I’m honoured to be taking part in what is one of the most ingenious promotional ideas ever!
Novelist Mark Terence Chapman has started a blog chain! Myself, along with eight other authors, have each posted a part of his nine part story on how he became published.
If you’ve arrived here first, just follow the links [...]
October 23, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments
Normally, I hate travel books.
I know, I know. I can hear a lot of you saying: Now wait just a minute! What’s wrong with travel logs? Well, in my opinion, they’re boring, dull and quite often have as much life to them as a day old piece of toast.
So I will admit that I was [...]
July 25, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Diary, Non-Fiction, Travel . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: 1 Comment
Life is not easy for an Army Brat.
After losing her father, Marilyn Morris is shocked to learn that he won’t be buried in his military uniform. Have spent more years retired than in the US Military, he would be buried as a civilian. For her entire life, her father lived and breathed the US [...]
May 20, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Memoir, Non-Fiction . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: 6 Comments
What would you do for love?
After a marriage filled with hard times and harsh words, Harry and Elizabeth have been divorced for nearly twenty four years. One Christmas, they meet at their daughters, not knowing that they are both about to receive the best Christmas present of all: a lost love.
It has been nineteen years [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Non-Fiction, Romance . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments
Usually, I’m not one to read memoirs or autobiographies.
I like fiction because I can delve into the story, take a mind break and live someone else’s life. I love fiction because it’s fun, often frivolous and I’m a sucker for a good story. Fiction has a way of easing stress for me, taking away the [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Non-Fiction . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments
So Oprah announced her new book for her book club.
I think a lot of us were surprised that she chose another biography/memoir. The first pick for 2007 is The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier and I, for one, can’t wait to read it. I’ve already picked up my copy and am ready to [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: Autobigraphy, Non-Fiction . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments