Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Let me introduce you to my author friends


My author friends have joined forces with me!
We bring you amazing stories
Narrated by great voice actors
In the spirit of Halloween. Join us here:

Trick or Treat

Click the profile image or the name of each one of us 
to learn about our work
Then join us for a weekend of scary thoughts
for a chance to win our stories!


"I paint with my pen, and write with my paintbrush"

Blog
Art Site

"What would you do if you could see other people's dreams?"

Writing Dreams



"Addictive, award-winning fiction. You'll fall in love with the characters and love to hate the villains.”

Janet Morris & Christopher Crosby Morris

“Bestselling authors of novels from historical to fantastical.”


"Be careful what you lust for..."


"Author of compulsively readable thrillers"


“Author of intense thrillers that might make your house messy and dinner late!"


“DV Berkom Books; Where murder and mayhem meet the page.”


“My dreams live in my characters with suspense, action, and heart.”


"Mystery, Romance, and YA featuring Characters at a Crossroads"


“Escape with a book by Angela Ford.”




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Monday, October 5, 2015

Writing at its best

Dennis Waller, filmmaker and author of several books, is recognized as an expert on spiritual experience, self-discovery, and exploring the human consciousness. He is also a Top 500 Amazon Reviewer, which is an amazing rank. I am honored that he posted this review for my novel, My Own Voice (volume I of Still Life with Memories):

 Writing at its best, October 4, 2015
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Uvi Poznansky is an author I follow for one simple reason, her writing is refreshing and her style is unique in providing a reading experience that is both satisfying and entertaining. This latest installment in her catalog of work once again lives up to my expectations. With masterfully rich and complex characters, "My Own Voice," is written from Anita point of view giving the reader an inside look at Anita. Not to spoil anything, I will say that reading the works of Uvi Poznansky is a treat.
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The Music of Us
Love Me Tender
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Concealed in My Heart
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Jack Who?
Ambrosia by the Sea
The Single Daddy Club: Derrick






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Friday, October 2, 2015

Should you get them? Should you join them?

Just discovered an interesting article, one that raises a lot of interesting questions about the multi-author boxed set, At Odds with Destiny. It says, "In some cases, such as Uvi Poznansky’s Rise to Power, you are actually making a saving with the boxed set (from 99 cents to zero, in this instance). In other cases, the bundled book is already free as a standalone. So as a reader, are you actually getting any benefit from this bundle? And as an author, is it worth you joining one? And who puts these together anyway?"

 Check it out: Should you get them? Should you join them?


Ten amazing novels in one boxed set
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Sweep us into the night

In designing the cover for The Music of Us I had in mind a particular passage from the book, where Natasha is just about to perform, and her hand is raised over the keys in contemplation of the notes:

With that Natasha handed the microphone back to him and curtsied to the audience. A wavy, red strand of hair slinked from her headband, which was decorated with delicate flowers, and glided over her bare shoulder. Below that, the bodice of her dress glinted as she turned around. And again, for just a second, I thought I felt her eyes fluttering in my direction, meeting my gaze. Everyone around me must have imagined that, too.
Natasha lifted the long, silky skirt of her dress, so its folds fanned out from the seam that hugged her hips. As she sat down they draped, full and flowing, over the piano bench, responding playfully to the light from above with a cherry red shine. A reflection of it lit her chin from below and lined the underside of her slender arms, just a touch. With a slow, deliberate motion she lifted her hand, letting it hover, for what seemed like the span of a thought, over its shadow over the keys.
Her fingers started flitting across the keys, and at once I was taken by the solemn, dramatic sounds she made rise over us. They came pressing against the far reaches of the hall, gathering ominously just below the vaulted ceiling, as if in preparation to blow it away and sweep us into the night. 


