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Hello, I'm the founder of the Readers' Station. I work with a talented and interesting group of authors at the Readers' Station. Our website is www.readersstation.com and we invite you to visit us. Let's talk about our books.

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MAYAN CALENDAR GIRLS

Started by Team2012 Jun 2.

My New Book

Started by Linton Robinson Aug. 8, 2008.

An author from China!

Started by Likai Chen Mar. 27, 2008.

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Comment by Elisabetta Errani Emaldi on August 29, 2009 at 8:39am

Comment by Sunny Frazier on August 23, 2009 at 9:09pm: The conference hasn't even been over for 3 months and Marilyn Meredith has already got some great speakers on board. Horror writer Simon Wood is going to talk about Creating Suspense. Michael A. Black will give us a lesson in putting together a plot in an hour. Forensic expert, Steve Scarborough, is returning to tell us more about forensics.

Michael Orenduff, apparently you and your wife will show and tell us what makes a good cover--and what doesn't.

And me? Well, I was asked to speak on "How Much Sex is Too Much?" (Hmmm. I think they mean in the mystery/police genre.)

Comment by J. Michael Orenduff on July 8, 2009 at 9:16am: I also attended the Public Safety Writers conference in Las Vegas and learned a great deal both from the formal sessions and the informal chats with other writers. Like Holli Castillo said, it was a good place to sell some books. However, most of us bought as many as we sold, so it was sort of a zero-sum game except for the publishers who made out like bandits! I don't mind, though, because the books I bought are all turning out to be good reads. You can find out more about my books at www.orenduff.org.

Comment by Holli Castillo on June 22, 2009 at 7:28pm: I also attended the Public Safety Writers conference in Vegas (I'm still in Vegas, actually.) I have to agree with Sunny that it was a great conference. The speakers and other attendees shared a wealth of information from diverse backgrounds. I learned a lot, got to sell some of my books, and got to hang out with some wildly entertaining people. Anyone who writes about police, prosecutors, emergency services, etc., should join this group, www.policewriter.com. If you have a question relating to one of these fields, someone there will have the answer.

Comment by Sunny Frazier on June 22, 2009 at 1:24pm: Hi all. Just got in from the Vegas Public Safety Writers conference, very intense. Have to take off for Atlanta tomorrow, just time for brief message. Great conference, group doubled in size. Forensic handwriting expert, fingerprint expert, Oak Tree Press publisher, Betty Webb, marketing advice, much more. I hope other PSWA members chime in and add to this report. Anyone out there with a police, fireman, deputy, paramedic, any connection to Public Safety, this is a group you should become part of. Excellent sources for info for our novels. Great promotion, contests, a chance to sell books (I nearly sold out). And, IT'S VEGAS, BABY! http://www.policewriter.com/

Comment by Sunny Frazier on May 31, 2009 at 4:18am: I was just interviewed by Jenny Gilliam at Spicy Romances
http://authorspotlights.wordpress.com/ You can read a hot little excerpt from WHERE ANGELS FEAR when my heroine and gal-pal go try on leather outfits for an "adult" party. Fun stuff.
Jenny put out a call for other authors who would like to do some PR at the site. Contact her at jennygilliam@rocketmail.com
Tell her Sunny sent you.

Comment by Olive Margarett Young on May 22, 2009 at 5:31pm: Disaster Strikes -my short fantasy novel about hurricane sue a capitavating story of crime/death/romance/destruction is finally published and awaiting reviews. Please rate honestly, Thank you! Olive

Comment by Sunny Frazier on May 3, 2009 at 5:48pm: WHERE ANGELS FEAR, the sequel to FOOLS RUSH IN is finally here! Part of the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, this time I based the book on a sex club we busted in Fresno County. We thought it was a fruit and vegetable stand. Well, at least it was "organic!"

Comment by Linton Robinson on March 23, 2009 at 11:32pm: It's taken a year or two, including two disasters with dippy publishers, but SWEET SPOT-my novel about crime/politics/baseball in Mazatlan-is finally published and on the rack.

Click the banner below to see the publisher's page, which has a synopsis, video, and free sample chapter.

Anybody who likes the book could do a few little things you can do to help me out, and I'd appreciate any of them:

Ask your local bookstore or library to stock the book. It's available through Ingram's distributors, which all shops and libraries are familiar with. It's returnable.

Anybody with an amazon.com account can tag, vote for, or submit reviews for SWEET SPOT
http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Spot-Mazatlan-Carnival-Politics/dp/0982046723/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237824821&sr=8-4

(Or for that matter, my previous book IMAGINARY LINES
http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Lines-Physical-Cultural-Frontiers/dp/0972134999/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237824821&sr=8-1

Thanks for any help you can give me in getting this book into readers' hands.

Best to you all

Lin

Comment by Brynneth N Colvin on November 24, 2008 at 3:39am: I'm giving away books all this week - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brynsbookgroup

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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.

Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?

A Christmas Tree Already

On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.

Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.

With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.

While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?

Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life

I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.

For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.

PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!

CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter

One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.

Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.

I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.

What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?