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Creative Writing Lessons: The Art of Writing It Down

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Do you want to write fantasy but don’t know where to start? Do you need some creative writing prompts to help you get motivated? Or do you just need some guidance from someone who’s been there before? Then this creative writing guide is for you. Break those habits, hook your audience and create fantasy realms bursting with flavor!

Creative Writing Lessons: The Art of Writing It Down

 

Discover the power to break the top 5 bad writing habits, amplify your creative writing and unlock your world building potential with these simple creative writing lessons!

 This guide will help you:

  • Identify your bad habits and learn the art of writing it down
  • Hook your audience and keep them turning pages
  • Expand your creative writing skills
  • Design complex characters and dialogue
  • Amplify your worldbuilding
  • …and so much more

Unlock the tips, tricks and creative writing lessons that will inspire you to create explosive fantasy realms and write better fantasy fiction. If you’ve struggled with how to write fantasy novels, or have bad writing habits, I will teach you to break them and bust out of that rut! You have the power and all you need to do is read this book and learn the art of writing it down!Book description

 

About Ryan Carriere

Ryan Carriere, an Amazon bestselling author, writes science fiction and historical fantasy. His debut series, Heroes of Atlantis: Legend of the Dragon Runes, is a bestselling novel about monsters, magic and misfits, and is a stark contrast to his new sci-fi thriller, Cyber Apocalypse, a near future spy thriller of explosive fun! He lives with his family in Western Canada and when not writing, spends his days playing with his kids and walking his dog Dash.

Also, check out his nine-year-old son’s book Diary of a Minecraft Noob, taking Amazon by storm! https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Minecraft-Noob-Unofficial-Adventure-ebook/dp/B0924ZPVQ2

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The Time Device

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The Time Device

 

Bill Carter ruins his first chance with Katrina Korosec after they meet at a dance lesson. The experience sends him into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and depression, and nearly kills him. A kind hypnotist brings him back from the edge and sets him on a quest to heal the ache in his soul. His path out of his funk takes him through meditation and weird religions, resulting in an amazing discovery. “The Mystery” is a kind of song that echoes in his brain, and gives meaning to his life.

After deep meditation on the Mystery, he eventually finds a way to travel through time and fix that fateful night with Katrina.

But time travel is never as simple as it seems. His several attempts to fix the past bring him deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy of galactic significance.

 

 

About the Author

Greg Krehbiel lives in the United States in the mid-Atlantic state of Maryland, where he has lived all his life. He’s a happily married father of five wonderful children and is enjoying a successful career in professional publishing in the Washington, D.C. area. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Geology and studied theology as preparation for ordained ministry — then thought better of it.

He loves Tolkien, the Dune books, Sherlock Holmes, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain and C.S. Lewis when he’s not reading history, philosophy or politics. Greg has always enjoyed long chats with friends over a beer or two about the issues of the day, and he fulfills that need in the digital age by writing the Crowhill weblog (http://crowhill.net/blog).

Greg is a long-time home brewer (beer, wine and mead), an occasional jogger and flag-football player, an out of practice black belt and trumpet player, an avid writer and blogger, and enjoys camping and fishing.

Check out Greg’s other books on his Amazon Author Page

Winter World

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Editors’ pick: Riddle excels in mixing speculative technology with crises that resonate today, and the oft-mentioned comparisons to Michael Crichton are well-earned.”—Adrian Liang, Amazon Editor

Winter World
(The Long Winter Trilogy Book 1)

 

A new ice age…
and a shocking discovery…
will change humanity forever.

From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author with over FOUR MILLION COPIES sold worldwide comes an epic novel with an unforgettable twist.

* Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel. *

In the near future, a new ice age has begun.

Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.

Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, they identify a mysterious object moving toward the Sun. Is it the cause of the ice age? Or could it be humanity’s only hope of survival?

With time running out, NASA launches a mission to make contact. But the object isn’t what anyone thought. In the dark of space, alone, the team makes a discovery that will change the course of human history—and possibly end it.

Filled with real science and fascinating details, Winter World is that unique blend of fact and fiction that could completely change how you see our planet—and humanity’s future. For those intrepid souls starting this bestselling trilogy, be warned: you may well be up late into the night turning the pages.

Praise for A.G. Riddle

“…reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.”
—The Guardian on Pandemic

“I finished the book fast because I just couldn’t wait…”
—WIRED GeekDad on Departure

“This is apocalyptic sci-fi at its best.”
—Daily Mail on The Solar War

An Extended Look at Winter World

Each month, Earth grows colder.

Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. The new ice age shows no signs of stopping.

