My thriller, THE SHOP, has had a checkered career. This book got me the agent of my dreams, one of the best in the business, who could get the undivided attention of every big publisher in New York. She read the book on a plane during a terrible thunderstorm, and told me that reading the [...]
As bestselling author Vincent Zandri indicates below from his May 19, 2011 blog post, we will be publishing an ongoing conversation between him and J. Carson Black. As the digital publishing industry continues to evolve at breakneck speed, authors and their independent publishers like Breakaway Media will focus on best practices as these practices evolve [...]
After Chelsea McCord’s marriage falls apart, her uncle talks her into a change of scene—Bisbee, Arizona, the scenic mining town with a notorious past. Her great-grandfather, mining magnate Lucas McCord, helped build Bisbee at the turn of the last century. Chelsea discovers an ancient box camera in a dusty trunk, the film still inside. On [...]
“J. Carson Black’s THE DEVIL’S HOUR is a superior mystery novel in all respects. Fine prose, terrific suspense, believable characters, and one of the most unexpected and satisfying conclusions I’ve read in a long time. Highly recommended.” –John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Damage In 1997, the disappearance of three young girls rocked [...]
Have you ever seen true evil? I mean, looked it in the face and recognized it for what it is? I have. And you know what? It’s a face like any other. Thus begins DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, the second book in the Laura Cardinal series. When two newlyweds are found murdered at an [...]
Bisbee, Arizona. A family community that attracts a healthy trade in tourism. Like many small towns, it has its fair share of petty thefts and domestic disturbances. But no one is prepared for the discovery of a teenage girl’s dead body propped up inside the park band shell, clothed in a doll-like dress. Arizona Department [...]
My thriller, THE SHOP, has had a checkered career. This book got me the agent of my dreams, one of the best in the business, who could get the undivided attention of every big publisher in New York. She read the book on a plane during a terrible thunderstorm, and told me that reading the [...]
Talkin’ Covers with Vincent Zandri Our Continuing conversation on what makes a good cover Vincent and I both write in similar genres, both of us serving up a crime fiction-thriller-noir concoction that attracts a similar readership. Zandri’s more noir than I am, more hard-boiled, but we fish at the same watering hole. So it’s not [...]
Five bestselling authors. 10 Free Kindle Fires. 75 Free Kindle Thrillers. Now. It’s time to boogie. Here’s the deal: Bestselling thriller writers J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, J. Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson are happy to have you as readers and friends. So happy that we want to give you 10 Kindle Fires and [...]
In a special free promotion as part of Amazon KDP’s Select program, Breakaway Media offered J. Carson Black’s best selling crime fiction thriller Darkness on the Edge of Town for free for five days last week leading up to New Year’s Eve. This end-of-year promotion was tremendously successful as readers downloaded more than 50,000 free [...]
Breakaway Media recently joined amazon.com’s KDP Select program with the Laura Cardinal Series of crime fiction thrillers. Until Saturday, December 31, 2011, readers can download the first book in the Series, Darkness on the Edge of Town, for free. More than 22,000 copies of the book have been downloaded by readers from Amazon since 12/27. [...]
FREE! * * * Special Bonus Section * * * PONY RIDES, the Tucson Weekly Magazine Words and Images Award-winning short story by J. Carson Black DARK HORSE, a novel of suspense Despite the accidents plaguing his racing business, horse breeder Coke McCallister was sure that Shameless, his prized filly, would put him back on [...]
Victorine Lieske made a big splash with her book, NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS. Her suspense novel was so popular it landed on the New York Times Best Seller list, an almost impossible feat for an independently-published author. Here she shares with us her journey from beginning writer to published author. You know, it’s funny, I [...]
Today The Summer Book Club’s Scott Nicholson discusses his novel, Disintegration. This particular article hit home for me. Writing is not always easy, because we are people, after all, and go through various phases in our lives at the same time we are trying to make a living. Scott knows that our writing isn’t just [...]
Sibel Hodge’s chick lit mystery is the next book to be featured in The Summer Book Club. About Sibel… Sibel Hodge is the author of romantic comedies and chick lit mysteries. In her spare time she’s Wonder Woman! Her first novel, Fourteen Days Later, was short-listed for the Harry Bowling Prize 2008 and received a [...]
Facebook Alert! J. Carson Black will be doing a live Facebook chat on Saturday July 16th at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time at facebook.com/summerbookclub. Please join us with your questions for J. Carson. ***** When I decided to write a new thriller, I had several ideas on the table. None of them made the final [...]
Facebook Alert! Cheryl Shireman will be doing a live Facebook chat on Saturday July 9th at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time at http://www.facebook.com/summerbookclub Please join us with your questions for Cheryl! * * * * * I BURNED MY BRA FOR THIS? ONE WOMAN’S FANTASY I’m a Baby Boomer. Which means that I remember bell-bottoms, Happy [...]
When we started thinking about the cover we wanted to stay away from hackneyed images of cherubs and bows and arrows. I searched iStockphoto and found the very sexy image that features on the cover. After I sent it to Louise we had a big debate about whether it was too strong and potentially off-putting. [...]