Already A TOP TEN Amazon BESTSELLER Kindle/Mysteries/Thrillers/Medical - SILENT FEAR: a Medical Mystery

Good morning everyone! What a beautiful Sunday for a party.  Thank you, Goddess Fish.

I have TREMENDOUS news after my book blog with Goddess Fish. My new release Silent Fear, a Medical Mystery, by Barbara Ebel, started selling right away as a Kindle ebook. However, by the end of the tour Silent Fear is now sitting with an overall Amazon Kindle sales ranking between 800 and 1,200 (out of 2.5 million books!) and has been sitting in the top 10 bestsellers for mystery/thrillers/medical.

But that's not all.....  This second book in the Dr. Danny Tilson novels has propelled the sales of the first novel, Operation Neurosurgeon, as well and it's also going crazy!  

For anyone not familiar with this new release here's the scoop for SILENT FEAR as well as the book cover:

After brain surgeon Dr. Danny Tilson performs several intracranial surgeries, patients and staff acquire a strange meningitis which sweeps nationwide at breakneck speed.  The root of the outbreak is an enigma and the CDC, a neurologist, and an infectious disease specialist are called in for their expertise.

Hang on for the ride as Dr. Danny straightens out his personal life while confronted with an epidemic of frightening proportions and consequences. The pandemic of the millennium has no cure in sight. And while Danny’s colleagues, patients and staff are falling dead around him, perhaps the most crucial question of all is - why has Danny been spared?

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Silent Fear is a stand-alone novel as well as being Book Two of The Dr. Danny Tilson Novels.  Book One of the series is Operation Neurosurgeon. And ringing true as the credible medical fiction writer, Doctor Barbara’s basic and scary organism in Silent Fear’s plot actually exists!

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REVIEWS:

“Silent Fear is billed as a medical mystery and holds an important characteristic separating it from many competitors in the genre: its author is a physician herself, so the medical facts, setting and background are not only believable but are solidly grounded in reality. Even seasoned medical thriller readers won’t know exactly where the plot is heading… (Silent Fear is) medical mystery or thriller writing at its best.”

D. Donovan, eBook Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

“Silent Fear is an engaging work of medical fiction … it’s very successful as a medical mystery for the hospital and the CDC to solve … this (is) an enjoyable read.”

The San Francisco Book Review

Silent Fear’s “plot has much to commend … an interesting medical ‘drama’ novel.”

WordPress Review

“(Silent Fear’s) story is expertly told with very credible medical descriptions of (a) devastating epidemic. Characters believably come alive and intrigue deepens with difficulty in finding a cure.”

Saleem Seyal, M.D., Reviewer, Louisville Medicine Magazine April 2014 issue

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 Amazon Kindle Silent Fear link:  http://amzn.to/1fTlicS

Here is my website for lots more information about all my books, a health blog, and book videos:

 http://barbaraebel.weebly.com

Please participate in this blog and we'll have a good time! I'm the 'Credible Medical Fiction Writer' so holler with questions.  A blog party won't be any fun if we don't stir things up.  I've brought virtual popcorn, chocolate, tea, coffee, blueberry muffins and......CHAMPAGNE!  How's that for a party diet?

 

A self-Indulgent Author's Interview- Part 2!

A self-indulgent interview, continued...

Which book has made you laugh?

Would You Rather? by Heimberg and Gomberg

Which book has made you cry?

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Which book would you never have on your bookshelf?

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

What was your favourite childhood book?

Peat Moss and Ivy Meet Santa Claus.  It was a $2.99 book my mom picked up in the grocery store.

Which book would you give to a friend as a present?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Which classic have you always meant to read and never got round to it?

Pride and Prejudice

What are your top five books of all time, in order or otherwise?

No order:

1. Harry Potter series

2. The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner

3. The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle

4. Columbine by Dave Cullen

5. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Honorable mentions because it is SO hard for me to pick only a top five: The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark, Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, 24/7 by Jim Brown, Red Rain by R.L. Stine, Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross, The Oath by Frank Peretti, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, Honeymoon and Roses are Red by James Patterson, Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner, and The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.

What is your favourite time of day to write?

The afternoon/evening

And favourite place to write?

my green chair in my living room.  It used to be my grandfather’s.

Longhand or word processor?

Microsoft Word

Which fictional character would you most like to have met?

Pierce Quincy from Lisa Gardner's books

Who, in your opinion, is the greatest writer of all time?

I respect a lot of different writers for a lot of reasons.  I have to answer a few.  I respect R.L. Stine tremendously, because while Goosebumps may never be required reading for classes in schools, the man can churn out a number of books that is unfathomable to me.  I am a huge fan of Lisa Gardner’s intense research and fantastic plot twists, and she continues to blow me away.  I love Agatha Christie’s writing, and I think she is definitely an all-time great.

