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Mark Spivak: Advice for Writers

6/24/2016

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Today, I have guest author Mark Spivak here promoting his novel Friend of the Devil. He will be giving away a $50 Amazon or B&N gift card to one lucky reader, so make sure to enter using the Rafflecopter box below.
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Mark Spivak: Ernest Hemingway was once asked if he had any advice for young writers, and he responded this way: “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.”

Papa’s advice as a bit drastic, of course, but it probably contained a kernel of truth. Learning to write stories that other people want to read can be a very long and painful process. It takes years, usually decades, and is filled with false starts, frustration, rejection, and finally the tendency of the world to withhold recognition when you do master the craft. In the meantime, everyone around you is enjoying the visible fruits of success: drinking Champagne, skiing in Aspen, driving a Porsche.
Obviously it takes a formidable degree of persistence to become successful as a writer. The truth is that the rejection never stops, and it never really becomes easier. The 2000th rejection hurts just as much as the first one, particularly considering that most writers are sensitive people who don’t take rejection well in the first place.
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If you want to be a writer, everyone will tell you not to give up, and they are absolutely correct. Getting to the end of the journey requires a remarkable level of persistence, the ability to push on when you feel you can’t do it anymore. Never give up. If you persist long enough, you will master the craft. You’ll learn how to tell a story that people want to read. And most importantly, you’ll experience a sense of satisfaction so profound that it will heal all the rejection you encountered along the way. That’s an amazing feeling, and something worth fighting for.

About the novel:

In 1990 some critics believe that America’s most celebrated chef, Joseph Soderini di Avenzano, cut a deal with the Devil to achieve fame and fortune. Whether he is actually Bocuse or Beelzebub, Avenzano is approaching the 25th anniversary of his glittering Palm Beach restaurant, Chateau de la Mer, patterned after the Michelin-starred palaces of Europe. 

Journalist David Fox arrives in Palm Beach to interview the chef for a story on the restaurant’s silver jubilee. He quickly becomes involved with Chateau de la Mer’s hostess, unwittingly transforming himself into a romantic rival of Avenzano. The chef invites Fox to winter in Florida and write his authorized biography. David gradually becomes sucked into the restaurant’s vortex: shipments of cocaine coming up from the Caribbean; the Mafia connections and unexplained murder of the chef’s original partner; the chef’s ravenous ex-wives, swirling in the background like a hidden coven. As his lover plots the demise of the chef, Fox tries to sort out hallucination and reality while Avenzano treats him like a feline’s catnip-stuffed toy.

Excerpt:

He perused Chateau de la Mer’s large and mostly incomprehensible menu. Changed every few weeks, handwritten in Avenzano’s elaborate cursive before being photocopied, it closely resembled an annotated Medieval manuscript. Finally, he acceded to the staff’s offer to prepare a tasting menu for him, accompanied by the appropriate wines.

He was presented with a sculpture of dried vegetables in the shape of a bird’s nest, filled with a combination of wild mushrooms and chopped truffles, bathed in an intensely reduced demi-glaze. The carrots, zucchini and peppers had been cut into paper-thin strips, intertwined and allowed to dry, yet retained a surprising intensity of flavor.

He consumed a dish of tomato, basil and egg noodles, bathed in a light cream sauce, perfumed with fresh sage and studded with veal sweetbreads.

He ate an astonishing dish of butter-poached lobster, remarkably sweet and perfectly underdone, flavored with sweet English peas and garnished with a ring of authentic Genoese pesto.

He was served a slice of Avenzano’s signature Bedouin-stuffed poussin---a turkey stuffed with a goose, in turn stuffed with a duckling, in turn stuffed with a poussin, or baby chicken, with a core of truffled foie gras at its center, covered with an Etruscan sauce of chopped capers, 
raisins and pine nuts. This dish had been the source of much controversy over the years, since it bore a close resemblance to a Louisiana terducken. It predated the terducken, however, and was supposedly inspired by a creation first served to the French royal court. For good measure, Avenzano had added influences from the cuisine of the Middle East.

