Tag: bestselling author

Thursday teaser

Thursday Teaser: Sugar for Sugar

This week’s excerpt is a repeat from three years ago, as part of our rebuilding—and a reminder of a great bestselling read. By Seb Kirby Justin Hardman looks at himself in the mirror as he shaves. He likes what he sees. A man approaching forty but with the bright-eyed zeal […]

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Monday musing

An author’s progress: Alan McDermott

This week, we start a new series to help you get to know your favorite bestselling authors a little better. A number of of our members have been BestSelling Authors for some time. And of course, they have grown as artists, professionals and people over those years. Gray Justice, action […]

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Monday musing

Why did I give up writing during Covid?

Monday musings By Elyse Salpeter Two Marches ago when the world shut down, I pushed myself to finish my novel, The Journey Back. This was book #6 in my Kelsey Porter series, but I felt very selfish to publish a new novel while the world was in a pandemic. It took […]

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Monday musing

New bestseller now out: AMNESIA

By D.G. Torrens The latest romantic suspense by acclaimed BestSelling Reads member author, D. G. Torrens is now available on Amazon, and it’s a taut, tense page-turner filled with passion, mystery and, yes, love.  What reviewers are saying I was immediately drawn in by Cassie, the protagonist who is trying […]

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Monday musing

BestSellers in progress: Part 2

Do you peek in the over as yummy treats are baking? Here’s a peek at some new bestsellers in preparation by your favorite bestselling authors. Monday Musings Fractured States of America By Scott Bury Leona smiled to a herself as she carried her lukewarm ersatz coffee mixed with non-dairy milk-like […]

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Thursday teaser

Mayhem for May

May is action month at BestSelling Reads. Here are some tastes of the action and mayhem you can find between the covers of some of members’ most rollicking titles. From Motive The bulldog looked at the old man pleadingly.  He got a nod in response.  “Make it quick.  I want to […]

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Saturday spotlight

Saturday spotlight: The Sun and the Star

From the short story in the collection, Titanium Flow By Elyse Salpeter 1913, in a Kansas field   An October dusk settled over the hundreds of rows of withered corn stalks standing like sentries in the Kansas field. The full moon was rising and a brisk wind whistled through the dry shoots, […]

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Monday musing

Art, writing and disease

By Scott Bury Art and literature necessarily reflect the times they’re created. During the Black Death, medieval artists decorated texts with images of devils raining arrows on sinners. In the plague of the seventeenth century, Renaissance artists painted the sufferings of masses of people to illustrate the passion of Christ.  […]

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Focus Friday

Feature Friday: When Shadows Fall

An excerpt from the high fantasy novel, Book One of the Small Gods series By Bruce Blake The man with the pack jerked the front pocket open sending the button fastening it closed bouncing along the street. He reached in and pulled out the blue paper, held it up. “What […]

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Focus Friday

Focus Friday: Justice

By Jennifer Harlow This week, we shine a spotlight on one of our new members: Jennifer Harlow, and the first book in her Galilee Falls trilogy, Justice. “I hope this guy isn’t just jerking us around,” Cam says as we approach the metal detector. Not many visitors are allowed through these […]

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