Which book have you found yourself unable to finish?

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

What is your favourite word?

Discombobulated

Other than writing, what other jobs or professions have you undertaken or considered?

Vet, veterinary technician, photographer, videographer, reporter, wedding planner, actress

What was the first piece you ever had in print?

I think an editorial I wrote about young marriage to the Athens-Banner-Herald when in college

I’d love to hear your answers to some of these questions!  Thanks for letting me indulge myself a little and ask these questions I’ve always wanted to answer!  Don't forget that by answering some of these in the comments of any of my posts today, you're entering to win a Chain of Command messenger bag.  The bag will be drawn on the afternoon of Feb. 4, and it will be announced on my Facebook Fan Page and Twitter.  Make sure you're following me on one of those to claim your prize:

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It's been said that writers reveal their own struggles, fears, dreams, etc. through their work.

Well, if that's the case, I'm not really sure what Chain of Command says about me.  So, I began to explore the possibilities.  If a complete outsider who knows nothing about me were to analyze, here are some scenarios they might come up with:

      Theory Number 1:  Colby Marshall is clearly violent. 

      Analysis:  I once made a list of casualties in Chain of Command (after an interested editor was daunted by the death toll).  I can't remember what it was and am afraid to go back and count again.  Either way, let's just say that when the death toll on page two equals the page number, chances are, you're book might be a bloodbath.

    Reality:  Colby Marshall won't even kill her own spiders because she's afraid of them.  The bloodbaths in her books are probably a way of fooling herself into thinking she could totally pull off the I-Walk-Away-From-Explosions-And-Don't-Look-Back type of badassery as well as Denzel Washington can.

   Theory Number 2:  Colby Marshall dreams of a world where a female president leads our country sooner rather than later.  

     Analysis: There's no denying it: Chain of Command does explore the possibility of the first female president of the United States of America.  Being female, I suppose it would be an easy leap for someone to think that I'd want this glass ceiling to be broken.  Obviously any woman writing about an assassination plot resulting in the first female taking the highest office in the land has to be chomping at the bit to see a woman in the Oval Office.  Right?

   Reality:  I learned about the United States chain of command to the presidency in school, and I found it interesting that the line of succession had fortunately never had to be put into action past the vice president.  The U.S. has also never had a female President.  When two nevers collide in my mind, a story is bound to be the result.  So, I decided having the chain of command be employed while the third in line for the presidency happened to be a woman would be a conspiracy theorists' wet dream.  As for whether or not I care about a woman being president--I have another post about this very topic coming soon in the blog tour, but suffice it to say yes and no.  I'd love to see a woman hold the highest office in the land, as, generally speaking, I believe women can do as good of a job as men in leadership positions.  That said, I'd only want to see a Madame President elected if she was the right lady for the job and for our country--not because she happens to own an impressive collection of Stuart Weitzmans, gets at least two pedicures a year, and knows the difference between hi-lights and lo-lights. I don't want a woman president just because she is a woman.

Theory Number 3:  Colby Marshall, like her main character McKenzie, fears not knowing the truth about a situation.

Analysis:  Hm.

Reality:  Well, yes.  I suppose there, I have me.

So, while the conclusions one might draw about me as a person might not be entirely accurate based on Chain of Command or any of my other books, for that matter, I do think there’s a little piece of me in every book, even if it's small and something only I would notice.  For example, the next in the McKenzie McClendon series, The Trade, revolves around the black market baby trade, and I was pregnant when I wrote the ending of the book.  I like to create my own characters and situations, but if my own experiences never entered my writing at all, I wouldn't have nearly the depth of characters I do when I can relate their experiences to my own. 

What about you—do things in your life influence what you want to read or write about, or is reading/writing more of an escape from anything remotely similar to your every day life?      

Colby Marshall’s debut thriller, Chain of Command is now available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, StairwayPress.com, and other major e-readers.  Writer by day, ballroom dancer and choreographer by night, Colby has a tendency to turn every hobby she has into a job, thus ensuring that she is a perpetual workaholic.  In addition to her 9,502 regular jobs, she is also a contributing columnist for M Food and Culture magazine and is a proud member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.  She is actively involved in local theatres as a choreographer as well as sometimes indulges her prima donna side by taking the stage as an actress.  She lives in Georgia with her family, two mutts, and an array of cats that, if she were a bit older, would qualify her immediately for crazy cat lady status.  Her debut thriller, Chain of Command is now available, and the second book in her McKenzie McClendon series, The Trade, is due for publication by Stairway Press in June 2013.   

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