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About the author:

Mark Spivak is an award-winning writer specializing in wine, spirits, food, restaurants and culinary travel. He was the wine writer for the Palm Beach Post from 1994-1999, and was honored by the Academy of Wine Communications for excellence in wine coverage “in a graceful and approachable style.” Since 2001 has been the Wine and Spirits Editor for the Palm Beach Media Group; his running commentary on the world of food, wine and spirits is available at the Global Gourmet blog on www.palmbeachillustrated.com. He is the holder of the Certificate and Advanced diplomas from the Court of Master Sommeliers.
 
Mark’s work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Robb Report, Men’s Journal, Art & Antiques, the Continental and Ritz-Carlton magazines, Arizona Highways and Newsmax. He is the author of Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History (Lyons Press, 2012) and Moonshine Nation: The Art of Creating Cornbread in a Bottle (Lyons Press, 2014). His first novel, Friend of the Devil, is published by Black Opal Books.
 
Check out his website, Goodreads author page, Amazon author page, Barnes and Noble, or follow him on Facebook.

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Writing Milestone: Twenty Completed Novels

6/21/2016

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I completed the first draft of my latest novel, tentatively titled Riders on the Storm, a couple days ago. I'm guessing it took a while to process the fact that it was really done, which is strange given how many novels I've already written. I didn't share anything about it on Facebook until last night, and it hadn't even dawned on me until now that perhaps I might share this wonderful milestone here.

Counting collaborations, Riders on the Storm is my twentieth completed novel.

Just for fun, here is a list of them all:

Published
1. Myths of Gods
2. The Private Sector (World-Mart)
3. World-Mart
4. Aftermath (World-Mart)

5. Finding Poe 
6. Cast in Blood (Revelations) -- cowrote with Jaime Johnesee and Christine Sutton
7. Cast in Fire (Revelations) -- cowrote with Jaime Johnesee and Christine Sutton
8. Cast in Shadow (Revelations) -- cowrote with Jaime Johnesee and Christine Sutton


Backlisted
9. Blood and Coffee (The Darkness and the Night)
10. Cosmic O (The Darkness and the Night)
11. Twins of Darkness (The Darkness and the Night)
12. Lust in Space (Pandora's Hope)
13. Pandora's Hope
14. Love in Space (limited printing sold on the Home Shopping Network)
15. The Hidden Valley

Never Published

16. The Nightcrawlers -- co-wrote with Erin Barker (manuscript long lost)
17. Cinderella Eyes
18. Digital Paige (good idea; just couldn't execute it right)
19. Agoraphobia -- currently querying
20. Riders on the Storm


All together, this adds up to roughly one and a quarter million words I've written in novels alone, which I think is pretty damn cool. Writing has always been the one activity that has followed me throughout my life, the one thing that has defined not Lisa the Twin or Lisa the Wife, but Lisa the Individual. No matter what has gone wrong or right in my life, the good or bad choices I've made, through the successes and failures, writing has been where I can turn to ground myself. It's also the best way I can think of to communicate the ideas constantly building in my mind. I'm an introvert, a thinker. I express myself best through the written word. Writing is a big part of who I am.

Some things I've learned so far:
  1. Not every novel you write will be good. (You might even write a couple of stinkers.) If you write a flop, dust yourself off and get started on something new.
  2. Write the kind of fiction your gut tells you to write. If your heart's not in it, why even bother?
  3. The more critique you can get, the better. No one enjoys getting a list of what isn't right with his or her book, but if you take critique seriously and put forth the necessary effort to address it well, your writing will improve just as much as the story will.
  4. Celebrate every milestone. I usually give myself a pat on the back for every 10-25k words I write. I'll often treat myself to ice cream or a nice dinner to celebrate a finished novel.
  5. If you're an introvert like me, you might not get out much. If you can go to a writers convention, do it; you'll find that a whole new you comes out when you are among your tribe. Make connections, even if they remain strictly online. Share what you know and learn what you can from those who have more experience than you.
I mentioned in a recent blog post that this most recent novel (which still lacked a title at the time) was notably different than the bulk of my other books. The subgenres I'd chosen to work with had put me way outside my comfort zone, and I wasn't really sure at first if I was even going to be able to complete a draft. By the time the story and characters began coming into their own, however, I could see series potential. I love the world, and as difficult as it has been to write, it's been every bit as enjoyable. We'll see where it goes....

