Guest Blogger: Beth @_Bethdesigns

 

Welcome my guest blogger today Beth from Beth Designs.

#designer #Editor #illustrator

Check out her work below.

You can find Beth at 

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on Twitter @_Bethdesigns. 

Announcement: Amazon Kindle Vella is going away

 

From Amazon:

We are winding down Kindle Vella.
We’ve made the difficult decision to gradually wind down Kindle Vella in February 2025 as the program hasn’t caught on as we’d hoped.

I will have my books reworked and on Amazon in one format or another very soon.

Guest Blogger: Daniel Lawrence Abrams

Amazon.com: IMMORTALITY BYTES: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry eBook : Abrams, Daniel Lawrence : Kindle Store

“LIVING FOREVER... IT'S ALMOST WORTH DYING FOR”

• “A supercharged, high-stakes cyberpunk thriller.” — VERDICT: ✓GET IT — Kirkus Reviews

• “Dark humor and crisp dialogue drive the twisty storytelling” — EDITOR'S PICK — Publishers Weekly's Booklife Reviews


• Winner “Best Science Fiction: Cyberpunk” in the 7th Annual American Fiction Awards (2024)
• Shortlisted for Chanticleer’s Cygnus Award for Best Science Fiction (2025)

• “Feels like an American Douglas Adams” (4/5 stars) — San Francisco Book Review

• “Direct, energetic prose… Immortality Bytes is a humorous dystopian novel” (4/5 stars)
— Foreword/Clarion Reviews

• Winner “Best Humor/Satire” in the Storytrade Awards (a Reedsy “Top Writing Contest” 2024).



IMMORTALITY BYTES: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
One-line Story Pitch: “When an idealistic hacker’s ex-girlfriend nears inventing digital immortality, an indicted tycoon compels him to steal it.”

Back Cover Blurb: “Yay, free money and a life of leisure! Except… only if you never have children. Sure, a cute little version of you (but not yet so screwed up) sounds fun. But with AI robots taking more jobs, who can reject that “bargain” hoping to afford kids someday?

Stu Reigns does. He’s an idealistic AI programmer and part-time influencer. His demisexual ex-girlfriend, Roxy Zhang, nears perfecting electronic immortality. Add in billionaire banking rascals, and there’s no more certainty — not even “Death & Taxes.”

An old-money Southerner is buying Roxy’s company. This infuriates a sick, rival oligarch — who is about to be rightfully convicted of epic fraud. To escape to this digital eternal life, he compels Stu to steal it.

You’ll never guess all the twists, but maybe the reader peering over your shoulder will.”

“Yay, free money and a life of leisure! Except… only if you never have children. Sure, a cute little version of you (but not yet so screwed up) sounds fun. But with AI robots taking more jobs, who can reject that “bargain” hoping to afford kids someday?

Stu Reigns does. He’s an idealistic AI programmer and part-time influencer. His demisexual ex-girlfriend, Roxy Zhang, nears perfecting electronic immortality. Add in billionaire banking rascals, and there’s no more certainty — not even “Death & Taxes.”

An old-money Southerner is buying Roxy’s company. This infuriates a sick, rival oligarch — who is about to be rightfully convicted of epic fraud. To escape to this digital eternal life, he compels Stu to steal it.

You’ll never guess all the twists, but maybe the reader peering over your shoulder will.”


IMMORTALITY BYTES: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry by Daniel Lawrence Abrams

About the Author
Daniel Lawrence Abrams invented a 3-D input device that earned US Patent # 5,652,603. Abrams trained in comedy writing at The Second City and The Groundlings. He performed stand-up at NYC’s Comedy Cellar and The Improv in LA. As a playwright, Abrams’s shows played at The Stella Adler Theatre, Powerhouse Theater, and the HBO/Warner Brothers Television Workspace. He wrote, produced, and directed over a hundred hours of TV, and his films and screenplays have won dozens of accolades in film festivals. Abrams gave a TEDx Talk, “Sports Can Save Politics,” at AJU. He once wrote a column for Mensa magazine, and they haven’t expelled him quite yet.

