Dorian Box’s Writing and Publishing Blog
The Girl in Cell 49B Receives IndieReader Starred Review and Official Seal of Approval
Happy to receive IndieReader's advance review of The Girl in Cell 49B today! Not only did the reviewer give it 5 Stars and the "IR Seal of Approval"--both greatly appreciated--but she captured important aspects of the book as seen through the author's (me) eyes....
The Hiding Girl Wins Feathered Quill 2021 Annual Book Award
Just got the word that The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) has won the Bronze Medal in Mystery/Suspense in the 2021 Feathered Quill Annual Book Awards. Great news to receive on a cold, coronavirus-season Saturday night. What better excuse to pour some bourbon over a...
Readers’ Favorite Advance Reviews for The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book 2)
Psyched about the upcoming (March 1) release of book 2 in the Emily Calby Series, The Girl in Cell 49B! Hopefully, the early Advance Reviews bode of things to come. Only three have come back so far, all from Readers' Favorite, but Emily is batting a thousand. All...
The Girl in Cell 49B (Emily Calby Book 2) Set for March 1 Release
The Girl in Cell 49B, book 2 in the Emily Calby Series, is set for release on March 1. The Kindle version is available for preorder on Amazon. Currently in the process of obtaining advance reviews, which as any author can attest, is both exciting and daunting....
My Cat the Editor Hates Exclamation Points
If you've read The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1), you know that one of twelve-year-old Emily's trademark traits is effervescence, albeit often feigned. Her internal thoughts on the subject: "Artificial sparkle. It works on almost everyone. The entire world...
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.