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Book Trailer: A Hauntingly Romantic Winter

--Now Available from Amazon.

The Fast Friday Interviews: Claire Buss

Tell me about yourself, Clair?

Clair Buss

I have far too much imagination to watch horror movies and I think I'm always subconsciously daydreaming. I adore writing books and get overly excited when someone I don't know likes my stories. I am hopelessly addicted to cake and keep saying I'll go on a diet but we all know that will never happen. I'm a mum to two little monkeys (not literally!), happily married and would spend all my free time reading if I could get away with it.

Tell me about your current Book:

The Gaia Project, The Gaia Collection Book 2

When Corporation tightens their grip on City 42, Kira, Jed and their friend's mu, t find another safe place to live, or else they'll lose their children.

While Martha Hamble gets to grips with being Governor of City 42, Kira and Jed Jenkins travel to City 15 but they are not prepared for what they find. Corporation are tightening their grip on those who don't conform, threatening to split families and reassign the natural born children. With Gaia weakened, the group of friends must try to find a safe place to live and help the spirit of the Earth recover but everything stands against them. Will Corporation succeed in their tougher regime or can Kira and her friends find a new home?

What are you working on now?

I'm currently editing The Interspecies Poker Tournament, Roshaven Case File No 27 which is a novella based in the world of my humorous fantasy The Rose Thief and I hope to have it released by the end of November.

I'm also taking part in NaNoWriMo this year and writing book three in The Gaia Collection. I'm a smidge behind on my word count but I'll get there.

Tell us something that people don't generally know about you:

I have my grade two roller skating qualification.

What is a favorite lesson you have learned about the business of writing?

To not be afraid to put my stories out in the universe.

What is the best piece of writing advice you give to new authors?

Read your work aloud, if you stumble over it so will your readers and it's a great way of checking whether your dialogue is fresh and believable.

Links:

Website: https://www.cbvision.weebly.com
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/c93M2L
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Claire-Buss/e/B01MSZY649/
Blog: https://www.butidontlikesalad.blogspot.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/busswriter
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/grasshopper2407

Book Trailer: The Witness Paradox

--Time is an illusion...

Quotes of the Week

Write the ideas down. If they are going to be stories, try and tell the stories you would like to read. Finish the things you start to write. Do it a lot and you will be a writer. The only way to do it is to do it.
--Neil Gaiman

Someone to love, something to look forward to, and something to do.
—Elvis Presley

The first draft of anything is shit.
—Ernest Hemingway

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
—Charles Dickens

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
—Anne Frank

Write every day. Regaining momentum takes three times as much energy as sustaining momentum.
—Daniel H. Pink

Don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
—Rose Tremain

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
—P.T. Anderson

Hard-Cover Editions

I am pleased to announce that all my books are now available in Hard-Cover editions.

   Amazon Author Page!

Novels:

• STILL FALLING
• THE BROKEN CAGE
• BLOOD OF THE SCARECROW
• VIRTUES OF THE VICIOUS

Anthologies:

• WHISPERS OF THE APOC 
• SILENCE OF THE APOC
• THE WITNESS PARADOX
• A HAUNTINGLY ROMANTIC WINTER

Coming soon in Hard-Cover:

• FANTASTIC DEFENDERS
• RELIQUARY
• TRANQUILITY AND OTHER MYTHS

Reading: HUMAN ELEMENT

This week I read HUMAN ELEMENT by AJ Powers.

Here is the description from Amazon:

Aaran has legitimate reason to believe he is the last free-thinking human alive. 

It's been months since he met someone who wasn't trying to kill or convert him, and the growing angst of nomadic isolation is taking a toll on his already weary state of mind. 

Aimlessly wandering around the suburbs of Cincinnati, Aaran's days all look the same: find food, evade capture, and search for a dry, offline place to rest his head each night.

Rinse and repeat.

However, after a close call with a Sentinel--an AI-controlled soldier--Aaran unexpectedly finds himself in the company of Hadas, a beautiful, yet dangerous woman. A shaky alliance is formed between the two, and together, they search for reasons greater than "just surviving" to keep them going in such a godforsaken world.

--Good stuff. Recommended.