right tone for the anthology, and so rejected it. The submission period hadn’t closed yet, so in three days I wrote, edited, and sent in a new story with exactly the opposite tone. The first story had a very “high fantasy”, Arthurian feel to it. The second story, about a spy and assassin named Caina Amalas, had exactly the opposite tone. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jonathan Moeller, author of Ghost in the Blood