Book Talk with Fran Lewis

How do authors David McCaleb, Bruce Coffin and many others use voice and viewpoint in their writing. How does the reader know whether it is character or narrative voice. How do you express your viewpoint, that of the characters in your writing and how does this come across to your readers? What are the major elements needed to have your readers understand the viewpoints expressed in your novels? When creating viewpoints is it the main character we hear, do you write your chapters with different character headings letting readers know which character is speaking? What about Voice? How are these writing elements showcased in your writng?

Child's Play

Merry Jones

January 3 Book Blast

February 1-28, 2017 Tour

 

Since her husband’s murder two years earlier, life hasn’t been easy for Elle Harrison. Now, at the start of a new school year, the second grade teacher is determined to move on. She’s selling her house and delving into new experiences?like learning trapeze.

Just before the first day of school, Elle learns that a former student, Ty Evans, has been released from juvenile detention where he served time for killing his abusive father. Within days of his release, Elle’s school principal, who’d tormented Ty as a child, is brutally murdered. So is a teacher at the school. And Ty’s former girlfriend. All the victims have links to Ty.Ty’s younger brother, Seth, is in Elle’s class. When Seth shows up at school beaten and bruised, Elle reports the abuse, and authorities remove Seth and his older sister, Katie, from their home. Is Ty the abuser?

Ty seeks Elle out, confiding that she’s the only adult he’s ever trusted. She tries to be open-minded, even wonders if he’s been wrongly condemned. But when she’s assaulted in the night, she suspects that Ty is her attacker. Is he a serial killer? Is she his next intended victim?

Before Elle discovers the truth, she’s caught in a deadly trap that challenges her deepest convictions about guilt and innocence, childhood and family. Pushed to her limits, she’s forced to face her fears and apply new skills in a deadly fight to survive

The Rising: Jon Land/ Heather Graham

 

What would you do if you found out that your entire life was a lie and that what you are as a human is about to be questioned and challenged? Football hero and star quarterback Alex Chin is playing at top-notch form when an accident during one of his games sends him to the hospital. Nothing from this point on would ever be the same as the doctor taking his tests realizes much to his impending death that something rings untrue about the CAT Scan he took. Taking it again reveals the same thing an unusual shadow that cannot be identified but just what it is will astound readers later on as the plot becomes more complex and we learn more about Alex, his history and his parents and why things about his life and how he came to live with An and Li Chin. Samantha Dixon is his tutor and is helping him prepare to graduate high school while taking on a internship at NASA hoping to foster this as a springboard for her career. When the football accidents sends Alex to the hospital and Samantha becomes concerned when he does not appear for tutoring what happens next links and binds them together in this science fiction/ mystery thriller by two award winning and outstanding authors.

Join; My esteem panel of authors who will discuss how narration comes into play in their novels: Alan Topol, Allan Jaccbson, David McCaleb and more. Join me: Fran Lewis for this great discussion

 

Narration is use the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which you the author presents his/her story.

How does this apply to your work and do you ever have multiple narrators to illustrate your storylines of the many different characters at the same time, different times or allowing a more developed and complex non-singular point of view?n creating your novels narration also encompasses who tells the story and how the story is told: Do you use traditional literary narratives like novels, short stories or memories since narration is a required story element?Do you use unreliable narrative voice which involves the use of a dubious or untrustworthy narrator giving the audience or readers a deliberate sense of disbelief in the story or a level of suspicion or mystery as to what information is meant to be true or false?Which tense or tenses do you create your novel in and which of these literary elements do you find helps you create your story, setting and plot?Do you use a narrator to describe an event that is about to happen or do you just let it happen with dialogue? Do you use italics to define someone speaking?

Do you ever write a plot or novel told soley by one narrator and telling the story at different times but in this character’s voice?Do you use different characters with chapter headings telling which one is about to tell their story?

Which kind of narration defines you and why?

The Nearly Girl

by Lisa de Nikolits

Fans of "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" will love this clever, fast-paced and enjoyable thriller.

Like a modern-day Joan of Arc, Amelia Fisher attempts to carve out a 'normal life', showing us how mythic the idea of 'normal' really is.

