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Posted by ericdbolton on January 06, 2011

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Extortion Movie Review

An American family vacationing in the Caribbean find themselves stranded on a deserted island without food or water. They are discovered by a cold-blooded fisherman who demands a ransom for their lives. A gruesome turn of events leaves the father in a terrifying high seas race to save his wife and son, and punish those behind the cruel extortion plot.

I was given the opportunity to view the recently released Lionsgate’s edge of your seat thriller Extortion and will give some minor spoilers below.

Extortion (written and directed by Phil Volken) stars Eion Bailey as Dr. Kevin Riley. Kevin wants to give his family (wife Julie played by Bethany Joy Lenz and son Andy played by Mauricio Alemany) the best family vacation in the Caribbean he can arrange. Yet things go wrong when Kevin keeps making bad decisions. The first being renting a boat to charter from a local who is pretty lax on paperwork. With a seven second training program, Kevin takes the boat out and goes out a three hour tour…

Sherlock Holmes, My Dad, and Me [ Guest Post ]

Sherlock Holmes, My Dad, and MeBy Anna Elliott, co-author of the Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James Mystery Series

It took me seven years to land my first publishing contract— which is actually not terrible by industry standards. But it meant that I’d had the dedication on my first novel picked out for at least that long: To my dad, who taught me to write.

When I was in my last year of college, required to complete a thesis for honors in English, my dad effectively told me,Write a novel, then drove me to the computer store, bought me a laptop, and walked me through the writing process from the outlining stage on.

But actually, my dad’s lessons in writing— and in life— started much earlier. While I was growing up, we had two unspoken requirements for membership in our family: a love of the written word, and a love of a good mystery. Both were easy as far as I was concerned; I’d had my nose in a book practically from the moment I could recognize words on the page, and graduated from the myst…

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