“Free” Review Copies and Other Headaches for New Authors By Gilbert Lawrence

I’d like to share the experience of our first novel, On Thin Ice, recently published by Booklocker, with readers of WritersWeekly.com. Our enthusiasm for our creative work was matched by the number of friends and acquaintances who offered to review our work before and after publication. They assured us they were newspaper and magazine writers eager to support us. One said, “I am an English professor and would love to review your book.”

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Insomia Breeds Novel Thoughts By Mark LaFlamme

Insomia Breeds Novel Thoughts By Mark LaFlamme

I can’t sleep. I tell you people, I just can’t sleep. I’m 38 years old and I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t afflicted with insomnia. And I don’t remember a time when I didn’t lull myself to sleep by rolling a sort of mental movie through my head, a storyline that overrides the noise of real world clamor in my head. For nearly four decades, I’ve been sinking into sleep with fictional characters running amok in my thoughts.