All Entries in the "The Shop" Category
Readers, Writers, and Marketeers: Who Killed Brienne Cross?
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’ eBook Covers with Vincent Zandri–our continuing conversation on what makes a good cover
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 [...]
Is There a “Silver Bullet” to Achieving Bestselling E-book Sales?
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 [...]
Former Navy SEAL Landry in THE SHOP reflects Greitens’ Colbert recounting
When J. Carson Black researched her thriller The Shop, she wanted her character Cyril Landry, a former Navy SEAL, to recount in flashback a day of his BUD/S training, the “drown-proofing” referred to by Eric Greitens, former Navy SEAL, author of The Heart and the Fist, and today’s guest on Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report. [...]
Secrets of the Navy SEALs: Researching THE SHOP
In my thriller The Shop, former Navy SEAL Cyril Landry was one of the good guys until he made a series of choices that took him away from his own core. A warrior, he served proudly as one of the elite Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is husband, father, part-owner of a race [...]
THE SHOP ***** New Crime Thriller by J. Carson Black
The long-awaited answer to the question, “Who killed Brienne Cross?,” is finally here with the release of The Shop, by Breakaway Media author J. Carson Black, on Amazon Kindle. * * * At first glance, the shooting death of a police chief in a rundown Florida motel room looks like an assignation gone wrong. But [...]
