THE VOICE OF ANN BUMBAK – Francis Laurent Have you ever listened to something and found yourself just tuning out because the reader’s voice was so dull and monotonous? On the other extreme, have you ever listened to something that you just could not stop listening to? That you were excited for and engaged in? […]
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Join Us for Noir at the Bar on Saturday, January 16th, 2021! Disillusion, despair, retribution, and unhappy endings… it seems like this whole year has been a live-action noir fiction novel! Imagine how difficult it would be to strike out on a journey of revenge in the middle of a pandemic! We’re taking a walk […]
A snip from my next book, Francis Laurent. According to Raina, the funeral procession took place in late-September, 1922. It was a cold, windy day in Birmingham; the cemetery trees’ twisted fingers lay bare of their brown and orange leaves. Moving slowly among the colorful foliage that littered the grounds were many black veiled mourners. […]
What an honor to have Scott Ellis narrate my first book Jacqueline Willoughby. Scott is a world class voice actor. As a trained actor, musician and recently retired children’s librarian, Scott wakes up everyday to entertain. When he is behind the microphone, his sole purpose is to bring life to the characters he is voicing, […]
Did you get my card? Did you read my love letter? Did it touch your heart? When you read my love letter. Love Letter lyrics by R. Kelly Dear Stuffins, I can’t help but smile to myself when I think of all the fun we have. It doesn’t matter if we are at home or […]
When reading the opening line of a book, I want it to make me want to read the second line, and that line makes me want to read the third keeping me engaged. A great first line produces a reaction from its readers while also raising questions that’ll hook them in. Here are 5 of […]
I was very fortunate and excited that Jen Carmody accepted the offer to record the audio version of my second book, Raina. I was amazed at how she brought each character to life with her voice styling, tone, and range. As she narrates, you can picture each scene in the book as if you were […]
Here is a bit of a scene during the formation of the Good Doctors. Robert is recruiting his cousin Samuel Moore who is studying to be a doctor as well as a mortician at Penn University. I always place hints of comedic touches in my crime novellas. For example, my novella Raina: A Prequel to […]
Chapter seven of the crime thriller Francis Laurent will be the start of a new book that moves away from the Jacqueline Willoughby trilogy to a historical fiction thriller. The Good Doctors story begins as Penn University medical school intern Robert Madigan prepares to leave his studies after the untimely passing of his father. He […]