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The Hiding Girl by Dorian Box – Available for Preorder
"Dark and gritty … an exceptional, heart-pounding story full of raw emotion, deep-seated fear, and an undercurrent of hope and innocence. Deeply atmospheric … without peer in contemporary mysteries/thrillers." -- Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize Semifinalist THE...
This Week’s Favorite Amazon and Goodreads Reviews for Psycho-Tropics
Lots of downtime these days? Going stir crazy with no sports, no restaurants, etc.? What could be a better time-filler than curling up with a good book? May I recommend Psycho-Tropics? Check out the reviews. But you know it is with reviews. After you get a certain...
Using Song Lyrics in Fiction (and Psycho-Tropics Soundtrack)
[UPDATE: In a more recent post, I provide a detailed legal analysis of how the fair use exception to copyright laws applies to using a song snippet in a novel.] Without any particular design, Psycho-Tropics ended up littered with references to popular songs. Some...
This Week’s Favorite Amazon Review
This week we celebrate not only Independence Day, but this new Amazon review for Psycho-Tropics:As to whether I've "been toiling away on a new near-masterpiece," I've certainly been toiling away. The first book in the Emily Calby Series, The Hiding Girl, will be out...
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The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1)
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a religious family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Somehow Emily escaped. Only the killers know she survived. On the run in a fugue, she makes an unlikely ally in a ruthless former gang member who takes her in. Overwhelmed by guilt, she persuades him to train her to kill before setting out alone on a terrifying search for justice. Nothing will stop her—not cops or creeps, not even her own splintering mind. Through it all, Emily fights to hold onto hope and the girl she once knew, kept buried deep inside. A testament to the boundless limits of love, sacrifice and the will to survive, The Hiding Girl is the first book in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series.