Chaos erupts.

Around the world, people abandon their homes and flock to regions where they can survive. Nations prepare to go to war for the world’s last habitable zones.

Scientists search the cause of the new ice age. They send probes into the solar system to collect readings. Near Mars, a probe finds a mysterious object, drifting toward the Sun. Is it responsible for the new ice age? Or is it merely an observer? Or neither? Could it be a relic from a long-extinct civilization? One thing is certain: investigating the object is humanity’s best hope of survival.

As the ice age claims more lives and the world slides into anarchy, an international consortium launches a mission into space to make contact. But the first contact mission doesn’t go as planned. What the crew discovers out there is beyond anyone’s imagination.

Two members of the first contact mission may hold the keys to humanity’s salvation.

Dr. Emma Matthews is the commander aboard the International Space Station. For months, she has watched the world below freeze and civilization unravel. The headlines tell only half of the story. The messages from her sister tell the rest, of a world witnessing mass migrations, fighting for survival, struggling to provide a future for their children. When a catastrophe strikes the ISS, Emma faces her own fight for survival.

Dr. James Sinclair is one of the greatest scientists alive. A mind before his time. Years ago, he invented something with the potential to change the world—an invention that would upset the balance of power in the world forever. Fearing that change, his enemies sent him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. But with humanity’s future at stake, NASA asks him to join the first contact mission. His expertise is vital to the mission’s success—and to saving Emma. With the clock ticking down to humanity’s final days on Earth, James makes a decision that will change his life forever and may determine the fate of the entire human race.

Available in Kindle eBook, Audible audiobook, print, and Kindle Unlimited.

 

 

About the Author

A.G. Riddle is the author of nine novels that have sold a combined four million copies worldwide. Several have been optioned for film.

For more, please visit: AGRiddle.com/bio

Convergence

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“[A] smart splice of espionage and science fiction. … frighteningly realistic. Well-drawn characters, excellent pacing, and constant surprises make this a great cautionary tale about technology and its abuses.” – Publisher’s Weekly

Convergence (DRMR Series Book 1) 

 

MEMORIES ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS DRUG

Jonah Everitt is a killer, an addict, and a memory thief.

After being hired to kill a ranking officer of the Pacific Rim Coalition and download his memories, Everitt finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a terror cell, a rogue military squadron, and a Chinese gangster named Alice Xie. Xie is a profiteer of street drugs, primarily DRMR, a powerful narcotic made from the memories of the dead. With his daughter, Mesa, missing in post-war Los Angeles, Everitt is forced into an uneasy alliance with Alice to find her.

Mesa’s abduction is wrapped up in the secrets of a brutal murder during the war’s early days, a murder that Alice Xie wants revenged. In order to find her, Jonah will have to sift through the memories of dead men that could destroy what little he has left.

In a city where peace is tenuous and loyalties are ever shifting, the past and the present are about to converge.

Convergence is a tech noir work of science fiction with dystopian and cyberpunk elements, perfect for fans of authors like Richard K. Morgan and his Takeshi Kovach’s series, and is the first novel in the DRMR series.

Praise for Convergence

“From the opening page of Convergence I was hooked. The dystopian world building is well done and the descriptions are vivid. The technology is imaginary and different…great characters and plenty of suspense/action.” – Nicholas Sansbury Smith, author of Extinction Horizon and the Orbs series

“Hicks writes like Philip K Dick and Robert Crais combined, making for clean, exciting prose. He focuses on the story and never let’s go.” – Lucas Bale, author of the award-winning Beyond The Wall series.

 

 

About the Author

Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including the Salem Hawley series and Friday Night Massacre. His stories have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies from Crystal Lake Publishing, Death’s Head Press, Off Limits Press, and Silver Shamrock Publishing, among others. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction. He also co-hosts Staring Into The Abyss, a weekly podcast focused on all things horror, and is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Michael lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. In between compulsively buying books and adding titles that he does not have time for to his Netflix queue, he is hard at work on his next story.

To stay up to date on his latest releases, join his newsletter at https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/q4f2k7

Website: http://www.michaelpatrickhicks.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authormichaelpatrickhicks
Twitter: @MikeH5856
Podcast: http://staringintotheabyss.libsyn.com/

Yellowstone Survival: A Disaster Thriller

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As I mentioned in my review of the 1st book in the series of 4, they are all great reads – the author is great at depicting the scenes of destructions, along with the humanity (and inhumanity) of the people and his characters are outstanding, and very human. All his books are very readable and so very hard to put down!!! – Amazon Reviewer

Yellowstone Survival: A Disaster Thriller
(The Yellowstone Series Book 4) 

 

Our world has ended five times.
It’s been fried, and then frozen.
Gassed with poison; smothered with ash; and bombarded from space.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The Yellowstone Series, a natural disaster thriller from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, takes the reader on a thrill ride as a cataclysmic event of extinction level proportions ticks away like a time bomb, awaiting its moment. Millions of people visit the Yellowstone National Park every year blissfully unaware they are on top of the greatest killer man has ever known – the Yellowstone Supervolcano.

