Month: September 2018

The Art of Hometown: Angelina and Vicki At The Last

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week.  Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art.  If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive.  Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

The brave young women you see before you are Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, the heroines of my novel Hometown. I can’t tell you exactly what they’re facing because, well, that would be telling. This scene is from the end of the novel, and Angelina and Vicki are facing the final horror with nothing but a flathead screwdriver, an injured leg, and their indomitable wills.

The thing they’re facing might be in more trouble than it thinks.

For more information on Angelina, see here.

For more information on Vicki, see here.

Thanks to the talented MJ Barros for this marvelous interpretation of my two heroines.

And if you want the whole story of Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, just pick yourself up a copy of Hometown at Amazon.

On The Truth of Rock and Roll – Part 1: The Inspiration

I started The Truth of Rock and Roll shortly after my first wife told me we were through.
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What An Idea!

So I was reading this post on the BooksGoSocial Writers Blog, and it made a suggestion that should have been blatantly obvious, but which I have managed to miss in nearly ten years of blogging:

Want to use your blog to promote your writing career?  Then blog about your books!

This should not have been as much of a revelation as it was.

I’ve posted about my work before – mostly the odd excerpt or giveaway notification – but I’ve mostly been pretty shy.  I think I had the idea that I needed to draw people in and entertain them with other material, then give tantalizing glimpses of the fiction.  Kinda like ads and previews in a magazine.

Well, there will certainly still be other material.  I’m not going to stop being a movie buff or having Thoughts after all.  And a great deal of material still needs to be imported from my old blog.  But in the days to come, you’ll see a lot more about my fiction and its inspirations.  Hope you find it as moving as I do.