Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Cheers, friends and fellow book rebels! Welcome to Banned Books Week 2017, the one week out of every year that we show our appreciation for the American Library Association, the Office for Intellectual Freedom, and our freedom to read challenged and banned books. ICYMI, Virtual Gift Basket #1 went live on Monday, with items donated by... Continue Reading →
Thank you so much for stopping by The Novel Approach for the cover reveal of Vodka & Handcuffs. In addition to loving, loving, loving this cover, crafted by Angsty G, I’m crazy excited for you to meet Vahin and Marlon. Though Vodka & Handcuffs is a novella, these two men are some of my favorite... Continue Reading →
Thank you so much for stopping by The Novel Approach for the cover reveal of Nachos & Hash, novella one. There are many reasons I’m excited about the launch of this new series. One of them is the reason for the entire series…Hamburger Mary’s. Yes! The restaurant. The four Mary’s Boys novellas each take place... Continue Reading →
Back in June of 2013, I read Eric Arvin’s Woke Up in a Strange Place. This wasn’t the first of Eric’s books I ever read, but I can say without a doubt that it was the most impactful of all of them. The timing of this book in my life became muddled over the years... Continue Reading →
If you've been a member of this community for any length of time, you know who Eric Arvin is. You know that life threw him a curveball, and you also know that he's been the very definition of grace under pressure. If you've been a member of this community for any length of time, you... Continue Reading →
Welcome to The Rascal blog tour with Eric Arvin. We're so pleased to be a part of helping Eric promote his newest novel, with an exclusive excerpt from the book for you, as well as a couple of great giveaways. The Grand Prize on the tour is the chance for one lucky reader to win... Continue Reading →
Title: The Rascal Author: Eric Arvin Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 61500 Words At a Glance: For fans of horror, The Rascal is a must read. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Lana is a faded movie star who lives alone in a big house on a hill that overlooks the sea. She has lived this... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is so proud to be a part of the Kickass Anthology tour, a project conceived of to raise funds for Eric Arvin’s ongoing recovery. Contributing to the anthology are authors Keira Andrews, Connie Bailey, Sophie Bonaste, Tara Bluhm, Michael J. Bowler, A.L. Boyd, Jade Crystal, Catherine Dair, Fiona Fu, Nancy Hartmann, JP... Continue Reading →
Title: Wave Goodbye to Charlie Author: Eric Arvin Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 196 Pages (.pdf) Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: My name’s Charlie. I’m many things, though none of them having to do with any real talent. I’m a runaway, a hustler when I need to be, a ghost when I have to scare... Continue Reading →
We are all born into this world a blank page, a story that’s waiting to be written, one filled with the unexpected and with infinite possibilities. Each new day seamlessly weaves us into its story, each new day’s story becoming a predication of who we are yet to be. In short, life is indeed filled... Continue Reading →
“Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde Title: Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open Authors: Eric Arvin, Abigail Roux, SJD Peterson, Jason Huffman Black, S.A. McAuley, TJ Klune Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 148 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Of humanity there are darker tales. Stories that take some squinting to see through. Unconventional stories. Tales... Continue Reading →
“Hearts live by being wounded.” – Oscar Wilde Title: Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open Authors: Eric Arvin, Abigail Roux, SJD Peterson, Jason Huffman Black, S.A. McAuley, TJ Klune Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 148 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Of humanity there are darker tales. Stories that take some squinting to see through. Unconventional stories. Tales... Continue Reading →
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”-- Kahlil Gibran Title: Zombie Boyz: Ghoul’s Gym Author: Eric Arvin and TJ Klune Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars **Warning: Review Contains Minor Spoilers** Blurb: Board up the windows, push an old dresser against the door... Continue Reading →
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”-- Kahlil Gibran Title: Zombie Boyz: Ghoul’s Gym Author: Eric Arvin and TJ Klune Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars **Warning: Review Contains Minor Spoilers** Blurb: Board up the windows, push an old dresser against the door... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is honored to be participating in Eric Arvin and TJ Klune’s Ghoul’s Gym Blog Tour, organized by JP Barnaby, Geoffrey Knight, and Wilde City Press. The novella first appeared in last summer’s anthology Zombie Boyz, and is now being released as a single along with the other two stories, Surviving Sin City... Continue Reading →
Boy, have we got a week full of great stuff ahead, even with us taking the day off on Wednesday to spend with our loved ones. We’ve got guests and giveaways galore on tap; plus, as we head into the New Year, we’ve got our lists of Top Reads of 2013 compiled and ready to... Continue Reading →
Boy, have we got a week full of great stuff ahead, even with us taking the day off on Wednesday to spend with our loved ones. We’ve got guests and giveaways galore on tap; plus, as we head into the New Year, we’ve got our lists of Top Reads of 2013 compiled and ready to... Continue Reading →
The M/M reading, writing, and reviewing community has banded together to rally around two of its own, in a show of love and support unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before. As the dollar amount continues to grow to help Eric and TJ offset some of the financial burdens they’re currently facing, we witness an ever-growing... Continue Reading →
The M/M reading, writing, and reviewing community has banded together to rally around two of its own, in a show of love and support unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before. As the dollar amount continues to grow to help Eric and TJ offset some of the financial burdens they’re currently facing, we witness an ever-growing... Continue Reading →
I’m not one to pray to any one god because I don’t believe there is only one god. I believe there are many who are in both the big and small miracles we witness every day, most of them being the ones we each carry within ourselves. We are each, in our own ways, the... Continue Reading →
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” ― Seth Grahame-Smith Zombie Boyz is the much-anticipated anthology from Wilde City Press. I know that when it was first offered up for review my fellow reviewers and myself at The Novel Approach acted like... Continue Reading →
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” ― Seth Grahame-Smith Zombie Boyz is the much-anticipated anthology from Wilde City Press. I know that when it was first offered up for review my fellow reviewers and myself at The Novel Approach acted like... Continue Reading →
Summer is all about fun, adventure and making great holiday memories. What do the Wilde City authors get up to? Find out when they were asked about some of their favorite summer traditions ... past, present, and future. Help Wilde City Press celebrate the start of summer and July 4th. Enjoy 25% of your entire... Continue Reading →
To die will be an awfully big adventure. – Aristotle Imagine, if you will, standing upon the banks of a lazy river, its surface a cool and contemplative deception that masks the roiling current tumbling below. You wade into its deceptive stillness, unaware of and unprepared for what lies beneath, an unknown variable that, in... Continue Reading →
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