Paperback Party!

To celebrate the release of my new Special Edition paperback, DARK DESTINIES ~ publisher Sekhmet Press LLC  is giving away a signed copy and an awesome T-shirt on April 15. Hurry!

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Read-a-Chapter!

How would you like to read the first chapter of PROGENY on-line?

Here's your chance!

As The Pages Turn features PROGENY

in the READ-A-CHAPTER section!

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A Conversation with Patrick C. Greene

Making the rounds again on the Book Tour !

A Conversation on the Blogger News Network

So what's next? "My current novel deals with a young special forces operative as she is drawn into the world of vampires. “A Shotgun Wedding” is my latest screenwriting effort and Sekhmet Press LLC will release an illustrated trade paperback of my novella A Piece Of Miracle this Fall. I have several stand-alone short stories available on amazon…which will send you spiraling into madness!" PCG


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No Wasted Ink

An Author Interview by Wendy Van Camp:

 I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and was seeped in the legends of Bigfoot, or the Sasquatch as the Native Americans in the area call them. Naturally, I found myself interested in a fictional story based around these old legends. I want to welcome Patrick C. Greene and his novel Progeny to No Wasted Ink.


WVC: When did you first consider yourself a writer?

PCG: In about the seventh grade, I decided I would be a writer. I was small for my age, and easy target for bullies, and of course the “weird kid”, so at some point, I decided to learn how to defend myself and quickly became obsessed with martial arts, setting my interest in writing aside to train and learn all I could about fighting. I didn’t start writing again seriously until right after high school, when I was pursuing a career as an actor and decided to write my own screenplay to star in, as Stallone did with Rocky. I started knocking out short stories as well, just for fun. Ultimately, coming to a place of calling myself a writer was a gradual process that took many years.


Read the interview here No Wasted Ink

BAM! The Terror Starts!

Read the Entire Review HERE

"...just as you are getting entirely wrapped up in their day-to-day conflicts and problems – BAM! The horror and terror starts. The story shifts into over-drive and the last third of the book races by as you click the “page” button again and again and again."
Bryan W. Alaspa reviews Progeny at 

The Official Bryan W. Alaspa Website

Inside the Mind of a Working Writer

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GUEST BLOG with The Man -Armand Rosamilia

Fellow Hobbes End Publishing author, Armand Rosamilia stopped by for a visit.  We can't repeat most of what he said, but here's his blog about the challenges he faced writing the amazing Miami Spy Games Series.  If you haven't checked him out - it is definitely your loss.

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Miami Spy Games by Armand Rosamilia

Planning The Story Arc 

I'm a pantser. To me, nothing kills an idea like an outline, even a few sketched lines. I've tried it. Years ago I used to put an outline together and even write in some scene ideas or dialogue or action, figuring it would grow from there. It usually didn't.

I'm also not very big on writing ahead in the story. I might jump a chapter or two with a new character, but I can't skip ahead in the story or write an ending first. I like the natural flow of the story and writing and reading it in 'real time' instead of jumping around.

But when I was contacted to do Miami Spy Games I was also offered a challenge: I had to tell a dozen smaller stories, with cliffhangers, and tie them all together in one motion. There are several big spots in the episodes (you'll have to read them, I won't give out spoilers) that I needed to hit during specific parts, and the fun was trying to get to them naturally.

Planning a definite story arc in 7,500 word increments, with every three or four episodes making up a bigger plotline to finish or reach some conclusion was daunting at first. I tend to write and write and see where the story goes. With a definite arc it actually flowed and I got into the groove when Hobbes End Publishing gave me several key ideas to use in the story, or suggested things as simple as 'write in a zombie dog'.

I use index cards for everything. They litter my desk, overflow from my laptop bag, and are scattered on my floor at home. I started by pulling 12 clean index cards and figuring to write out the main point(s) of each episode on them. I ended up with over 50 index cards, all scribbled on both sides and with many yellow and pink highlighted parts. The fun when writing the last four episodes and getting to some kind of ending was mixing and matching the ideas I had written down until it made sense and had a flow to it.

It didn't hinder the story, because at this point I was so in tune with the main characters and wanted to see where it went to as a reader. Writing Miami Spy Games was a fun challenge and took me out of my comfort zone, which I needed. I can't wait to get the green light for a second series of stories, because it is fun to play in this world, and build it as a story arc. 

If you have any questions about the Miami Spy Games series, I'd love to hear them: armandrosamilia@gmail.com

Armand Rosamilia

Miami Spy Games on Amazon Kindle only $3.99!

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