D L Richardson

I finally got around to watching Passengers. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The storyline: The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,258 people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result one hibernation pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) is stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from his destination. Written by Eirini Jennifer Lawrence plays Aurora Lane, a writer. Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, a mechanic. My Review: It's tagged as Drama / Romance / Adventure / Sci-fi, and it's accurate, the movie contains all four genres. The sci-fi is plausible and the storyline only works on a spaceship, though my author brain is just now coming up with another way I could do this. (Puts idea into idea bank). This is not a quest movie, the adventure is present from the opening credi

The countdown is on. June 8 is the release date for Welcome to the Apocalypse Book 2 - CyberNexis. This is my first series. Prior to this, my books have been snapshots of a moment in a character's life, all standalone novels or short stories. When I started writing the story of three characters, Kelly Lawrence, Jack Minnow, and Reis Anderson, who become trapped in a virtual reality game battling a new apocalypse every day, I knew it would take much longer to tell this story than one book. I'm planning to write 4 or 5 novels to tell this entire story. Because there was a reason the computer failed... Synopsis Getting out of the game used to be all that mattered. Now all that matters is getting back in. In book one players were trapped in a virtual game. Finally rescued, they're taken to an offsite facility where they'll spend a few weeks recovering from muscle dystrophy and cyber sickness. But not everyone survived. Not only do Kelly, Jack, and R

Favourite author vs Favourite book I have favourite authors and I have favourite books. And I think the two can be completely separate because you can like one piece of a collection or you can like the entire collection.   Just like we have favourite songs but we might not listen to the rest of the album. I'm thinking "More Than Words" by Extreme and "Foolish Games" by Jewel. I love these songs. I could listen to them over and over, but I don't listen to the rest of their music.   Just like my favourite songs, a favourite book for me is something that I read and absolutely loved. I own a copy, I will never part with a copy, I will re-read it once or twice in my lifetime. I will still cry, smile, root for the characters, and I may even discover things I didn’t pick up on the first read. Quite often it’s just that I haven’t bought any more books by these authors or that they haven’t written anything. With a favourite book, the individual parts

I like tick lists. I think most authors do. They keep me on track. Given that 2017 is almost halfway through, I thought I'd write a quick list of the books I'd like finished by the end of this year.   98% complete Title:       "Welcome to the Apocalypse - CyberNexis" (Book 2) Genre:    Sci-fi Length:   100K novel Status:    almost finished and on track for release on June 8     50% complete Genre:    Murder mystery Length:   70K novel Status:    57K words written and needs to have scenes added then an edit   Genre:   Romance Length:  70-80K novel Status:   100K written and needs to be edited   40% complete Genre:    Women's fiction Length:   70-80K novel Status:    100K written and needs to be severely edited   Genre:    Science-Fiction Length:   10-15K short story Status:    15K written and needs to be edited   2% complete Title:        "Evil in the Embers" - A Shivers novella Genre:     Horro

I'm taking part in my first multi-author event. It's a crazy event, 100+ ebooks are all on sale for 99c. All of them are science fiction or fantasy titles. You can fill up your Kindle all from this one huge event. Andrea Pearson is an award winning author of teen fantasy and paranormal romance. She has kindly invited authors to celebrate in a huge promotion event. In celebration of her Spellbound box set, which features 20 novels from 20 fantastic urban fantasy and paranormal romance authors,  the following authors and I are running a huge multi-author promotion! There are over 100 of us participating, so you're sure to find something you'll love. All books only $0.99! This promotion starts May 2, 2017 and ends May 5. Please verify prices before purchasing, and also note that the authors rated their own books.

I know what I'm writing next!!!! It seems that the first novel I ever wrote Poison in the Pond (fully completed, let's not count the half-written mess that was my first novel ever!) is a little sleeper coming awake, like Snow White. It's a 30K word novella, about 100 pages, selling for 99c cents on Amazon, and ever since I slapped on a new cover and changed the blurb it's been selling rather well. It's a hit with the Kindle Unlimited downloads too, so it's confirmed what book - or should I say books - I'll be writing next.   Goosebumps for adults. I'd always planned on writing companion novellas for Poison in the Pond. And now I know that if readers are buying and downloading "Poison in the Pond", then I must write more in the series. I've decided I'll call it the Shiver novellas. If you're eagerly anticipating Book 2 and 3 in the "Welcome to the Apocalypse" Series, have no fear. Book 2 is released on June