Naima Haviland likes dead people. Fictional dead people, that is, and the twisted people who make them dead (or undead). She is the author of Bloodroom and Night at the Demontorium. Her next novel, The Bad Death, is scheduled for publication Fall 2012. She takes as inspiration the Southeast United States, including her home in the Florida Panhandle, an ocean paradise with a not-too-distant past full of eccentrics, explorers, pirates, ghosts, and UFOs.

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• naimahaviland: The Death of Bunny Monro, - audiobook written, read, & with aural accompaniment composed all by Nick Cave. Funny, tragic, transcendent. 5 st
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• Frankie on July 04, 2011
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  Frankie is a kicky action story with a twist ending. There were times when I thought there was more to the story than actually got to be told, more than a short story has room for. It’s like riding a subway that is racing past the action taking place outside. A L Fetherlin has a gift for description and I hope she will deepen that gift to expand Frankie into a novel. I liked the characters and loved the story’s conclusion.
  
• If You Go Into The Woods on July 12, 2011
  
  David Gaughran’s book If You Go into the Woods, is a pairing of two short stories, the first of which gave the book its name. The stories are smooth and introspective. Each focuses on, and in the mind of, one character. The protagonist in If You Go into the Woods is the fatherless 8 year old Jiři. He is at the fork in the road of childhood where he will either become a good person or a bad person. He’s drawn to explore the forest near his house but is afraid of it. I won’t tell you what happens, only say that you’ll realize pretty soon that something is off, but you don’t know what. The protagonist of Reset, the second story, is a loner named Linus. He isn’t out of touch with the world; the world seems to have made a joint agreement to let go of him. Released, Linus freefalls through 24 hours of quiet desperation. Something happens, but I won’t tell you what. It has been a long time since I read a story that led me on instead of crashing in. The stories in If You Go into the Woods are unsettling, compelling, and thought provoking.
  
• Smashwords Style Guide on Oct. 30, 2011
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  The Smashwords Style Guide is easy to read and understand. I use it often as a reference when I publish to Smashwords and have yet to find a question that the guide could not answer. Thanks for making publishing such a sweat-free experience!
  
• Smashwords Book Marketing Guide on Oct. 30, 2011
  
  The Smashwords Marketing Guide contains great advice not only for marketing within Smashwords, but beyond the site and even in person-to-person real time. I have it downloaded to my Kindle so I can refer to it again and again. Thanks for writing this guide and the Style Guide and, in this way, helping writers like me get started on the right foot!
  
• Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should on Oct. 30, 2011
  
  Let's Get Digital is a handy, helpful reference. The info is of-the-moment, so you're getting news you can use NOW. The first section is a wide lens view of the current state of the book industry and while I had read this info elsewhere, it was spread across several blogs. The appeal of Let's Get Digital is that it gathers all this far flung info into one place. The next section deals with marketing your e-book through social networking channels; of particular use to me were the points on SN etiquette. I think of myself as quite polite in person, but the author alerted me to several internet faux pas I had either recently made or was about to make. The last portion consists of 30+ authors first-person accounts of their experiences with self-publishing and sales, which I found grounding and inspiring. This is a good book to read if you're starting to write your first book or if you've been trying to get your book published. It's also a good gift for someone who is at that point