By Beverly Horvath As the local organizers began preparing to hold the first annual Aurora Historical Shiver Tour on November 14th and 15ththey knew they needed to call in the ghosting experts, YouTube sensation Ghost Trucking! The long-haul trucking team is fascinated by the paranormal and often stop to investigate interesting locations while traveling the country. The team has recorded apparitions from The Old City Jail … Continue reading Press Release
Everyone writes differently. Finding your own unique style of prewriting and planning is as important as finding your own writing style. Continue reading Write Faster…
Each short story or novel begins with a theme that I think has enough inherent conflict to build an engaging story on. GUNS, for example, is about the black-market trade in weapons. I had a friend who’d spent a career in naval intelligence, and he helped fill me in on that. Continue reading Welcome Phil Bowie to Creekside Cafe
Vanity presses aren’t evil by any means. Many of them are a
great investment, as they offer a good number of services that take a lot off of the authors’ plates,
including editing and advertising. Continue reading Welcome Natalie Singletary to Creekside Cafe
I’d say the hardest things was not sounding too preachy. I had to step into the shoes of a twelve year old again. And it was actually fun. Getting lost in that world. But I had to ask myself all along this story…how would 12 year old Lily say this? Or how would Renzo handle that situation? Continue reading Welcome to Creekside Cafe, Jo Anna Kloster
Both of my low fantasy novels include a group of four friends, Kayla, Jerry, Sarah, and Nick, who have a mystery to solve. The first, Good Beasts Bad Creatures, focuses on Kayla, Jerry, and Grimalkin; a panther who escapes a farm and is the progeny of the Beast of Bladenboro. The Beast of Bladenboro was a creature who terrorized the town in the 50s. Continue reading Welcome Veronica Krug to Creekside Cafe
Books make great gifts for the holidays! Continue reading Book Festival November 20th
I submitted Red Steel to the Kindle Book Review 9th Annual Reader’s Choice Awards Red Steel is a suspense thriller set in a small town on the North Carolina coast. Things heat up when a vigilante turns to arson to purify the town of Leeward. Firefighter Billy Grimes and reporter Tracy Harrell cast a few sparks of their own when they are thrown together as … Continue reading Kindle Book Awards
North Carolina is known as the writingest state. There are a large number of authors from the mountains to the sea. As the chairperson for the Pamlico Writers’ Group and a member of the Heart of Carolina the local Romance Writers of America, I have met some fantastic writers from self-published authors, those published with small or independent publishing houses and traditionally published authors. I … Continue reading The Writingest State, North Carolina & Harlequin
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