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May.05.2009
Title: A Spark of Heavenly FireAuthor: Pat BertramPublisher: Second Wind PublishingPublisher's Address: 931-B South Main Street, Box 145, Kernersville, NC 27284ISBN number: 978-1-935171-23-2Price: $18.00Publisher website address: www.secondwindpublishing.com
Review by Aaron Paul LazarAuthor...
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Apr.29.2009
A couple of days ago I received an email from Aaron Lazar, author of Tremolo: Cry of the Loon. He said: "I started A Spark of Heavenly Fire last night and am HOOKED, big time! I read 100 pages (usually I fall asleep when reading in bed after a few pages) and dreamed about it all night....
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Apr.22.2009
Steven Clark Bradley, author of Patriot Acts, has written such a marvelous review of my novel More Deaths Than One, that I can't keep it to myself. I want to shout it to the world! I knew it would be a good review, because several days ago he messaged me on Facebook. This is a transcript of our...
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Apr.15.2009
Images of Betrayalby Claire CollinsRomancePublished by Second Wind Publishing, LLCISBN# 1935171011
Abandoned and betrayed by her family, seventeen-year-old Tysan Reynolds supports herself the best she can with tips from the diner where she works. Into her lonesome life come two men: photographer...
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Apr.07.2009
This is the first day of my post-book-launch-week life, and I feel just the same. The past couple of days I felt a bit let down when I realized my book release did not make the earth move. Well, there was that earthquake in Italy, though I don’t think I had anything to do with it. But you never...
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Apr.04.2009
As part of my week-launch book party, today I am appearing as a guest on several different blogs. Please stop by and say hi.
I am in New Zealand with Suzanne Francis, author of the Song of the Arkafina cycle. We are celebrating our shared firsts. Visit us at Scriber Rescribus.
I am in Canada, with...
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Mar.25.2009
After seeing my article, “A Book Reviewer’s Lexicon,” where I mentioned that I’d read 20,000 books, author Ken Coffman asked what books stuck out in my mind as premier ones, what authors consistently pleased me, and which books I’ve read more than once. Off the top of my head, I posted a list of...
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Mar.23.2009
A murder of crows. A quiver of cobras. A charm of finches. A mischief of mice. A tower of giraffes. A scurry of squirrels. To this list of wonderfully evocative group names, I’m adding “a thrill of books.”
When I was young, I used to love coming home from the bookstore or library with an armful of...
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Mar.22.2009
I seem to have sidled into the book review business. Well, not business exactly, because no one is going to pay me, but a few people asked me to review their books, and I volunteered to review a few others, thinking . . . Who knows what I was thinking — I don’t have the slightest idea of how to...
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Mar.11.2009
A couple of days ago I noticed that Second Wind Publishing, the company that will be releasing my books, has More Deaths Than One listed for sale as a download on their ebook page. How long had it been there? Did its availability mean that I was a published author?
My books still aren’t available...
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Mar.09.2009
I bet you didn’t know the wolf had a story; he’s always been the villain. But is he as black as he’s been portrayed? I just read a marvelous story by Laurie Foston, an American author of science fiction. She posted it in on her blog, and there it sits for all to read. “The Wolf’s Side” by Foston...
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Feb.12.2009
Will you keep your fingers crossed for me? I just received what might be the final proof copy of A Spark of Heavenly Fire. If it's okay, by this time next week, I will be a published author. If it's not okay, I'm going to shoot myself.
(Just a glancing blow on a toe, perhaps. What? You thought I...
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Feb.08.2009
It will be interesting to see what people say about my books; I’m beginning to think I have no idea what I wrote. For example, A Spark of Heavenly Fire is the story of four ordinary people who become extraordinary while struggling to survive quarantine and martial law in Colorado. It was supposed...
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Jan.31.2009
Win an autographed copy of More Deaths Than One by Pat Bertram (her very first autograph!) and your choice of two other titles from Second Wind Publshing LLC.
The premise:
A friend of Pat Bertram’s found an obituary in the paper that could have been for his mother — the woman had the same name,...
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Jan.05.2009
Dale Cozort, author of American Indian Victories, is a guest at Bertram's Blog. I don't normally do this -- publicize one blog using another -- but Dale has written a three-part series on the future of books that I think is important.
Part one looks at how the filters that keep readers from having...
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About Pat
When the traditional publishers stopped publishing Pat Bertram’s favorite type of book — character and story driven novels that can’t easily be slotted into a genre — she decided to write her own. Daughter Am I is Bertram’s third novel. She is also the author...
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