Harry’s War This novella deals with an epic air battle over Iraq between Iranian Air Force Su-27 Flanker aircraft and United States Air Force F-15C Eagles in the skies over Iraq. The author has divided this book into three basic parts: first, the prelude to this spine-tingling fighter clash, second, the nail biting air battle …
Manhattan Affair In late ’90s Manhattan, Jared “Jed” Chase confesses to his lawyer the snaky, illicit route that landed him in trouble and possibly in jail. Jed led a mundane life working in advertising-sales for The New York Times until he reconnected with recently divorced Katherine Cahill. Her ex-husband, Steve, who happens to be Jed’s …
Writing is a bit like cooking. The more you do it, the better you get at it. If I think back to my first attempts at writing, oh, and my first attempts at cooking, I can look back and laugh until my sides split. While writing seems to many like such a natural thing to …
I think I could use this famous Douglas Adams quote: ‘Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so’, and apply it to vacations. It hardly seems like four weeks since I sat at my laptop preparing a post. However I can happily report that I had a great time and even managed to squeeze in a little …
It’s tough work being a Vandal, so every now and then I need a little break. This time it will be an intercontinental, overseas, abroad, change of hemisphere type of flying break for a few weeks as I take some time off to catch up with family and friends back in Australia. Of course there …
The Pineville Heist Seventeen year old Aaron stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. …
When I started blogging, the only route to gaining readers for a blog was by encouraging visitors to subscribe. Either by RSS feed or by email. The logic was simply that the more subscribers you had, the more readers you had. While this is still popular with many blog readers who like to follow every …
One Last Love Life has the habit of delivering its perverse twists at the most unexpected times. For Bonnie his life had been lived, and the bitter sweet memories of his wife, along with the never ending sorrow of losing his son so young remain with him, but were now ebbing slowly with the passing …
The issue of free book promotion on Kindle seems to have many scratching their heads. While I have read numerous times that some are worried about giving away their work for nothing, it is worth remembering that free books are not a new idea. In fact it is a very old idea and one the …
In the literary world, there are some book titles that really make on wonder what was going on in the editor’s brain that day. I recently posted some of the worst. Well, I thought I had until I noticed that I had some that didn’t make the first cut due to a lack of space. …
Ghost Under Foot: The Spirit Of Mary Bell “The knocking on the headboard boomed inside my brain. I stopped breathing, my body paralyzed with fear, as I realized I was not alone in my room.” Ghost under Foot: the Spirit of Mary Bell is the incredible true story of one family’s journey into the realm …
I love my Apples, but the release of a new iPad has left me as flat as a pancake – or as flat as an iPad? Maybe this is the problem. It’s just a flat bit of aluminium with a screen, so it’s probably a bit difficult to jazz up. I don’t know? Put fancy …