Thank you for letting me share this milestone with you! Hopefully, I'll have more news to share about Agoraphobia and Riders on the Storm
 very soon.
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Adventures in Publishing: Kindle Scout and How to Avoid Being a Marketing Whore by JG Faherty

6/17/2016

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Today, I have guest author JG Faherty, who is promoting his novel, The Changeling, which is currently in the hands of Kindle Scout--Amazon's imprint, a higher platform than KDP or CreateSpace, that looks at both a book's content the story's popularity among Amazon customers when deciding whether to publish. Please consider reading an excerpt and casting your vote here.

JG, it's a pleasure to have you today. Could you share a little about your current marketing strategy and how Kindle Scout fits into it?


JG Faherty: I recently completed a new novel. Hold your applause, that’s the easy part. Well, not easy, but certainly not as hard as what follows: trying to get it published.
 
The book is a bit of a departure for me, it’s a YA science fiction thriller. As I’m known mostly for my work in the horror genre, I had to think long and hard on a marketing/publication strategy for this one. A couple of writer friends suggested I try Kindle Scout before subbing to traditional publishers.
 
For those of you not familiar with the Scout program, it’s run by Amazon and the reading public gets to act as slush pile editors. Each book is posted for 30 days, along with an excerpt. People read the excerpt and then they can vote on whether or not they’d be interested in reading the rest of the book. Each month, based on votes and the opinions of Amazon’s editing team, a few books are chosen for publication by Amazon.
 
What’s the benefit to the readers? If a book you voted for gets selected, you receive a free pre-publication ecopy. (Plus my undying gratitude and possibly another free gift.) And the benefit to the writer? A publishing contract with Amazon’s big marketing machine behind it and some cash in pocket.
 
However, it’s not just a matter of posting the material and letting the votes pour in. You have to let readers know about the book. In other words, you have to promote it.
 
This is where things get tricky.
 
Promote too much, and everyone you know on social media will get sick of you (There’s Faherty, whoring that new book of his again!). Promote too little, and you’ll never get enough votes. So where is the happy medium? It’s hard to say. Every writer has their own strategies. After talking with some people who garnered contracts through Scout, I decided on the following strategy:
 
1. Week 1 – Post on my own social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin) 1 time each. Also, post 1x each on several of the larger book review and author promotion FB pages. Since most of them have specific days you’re allowed to self-promote, I ended up with at least 1 promotion per day visible to the public. And as people shared, I made sure to like and thank them. Not only is this polite, but it also helps bump posts a little bit.
 
2. Week 2 – Same as Week 1, but without repeating any of the FB pages except my own.
 
3. Week 3 – Blog Tour. That necessitated asking for guest blog appearances and writing the blogs during Week 2. I ended up with 10.
 
4. Week 4 – Social media, but with extra posts on my own pages.
 
Now, as I’m writing this blog, I’m nearing the end of Week 2. So I only know how effective this has been up to Day 12. What I’ve seen is that on days when I post nothing in social media, the number of page views (you don’t get to see how many viewers actually vote) drops dramatically. So the temptation is there to say the hell with what your social media friends think and post more, post everywhere! Buy ads, sign up for paid promotional services.
 
Except there’s one little problem.
 
Amazon monitors where your page visitors come from. They even let you see the stats, because each campaign has a statistics page for the author. Number of hits, organic vs inorganic, per originating page, etc. And if the numbers skew too much toward paid services, rumor has it that is a negative in the eyes of the Amazon editors.
 
So when you feel yourself getting a little weak in the knees as those views drop in number, it’s time to take a deep breath and center yourself. Patience, grasshopper.
 
For a writer, this is a nerve-wracking experience, much more so than the traditional submission process, where you send in your manuscript and wait 3-6 months to hear back from the editor. Instead, it’s like you’re looking over the editors’ shoulders as they read your book, and you’re trying to see their faces. Did they smile? Frown? Groan? What page are they on? Did they just spill dinner on the book?
 
I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who has a nervous constitution.
 
However, if you’re looking for an alternative to small press publishing or self-publishing, it’s certainly something to think about. And if you’re a reader, it’s a great place to discover new books.
 
Speaking of which... here comes the self-promotion.
 
