Category Archives: Writing

Get Ready For Killer Species!

Dear Readers, There are monsters loose! The first book in my new middle grade series, KILLER SPECIES: Menace From The Deep is arriving in your school’s Scholastic Book Fair this month! It will be on sale wherever books are sold in July. It’s now available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller. KILLER SPECIES begins with [...]

Five Reasons Why You Should Treat Your Favorite Author Like Your Favorite Restaurant…

You just went out and had a really nice meal at your favorite place to eat. It might be a local joint you’ve gone to for years. Maybe it’s an Italian or French bistro. It might be a chain or one of those local diners that’s been a legendary destination in your community for generations. [...]

My New Novel Blood Riders And Banned Books Week. It’s A Perfect Storm…

Hail Readers, Let me be clear. I’m against censorship. I’m against banning books. In any form. But I also support free speech and that means, yes Freedom of Speech for morons. As long as what you say or express does not endanger public health or safety. Feel free to make an idiot of yourself. Don’t [...]

Author Suzanne Enoch And I Discuss Our New Novels And More Importantly Which Is Better Star Wars or Star Trek (and it’s totally Star Trek)

Greetings Readers! It’s just a week from today that my first novel for adults Blood Riders goes on sale! How time flies. And speaking of time flying, you’re running out of it if you want to pre-order a copy and get free-shipping to get the book on it’s release day. In a fun twist of [...]

Read Up! Five Superhero Comics To Get Your Reluctant Reader Hooked…

Hail Readers, As the Avengers sets new box office records everyday and SpiderMan and Batman are about to sling their way into a cineplex near you, I’ve been getting emails and queries from educators about comic books. Frequent readers of this blog know of my love for the comic book in all it’s forms. Teachers, [...]

What’s your I,Q?

Hail Readers! Here at team Spradlin we are constantly working to bring you the best most fascinating books possible. Using the latest technology we look a variety of metrics, meta-data, verticals and other such buzzwords (and we have no idea what they mean) to bring you exciting stories, complex characters and books that will hopefully [...]

Going To See The Hunger Games Movie? What’s Your Opinion?

I’m not going to see The Hunger Games movie. I haven’t read the books. Probably never will. I have no beef with them, I think it’s a great thing that a book has excited so many readers of all ages and a movie made from that book is selling out theaters and the media is [...]

The Year 2012: A Look Back

Greetings Readers… It’s hard to believe we are almost a month and a half into the year 2012. The last year of human existence if you believe the Mayans. Personally, I think they just ran out of space on the rock. I see it sort of like this. Two Mayans carving the calendar into a [...]

Have You Been Pining Away For The Third Spy Goddess Book?

Over the years, I’ve gotten hundreds of emails from Spy Goddess fans. Most of them begging me to know when the third book in the series was going to be available. For a long time I had no answer. The story went like this. Author writes first book SPY GODDESS: LIVE AND LET SHOP. Gets [...]

4 Ways To Make Your School’s Author Visit Great!

It’s Back-To-School time! For most parents it’s the hap-happiest season of all. Teachers are preparing their lesson plans and librarians are pouring over reading lists and getting everything ready for their hordes of students to return. But it’s also Back-To-School time for authors as I and many of my fellow authors start up a new [...]

 

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