Going to keep this short post short. Sorry about the lack of updates, but I've been working on the websites and continuing the migration to an all-electronic format. As of this writing, both First Step Press Online and Stepping Stones Magazine are live. Crimson Rivers Magazine will follow next month. Right now, the focus is two-fold; adding new content to the sites is the first priority, while migrating content from the previous site comes close behind. Not an impossibility, mind [...]
Denise Robbins, a software engineering manager by day, integrates her knowledge of computers and technology into all her techno-romantic thriller novels. Her published works include It Happens in Threes, Killer Bunny Hill, Connect the Dots and Never Tempt Danger scheduled for release in 2010. I saw down with Denise and asked about the unique combination of technology and fiction. Your computer background has obviously been a big factor in the plots of your books. How did you become interested in [...]
If you’d like to get your book published, but are not having any good luck, then I’d sure like to recommend an excellent book for authors, about authors, written by a couple of writers who really know what they’re talking about. The name of the book is “How I Got My Book Published: Famous Authors Tell in Their Own Words” by Ray White and the Wayne Lindsay, 2007.
In reading the poetry chapbook, Cold Front by Robert Pringle, I found myself zoning out a lot. Like the title suggests, it left me cold and periodically I was even reading and rereading the same stanzas repeatedly. I was not able to grasp the pictures the author tried to conjure for most of the poems in the chapbook; however, there were a few exceptions. Subjects like small-town nostalgia, reminiscing about soda fountains, farms and other things of that nature were [...]
Tweaked the site a little bit to make for easier front-end navigation. As the site continues to grow, we'll add pagination buttons to allow for even easier navigation. We're rolling along with the main site, now we'll be shifting focus to SSM: ALMIA Online and CRM Online.