Struck by lightning, developing new superpowers, and pursued by a power-hungry secret military group that wants to use her as a weapon of mass destruction... it's so not the 18th birthday that high school senior Chloe Olivetti was hoping for.
 
This is the summary to my new novel, THE CHANGELING, and I’ve decided to try something new. I’ve launched a Kindle Scout campaign for it. Readers are invited to preview books and vote for the ones they feel worthy of publication by Kindle Press. I don’t normally do this, but I’m asking if you have a minute, please register for Kindle Scout (it’s free!), read the excerpt, and if you like it, vote for THE CHANGELING. The benefit to you? If it wins, you get a free copy of the book for your Kindle and the book gets published. Plus, you’ll have my ever-lasting gratitude for your support (and maybe another free gift as well!). Here’s the link:
 
http://tinyurl.com/Changeling-scout
 
THE CHANGELING is a YA sci-fi thriller in which a high school senior is the accidental target of a top-secret weapons test. Afterwards, she develops amazing powers, including seeing through walls and transporting herself through space and time. Now the Army has kidnapped her and her family so they can recreate the experiment and build an unstoppable team of invincible soldiers. It's up to Chloe to save the people she loves and put an end to the experiment. But her powers are also slowly draining her life force, and she has no idea if she'll have the strength to stop her enemies before it's too late.

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About the author:

JG Faherty is the Bram Stoker Award®- and ITW Thriller Award-nominated author of five novels, seven novellas, and more than 50 short stories. He writes adult and YA horror/sci-fi/fantasy, and his works range from quiet, dark suspense to over-the-top comic gruesomeness. 

A lifelong resident of New York's highly haunted Hudson Valley region, JG grew up amid Revolutionary War graveyards, haunted roads, and woods filled with ghostly apparitions. His varied professional career includes working as a resume writer, laboratory manager, accident scene photographer, zoo keeper, scientist, and salesman. He began writing fiction in 2001, and his short stories, poetry, and articles have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.

For more information about his books, or to arrange signings or readings, visit www.jgfaherty.com, www.facebook.com/jgfaherty, or www.twitter.com/jgfaherty.

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Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone

6/11/2016

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I know I've said this a few times before, but the book I'm currently writing is different from nearly everything else I've ever written, containing all sorts of elements that fit together in unexpectedly cool ways. I really had to dig deep at first, many of the elements stretching beyond my literary comfort zone. I often take on projects that are far stretches from my previous ones. I know following one particular formula over and over works for many successful writers, but I guess my writing is too untamed for that. The type of fusion I write, a mash-up of science fiction, horror, and in the case of my current WIP, dark fantasy, challenges the lines that divide the speculative fiction spectrum.

The way I see it, if it's not a challenge, why write it? I want to push myself, see how far I'm able to go while still being true to myself. I want to learn. I want to spin words in a way that will take my readers on journeys no one else could possibly take them on. I don't think I'll ever get there if I don't push the next limit every time I get a chance.

The ideas I've explored for my different books have been so random, taking on different subgenres and elements with each one, I haven't had a problem matching the right elements with the right books. My most recent challenge, cyberpunk, has proven an intense new vehicle for world building, plot, and characterization. It's also been a joy (and a total pain in the ass) to write.

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I do sometimes write escapist works, although it's important to me that there's more than just entertainment value to what I write. As much as I feel driven to challenge myself, I feel that drive to challenge my readers as well. Literature is such a rich venue, so versatile, but also easy to abuse. I find myself far too often in the midst of a story, thinking, How can I add symbolism to John Doe's death and also really make it a tearjerker? What can I do with this that is meaningful to me and might be meaningful to other people? How can I haunt their thoughts long after they've finished my book?

I've really found myself fascinated with some of the subgenres I've read very little of, such as cyberpunk and bizarro, and I've been super excited to see how those subgenres have cropped up. I don't read much romance these days, and yet I'm finding strong romantic elements slipping into this book. The muses have found a way to fold all those different elements in surprising ways.


For the first time in my life, however, if someone were to ask me, "What's your book about," I would have no idea what to say. I asked my husband, who's been a first reader, if he could think of a three-sentence description for this book, and he said he could not, but that "the story just somehow works."