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Sunday, September 27, 2015

This will be the year end gift for the Littles

Short and sweet review for my children's book, Now I Am Paper:

product rating stars Great work!, September 24, 2015
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Both the poetry and illustrations in this book are exceptional. I believe this will be the year end gift I will share with the Littles - my great-nieces and great-nephews. I have not been so excited about a book for my Littles since Old Turtle. Great work!
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Say anything apart from love

Author of War Songs, Grady Harp describes himself as being ever on the alert for the new and promising geniuses of tomorrow. He is an artist representative, gallery owner, writer of essays and articles on figurative and all Representational art for museum catalogues and for traveling exhibitions, and an Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer. I am honored that he has posted this five-star review for my novel, My Own Voice:
`Say anything apart from love'
By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 26, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
Uvi Poznansky wears a coat of many colors. Originally from Israel where she studied Architecture and Town Planning then moving to the US where she studied Computer Science and became an expert in Software Engineering, Poznansky managed to combine the design elements of two studies into unique formats. And she has accomplished the same with the other side of her brain - making visual her ideas (she is an accomplished painter, drawer, and sculptor who has enjoyed exhibitions both in Israel and in California, her present base) and making words in poetry and in short stories and children's books. MY OWN VOICE was her first part of her novel APART FROM LOVE: Still Life with Memories and THE WHITE PIANO is the second part. Having read them together allows sharing the scope of what came before this book – and sharing that is important.

The synopsis of MY OWN VOICE (the cover of which is an excellent example of her compelling art) attempts to separate the two aspects of her this first installment: ‘Ten years ago, when she was seventeen, Anita started an affair with Lenny, in spite of knowing that he was a married man. Now married to him and carrying his child, she finds herself condemned to compete with Natasha’s shadow, the memory of her brilliance back in her prime, before she succumbed to early-onset Alzheimer’s. Despite Anita’s lack of education, her rough slang, and what happened to her in the past, Lenny tries to transform her. He wants her to become Natasha. Faced with his compelling wish, and the way he writes her as a character in his book, how can Anita find a voice of her own? And when his estranged son, Ben, comes back and lives in the same small apartment, can she keep the balance between the two men, whose desire for her is marred by guilt and blame?’

But for those who wish to see how parts one and two are joined, the following is offered: ‘The story of this elegantly designed novel is a dissection of a family life and the alterations that occur with the family framework both by intent and by happenstance. It weaves themes of disparate parents - an accomplished pianist Natasha married to the elderly Lenny who cares for Natasha as she descends into the darkness of Alzheimer's Disease and compensates by taking on a very young and uneducated, somewhat socially coarse redhead vixen named Anita - and the manner in which the couple's 27-year-old bright son Ben copes with the situation.'

Poznansky's unique way of unraveling this complex story is by making the `chapters' vary as told by Ben, as told by Anita, and as told by Lenny. She understands fully how to bring Ben's confusion about both his past life with his parents and the current situation with his mother's decline and his father's reactive compensation by bonding with a beautiful young, if raw, companion. Few authors would be able to pull off the manner in which the apparent polar opposites of Ben and Anita begin to bond and how Lenny integrates into their apparent clandestine relationship, but Poznansky has the visual and verbal and architectural skills to create this maze and guide us through it.

She capitalizes on the use of the chapters being related in the voices of the characters: Ben relates the situation as he remembers and experiences it in eloquent finely honed grammar while Anita speaks to us with the slang that at first can be grating but morphs into communication that allows the reader to experience the change that develops in her relationship to Ben. In other's hands this could become cloying as a technique, but with Poznansky's skill she uses it as an interface between evolving personalities that makes her story ring true.

So much more could be said about the manner in which the author brings understanding to the hierarchies of relationships - parental, couple, aging, developing, and ones influenced by disease, but that would be robbing the reader of the joy of discoveries that Poznanasky accomplishes in this profound novel. The title is so well chosen: the phrase of the title is the key that unlocks much of the fragile mystery that hovers here. Please read the entire novel to appreciate the beauty of Uvi’s gift. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, September 15
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