Home Improvement Season Eight

Who wouldn’t love a show featuring a dumb guy and his tools?

Sounds like a cheesy MySpace video, but writers with a knack for tool and family hilarity managed to pull it off in the popular ABC comedy, Home Improvement.

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David S. Grant in His Own Words

My double novel featuring Bleach and Blackout, explores a group of people living in the moment, yet not necessarily aware they are in the moment, but rather wasting time to get to the next point in their lives.  Is it boredom, or more a feel of today’s generation and lack of cause, or motivation to find a cause?  Bleach is more the type of in your face read that forces you to either accept or not accept the lifestyle being led, there really no room for the in between.  Blackout details more of these same characters pulling from their past and being forced to use instinct, rather than wait for life.  It’s a story about living.

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Virtual Sitdown with David S. Grant

Who is David S. Grant?

I am an author currently promoting my double novel, Bleach|Blackout, a double novel about living life to the fullest. 

How did your writing career begin?

Silverthought Press published my first book, Corporate Porn in 2005.  Earlier this year Brown Paper Publishing published my short story collection Emotionless Souls and novella The Last Breakfast.  Bleach|Blackout is my latest work, a double novel through Offense Mechanisms, an imprint of Silverthought Press.

Tell us about Bleach/Blackout.

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Sneak Peek: Blackout by David S. Grant

Blackout , one of two new novels featured in the same book, begins in Las Vegas, where Stoner and friends celebrate his bachelor party in a blur of strippers, crack cocaine, a little Thai, and Nic Cage. The next morning in Los Angeles brings an unwelcome surprise when Stoner’s friends Chip and Jeremy wake to find police officers and a dead body for which they are allegedly responsible. Chip is charged with murder and his trial is being fast-tracked… What would Steven Tyler do?

Beneath the stories of hangovers and death, this is a story about living for the moment and having a story to tell. Blackout is a fast-paced ride that will leave you wanting more—and maybe a cold beer.

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Introducing David S. Grant

Living without goals, dreams or desires. Breathing and waiting for life to happen. Working in a corporate world filled with flunkies, floozies, cross-dressers, plenty of heroin and debauchery.

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Virtual Sitdown with Terri Garey

Who is Terri Garey?

I’m a Southern girl with an overactive imagination, who grew up in Florida, always wondering why tropical prints and socks with sandals were considered a fashion statement. I survived the heat by reading in the shade, and watching cool shows like the The Twilight Zone and the classic gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows. Born too late to be a hippy and too early to be a Goth, I did the logical thing and became a computer geek. Balancing a career with marriage and motherhood convinced me that life was too short to rely entirely on the left side of my brain, and quirky ideas about life among the undead began to replace the dry logic of computers. Deciding imagination was my best weapon in the war against reality, I dove even deeper into the world of the unexplained, and started writing my own demented tales from the dark side.

DEAD GIRLS ARE EASY (October 2007), was my first published novel, followed by A MATCH MADE IN HELL (July 2008), a novella called GHOULS NIGHT OUT (June 2008, as part of the Avon anthology “Weddings From Hell”), and I’ll have two more novels released next year, YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT (March 2009) and another, as yet untitled, in November.  Each one features Nicki Styx, a former Goth girl who survives a near-death experience to become an unwilling “ghoulfriend” to the dead.

How did you develop your protagonist, Nicki Styx?

Weird as it may sound (particularly to those who’ve met me!) I must admit that I consider Nicki, in some ways, to be my alter ego.  She’s who I’d like to be (minus the seeing dead people part!) I got married very young, had children, worked full-time in the computer industry, and never really got the chance to be young and carefree, much less Goth—I was always too busy being responsible!  Her wicked sense of humor is mine, but Nicki’s much more comfortable saying things out loud than I am.   I felt like adding a gothic aspect to her personality would make her life more interesting—it’s one thing to be “into the dark side”, but it’s a whole other ballgame when the dark side becomes interested in you, don’t you think?  

My husband and I have done a lot of volunteering in the arts community, so I’m very comfortable with people who are willing to be a little “out there”, so to speak.  I’ve never seen a ghost, but I know some very credible people who claim they have.  So basically, the idea of Nicki Styx came from playing the “what if” game:  What if a free-spirited young woman, who thought the darker side of life was cool, actually died, then came back to life and started seeing spirits herself?  How would she deal with it?  How would it change her as a person?  Would it still be cool?  Her character really fell into place in my mind after that.

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Garey Wins Coveted RITA AWard

This week’s featured author, Terri Garey, won a RITA for Best First Novel at the 29th annual Romance Writers of America conference last week. Garey nabbed the coveted award with her first book in the Nicki Styx series, Dead Girls Are Easy. (You go, ghoulfriend!)

Garey will be back tomorrow with a virtual sitdown with book blog editor Angela Wilson. In the meantime, check out a sneak peek into Dead Girls, the second novel, A Match Made in Hell, and a super sneak peak into next year’s release, You’re The One That I Haunt.

Visit Romance Writers of America for the entire list of winners.

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Publishers Join BTR

Readers can now hear from their FAV authors 24/7

HarperCollins and Hachette Book Group are now part of the BlogTalkRadio.com network, a podcast and live show site that attracts more than 2 million listeners per month. Check out Library Love Fest and Authors On Air on BTR for the latest from your favorite authors.

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Super Sneak Peek: You’re The One That I Haunt by Terri Garey

So new, the cover art has yet to be released, the third novel in the Nicki Styx series will hit bookstore shelves next April. Keep reading for a sneak peek into the latest tome from Terri Garey.

Former Goth girl and reluctant psychic Nicki Styx would give anything to be invisible to the spirit world, but a near-death experience and a brief trip to the other side have left her with the ability to see and hear the dead… and boy, do they want to be heard. Nicki thought she had her somewhat dubious “gift” under control, until the Devil himself decides he wants to stir up a little trouble. If Nicki won’t come to work for him, he’ll use his influence over the restless dead to make her life a living hell.

Sammy Divine is the smokin’ hot new owner of Divinyls, the hottest new indie music store in town. He’s also the Devil in disguise, and he’s moved in directly across the street from Nicki’s vintage clothing store, Handbags and Gladrags. Despite Sammy’s claim that “demons are a ghoul’s best friend”, Nicki wants nothing to do with this bad boy with a dark side. But the Devil’s in the details, and Sammy’s out to seduce Nicki Styx, one way or another.

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Sneak Peek: A Match Made in Hell by Terri Garey

A spooky old house and a closet full of family skeletons leaves Nicki Styx wondering if her life will ever get back to anything approaching normal. Things go from bad to worse when the Devil himself shows up, on the lookout for a hot new girlfriend with the power to help him harvest lost souls. Demons may be a ghoul’s best friend, but with this particular hottie, it could be a match made in hell!

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