I have an even greater challenge ahead of me. I'm about 15,000-20,000 words from the book's climax, which I already know is going to take a lot of thought, time, and coffee. Juggling all of the story's elements in a way that will feel genuine will not be easy, but I'm excited to take on the challenge. There's something satisfying about taking on something you know will be difficult and seeing it through to a successful end. Wish me luck on this one; I'm going to need the help of the muses if my novel isn't going to build all this way just to do a belly flop at the end.

P.S.: I'll let you know when I finally figure out how to describe my book. Until next time....

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What Author Stephen Leather and Character Jack Nightingale Have in Common

6/6/2016

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Today, guest author Stephen Leather discusses a personal fear he used to inspire a bit of his character's backstory. Stephen will be awarding a $50 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner during the tour, so be sure to enter using the Rafflecopter box below.
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 Stephen Leather on Elevators:
 
I don’t like lifts. Or elevators as Americans call them. Those little metal boxes that go up and down at frightening speeds. I hate them. And deep down, I think they hate me.
 
I’ve been stuck in a lift four times. It’s never been a pleasant experience. But once was truly nerve-wracking and it put me off lifts for ever.
 
It was in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, about fifteen years ago. I was on a tour of the old Communist Budapest with eight other tourists. We’d been taken to see all the old statues that had been pulled down and taken to a park.  We spent an hour looking at the relics, then the highlight of the tour was to visit an apartment that had been kept exactly as it had been in 1960’s communist Hungary.
 
We went up in two lifts. One held six people, standing shoulder to shoulder. The other held four. It wasn’t much bigger than a phone box.  You got in, stood up straight, then closed a wooden door. Then a collapsible metal gate had to be pulled across. Then the button was pressed, for the ninth floor.
 
The lift crawled up. You saw the roof go by, then all the pipes, then the floor, then a door, then the roof, then more pipes, then a floor, then another door. You got to see a complete cross-section of the building. Back then I wasn’t as scared as I am now, but it was unnerving. In a modern lift you only see wood paneling or brushed stainless steel, in this lift you saw all the guts of the building pass by which meant you knew exactly how high you were.
 
I was in the larger of the two lifts. The lift eventually stopped and we got out and rejoined the other members of the group. We went into the apartment with the Hungarian tour guide. We spent an hour there and it was fascinating seeing the way people had to live under Communism. The block was one of twelve identical towers built around a steel mill for the workers.  Every flat was the same. Same flat, same sofa, same fridge, same clock on the wall. The colour of the sofa was changed very few years, but it was still an identical model. There was almost no theft back in those days because everyone had the same stuff. There was nothing to steal.
 
Then it was time to go. We went back to the lift lobby. The first lift to arrive was the larger of the two, and when it stopped at the floor it did so quite heavily and rattled a lot. I said I wouldn’t get into it. So six other people did and four of us waited for the second, smaller, lift. There was me, the Hungarian tour guide, and two Americans. (I have to say here that if ever you get stuck in a lift, Americans are the best people to be trapped with. Always enthusiastic, always optimistic, always chatty).
 
So we get into the lift which was truly the size of a phone box. We were standing literally shoulder to shoulder. We go down. All good. Nice and slowly. Floor. Pipes. Ceiling. Door. Floor. Pipes. Ceiling. Door. We get down to the ground floor. All good. But we don’t stop. We go down to the basement. And stop.
 
The Hungarian tour guide presses the button for the ground floor. We start to go up. We pass the ground floor. We don’t stop. We pick up speed. Ceiling. Pipes. Floor. Door. Ceiling. Pipes.  Flash, flash, flash. Faster and faster. I mean, really fast. The floors whizz by. We get to the top – the 16th I think – and we keep going. We slam into the roof. Hard. The whole lift shakes. I am terrified and I look over at the Hungarian tour guide. She is terrified too. The American couple –bless them -  are totally unfazed. I found at later that when these old lifts fail, the counterweights fall to the bottom and the lift goes up to the top. That was the design back then. These days when they fail they tend to lock in place. Much safer, I’m told.
 
The Hungarian tour guide starts pressing the alarm button. We hear a faint buzzing in the distance. After about fifteen minutes a door opens and a woman shouts out in Hungarian. The Hungarian tour guide answers. They shout at each other for a minute or so then the door slams.
 
‘What happened?” I ask.
 
