6/30/2023 0 Comments Becoming Miss Izzy by Sue Zook![]() ![]() My first introduction to the visionary fiction genre was back in the late 90s when I read The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. ![]() I can’t wait to get back and have a regular presence there again. That being said, publishing this book has been very cathartic, and I am pleasantly surprised that I am missing Los Angeles now. Like my main character, Cate, I had grown disillusioned by everything around me in a predominately material-obsessed environment, and I needed to live somewhere more grounded for a while. I spent more than a decade in LA, but for the last five years, I’ve lived in Portland, Oregon and Saint Petersburg, Florida. That job eventually ushered me through the gates of Universal Pictures in Los Angeles. After college, I bravely took the train to New York City with only $300 in my pocket to take an assistant position in film production. I attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated as a Theatrical Production Stage Manager. I lived in my imagination and loved the stage, but I was admittedly not a very good actress, so I navigated into production instead. And otherwise, I was very involved in the theater department at the local University. I was an only child and spent a great deal of time in a densely wooded forest near my home. Overall, I do feel it was a safe and good upbringing, although I have always been more spiritual than religious. ![]() I was born on an American military base in Germany and raised in a deeply entrenched southern Baptist community in rural North Carolina. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The End by G. Michael Hopf![]() ![]() I originally looked at doing it that way myself but along the way I had the pleasure of getting represented by a literary agent. The road to self-publishing is a great one for those who have the words and just need an outlet to deliver them to the world. You self-published your first two novels as e-books? What made you choose this road to publication?.In early 2012 I took the plunge by committing myself to complete a novel. Completing, releasing and actively promoting the children’s book gave me confidence to go for a novel. I found an illustrator and it went from there and published it in late 2011. ![]() Sometime in 2011 I came up with an idea for a children’s book. While in the late ‘90s, I pretty much stopped writing, the dream was still there. In high school I dabbled, I even wrote short stories while I was a Marine. When did you know you wanted to be a writer, and was there a catalyst that made you transition into actually writing? It would seem to be a huge jump from military to fiction writer.First self-published, the books were brought out this January by a major New York publisher – every writer’s dream. The result is a post-apocalyptic New World series, currently including The End and The Long Road. Now settled with his family in North County, two years ago Hopf turned his hand to writing. Michael Hopf later went on to serve as a bodyguard to many notables, among them the Saudi royal family. A Camp Pendleton-based Marine who served overseas during Operation Desert Storm, local novelist G. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The 90s chuck klosterman![]() um, so i'm just gonna do this as best i can and i hope the technology doesn't break down. ![]() ![]() it feels like it's going terrible because i've just talking to a picture of myself, but you know, that's all life is temporarily hopefully temporarily hopefully not forever. also if there were actually the people who are watching this now if you were in a room together, you know, i'm not really saying anything that hilarious but a few you might just kind of beittering and chuckling but there'd be a bunch of you right so would sound like it's going great right now. so they've created this narrative conceit where a guy talks to himself on his computer to explain what's going on. ![]() it seems like i'm in a really bad movie where there's a bunch of exposition they have to get into it. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie![]() ![]() He may be right, because Andie’s dreams have been haunted by North since she arrived at the old house. ![]() Complicating matters is Andie’s fiancé’s suspicion that this is all a plan by North to get Andie back. Carter and Alice aren’t your average delinquents, and the creepy old house where they live is being run by the worst housekeeper since Mrs. When Andie meets the two children, she realizes the situation is much worse than she feared. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can handle anything. ![]() A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already, and things are getting worse. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. ![]() |