“Vintage Akart … he scares the wits into you, and then shows you how to survive the greatest threats to our existence.”

Mankind had lived in the very shadows of the Earth’s volcanoes for centuries. Even with advanced technology issuing warnings of the potentially catastrophic impact of volcanic activity, we built homes and businesses nearby; boarded tour buses to visit them; and failed to plan for the volcanic winter that necessarily resulted for the eruption of the largest among the – the Yellowstone Supervolcano.

Following the eruption of Yellowstone, resources were scarce and the battle for survival began as man faced off against man for water, food, and medical attention. If Earth’s greatest killer didn’t take your life directly, it did so indirectly through starvation and dehydration.

“No one, and I mean NO ONE, does it better! Mr. Akart knows how to write a thriller that is too realistic for comfort.”

Those who remained fought amongst themselves to survive.

Know this. The eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano will be more than a spectacle to grab our attention. It will be the end of the world as we know it.

ABOUT THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES

Volcanoes are the Earth’s way of letting off steam. While most people look at volcanic eruptions as natural disasters, the fact of the matter is, without them, the Earth would explode. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, excess heat builds up, finding a way to vent. Like an overcrowded bus on a hot summer day, the overheated magma stews in its own madness, allowing pent-up frustrations to boil over, until it releases its fury – its HELLFIRE – upon the world above.

Yellowstone is the most potentially explosive, violent, deadly, active volcano on our planet and scientists agree, a catastrophic eruption is inevitable. Yellowstone is extraordinary in its potential and is quite simply, Earth’s greatest killer. You’ve been warned.

BOOKS IN THE YELLOWSTONE SERIES

Book One: Hellfire
Book Two: Inferno
Book Three: Fallout
Book Four: Survival

 

 

About the Author

Bobby Akart delivers up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide. He has sold over one million books in all formats, which includes over forty international bestsellers, in nearly fifty fiction and nonfiction genres.

He has been ranked on Amazon Charts as the #1 bestselling author in science fiction and thriller genres. He’s also been named an Amazon Kindle All Star. He has been ranked as high as #25 on Amazon Charts list of best selling authors and his novel, Yellowstone Hellfire, was ranked in the Top 25 most sold books on Amazon on multiple occasions.

Bobby is a retired attorney and now full-time author living in Georgia with his wife and two English Bulldogs. He has over sixty novels available on Amazon. For more information and social media contacts, visit www.BobbyAkart.com.

WORKS OF AUTHOR BOBBY AKART

Perfect Storm, a disaster thriller (Coming February 2022)

Texas Forever trilogy (Coming September 2021)

Black Gold
Black Days
Black Flags

Nuclear Winter Series

First Strike
Armageddon
Whiteout
Devil Storm
Desolation

New Madrid Earthquake, a disaster thriller

Odessa, a Gunner Fox trilogy

Reborn
Rising
Strikes

The Virus Hunters Trilogy

Virus Hunters 1
Virus Hunters 2
Virus Hunters 3

The Geostorm Series

The Shift
The Pulse
The Collapse
The Flood
The Tempest
The Pioneers

Asteroid, a Gunner Fox trilogy

Discovery
Diversion
Destruction

The Doomsday Series

Apocalypse
Haven
Anarchy
Minutemen
Civil War

The Yellowstone Series

Hellfire
Inferno
Fallout
Survival

The Lone Star Series:

Axis of Evil
Beyond Borders
Lines in the Sand
Texas Strong
Fifth Column
Suicide Six

The Pandemic Series:

Beginnings
The Innocents
Level 6
Quietus

The Blackout Series:

36 Hours
Zero Hour
Turning Point
Shiloh Ranch
Hornet’s Nest
Devil’s Homecoming

The Boston Brahmin Series:

The Loyal Nine
Cyber Attack
Martial Law
False Flag
The Mechanics
Choose Freedom
Patriot’s Farewell
Black Friday
Seeds of Liberty (Companion Guide)

The Prepping for Tomorrow series (non-fiction):

Cyber Warfare
EMP: Electromagnetic Pulse
Economic Collapse