‘She wants us to stop pressing the bell,’ says the Hungarian tour guide. ‘She says the noise is annoying.’
 
‘Is she going to get us help?’ I ask.
 
‘No,’ says the Hungarian tour guide.
 
Back then mobile phones weren’t common in Hungary, but I had mine and it was set for roaming. I gave it to the Hungarian tour guide and as we were at the top of the building we had a good signal. She phoned the fire brigade. She spoke to them for about five minutes. I heard the word ‘turista’ a lot, Hungarian for tourist. Eventually she ends the call and hands the phone back to me.
 
‘What did they say?’ I asked.
 
‘They asked me if there was a fire and when I said there wasn’t, they said it wasn’t their problem.’
 
So that was that. The fire brigade wouldn’t help. The neighbours didn’t want to know. All we could do was to keep pressing the alarm button. I was so scared, all I could think of was the hundreds of feet below me and the fact that all that was holding us up was a thin cable. And who knew how much of that cable had been stolen pre- and post-Communism?
 
I kept looking at the Hungarian tour guide. I could she was as scared as I was. But I had a plan. If we should go into free-fall I could kick her legs from underneath her and sit on her, which might break my fall, a bit. But I could see from the look in her eyes that could read my mind and it looked as if she was planning to put up a fight.
 
Eventually, an hour or so later, another resident came to talk to us. The only way to get us out was to use a key to open the door, she said.
 
Who had the key?
 
The caretaker!
 
Can you get him, please?
 
No. He is on holiday and won’t be back until next week.
 
I am not making this up! After about an hour another resident went to the block next door and persuaded the caretaker there to come around with his key. All the blocks had the same lift keys, thank goodness. He opened the door. I was the first to jump out, followed by the Hungarian tour guide and the two Americans.
 
They called for the other lift and went down in it. I walked down the stairs, and have avoided lifts ever since.
 
So I guess you can understand why I’m so wary of lifts. I hardly use them these days, and when I do the first thing I look for on getting in is the brand name. I’m always happy to see a Schindler or an Otis or a Kone. If there’s no manufacturer’s plate I tend to get out immediately. The second thing I look for is a service history. No service history and I’m out of there. But even in a lift made by a reputable firm and serviced properly, I’m always counting the seconds until the doors open.
 
Why am I telling you this? Because I have given the aversion to lifts to my character Jack Nightingale. He’s a supernatural detective and New York Night is number seven in the series. And in all those books, Nightingale never uses a lift unless he can avoid it. Just like me!

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About New York Nights:

Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can’t help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line. New York Night is the seventh novel in the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective series.


Excerpt:

Sara could see that he was afraid so she smiled what she hoped was a comforting smile. ‘It’s a game,’ she said. ‘It’s just a game.’

‘If you want to play a game, let’s play Grand Theft Auto,’ said her brother. Luke was ten, six years younger than she was. They rarely played together but she needed another pair of hands for the Ouija board and Luke could be relied on to do as he was told.

‘Because I want to play this,’ she said.

‘It’s stupid,’ he said. ‘I’ve never heard of a game like this before.’ He sat back on his heels. They were in her bedroom. He was rarely allowed into her room and had looked at her suspiciously when she had first suggested they play a game together.

‘You liked Charlie Charlie didn’t you? Well this is the same. You can ask it question and it’ll answer.’

‘Charlie Charlie is for fun,’ said the boy.

‘So is this. But with Charlie Charlie you can only pick one of four answers, right? This way the spirits can talk to us.’

‘Spirits? You mean ghosts?’

‘It’s all the same. Look, it’s a game. Just a game. Do you want to play or shall I tell mom you haven’t done your homework?’

Okay, okay,’ mumbled Luke. ‘Don’t give me a hard time.’

​About the Author

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan "Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels.
 
Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world.
 
Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com and you can follow him on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/stephenleather
 
Jack Nightingale has his own website at www.jacknightingale.com
 
You can buy New York Night on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Night-Nightingale-Supernatural-ebook/dp/B017T03500/
 
You can buy New York Night on Kobo at https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/new-york-night-the-7th-jack-nightingale-novel
 
You can buy New York Night on iBooks at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/new-york-night-7th-jack-nightingale/id1057762247
 
You can buy New York Night at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/591862

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