Thomas M. Kane – Thomas M. Kane – Author

In wartime, it is perilous to seek justice. At age seventy-eight, retired lawyer Abigail Bennet might have left war and resistance to others. When enemy troops overrun her town and appoint insurgents loyal to their cause to keep order, she keeps her mouth shut to survive. But when the insurgents accuse a pair of youths…

Mara clashes with her country’s corrupt rulers, but only she can save her land from invasion. All four books of the complete Mara of the League series are now available as an e-book collected edition. Get the entire series here and save!

I, like so many, was saddened this month to learn that author Anne Rice had died. She has left a tremendous legacy. One of the best ways in which we can pay tribute to her memory is to do our best to carry this legacy forward. Not only may we emulate her storytelling, we should…

I, like so many, was saddened this month to learn that author Anne Rice had died. She has left a tremendous legacy. One of the best ways in which we can pay tribute to her memory is to do our best to carry this legacy forward. Not only may we emulate her storytelling, we should…

“Give me the summer and I will give you the continent.” –Un-Jargal, Supreme Commander of the Waanling Host Chief spy Mara Bennet’s worst fears come true when the Commonwealth of Waan invades her homeland. To complicate matters, Mara and her country’s…

Book 3 of the Mara series is now available! After surviving a fiery assassination attempt, the League’s honorable ruler tries to end a long war. Mara, now head of the League’s spy services, warns he is walking into a trap. As her advice becomes increasingly ruthless, she asks herself whether she likes the person she…

Honored to introduce author Athena Matthews! I admire her work for its originality, its believable characters and its attention to its characters’ emotional lives. In this interview, she talks about her writing career, her books, and her plans for future work! Please tell us about your books! I currently have two stories published, one is…

I have three chapters left to write in Book Three of my Mara series. Book Three ends with a secret mission, and the stakes are high. In order to get ideas for writing techniques to use to bring out the tension in the final chapters, I revisited Nelson DeMille’s 1980s-era spy thriller The Charm School.…

Lionel Ruby - The Art of Making Sense

Did your father have a favorite book? Do you have a favorite book which reminds you of your father? What books do you think about on Father’s Day? Those who knew my father may expect my Father’s Day book to be the collected works of William Shakespeare. My father could recite a substantial portion of…

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In a continuing celebration of Mother’s Day, I offer two villanelles my own mother wrote in college. My mother was both an engineer and a poet. These verses hint at those two dimensions of her personality. Our First Try at a Villanelle I had to write a villanelle,To try my hand at rhyme,I could not…

Book Two of Mara’s series is available in paperback here and as an eBook here. Throughout five years at a strict boarding school, Mara has turned to her friend Annie-Rose for comfort. Now Annie has disappeared. Mara teams up with two other students – bold Gretchen and soft-spoken Ginny — to find her missing friend.…

I was honored to have the opportunity to talk with author Tallulah van der Made about her life, her writing process and her book Keyflame! Please tell me about Keyflame. It’s a love story with fantasy elements set in a small town in South Africa. The main character goes there to study but soon finds…

When I decided to self-publish my series Mara of the League, I found lots of internet articles on how to create a book. Nevertheless, although there was a great deal of information available, I still found it challenging to figure out exactly what actions were required and what order to take them in. I would…

Want to get to know me better? Honored to have been interviewed by Shauna of TweepTattler. Read. Also interviewed by Peter J Berman here and Author eResources here.

I recently spoke to students in the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society at the University of Maine at Farmington on how to start a writing career. Here are the notes from my talk. Delighted to be here. Sigma Tau Delta invited me to talk about getting published and managing a writing career. I graduated…

Currently working on book three of Mara of the League. Since this book includes princesses, I decided it should also include a dragon. Princess-consort Cordelia Aurellius-Maxwell has a pet lizard named Horace. I have been researching what it is like to raise lizards in real life. It turns out that there is a debate about…

I am honored to introduce Peter J. Berman, author of Vengeance of Hope! Let’s start with Vengeance of Hope — Berman summarizes his plot as follows: What Silrith Alfwyn does know is that she is heir to the throne of Bennvika. What she doesn’t know is that her peaceful world is about to be turned upside down and…

I am honored to introduce Taylor White, whose book Witch’s Sorrow appeared in April 2019. White offers a different flavor of fantasy from the one presented in Crannock Dale — her work takes place in a contemporary European setting, with a modern-day paladin in search of a missing wolf. Learn more or purchase on Amazon.