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Song Lyrics in Fiction and the Fair Use Doctrine
By Dorian Box In a previous post, I briefly discussed the interaction between the “fair use” exception to the U.S. Copyright Act and the use of song snippets in works of fiction, but wanted to conduct a more in-depth legal analysis of the issue. The fair use exception...
The Hiding Girl Receives Readers’ Favorite 2020 Book Award in Suspense
Just got word that The Hiding Girl received a 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Award, an Honorable Mention Award (basically fourth place after Gold, Silver and Bronze) in the Fiction-Suspense genre. Thanks Readers' Favorite. Great way to start off a weekend! Here's their...
The Hiding Girl Named a “Best Reviewed Book of the Month”
Excited to get the news that IndieReader has named The Hiding Girl (Emily Calby Book 1) a "Best Reviewed Book of the Month" for June! Thanks IR! Buy on Amazon. Read reviews on Goodreads.
Enter GoodReads Giveaway for The Hiding Girl
Enter the Goodreads Giveaway for a chance to win one of 100 Kindle copies of Dorian Box's new dark thriller, The Hiding Girl, named a 2020 "Best Thriller of the Year" by BestThrillers.com. Begins June 27 and runs through July 9. Goodreads Book Giveaway The Hiding Girl...
The Hiding Girl named a “Best Thriller of the Year”
Now that the official launch date has arrived, BestThrillers.com has posted its review naming The Hiding Girl one of the Best Thrillers of the Year. Here's a capsule excerpt: In Emily, Author Dorian Box has created a rarity – a teenage protagonist that is at once...
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.