Are you ready to show your manuscript to the world? Readership, a crowd-sourced digital publisher, is open to submissions. It recently launched a new publishing platform that allows readers to decide which manuscripts will get published through a voting system. (more…)
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Digital Publisher Seeks Manuscripts for New Publishing Platform
Posted by cindyfazzi on February 25, 2015
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/digital-publisher-seeks-manuscripts-for-new-publishing-platform/
Tana French’s “Broken Harbor”: Murder & Madness During Economic Downturn
Photo by Vincent Fazzi, 2014.
Book Review: “Broken Harbor” by Tana French, published by Penguin Books, 2012
Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, the Dublin detective with the best solve rate in Tana French’s books, is assigned a vicious case in her latest thriller. Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered in their home. His wife, Jenny, is barely alive. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on July 3, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/tana-frenchs-broken-harbor-murder-madness-during-economic-downturn/
Alan Furst’s “Midnight in Europe” Takes the Road Less Traveled in the Spy Genre
“Midnight in Europe” by Alan Furst
Book Review: “Midnight in Europe” by Alan Furst, published by Random House, June 2014
Alan Furst’s “Midnight in Europe” has all the essential elements of a spy novel: an intrepid hero with an active love life, a femme fatale, arms smuggling, and political intrigue that spans from Paris to Gdasnk to Odessa. At the same time, the novel deviates in a number of ways. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on June 9, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/alan-fursts-midnight-in-europe-takes-the-road-less-traveled-in-the-spy-genre/
Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities: Did Your City Make the List?
Salt Lake City is Number 14 on Amazon.com’s top 20 most well-read cities. (Photo by Vincent Fazzi)
Alexandria, Va., is America’s most well-read city for the third year in a row, according to Amazon.com. Miami was second, and Knoxville, Tenn., came third. Salt Lake City—my adopted city—was ranked Number 14. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on June 4, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/top-20-most-well-read-cities-did-your-city-make-the-list/
Book Review: Love in the Time of a Great Hurricane
Book Review: The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
I don’t know much about Galveston Island or Texas. But after reading The Promise by Ann Weisgarber, it’s almost as if I’ve been to Galveston—with the added bonus of being dramatically swept back in time. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on March 25, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/love-in-the-time-of-a-great-hurricane/
Debut Author Priscille Sibley’s Advice to Writers: Not so Fast
Image courtesy of Priscille Sibley.
As the famous writing motto goes: Write what you know. Priscille Sibley, a neonatal intensive care nurse, certainly knows the subject matter of her debut novel, The Promise of Stardust. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on March 15, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/debut-author-priscille-sibleys-advice-to-writers-not-so-fast/
I Went to Florence Because of E.M. Forster
The Duomo in Florence
Is there a book that has made you do something you wouldn’t do otherwise? For me, it’s E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View. I went to Florence in 2013 because I promised myself I would—that was more than 20 years ago, when I first read the book and then watched the James Ivory movie of the same title. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on February 16, 2014
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/i-went-to-florence-because-of-e-m-forster/
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