Dorian Box’s Writing and Publishing Blog
Why Use a Pen Name as a Writer?
By Dorian Box A difficult decision in publishing Psycho-Tropics was whether to use my real name or a pseudonym or "pen name." There are good reasons and bad reasons for using a pen name. Bad reasons include thinking you can get away with libeling people or invading...
Interview with Dorian Box
Q. Dorian, first I have to tell you how much I LOVE Psycho-Tropics! A. Thanks so much, Amy. As my good friend and publicist, it would be weird if you didn't. Q. So Dorian Box is a pen name. Why do writers use pen names? A. Depends on the writer. [See Dorian's...
Download Psycho-Tropics Press Release
Download a press release for Psycho-Tropics and share it with your friends and enemies! Editorial Review Excerpts: “An engaging thriller with plenty of humor, good characterization, and a memorable villain …” — Kirkus Reviews “Marrying humor with suspense is not easy,...
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.