The Grand Canal is Deeper Than You Think…

Today, please welcome my friend and fellow author Lynn Carthage, who’s here to share a little about the Grand Canal at Versailles and to celebrate the recent release of BETRAYED (Kensington, 2016) the second novel in her Gothic YA trilogy, The Arnaud Legacy. The Grand Canal stretches into the distance, defying perspective. The Grand Canal at the palace of Versailles, just outside Paris, is an arresting sight. The architect Le Nôtre deliberately made the end of the waterway larger, to defeat the eye’s tendency to narrow an object in the distance (akin to the disappearing railroad tracks used to explain perspective in art

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When All the Hats are Yours – by L.J. Cohen

Today, please welcome my friend (and critique partner), L.J. Cohen, author of numerous novels and series including the YA Contemporary novel FUTURE TENSE, the SciFi series Halcyone Space: DERELICT and ITHAKA RISING, and the YA Fantasy series Changeling’s Choice: THE BETWEEN and TIME AND TITHE.  Now, three and a half years later, I have just published my 5th novel. One of my books has sold nearly 10,000 copies and spent much of last summer on the Amazon best seller lists. So am I a breakout success? That entirely depends on what you consider a success. By the ‘can you support your family on your art’ metric, no. But very few

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An Interview With Travis Heermann

Please help me welcome Travis Heermann, author of the recently released YA horror novel THE WILD BOYS! Novelist, award-winning screenwriter, podcaster, biker, poker player, roustabout, Travis Heermann is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He has sold short stories to print magazines and anthologies such as Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, and others. His historical fantasy novel, HEART OF RONIN, and swashbuckling fantasy novel, ROGUES OF BLACK FURY, are available from E-Reads, and his YA horror novel THE WILD BOYS was released in December, 2012, by Damnation Books. He sometimes eats outlandish things. I met Travis at the Rocky Mountain

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