Writer Wednesday: Pete Morin

Pete Morin, the blues guitar playin’, ex-trial attorney, ex-politician, ex-bureaucrat, ex-lobbyist, and ex-witness, and lovely novelist has made the leap from dream to reality. That’s right… Pete’s in the house! The Smashwords house! The Amazon house! The Barnes and Noble house! And your house–if you download his book.

Morin describes his legal novel, DIARY OF A SMALL FISH, as “a novel of suspense, corruption and redemption.” (Can we just say how much this book draws on his own personal tickle trunk of real life experiences? Talk about going to have rich and real detail like no other!) Okay, so back to the book… Basically, this guy who hangs out in the political arena gets his chops busted for whom he hangs out with. (A lesson most teens could handle learning, eh?) While I haven’t cracked open my epub file to get the full goods on Morin’s novel (I have critiqued his query, synopsis, as well as the odd passage so it’s not like I’m totally blowing stuff out my ears here), I have been assured that there is love, revenge, corruption, suspense, twists, turns, mourning, rule breaking, and a little bit of redemption. Can’t wait!

Curious? Check it out:

Amazon

Smashwords

Barnes and Noble

P.S. Watch my Goodreads account for a upcoming review of Morin’s book.

Good Links: January Edition/New Blogs Edition

Hi. Well, there goes January, eh? Spring is on the horizon, groundhogs rearing their funny shaped heads, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, whatever. Pull me out of my cave when the sun starts shining again.

As it turns out, I didn’t end up with a ton of good links for January. However, a nice handful of AQers (Agent Query members–writers) started blogs in January (or a month or two previous to that), so instead of sharing writing links this month, I will honour these brand new bloggers.

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Kid’s Book Junky by Charlie Eve. This kids book review and news blog is not yet one month old, but will quickly become a resource for kid lit writers seeking industry news, as well as mothers seeking a good book for their youngsters.

Layinda’s Blog. This is another developing blog that is under a month old. Layinda discusses writing, contests and everything writing.

The Forever Blog by Shawna. Inspiration, motivation, technical aspects of writing and much more.

Random Thoughts to String Together by Lisa Gibson. The name expresses it all as writer Lisa pulls random writerly thoughts together as blog fodder.

Writer/lawyer Pete Morin’s blog. The man shares what is on his mind. Burst pipes, writing and the law, short stories, and more.

RS Mellette’s Dances with Blogs. A handy blog for filmmakers (and that includes screenwriters) who are wondering what recently submitted trends might be as well as more information on the Dances With Films Festival.

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There you have it. Six young blogs worth checking out. As well, you will find more great writing blogs on my blogroll to the right.

Thank you everyone!