Author: Kevin Fraleigh
What Is Your Inspiration?
I was coming home from work the other day when I happened to pass a woman driving an old station wagon. What you would take away from that momentary observation is probably much different than what I did. For her sake and yours, I hope so. For the storyteller, inspiration…
Oh, the Horror! It is Horror!
Writing for me is a very intimate process. My stories well up first as images to form a vision. Sometimes they are intensely detailed and other times mere wisps of idea. My challenge is to translate the still fresh vision into words that can, hopefully, accurately portray it. This is…
What Should I Do Now?
Well, it’s been almost a year since I published the first volume of my Any Tomorrow Trilogy. And I must say that the results have been remarkably unremarkable. I made a decision to break up my 300K word novel into three parts, but my feeling is now that it just…
The Reaction I Hoped For
The weekend following my last post, my wife and I drove over to Largo to see my niece run the mile and 800 meter races in her track meet. For us that’s like a two and a half hour drive. Normally that’s okay, we can find things to talk about…
Interview Me! Review Me! I’m Yours!
[To the reader: A recent visit to Indiebookspot.com suggests the nature of the site has changed pretty dramatically. The interview referenced is no longer available.] How cool is this. Indiebookspot.com just published their interview with me . And if you as my opinion it’s great reading. In fact after reading…
I Am Not Spam: Indie Marketing and Self-Promotion
Although Spam is the subject of one of my favorite Monty Python skits, I would like to make it clear to my readers, whether they read my post on my blog or in other social media (LinkedIn, Gather, Goodreads, Google+, Facebook, etc.) that my posts are not spam. Lately the term…
Read Any Tomorrow: The Calling for FREE!
The entire Any Tomorrow Trilogy is now available so I’m celebrating by offering Any Tomorrow: The Calling as a free download until March 1st. If you’re not familiar with the Any Tomorrow series, here’s the lowdown on Any Tomorrow: The Calling: Fraleigh, a former imagery intelligence analyst, artfully crafts a…
The Series Is Complete!
The third and final novel of the Any Tomorrow series is in the pipeline for publication at Amazon and Smashwords. Any Tomorrow: The Culling is available from Amazon and Smashwords now and at other distributors such as Barnes & Noble sometime in the coming weeks. While I was at it,…
Five Minutes To Midnight
Last week the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the dreaded Doomsday Clock was moved to a minute closer to midnight. For reasons you can read here, the Doomsday Clock now stands at five minutes to midnight. Midnight being defined as the end to everything. We have been closer of…
Focusing on Book #3
It’s January. Those of us with day jobs have returned to work, a valiant effort has been made to get the Christmas decorations packed up in some kind of order, and it’s time to publish the third book in my trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Culling. For those of you who…