Nightshade – Lime Award 2010 Recipient!!

Ronie Nightshade, Robert Liparulo, Steve James, The Christian Manifesto, The Lime Awards 2 Comments

What a Christmas delight! The Christian Manifesto named NIGHTSHADE among their Lime Awards 2010, which is their top ten fiction picks. I’m so honored and surprised they chose NIGHTSHADE!! It’s listed as #10, so I think I made it by the skin on my teeth. ha! Other authors who made the list also happen to be a couple of my writing heroes: Robert Liparulo (FRENZY) and Steven James (The Bishop)!! Amazing, amazing writers. I’m honored to see NIGHTSHADE listed among them!

Robert Liparulo endorses DIGITALIS

Ronie Barbour, Digitalis, Discarded Heroes, Robert Liparulo 4 Comments

Okay, I’m particularly excited to share this endorsement for DIGITALIS, Discarded Heroes #2, with you because it’s from…ROBERT LIPARULO. If you haven’t guessed by the frequent mentions of his writing by me on my blog, Facebook, and other social media sites, Robert Liparulo is one of my writing heroes. I’ve yet to read a book by him that I didn’t love and sail through. His stories are exactly what I love to read–and he “gets away” with a plot device that I have long wanted to include in my stories (and in fact, *did* include in Dead Reckoning but was asked during the content edit to remove): implanting a tool, weapon, or device that’s not “real” (yet!) but so close …