With a poetic genius for a father, an obsessed body builder for a mother, and an enchantingly eccentric group seeking the help of an unorthodox therapist, what could possibly go wrong?

A chance discovery propels Amelia and fellow therapy attendee, Mike, with whom she is in love, into a life-threatening situation instigated by the crazed doctor's own dark secret but Amelia's psychosis saves the day.

Told with warmth, humor and populated with vividly original characters, this sprint-paced novel has it all, from restraining orders to sex in office bathrooms, and a nail-biting ending.A novel about an unusual family, expected social norms and the twists and turns of getting it all slightly wrong, the consequences of which prove fatal for some.

The Judas Game

by Ethan Cross

 

When a correctional officer climbs to the top of his watchtower and opens fire on the inmates and guards, federal investigator Marcus Williams and serial killer Francis Ackerman Jr. must join forces again to unearth the truth behind the incident. What they find is a serial killer using the prison as his hunting grounds. But the Judas Killer's ambitions don't end with a few murders. He wants to go down in history and has no reason left to live.

With Ackerman undercover among the inmates and Marcus tracking down the mastermind on the outside, the team must learn the identity of the Judas Killer and stop a full-scale uprising that he's orchestrated. But the more they learn about what's happening at the prison and why the more enemies they must face. From inside the overrun facility, Marcus and Ackerman must save the hostages and stop an elaborate escape attempt while trying to determine how a rival corporation, the leader of one of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations, and an inmate with no identity only known as Demon fit into the Judas Killer's plans.

Launching a bold new cycle of novels featuring The Shepherd Organization, The Judas Game is searing, mesmerizing fiction—it's Ethan Cross at his very best.

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Author robert Wideman will join me tobtalk about his book based on his real life experience as a prisoner of war. We will talk about how he was captured and treated. We will talk about the caste system in the camp and how they invented a way to communicate with other prisoners. Join me in the chat room for this show.

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot

The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle.

At the center of that puzzle is an Indian reservation where a vengeful tycoon is mining the toxin, disguising his effort as an oil-drilling operation. This is the same reservation where Caitlin’s great-great-grandfather, also a Texas Ranger, once waged a similar battle against the forces of John D. Rockefeller.

In her highest-stakes adventure yet, Caitlin Strong faces off against a host of adversaries that just might include the beautiful Comanche girl with whom the son of her ex-outlaw boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters has fallen in love, along with a mythic monster culled from Native American folklore that the tribe believes has risen to protect its land. The lives of those Caitlin loves most are threatened by the villains she’s pursuing; her own moral code is challenged. The fate of both the country and the state she loves are dangling on the precipice of a strong cold death. Join me when I interview Internationally famous and award winning author JON LAND; Fran Lewis: Just reviews/MJ Magazine

Isobel Spice has her own way of investigating cases although she is not a police woman. Hired to play Emma in a play about the Life and Times of John Philip Sousa what she does not know is that someone is out to make sure that the play flops, does not get off the ground and that she never sees the light of day. Someone sabotages the masking on the curtains, someone poisons the lead actress and someone puts laxatives in the coffee. Just the tip of the murder iceberg as the police suspect Isobet since the death of the star means she takes the lead. With her team of actors and the police will they track down the killer? Join me for our discussion of Offed State Left: by Joanne Sydney Lessner

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The Lafayette Sword

 

Gold. Obsession. Secrets.

Eric Giacometti and Jacques Ravenne rank at the top of France’s best-selling thriller writers list. They owe their international renown to their series about the Freemason Inspector Antoine Marcas, which made its U.S. debut last year with Shadow Ritual. Now, The Lafayette Sword is available in English.

 

Following the murder of a Freemason brother, Antoine Marcas uncovers unsettling truths about gold and its power to fascinate and corrupt. A priceless sword is stolen and deaths ensue setting the Freemason detective on a case of Masons turned bad. A clue points to mysteries and conspiracy about elusive pure gold, launching a frantic, deadly race between two symbolic places—the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. A captivating plot weaves alchemy and the Middle Ages into a modern-day thriller.