My new site I kept getting more & more confused with my website. I decided that either WordPress was getting too smart or I was getting too dumb. So here I am, at my new location. Will be migrating files, old posts, etc. soon.
New Amazon rankings for She-Wolf Some pretty good sales news for She-Wolf: it’s #1 in ‘Teen & Young Adult Law & Crime,” #10 in ‘Teen & YA Survival,” and #13 in “Teen & YA Fantasy & Supernatural.” I have to admit, that last one puzzled me. My book may be selling because buyers think it’s what one reader
Audio books? Who knew there’s a big market for audio books in the middle-grade & young adult market? Everyone but me, apparently. I guess kids in school are listening on their phones instead of their teachers. Brian Schwartz of Selfpublish.org has been guiding me through this new adventure. Jonathan Taylor & his
kirkus reviewer likes Operation Overlord In this spy novel, when a teenager travels to a bustling port city, he has no idea that he’s about to contribute to one of the most important events of the 20th century. It is June 1944, and Tommy Collins, the young son of a British naval officer, is
Kirkus review -- She-wolf A young Ukrainian woman is determined to get to the bottom of her beloved grandparents’ suspicious deaths in Moss’ thriller. Orphaned Deborah Sokolov and her older brother, Ethan, live with her Ukrainian grandparents in a two-story house in an area of Brooklyn known as Little Odessa. At 17, she considers
Librarything... it's a thing I’d never heard of this website before Brian Schwartz of SelfPublish.org told me about it. Reviewers can get pre-publication books in exchange for writing reviews. Here’s the link to see the latest reviews for She-Wolf.
best review yet! “She-Wolf is a gut-punch of a thriller. Complex characters caught up in a story of survival, revenge, and family. Not for the faint of heart!” -Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and V-Wars
New Books Finally getting my creaky act together. I’ve finished writing my middle grade historical fiction, Tommy Collins: Operation Overlord and my YA murder mystery, She-Wolf & . They’re at the publishers getting designed & covered. I hope to have them out by year’s end, although unfortunately not in time for Christmas.
upcoming books: the quest for reviews Reviews or blurbs are one of the best ways to add content to book covers & insides (what they call ‘front matter’ & ‘back matter’). It’s also a good way to attract readers. I’ve been emailing authors in comparable genres asking if they’d read my upcoming books, Tommy Collins:
Society of Children's book writers & Illustrators It starts February 19, 5 PM here: https://scbwi.zoom.us/j/94154058874
Palm Springs Writers' Guild Event February 15, 1 – 5 PM, I’ll be among a throng of authors at the Palm Springs Writers’ Guild event at the Rancho Mirage Library, showing & selling my books.
Losing Normal review from Red-Headed book lover I admit I was dubious: people offering reviews for a fee seems sketchy. But I checked out the Red-Headed Book Lover’s site (https://redheadedbooklover.com/) & found a bunch of positive comments from other authors. Why not? I thought. I was more than pleased. Aimee was nice, communicated well, and
Bookmarks I made a bookmark (both sides) to hand out and stick in my books. Not sure I like it. The KillGirl one seems a bit “OTN” — aka “On The Nose”, as we used to write on scripts we edited. I’d thought about a silhouette of my heroine, standing in
She-ra & me at Powercon I was on a panel with Jack Olesker & Larry Carrol at the convention in August, speaking to a rapt audience of about 20 people (in a room seating 200) about my work on The New Adventures of He-Man. Phyllis & I had a table at the con to sell He-Man & She-Ra
Mil-tree eat 'n read Last Saturday, July 13, Mil-Tree, the organization founded by Cheryl Montelle to support active duty & military veterans, held a fundraiser dinner at a local restaurant, the Country Kitchen. Cheryl invited me and Carla Sameth to read from our books (mine: Losing Normal; Carla’s, One Day on the Gold Line)
Mil-Tree writers workshop - Hi-Desert Star article Turiya Autry, reporter for the Desert Trail, came to visit our workshop last week. Here’s the article she wrote: ============= JOSHUA TREE — Writers have gathered for the past two months to participate in Mil-Tree’s Wednesday Writing Workshops. The ongoing series invites and inspires veterans, active-duty service members, family and
Losing Normal wins SCBWI SPARK award In February, Losing Normal was announced as the winner of the 2019 SPARK award, presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. The SCBWI email announcement: “Congratulations!! You have won this year’s SPARK Award in the Novel category. The judges were very impressed with LOSING NORMAL. The
Book Room Review http://www.bookroomreviews.com/losing-normal-by-francis-moss/#.XF20Qc2IaM8 Worth excerpting: “I will go ahead and call Losing Normal a young adult dystopian novel. A bit different than others I have read. As I got further into it I found it to kind of be a cross between 2001 a Space Odyssey and
