Karen DeLabar

Category: Writing on the Rocks

  • Interview with Michael Shean author of Shadow of a Dead Star

    Oh happy day! Michael Shean, author of [amazon-product text=”Shadow of a Dead Star” type=”text”]B006JQ1HLA[/amazon-product], stopped by the pub today to talk science fiction. Now if you've hung out in the pub before you know that only a few science fiction writers have made their way onto my bookshelves and Michael Shean is one of them.…

  • REVIEW: Shadow of a Dead Star by Michael Shean

    In Michael Shean's futuristic noir, Shadow of a Dead Star, we follow the gut instincts of Thomas Walken, an agent with the Industrial Security Bureau in Seattle, 2078. In a world where technology and commercialism is god, it is up to Walken to keep black-market technology off the Seattle streets. He has no idea that…

  • Interview with Holly Bush author of Romancing Olive

    KD: When and how did Olive's story come to you? HB: I'm not sure how to explain this without sounding odd but I see my characters in my head. They lodge themselves there. I saw Olive seated on the train west to Ohio, purse strings looped over her arm, bonnet tied and traveling coat buttoned-up,…

  • Review of Romancing Olive by Holly Bush

    Olive's character starts off very naive in the book; not that she can't handle the horrors that the world can hold only that she hasn't had to. She was by no means extraordinary privileged growing up, but she did have the nicer things in life. She is absolutely appalled, but then again, who wouldn't be,…

  • Interview with Billy Purgatory author, Jesse James Freeman

    KD: I think I fell in love in Billy Purgatory. Where did inspiration for his character, and his story, come from?  JJF: Wow, thanks so much for saying that about Billy.  At his core, he's kind of a knuckle-head – but I think he has some qualities that manifest themselves as the story goes along…

  • Review of Billy Purgatory: I am the Devil Bird by Jesse James Freeman

    What Billy Purgatory is is too big to be categorized into the confines of just one genre. Simply put, its a story about a ten year old skateboarder who could care less about the world around him. However, when he's faced with vampires and a monster he nicknamed the Time Zombie, Billy realizes that there…

  • Interview with Rachel Abbott, author of Only the Innocent

    KD: Not many thrillers deal with a woman killer, what was the inspiration behind Only the Innocent? RA: I think it started with a programme on television about the percentage of criminals by gender. Whilst the number of female murderers is quite low, it does actually happen from time to time. So I started to…

  • Review of Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

      Rachel Abbott's Only the Innocent is not your average who dunnit murder mystery. The question that drives this thriller is not who did it, but why”. Abbott carefully constructed a world of mystery, depravity, sex, violence, manipulation and intrigue on so many different levels that I can honestly say you truly have to read…

  • Interview with Preying Angels author Jeff Davis

    Hello friends! Welcome to the pub for another chat with one of our fellow authors. This time, thriller novelist, Jeff Davis is joining me. We just got cozy with our drink of choice, Irish whiskey and are about to dive into Jeff's book, Preying Angels. So, grab yourself a tumbler of whiskey and settle in.…

  • Review of Preying Angels by Jeff Davis

    When the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Building were impossibly hacked, FBI Agent Gabrielle Sinclair knows who did it but there is only one problem, she thought the man responsible was long dead. In her desperation to find answers, Gabby dives into the technical world to find the one person who can…