Please Welcome Author, Carl Stevens

Rhani D'Chae's avatarRhani DChae

This week, I get to participate in the Rave Reviews Book Club’s “Bethany Turner Pay it forward” week. I like doing this because it lets me introduce you to wonderful authors that you might not otherwise meet.

Today I am hosting Carl Stevens, the author of Time Traveler’s Fool,They Call Me Merlin Sherlock, and other books. I hope that you will find him as interesting as I do.

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Stevens’ fictive world is vibrant and lived-in, with a fully realized 
culture and a quasi-Shakespearean diction that’s vigorous and musical without  being fusty or quaint. His characters don’t mope and mourn in the ruins, but look to them for inspiration—and swag—while they seek to build their world anew.  An engrossing yarn that embeds an off-kilter perspective on history in rich language and storytelling.” Read the entire Kirkus review and travel back in time to when CTIN was first…

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I so agree.

JessicaMarieBaumgartner's avatarJessica Marie Baumgartner

I love reading everyone else’s work. Book reviews are so important for writers. We crave them. At least I do. So I always try to review everything I read.

I have two ways that I handle reviews. There’s the good old fashioned yes or no. Did you like it? Was it a good book? Would recommend it? Yes or no. This is easier because most books are at least worth the read. Even if I hate the story, I can almost always find something worth while in it. That’s me.

Then there’s the goodreads/amazon 5 star hoo ha. It might seem super critical, but I don’t start a book thinking Oo, I’m gonna give it five stars.

One star means I hated it, I want my time and money back. It has to be so bad that I kind of loath myself for even reading it. I don’t give these…

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Three BOOKS OF THE MONTH over at Rave Reviews Book Club

You are amazing.

GUNDERSTONE's avatarThe GUNDERSTONE review

I wanted to drop a quick note out to everyone with a quick update from things over at the #RRBC as I take a break from my four kids (they are leaving next week for ten weeks in Poland and I think they are trying to jam what will be all that missed time into one afternoon – THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME- SEND HELP!)

I first quick thing – if you’re not a member, you should be; such great help there from readers and fellow authors. They will really make you feel like a rock star when you’ve hit one out of the park and they will help you better understand those time where you swing and miss because they WANT to see your next “at bat” be the next hit out of the park.

This section IS a shameless plug for the group – please consider joining(and…

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