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Halloween Special! All my stories are FREE on Amazon for 1 DAY ONLY!

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Normally, I try to be very subtle in promoting my work.  But not today! In honor of Halloween, I'm running a rare, special event: all my short stories and two novellas are absolutely 10,000% FREE on Amazon.com . Now is your chance to grab as many stories as you can carry. I've got two science fiction and fantasy novellas, spiritual fiction , literary fiction ,  dark and twisted adult fairy tales , stories of time travel , deals with the devil , even a surprising tale about a very special eight-legged cephalopod with a crush on his owner. Hello. My name is Darby. So don't be shy! Take as many stories as you like. Take them all! You can read them at your leisure, but at least you'll have them. The short story is widely regarded as the most difficult literary format. I trust I've done my forebears justice. But I'm happy to let you be the judge. So browse through my author page , sweep all the stories off the virtual shelf and onto your Kindle

10 Follow-Up Questions with Thriller Writer R.S. Guthrie (@rsguthrie)

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This is a very special Author Spotlight, for it features the return of thriller writer R.S. Guthrie, author of MONEY LAND (see above). Since Rob was last featured on this blog in January 2012, he has been burning up the Amazon charts with record books sales. His new thriller series promises to be in the Kindle Top Ten very soon. R.S. Guthrie grew up in Iowa and Wyoming. He has been writing fiction, essays, short stories, and lyrics since college. "Black Beast: A Clan of MacAulay Novel" marked Guthrie's first major release and it heralded the first in a series of Detective Bobby Macaulay (Bobby Mac) books. The second in the series (Lost) hit the Kindle shelves December of 2011. Guthrie's "Blood Land" is the first in the Sheriff James Pruett Mystery/Thriller series and represents a project that is close to his heart: it is set in a fictional town in the same county where he spent much of his childhood and still visits. Guthrie lives i

10 Questions with Fantasy Novelist James A. West (@JWestBooks)

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This Author Spotlight features Fantasy novelist James A. West, author of THE GOD KING (see above). When James was thirteen years old, he read The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and a seed of an idea was planted that someday he, too, would create different worlds and realities. After a stint in the US Army, a year as a long-haul truck driver, and a couple as a log home builder, he enrolled at the University of Montana. There, he majored in Psychology and, by chance, took a creative writing course. Words started to flow, and worlds were born. James lives in Montana with his wife and his bodyguard, a Mini-Schnauzer named Jonesy. James is also the author of CROWN OF THE SETTING SUN, the second installment in the Heirs of the Fallen series... and REAPER OF SORROWS, the first in the Songs of the Scorpion series. 1) How did you get into writing? Reading was my gateway drug to writing. I started reading adult fiction in second grade, so I

10 Questions with Supernatural Novelist D.A. Brown (@Author_DABrown)

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This Author Spotlight features supernatural novelist D.A. Brown, author of COUNTERPOINT. D.A. Brown is a 28-year-old author living in New York, NY with her Mac Book and various flights of fancy. She is a graduate of both Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she received her B.S. in Political Science and of Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, where she received her Law Degree. In her free time she enjoys writing (naturally) and practicing not ripping her hair out while writing. Occasionally, she also enjoys sleep; although she cannot remember the last time she actually had any.  1. How did you get into writing? I became interested in writing at a very early age. Even in school as a child, it was my favorite subject and something that I explored in various mediums, from short stories to poetry, to my first novel, Counterpoint. On a certain level, I believe it is a passion that you are born with and so one could say that I was alw

10 Questions with Fon Davis, creator of MORAV (@Foncocreative)

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This Author Spotlight features Fon Davis, creator of the graphic novel MORAV: The History of Robotic Warfare . . Fon Davis on-set inside MORAV cockpit Fon Davis has been working in the entertainment industry for nearly 25 years, during which time he has had a hand in more than 30 feature films, including Pearl Harbor, Starship Troopers, Galaxy Quest, Terminator III, Mission Impossible III, and the Star Wars and Matrix series. Fon has a diverse background that includes working at the Industrial Light and Magic model shop, serving as a concept designer and model maker for Disney, and contributing to acclaimed stop motion films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline. Most recently, he served as the miniatures supervisor on The Big Miracle with Drew Barrymore, and Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming feature, Elysium, at Kerner FX. In 2000, Fon founded his own studio, Fonco Creative Services, to run projects between features and develop his own training and sc

10 Questions with Historical Fiction Author Michelle Diener (@michellediener)

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This Author Spotlight features historical fiction author Michelle Diener, author of KEEPER OF THE KING'S SECRETS. Michelle Diener writes historical fiction for Simon and Schuster's  Gallery Books . Her debut novel, IN A TREACHEROUS COURT released in August, 2011, is set in the court of Henry VIII. It features the real historical figures of illuminator and painter, Susanna Horenbout, and Henry's Keeper of the Palace of Westminster and Yeoman of the King's Robes, John Parker. A second book, also featuring Susanna and Parker, THE KEEPER OF THE KING'S SECRETS, was published on April 3rd, 2012.  Michelle is also the author of DANGEROUS SANCTUARY. She was also featured in the anthology ENTANGLED. THE EMPEROR'S CONSPIRACY, a historical novel set in London during the Napoleonic Wars, is set for a November 27th, 2012 release. Here is a sneak peek at the cover art: 1. How did you get into writing?  I'm one of 'those'