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Author: William Potter
Region: New Westminster Canada
Website: www.williamrpotter.com
Memorable Quote 1: You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.—Rabindranath Tagore.
Memorable Quote 2: Demolish the bridges behind you…then there is no choice but to move forward.—Firdtjof Nansen.
Author Comment / Biography:
You could say William Potter was bitten by the writing bug at an early age. Shortly after watching the first remake of King Kong, around the age of ten or eleven, he scribbled a few pages about a mutant crab and called it a book. Throughout his teens he chronicled life’s ups and down in poetry. He returned to his love of storytelling in his twenties, writing numerous short stories. Lighting the Dark Side-Six Modern Tales represents his work from the past several years and is his first published book. The collection received the Editor's Choice Award for short stories from AllBooks Review International in 2009. The collection’s three novellas, Bent, Not Broken; Surviving the Fall; and October 18, 2012, were all published separately in 2011 as standalone books. William Potter isn’t a writer who has pinned down his “genre.” He enjoys the freedom of working as an independent author and writes whatever and whenever inspiration strikes. DEAD of KNIGHT-A Jack Staal Mystery is his first full novel. A police procedural, the novel has been described as a cat and mouse, hard-boiled thriller. In the fall of 2010 William realized a need for effective and affordable book promotion for indie and self published authors and so he founded the Independent Author Network (IAN). IAN’s 210-plus members promote their work together through social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. William resides in New Westminster, Canada with his wife and two children.
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51. Book Review: Fist Light-Selected Poems by Alberto Romero
June 07, 2010
First Light: Selected Poems Alberto Romero (April 26, 2010) 978-1434991867
First Light: Selected Poems by Alberto Romero offers 30 poems printed in their original Spanish and also translated to English. After reading any poetry collection the reader should take away a good sense of who th...
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52. Book Review: The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai by Jerome Peterson
June 07, 2010
The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai by Jerome Peterson is a wonderfully weird tale of self discovery, love, and survival. Witches and Wicca, spells and spirits, and an extraordinary mystical Raven are all there for the taking in this compelling paranormal thriller. After another failed romance, ...
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53. Victor and the Sun Orb by Amy Nielsen
May 21, 2010
Victor and the Sun Orb Amy Nielsen 978-0595512126 iUniverse (2008)
Sun fairies both good and evil, monstrous creatures, adventure, magic, a talking strawberry bush, ant royalty, and an epic battle for the freedom of an entire world are in store in the wonderful young adult fantasy Victo...
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54. Best Western Movies by John Howard Reid
May 17, 2010
Best Western Movies John Howard Reid 978-1847281814 Lulu (2006)
Western films may have fallen from Hollywood’s grace in the past few decades; however, a loyal following of obsessed fans and collectors remain. If you are just beginning a Western movie DVD collection or are a seasoned afi...
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55. No Greater Sacrifice by John C. Stipa-A Book Review
May 13, 2010
CreateSpace (September 4, 2009) 978-1449543501
Looking for adventure, mystery, romance and loads of fun in your next summer read? Trek across Europe, search for lost treasure, defeat the bad guys, and much more as you enjoy author John C. Stipa’s entertaining debut novel, No Gre...
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56. The Missing Element by Author John L. Betcher
April 28, 2010
The Missing Element is the story of James “Beck” Becker and his wife Elizabeth, who have returned to Beck’s childhood home in Red Wing, Minnesota to enjoy retirement from their covert government jobs. Of course, life is anything but quiet with Beck around. When Katherine Whitson, a Minneap...
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57. Machiavelli's Desert by Lawrence Uhlin
April 26, 2010
A Chernobyl-type nuclear disaster, murders disguised as suicides, corruption, nanotechnology, political conspiracy, and more abound in Canadian author Lawrence Uhlin's debut novel, Machiavelli's Desert. Canada's sovereignty is challenged to the brink in a thriller that takes the reader from Ottawa t...
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58. Thumb Flagging by Jerome Peterson-A Book Review
April 26, 2010
Thumb Flagging by author Jerome Peterson is a coming of age story that will charm you from the opening pages. Two twenty-something, self-professed bohemian-bums take to the open road to find themselves in a criss-cross America journey.
We meet Jay Patterson. Jay was raised Catholic,...
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59. Lor Mandela - Destruction From Twins is a Fantasy by L. Carroll
April 12, 2010
Lor Mandela – Destruction From Twins by L. Carroll captured my interest even before I opened the book. The front cover features a beautiful young woman with piercing blue eyes and a rupturing planet. The back cover text describes a dying alien world, a prophetic riddle, and a “Child of Balance” who ...
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60. Science-Fiction & Fantasy Cinema-Classic Films of Horror, Sci-Fi & the Supernatural.
April 12, 2010
I have long desired to see the 1927 sci-fi classic, Metropolis. I lost interest when I discovered a confusing assortment of versions, restorations, and run times existed. I was delighted to see a movie poster of the film gracing the cover of author John Howard Reid’s Science-Fiction & Fantasy Cinema...
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