A photo of two proofs and a rendering of the cover for the first novel were taken when they first arrived. (A. Keith Carreiro, October 2016.) At last, the Kindle version of the Penitent – Part I is now available for ordering on Amazon! Please click on the title of the story below and…
the Penitent – Part I (Cover Image by Hollis Machala.) I am excited to announce that folks can now pre–order the Penitent – Part I on Amazon Kindle. Just click on the word eBook below, and a link to Amazon will open for you to purchase it. It will then be delivered to you…
A Full Strawberry Moon on the summer solstice evening shines over the house. (Photo by A. Keith Carreiro, June 2016.) At the beginning of this year, I made a wish list in scheduling a launch date for the Penitent – Part One. I gave an approximate time of April/May as the target date in…
Author James Hankins being interviewed in September 2015 about his thriller story The Prettiest One for Kindle Most Wanted, Amazon’s community for fans, mysteries and suspense novels. (Photo permission and courtesy of James Hankins.) This blog post is the second of a two–part interview with author James Hankins. Following the format I used last…
–Author James Hankins. (Photo permission and courtesy of James Hankins.) My wife Carolyn is a voracious reader. She lately has pored through all five of James Hankins’ novels. “You’ve got to read this author,” she kept telling me. “Well, why do you like him so much?” I asked her recently. “His stories have a…
Prepping the Vegetable Garden. (Credit: photo by Keith Carreiro, June 2016, Swansea, Massachusetts.) The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath I thought that once my college classes were over for the spring semester the time, formerly spent in preparing classes, getting there and back,…
Author David Estes: “Signing books with Bailey the cat—in this one I’m signing hundreds of bookmarks ahead of a Library book signing event. Our cat, Bailey, is ‘helping,’ which basically consists of her hitting all the bookmarks off the table.” (Photo permission and courtesy of David Estes. Credit: Photo by Adele Estes, June 21, 2014,…
Author David Estes: “First copy of The Moon Dwellers – this is me holding the very first copy of The Moon Dwellers, the book that changed my life!” (Photo permission and courtesy of David Estes. Credit: Photo by Adele Estes, July 15, 2012, taken on the North Shore of Hawaii). It’s been great speaking…
Keith Pedro, of Keith & David Home Improvements (Falmouth, MA), is rocking out the roof framing of a local green home† he is building. (Credit: Keith Carreiro, May 2016.) Fiction is the truth inside the lie. — Stephen King I have been thinking how writing a novel, especially one that is the basis…
Raindrops falling onto the Surface of a Pond. (Credit: Keith Carreiro, May 2016.) We are having a lot of rainy, gray weather in our area lately, as the leading photo to this blog post visually attests. It seems that we have gone from a very mild winter, especially in contrast to the one the year…