Beyond Words

Welcome to author, Michael Thal Tell us something about yourself and how you became a writer. I had an interest in writing since college. I was a History major and had many papers to write. I enjoyed the challenge of finding information and putting it together into a cogent document that was fun to read. After college and grad school I became a teacher. I taught middle school for 28 years. During my summer vacations I wrote articles and short stories. I even started a novel. One morning, after teaching for 21 years, I awoke to a profound silence. Hearing aides helped, but hearing has since been a chore. Six years later, my “good ear” went deaf after the virus attacked again. I tried to teach for another year, but the job became a nightmare trying to comprehend what children and teachers were saying to me. After the doctor signed my disability papers, I decided to write full time. Tell us about your novel and where readers can purchase a copy. Since my r...

It's my pleasure to welcome author, Sherry Foley to my blog today . About Sherry Foley: Sherry Foley has always had a wild imagination which she has used to craft inspired pieces of fiction that often border on the disturbing. While her creative mind races forward, she keeps her feet planted in Missouri with her husband and three teenage children. In a nutshell, what is Switched in Death about? A serial killer who kills two women and then he switches their heads for a very unique reason.   It’s a look into the mind of killer, but the answers will hit home for many.     How long did it take you to write Switched in Death ? Four months   Can you tell us why we're going to love your hero(s)?   My male hero is a combination of all the things I’ve sat and listen to my friends say they wanted in a man.   My heroine is strong in her own right and isn’t afraid to take on a serial killer. Tell us a little about your road to publication. Was it a lo...

It's my pleasure to welcome author, Natalie Hancock to my blog toda y Tell us something about yourself and how you became a writer.   I’m Natalie Hancock, I was born in Plymouth Devon and moved to Lincoln at a young age. I have been to University of Lincoln, Riseholme College, studying a course on Animal Care, which I did for two years. I now live in the middle of nowhere with my partner, Reece, and our little zoo, which includes my hamster named Crunch, a chinchilla called Hektor and three guinea pigs, Fluff, Smudge and Squig. We both love animals and hope to have an army of guinea pigs, hamsters and chinchilla’s. Along with a goat. I started writing when I had this weird, but awesome dream, and because I didn’t want to forget it (which happened a lot) I wrote it down, and I guess I never stopped writing. The first series I ever wrote was about witches. I tried to get those published but had trouble with con men. So gave up. It remains to be seen what will happen wit...

As an actor Stephen Jared has appeared in feature films and television series, as well as commercials for both radio and television. His writings, including articles and interviews, have appeared in various publications. In 2010, he self-published an adventure novel titled Jack and the Jungle Lion to much critical praise, including an honorable mention in the 2011 Hollywood Book Festival. He is currently at work on a sequel. Together, they will be the first two stories of an extended series. Various neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles have been called home for more than twenty years. Prior to that, Stephen was a kid in Cincinnati where he excelled at watching a lot of good movies. The Indiana Jones series pointed him in the direction of Hollywood's classic era. Today, his literary works are largely inspired by old-Hollywood and the action-oriented pulps. Stephen is thrilled to have Solstice Publishing release Ten-A-Week Steale . The idea for the novel came out o...

"THE SPIRIT ARCHER" By Mike Evers Great Minds Think Aloud Literary Community will be publishing "The Spirit Archer" by Mike Evers, the release date is 3/16/2012. This novel will be available in all e-book format on Amazon and in print at CreateSpace. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY I was born in Singapore way back in 1970 and spent my formative years in Wales after my family moved there from Australia in 1976.   I’ve since resided in numerous places, including: Sussex, Kent and Poland. After school I did a BA in History at the University of Wales, Swansea; and later, a Masters’ degree in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent at Canterbury.   This has given me an educational background which I have for the most part managed to avoid capitalizing upon - so far. I currently live in West Yorkshire with my wife Joanne and son Joseph. I spend a few days a week teaching English in a local college. This is a career I have been doing for 12 years or so and it was in ...

Santa Bring A Kindle? Help Sponsor A Leader Dog!             J T Baroni’s paranormal tale, The Legend of Rachel Petersen , has been released through Damnation Books, an epublisher based in California . The writer plans on donating a portion of his book’s proceeds to The Leader Dogs for the Blind, located in Rochester Hills , Michigan . This organization has been training Leader Dogs and placing them with blind people, free of charge, since 1939, and they have achieved this amazing feat all from donations.             Baroni knows all too well, both their generosity and the impact of their invaluable services. Furthering that statement, he also understands first handedly how strongly the visually impaired faithfully depend, trust, and rely on their dogs, whereas his older brother, Gene, has been blind since birth and is on his third canine companion. “As kids,” Baroni fondly...

I'm excited to welcome Jeni Decker, author, mom and all 'round great lady to my blog today. Her latest book is a memoir, I Wish I were Engulfed in Flames: My Insane Life Raising Two Boys with Autism is truly a fabulous read. Please tell us a little about your memoir I Wish I were Engulfed in Flames: My Insane Life Raising Two Boys with Autism and why you wrote it. Well, the whole thing snuck up on me like the swine flu, the symptoms fairly banal until suddenly it felt like I was hooked up to life support with a priest administering last rites in the form of a cattle-prod shoved up my…                 …okay, so that lasted about fifteen minutes, relatively speaking. A friend once told me that I was lucky to have my life. “While you’re enjoying an eight course meal, most people are sitting down with a frozen dinner.” Boy, was she ever right. Profundity; you can’t find it in the frozen food section.   I...

I'm pleased to welcome Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson to my blog today . Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton are a sisters co-authoring team.   Loretta lives in Junction City, Kansas, and Vickie in Hutchinson, Kansas. The sisters have traveled to each setting used in their novels. They love wandering through old ruins and viewing relics from past cultures.   Because of this, archaeology has provided a background for much of their work.   The Mayan Mask of Death , set in Central America, is their thirty-ninth novel, and the first in the Arla Vaughn Pre-Columbian Treasure Series.   A second Arla Vaughn novel, this one about Inca treasure, The Lost City of the Condor,   will be available soon. The Mayan Mask of Death When Arla Vaughn accepts the role of temporary Dean of Archaeology, the museum’s purchase of an elaborate Mayan mask seems an evil portent. The dual face, one side a handsome Mayan nobleman, the other side a skull-like visage with a gli...