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Author interview with Nicholas Kaufmann Author bio: Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-, Thriller Award-, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of numerous books and stories. He has also written extensively in non-fiction, including monthly pop culture columns on horror and dark fantasy for the popular websites Fear Zone and The Internet Review of Science Fiction, and a chapter on plotting short stories in the Writers Digest book ON WRITING HORROR. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife.   --------------------------------- Hi Nicholas, welcome over at The Book Plank and for taking your time to answer these few questions for us. BP: First off, could you give us a short introduction as to who Nicholas Kaufmann is, what are your hobbies, likes and dislikes? NK: I'm a writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. I tend to write horror mixed with mystery, noir, fantasy, and adventure. I've had work nominated for the Bram Stoke...

Jinx: The Wizard’s Apprentice by Sage Blackwood, Jinx #1 It's not every day that your evil stepdad abandons you in the deep, dark forest of Urwald. And it's not every day that a wizard rescues you from the clutches of gnarly trolls. But for Jinx, this isn't turning out to be a very normal sort of day... The bubbling cauldrons and coloured potions of the wizard's house are a world away from the life Jinx has left behind. Even the walls are soaked in magic, and it's not long before Jinx begins to unlock his own rare powers. But Simon Magus is no ordinary wizard. He seems to need something from Jinx - something dark. And Jinx begins to wonder: can he trust Simon... at all? Jinx: The Wizard’s Apprentice is the first book in the Jinx series that tells the story of Jinx a young boy, thrown into a world of magic by happenstance, or is it? Jinx is also the debut series by Sage Blackwood. I always try to alternating book genres, reading fanta...

The Virals’ home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. A 300-year-old legend. Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No-one knows where, but Tory Brennan – great-niece of famous forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan – is certain that the Virals can work out Bonny’s cryptic clues. A deadly path. It isn’t long before the Virals are on the right track. But they aren’t the only ones searching for the treasure.Someone is following them, and will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. Dead bodies litter the trail. Time is running out before the island will be sold. Will the Virals’ special powers be enough to save them? Seizure is the second book in the Virals series. Virals is a Young-Adult oriented series written by the acclaimed author Kathy Reichs, offering to some degree a bit of a spin-off from the hit series Bones but for a younger audience. Mentioning that I was lo...