Dorian Box’s Writing and Publishing Blog
“Unmissable Reading,” Says First Advance Review for “Funeral Daze”
Excited about my new book, Funeral Daze, coming out July 15 and that the first advance review to come back calls it "Unmissable reading." While it has its dark side (my books always do), it's a definite change of pace from the dark and gritty Emily Calby Series. In...
Writing and Updating Books to Accommodate “Sensitivity” Concerns
Should classic books be updated to delete or change words or passages that are or could be construed as offensive? Related, should modern authors compose their works with an eye toward not offending anyone? These are difficult issues with no easy answers. You may have...
The Hiding Girl Named to “Best Female Detectives” List
Just learned that BestThrillers.com has named The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) to its list of The Best Female Detective Books. What a humbling honor to have little Emily on the same list as Lisbeth Salander (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and The Hiding Girl...
$.99 Kindle Discount Deal on The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1)
Here's a chance to get started on the award-winning Emily Calby Series at a bargain. This week only (5-18 through 5-24), I'm running $.99 Kindle Discount Deal (reg. $4.99) on The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1), winner of seven indie book awards. Emily's tragic...
Emily Calby Series Wins Two More Book Awards
BestThrillers.com released their 2021 book awards and the first two books in the Emily Calby Series each won awards. (Book 3 wasn't out yet.) The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) was named Best Psychological Thriller of 2021 and The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book...
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.