Author Archives: A Fae

Book Blitz – The Horses of Tir Na Nog – A New Door Opens by Bob Boze

The Horses of Tir Na Nog A New Door Opens By Bob Boze A Life Changing Love Story An incredible love story about the bonds of trust, passion and friendship that will forever change the lives of a fireman, the manager of a horse rescue ranch and everyone around them. A story of compassion, unending love, forever friendship and the… Read more »

Highway Thirteen to Manhattan:The Six Train to Wisconsin Series Book 2- Cover Reveal

His secrets almost killed her. Her secrets may destroy them both. Kai is recovering from a near-death experience when she realizes something isn’t right. Her body is healing, but her mind no longer feels quite like her own. Her telepathic powers are changing, too. She can’t trust herself. The darkness growing inside of her pushes her to use her telepathy… Read more »

He said…She said…Do you think research is necessary in writing fiction?

Welcome All!  For the first time, this HSSS is actually going to start with, She said… Quite often you hear the old adage that you should write what you know.  If that were the truth, fiction genres like fantasy, sci-fi, paranormal romance and the like wouldn’t offer very many books to their audiences, now would they?  But if you write… Read more »

Young Adult Genre: Not just for young adults? – Guest Post by Paige Turner

Young Adult Genre: Not just for young adults? This is my first guest post ever and before I get started on my topic of the day, I just want to thank Ashley from Truth about Books by A Fae for inviting me to write for her blog! So. My topic is actually a question that I’m going to answer: Why… Read more »

How Important is Your Cover Art and Blurb? He Said…She Said…

How important is your cover art and book blurb? He Said: It’s critical! Your cover art and book blurb is what is going to attract your potential readers to buy and read your book. As such, they need to do several things  Cover Art: Attract attention. You want your cover art to pull the readers eye to it. It should… Read more »

Inspiration for Writing by Jay @ Escape Between the Covers

Inspiration for writing by Jay @ Escape BetweenThe Covers Writer’s block can happen at any point in time. Sometimes you might not have the right idea, or you aren’t sure how to phrase it. It is the most frustrating thing that can happen to us as writers. Yet I’ve learned that we, from time to time, force ourselves into these… Read more »

Induction and Asylum – Books 1 & 2 of Time of Death Series by Shana Festa

Induction and Asylum are the first two books in the Time of Death series by Shana Festa. They are what I hope are only the beginnings of a series that is possibly one of my all-time very favorite books.  People who know me might find it a bit humorous that out of all the genres I’ve read that a series… Read more »

Hemingway’s Dilemma by Scott Kauffman

Wondering if it had improved any with age in the forty-five years since I garnered my gentleman’s “C” on a book report from an English teacher likely being generous, I again cracked open The Old Man and the Sea. While my first reading of a fish story about the one that got away bored me to tears, or maybe only… Read more »

Book Blitz – Black Five by J. Lynn Bailey

YA Bound Book Tours is organizing a Blog Tour for: Black Five by J. Lynn Bailey. This tour will run from June 27th to July 1st.    Black Five by J. Lynn Bailey  Release Date: 11/17/15 Poorhouse Publishing 400 pages Summary from Goodreads: No one ever accused Penelope Jackson of being normal, nor did they suspect the dark secret she kept. A dangerous web of… Read more »

He said…She said…-As an author, should you respond to negative reviews?

He says: Yes! Uh, No. Uh, kinda both. (I’m very confused. But then, I’m a love story author so, what did you expect?) I was taught to say “Thank you for reading my book and taking the time to do a review. I appreciate your comments and your helping me grow as an author.” Seriously, as an author, we know… Read more »

The Naked Author: Living with Fear by Megan Tayte

  I was inspired to write this post by the Summer 2016 issue of the Journal of the Society of Authors (UK), which opened with these words from the editor, James McConnachie: ‘All authors live with fear.’ Did you know that to be an author is to live with fear? Perhaps for some writers that is not the case, but… Read more »