Guest Blogger: Raleigh Keegan

 Welcome Raleigh Keegan to our blog today!

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Guest Blogger: Richard Dalglish

 

5 Things You Don't Know About 

Richard Dalglish

1. I served as managing editor for a business magazine that covers the fine-jewelry industry. One of our sister publications was “Publishers Weekly,” which received thousands of books to review. When PW was finished with a book, it went on a shelf or a cart or the floor with thousands of other books, all available to anyone in the company to take. For readers, it was the world’s greatest unofficial fringe benefit.

 

2. I once had a short-term job in an ice cream warehouse. The temperature was around 20 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit). It was so cold, we had to take a ten-minute break every hour to warm up. If a 3-gallon tub of ice cream slipped off the conveyer belt, you had to duck, because at minus-20 degrees, a 3-gallon tub was like a small boulder.

 

3. I was at Woodstock. There was lots of mud.

 

4. I ran a marathon once, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the course went through the battlefield park—lots of cannons. I finished in 3 hours, 56 minutes, 15 seconds, achieving my goal with a whopping 3 minutes and 45 seconds to spare.

 

5. The night I saw the original “Poltergeist” movie, my television turned itself on (!) at around 2 a.m. and woke me up. As I approached the TV to turn it off, the station went into its sign-off and broadcast the exact same version of the Star-Spangled Banner that was shown in “Poltergeist.” I didn’t see any ghosts floating out of the television.

Buy his books here

Guest Blogger: Character Interview: Mitchell Tobias, Uncle Mitch, Restoration

 Character Interview: Mitchell Tobias, Uncle Mitch, Restoration

Click on book cover to take you to Amazon to buy it!

1. Introduce yourself to our readers. Where do you fit into the story? What should we know about you?

I’m Mitchell Tobias. The oldest of the Tobias siblings, a widower, and owner of the family farm. In recent years, I developed an intense interest in wetland restorations and conservation programs I’m the favorite uncle and mentor of the main male character, Seth; I’m also dead when the story begins. I wrote the letter that sends Alex to meet Seth, so without me there would be no story. Some may say I orchestrated things from beyond the grave. And what do I say? I’d do anything to ensure my favorite nephew finds happiness and love.

2. What do you think about the author? Tell us everything. We want to know.

Elaine writes a wonderful story. And oh my, she includes some steamy love scenes. I’m happy she included my friends’ supper club in the story. Tina & Harry lost my business when I died. Although what she had Seth and Alex do in that restroom…wow! She used her experience in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to create this story. I like how she uses her experiences to come up with ideas for stories.

3. What are your feelings about this story?

It’s a heartfelt story that offers redemption for those who thought love was lost to them. Everything and everyone is worthy of restoration. I especially enjoyed the last scene when she shows Seth’s total restoration as he and Alex visit my gravesite. I confess that it brought tears to my eyes.

4. How do you feel about being a character in this book?

I’m proud of holding such a critical role in this story.

5. What do you see in your future? (No spoilers please!)

Going to be enjoying life everlasting with my true love, Jennie, who passed before me. Plus, I’ll be watching over Seth and Alex as they move forward in their life together.

6. Is there Sequel /another book in the future? Will you be part of it?

I’m thinking not as Elaine pretty much laid me to rest.

7. Say a movie producer comes knocking. What actor would you want to play you and why?

Jeff Bridges, he’s fun, cocky, and good looking for an old guy.

Guest blogger: J.C. Adams

 Welcome author J.C. Adams to our blog today. 

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Liam O’Connor doesn’t know what hit him. It’s 1992, and his life’s sideways. Six years since his debut novel became a bestseller, five since he bailed New York for small town Wisconsin, he has yet to produce a follow-up. At forty-three, alone and befuddled, he hides his neuroses and insecurities behind a blustery façade that fools no one. Commitment-averse, he’s dated and left every divorcée in town. Then he meets Sylvia—a beer-loving, tattooed railroad worker, and she seems the perfect antidote. So why not take a flyer on her? He met her at a nice dinner party. What could possibly go wrong?