by Guest Blogger K.M. Ryan I got attacked by a door. Yes, a door. A heavy, automatic sliding door. Our local mall attracts walkers in the morning before the mall opens. It was Sunday morning, about 9:30, and I decided a nice walk around the mall was in order. I used to walk at the mall [...]

by Guest Blogger K.M. Ryan He loved working on cars and projects around the house. He loved remodeling. He loved tools. He kept his workbench and all his tools in the garage. There was just enough room carved out to fit the car in. There was the electric saw, the manual saw and the electric drills. [...]

by Guest Blogger K.M. Ryan At the beginning of 2009, it was discovered I had an abdominal mass; a cyst they thought. A rather large cyst around the size of a cantalope. 75% of these types of cysts were non-malignant, and I needed surgery right away. I sat in the doctor’s waiting room, not knowing what [...]

by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin Many first-time authors attempt to get published by sending off hundreds of query letters to literary agents in hopes that one will be interested in representing him/her, and will promote their manuscript to big publishing houses for review, and hopefully a contract to publish their book. Meanwhile, they sit around waiting months for the dreaded rejection notices.  I was [...]

by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin A new writer finishes his first book, confident that the manuscript is error free and complete. Now it’s time to get an agent, get the book published, and make a ton of money. So he or she writesa query letter, and sends or emails a couple of hundred to prospective agents. Then the rejectionletters come back, one stating that the fifteen pages [...]

by Guest Blogger Andrew Rafkin I just finished my next book Reaper 6, the true story of Staff Sergeant Larry FitzGerald, the leader of a thirty-man black ops team that was deployed to Vietnam in 1966. After three tours, and receiving eleven Purple Hearts, Larry returned to the States unable to adjust to our society, along with most of the veterans coming home from [...]