Category: The Lords of Oblivion

My New Novel Published: THE LORDS OF POWDER

The Lords of Powder takes place during the height of Miami’s cocaine wars as a magician pursues a fortune smuggling and woos a gifted musician while eluding drug cartels and the police (Amazon link to eBook or print versions:  https://amzn.to/2Oe2ERA ). In this elegant cross-genre blend of modern fantasy, historical fiction and action adventure, Bradan … Continue reading My New Novel Published: THE LORDS OF POWDER →

Book Review – TELL THEM OF BATTLES, KINGS AND ELEPHANTS

It’s easy to be intrigued by a story that not only contains a Kipling epigraph, but also entitles the novel with a quote from a Kipling poem. And, by the way, has Michelangelo as its protagonist straddling Renaissance Italy and Ottoman Turkey. And does all this in a lyrical 140 pages. Mathias Enard wrote Tell … Continue reading Book Review – TELL THEM OF BATTLES, KINGS AND ELEPHANTS →

Using Author’s Notes to Pique Readers’ Interest and Promote Your Book

Author’s notes are short passages deployed in both fiction and non-fiction books to add information that doesn’t fit into the main text about the book’s contents or to expound on the author’s intent. Sometimes these notes show off how much research the writer did in creating the book. Readers, if they bother to check the … Continue reading Using Author’s Notes to Pique Readers’ Interest and Promote Your Book →