Reviews for "The Warlock"

This is a masterpiece of words, and you are a master storyteller! Your writing makes me look at my own and think, “What the heck am I doing?” Here are a few of my favorite evidences of your craftsmanship: “There is nothing as terrifying as horror on a bright sunny day..” “...like the raddled face of an aging whore...” “...he had collected her somewhere along the way..” “...slow voyage of exorcism...” and that is only from chapter one!

P.M.Adams

This is a beautifully written book. From the first chapter we are engrossed and drawn into the experiences that Allan has undergone and is now trying to exorcise by revisiting the places of the past. You sketch in your characters with a light hand, so that although we have not met them properly as yet, we have a clear idea of each, from Marat to Alberta, Diego and the twins. The sense of evil permeates the first chapter, and the destruction of the broken pieces of the statue, ‘stamped on...again and again, until it was reduced to unrecognizable plaster chips,’ is immensely impressive. You have a great descriptive touch, cleverly describing as clichés words and phrases into which you manage to breathe new life, like, ‘The moonlight like quicksilver on the water, reflecting almost hurtfully bright from the whitewashed walls.’ You build up an atmosphere of mingled beauty and danger with every word.

Gerry McCullough.

Aspiring Writers

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Happy Christmas

It’s Christmas! Not Happy Holidays, not Festive Season. It’s Christmas: and if you don’t like it, get over it.

I don’t care if you celebrate Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali or Beltane. I celebrate Christmas; so what right have you to object, or be offended?

So, Happy Christmas to each and very one of you, wherever you come from, and whatever you believe in.

More book selling

My co-authors call me up and get hysterical if the book isn't in Brentano's. I say "tough luck." If I have an idea for a new display or promotion, I'll send it to the publisher. It's no good sitting back and saying the publisher stinks.

Samm Sinclair Baker

The world is changing, book selling is getting harder, get a book published is the very devil: so you if you've got one out there, work like hell to get it sold, because no one else will.

Nicholas Boving

Book selling

To write books is easy, it requires only pen and ink and the ever-patient paper. To print books is a little more difficult, because genius so often rejoices in illegible handwriting. To read books is more difficult still, because of the tendency to go to sleep. But the most difficult task of all that a mortal man can embark on is to sell a book.

From a poem by Felix Dahn paraphrased by Sir Stanley Unwin.

Frances West has arrived

You don’t know how lucky you are: Frances West is coming into your life. Beautiful, clever, tough and resourceful, with a nose for trouble and a way of dealing with it that’ll leave you breathless, she gets herself in and out of danger like she’s in a revolving door, and leaves behind a trail of antagonists wondering what the hell hit them. Frances West is something else, and we mean something else. Go meet her at the E-Book site Smashwords, at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Nicholas

Gunn, Maxim Gunn.

All you armchair adventurers, you frustrated highwaymen, would-be spies and knights in shining armour with no damsels in distress and not a dragon in sight, take comfort because Maxim Gunn can take you where before you went only in your dreams. Find Maxim Gunn at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Nicholas