Author Archives: Raven Bower
Introducing the Hydra Games Team ~ Eden Kupermintz
We’ll be introducing one of our Team Members each week – decided by die roll of course – feel free to say hi or comment here or at our Hydra Games FB Page. Eden Kupermintz is 25 and is working furiously towards never dying. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel where the choking heat sends him to his writing, […]
Primal ~ Finalist in the Ariana Cover Awards!
We have several fantastic announcements to make. The first one is that the cover art for Primal is a finalist for the 2013 Ariana Award! Congratulations to artist Karri Klawiter! Our team at Hydra Games is locked in and smoking on the content. Lots of goodies processing for our launch in 2013. Our team members will be announced throughout […]
Movie Review ~ Creature
Title: Creature Director: Fred M. Andrews Genre: Horror/Creature Feature Rating: 3 bats For its budget and lack of good FX, this was a fun movie! It’s set out in the swamps with lots of murky water and mud. The cast played well off of each other and there was a varied set of voices that kept the movie chugging […]
Rags Beneath (book 3 of the Apparitions Series) ~ Released in eBook!
Woohoo! Lain and I are proud to announce that Rags Beneath has been launched in Kindle form! The Nook edition is forthcoming and the paperback is due for release in September! For your enjoyment, here’s the blurb and short excerpt! A family vanishes while sailing on Lake Superior with no sign of wreckage, no S.O.S and no bodies. […]
Friday’s Five Faves ~ Weekend Views!
Grave Encounters ~ In this horror flick, the stars of a paranormal-investigation TV show spend the night in a derelict psychiatric hospital, hoping to uncover what’s been going bump in the night. As their cameras roll, they find themselves trapped — and hunted. See my review here. The Woman in Black ~ Dispatched by his […]
Aaron Ritchey ~ Trouble with Sagging Middles? There Are No Middles, Grasshopper
This is a fantastic guest post by author Aaron Ritchey! Take it away Aaron! For a long time, every novel I wrote became a dumping ground for cool ideas, and where did I stick these gems of self-indulgence? In the middle. I’d stuff books full of cool little things that didn’t support the story arc or the character […]
Setting to Illustrate Character Mood
A keen eye. Observation. Mood. All of these are used to create vivid character emotions using that very valuable tool we talked about before – setting. One other thing it takes to pull this off is knowing your character as deeply as possible and how she’d relate to the world around her. It’s true that it’d be […]
Movie Review ~ Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
Title: Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep Director: Tibor Takacs Genre: Horror/Creature Feature Rating: 2 bats I really, really wanted to like this movie. On the surface it has so much going for it that I usually like – a nifty sea creature, diving, watery doom, hidden treasure, nasty bad guys. Unfortunately, it flopped. Despite the fact that they […]
Friday’s Five Favs ~ Fun Weekend Reads!
Dark Desire by Christine Feehan~ They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light . . . The stranger silently summoned her from across the continents, across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger . . . of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow American surgeon Shea O’Halloran could feel his anguish, […]
Setting & Your Story
Setting is one of a writer’s most useful tools. It can help set moods, show glimpses into the viewpoint character and help solidify their lifestyle, their beliefs and their priorities. To create vivid settings Lain and fall back on our standard – research and world building. Plus some additions of deeply knowing our characters and the art of observation. […]