Month: January 2013
He graduated, and as he went through the bumps and highways fate had constructed in his path, he eventually became one of Kuwait’s most successful AC engineers. My life was easier, I only got to live the hard parts of life when I went to college. I never saw my life more clearly than today, I saw how different my life would have been if my father didn’t keep pushing himself. I tried to see how I would have done if I was
Paperback edition of Psychs is now live…
Well… the day I have been waiting for has finally arrived. Psychs is now available in Paperback format on Amazon and AuthorHouse.
Psychs have been available in E-Book format since September of 2012. Now, passing through the threshold of 2013, Psychs took a physical form, where the marks of acknowledgment are visible on both sides of the cover.
Psychs is a fast paced fiction thriller which introduces two of a kind characters, Hassan Ali, a man who have never been alone ever since the tragic event of his birth, which connected 8 spirits to him, and a man named Adam Goldfish who have been imprisoned for 13 years where he learned to adapt to his brutal alterations and expand his resources with the little left in him.
The story takes place in two times, Nowadays and ten years from now, following mainly younger and older Hassan, who at the first discovery of the 8 ghosts and the near death experience will be committed to an asylum. As a grown up, he’ll get to use those spirits in tactics and getting Intel for him so he can lead a double life in Psychology and military.
The ghosts will help him to evolve to the man he wants to become, they will give him the knowledge they had obtained throughout their times in the living world. They will also play a role in his first love, who will be the first to learn and keep his secret ability.
Psychs is a story of wit, survival, friendships, of first love and of fate’s path
… And now it’s on Amazon.com and AuthorHouse.co.uk in paperback.
Writing my heart out…
I have been away for too long, 8 days without blogging can be ages for me. Having an outlet, a channel for your river of creativity to flow in is essential for our own mental health. Blogging is the place where you pour your heart out.
In the past days I have been busy in so many ways, my physical world and my mental world have been per-occupied with so many thing the dam I call my skull could burst,but not in an all bad way, mostly in a good way, some in a great manner.
I got out from my castaway island, I have been stranded since my internet got sick, now healthy as an ox I can mention the great news and the important things that have happened to me in the last days, something beautiful.
I’ll be away for a while, I need to visit my friend in the hospital (one of the things that had me occupied lately). I’ll be back for more, hopefully today.
Have a great day everyone.
~ A. H. Amin
Amazing book shelves…
New soft cover of Psychs revealed…
‘Good and Evil has no passport; it wears many skins, speaks in different tongues, and exists everywhere, even in the same person’
~ Psychs
Here’s the new, modified and marked with reviews cover of my fiction thriller. The soft cover edition will soon be available next month on all major online stores and in bookstores.
The new cover is not the only recent addition to the book. This time, you’ll get to have a sneak peek at the second chapter in the Psych series, The Remnant, Book 2 in the series. You’ll get to take a short dive inside the prologue and the first chapter, I hope you’ll be able to hold your breath that long.
There’s also an interview of me at Managua Gunn’s Pirate Haven in the end, you’ll get to know more about me, my work and my thoughts on writing and writers.
Here’s to 2013, may it be the best next step for the series.
Here’s Psychs website, have a visit, learn more, and get involved…
~ A. H. Amin
Great news…
Well, it’s finally on track now.
My fiction thriller got the good acknowledgment that I was seeking by releasing the E-Book edition first. As we know, when you enter a bookstore what attracts you to the book is the reviews written on them, having the word of mouth can really help the reader to get some idea about that book from someone other than the author.
Psychs have received so far only positive reviews from Kirkus, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Authors, Bloggers and goodreads.com. So now comes the second step for the Psych series, the new paperback edition which is now marked with reviews.
2012 was a very productive year for my thriller, and now I’m starting 2013 with a bang.
Soon, perhaps later today, I will be able to share the new soft cover for Psychs.
So, until then, you can visit my website and learn more about my thriller, you can also get linked from there so you can get to read the full reviews.
~ A. H. Amin
Everything is permitted when we are creative… Part 6
Your mind is a universe… you can always spot a star in it…
You’ll never know what might come out from your head… so go ahead and try to find out…
~ A. H. Amin
The kid within us….
I think this is kind of refreshing and I believe everyone should do that once in a while.
Today I went to the grocery… Yes, we writers need food too… It was early and the streets were empty, so I did something like what’s in the picture; I imagined something abnormal in a normal place. It is a good exercise for the brain, you get to give your creative part lying in there a start up.
Try it out, even if you are inside your house. It will revive the kid inside you. That kid is really important for us, it is a part inside you that will never gets old and will always keep you entertained.
Having a kid’s imagination with an adult’s means of expressing those imaginations is what differentiate a true creative artist from an artist. Art has many ways to reveal itself, through writing, through music, through… well, you can fill in if you want to, but art will always start from a picture from your head, imagined to be seen by your eyes, imagined to be heard through your ears, tasted through your lips… imagined.
I will look through the window after this post, to see through my inner kid’s eyes my words disturbing the clouds as it leaves to you.
~ A. H. Amin
Fishing for ideas…
I saw this painting today and I immediately felt the connection. It shows exactly how my thoughts, if not everyone’s, are created.
I always say best ideas are originated from the subconscious, since our consciousness is too busy with our reality. The trick is finding a way to reel it in. The guy fishing represents the subconscious, and the fishing pole is what anyone would use to reel the catch, the bait can be different, different baits, different ideas.
To get to the subconscious one must be isolated from the reality, my ways… my favorite baits are music and jogging, they are not the only ones, but they are more available to me, and they really help me escape my surroundings.
The fishing is on hold for me until the end of this month, my graduation is only weeks away from me, and I am in the process of releasing the paperback copy of Psychs. So until then, my subconscious would have to do everything for me, and once I have the time, I’ll try to summon him.
How would you do it?
~ A. H. Amin
Psychs on Indie Book Club Poll for Januray’s read… care to vote?
My book, among others, have raised a question at Indie Book Club on Goodreads, ‘which book should we start our year with?’. January have brought to them a wide range of choices to pick from, and my book amazingly had made it on the list.
2012 was good to my thriller, so I hope 2013 will be even better, especially since the second book of the series will be out this year.
So if you were on Goodreads, please visit my website and if you liked what you see and hear, please vote for my book to be read on Indie Book Club.
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Which fantasy book would you like to read in January?
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