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About Ezra Barany
Ezra Barany loves riveting readers with thrillers, but by order of the Department of Motor Vehicles he must place a warning on every book cover, "Do not read while driving." His first two books in The Torah Codes series were award-winning international bestsellers. In his free time, he has eye-opening discussions on the art of writing novels with his wife and book coach Beth Barany. A high school physics teacher, Ezra lives in Oakland with his beloved wife and two cats working on the next book in The Torah Codes series. Ezra, not the cats.
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Blog postHello person infused with goodness like a fine tea…
The first thing to put here is some welcome sentence.
But what are welcome sentences for?
As far as I can tell, they only serve to indicate my gratitude for you checking out my site.
You want my gratitude.
I’ll tell you a secret.
You had it even before you can to this site.
So there.
That done, if you’re curious to see a guy use physics to fight a street gang with just a set of2 years ago Read more -
Blog postWelcome to the Baton Blog Hop! Before I reveal my current writing process, which changes faster than the reception on your phone, I want to give a huge shout out to Vanessa Kier, author of the Surgical Strike Unit series, great romantic thrillers. She invited me to this Baton Blog Hop party, so if you’re wondering where all the cake and ice cream went, it’s her fault for inviting me.
Something you should know about Vanessa, when it comes to understanding killers, she has a ton of exp7 years ago Read more -
Blog postIn every generation, 36 righteous must live to prevent the Earth's complete destruction. When the list of 36 righteous is stolen and turned into a hit list, Nathan Yirmorshy must do all he can to stop the serial killer's onslaught. Especially since his girlfriend Sophia is on the list.
36 Righteous: A Serial Killer's Hit List is the sequel to Ezra Barany's award-winning bestselling thriller, The Torah Codes.
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Blog post36 Righteous: A Serial Killer’s Hit List What would you do if your beloved were on a hit list? I’ve just released the next thriller in The Torah Codes series, 36 Righteous: A Serial Killer’s Hit List, and I’m very happy with how it’s turned out. Both my parents say that it’s better than The Torah Codes, and as you know, it’s a scientific fact that when parents agree, it must be true.
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Blog postRabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, and others contributed to the Appendix of Essays and Interviews for my new thriller! I’m so excited to have incredible wisdom from rabbis and reverends, including Rabbi Harold Kushner, contribute to the appendix of essays and interviews in the back of my latest thriller, 36 Righteous: A Serial Killer’s Hit List.
The format of my book is inspired by Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower, which contains a story in the f7 years ago Read more -
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A lot of nook users have been frustrated with being unable to find the low priced ebooks. It turns out, Barnes & Noble have buried the low cost ebooks in a way that makes them difficult to find. Enter “Nook Lovers!” They’ve garnished the best, most affordable nook books with the links to get them on Barnes & Noble all on one site.
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Blog postCleaning my files today, I stumbled across an e-mail correspondence I had with master storyteller Dan Brown before he wrote The Da Vinci Code. He had published Digital Fortress and on his website mentioned how part of his inspiration came from reading an article about a priest. (Possibly an urban legend.)
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Blog postIt’s official! The Torah Codes is a best-seller in the UK. In the Torah category, The Torah Codes placed #85. A stampeding herd of buyers pounded at Amazon’s doors to get their own copy. No penguins were harmed in the stampede.
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Blog postThe Torah Codes won Honorable Mention at the 2011 Hollywood Book Festival. In fact, not only did The Torah Codes win, but my wife’s Young Adult Fantasy book Henrietta: The Dragon Slayer also won Honorable Mention!
Beth and I went to Hollywood to the awards ceremony and we received our awards and got to speak at the ceremony. In my speech, I spoke as if I was Nathan, the protagonist in my book. He’s a direct kind of guy, so I announced, “If you don’t read The Torah Codes, you’ve wasted10 years ago Read more -
Blog postI just finished watching the very first X-Men film on TV with my bride Beth Barany. I had seen it before, have you? If so, remember near the beginning when they show Jewish families being led to the concentration camps? Apparently, there will be a lot more mention of the connection between losing one’s […]
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“Beth’s book is like plotting for pantsers!”—Tess Rider, Science Fantasy Romance Author
This book will help you get excited to plan your novel. The tools shared here are designed to spark your muse and give you confidence when you sit down to write your story. Plan Your Novel Like A Pro: And Have Fun Doing It! is for organic writers and pansters who want a roadmap to follow, so that they can let their creativity loose.
Plan your novel, write with confidence, and have fun doing it!
We know that you have other activities in your life besides writing, and that writing your novels is important to you. How can you manage your writing and still meet your other obligations?
Well, you can, in small, manageable bite-sized pieces. Each lesson in this book can be done in as little as 15-20 minutes.
You can plan your novel in a way that fits into your life. We know, because we’ve done it, multiple times!
Based on the popular course, Plan Your Novel: 30-Day Writing Challenge, this book is organized into 4 sections, so that you can do the exercises over a one-month period.
If you're planning to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) or Camp NaNo, this course will get you ready and give you everything you need to write a novel in 30 days.
This book is for you:
… if you have never written a novel, have always wanted to, and still feel lost on how to go from brilliant idea to The End, then you will be stretched in new and different ways.
... if you’re an experienced novelist, with 1 or 2 completed or partially completed novels under your bed, and you’re stuck somehow. You may find this course structured in a way that’s new to you and yet familiar.
...if you have 3 or more unfinished novels sitting in a drawer, and always hit that sagging middle and lose focus or lose interest, this course will help you dream up exciting ways to torture, I mean challenge, your characters all the way to story resolution.
With this book, you’ll be able to:
-- Believe that you can write a novel
-- Step into a sense of satisfaction and creative accomplishment
-- Get excited for NaNoWriMo
-- Plan your novel
FOR AUTHORS WHO WRITE:
• Novels, novellas, and short stories
• Page-turning fiction like mystery, thriller, romance, suspense, fantasy, science fiction, women's fiction, and mash-ups of these
• For Adult, Young Adult, New Adult, and Middle Grade Readers
How this book is organized:
Introduction & Essential Tips
Introduction
Chapter 1: Essential Character Tips for Fiction Writers
Chapter 2: Essential Plot Tips for Fiction Writers
Week One: Elevator Pitch, What-If Pitch & Short Synopsis
Chapter 3: Elevator Pitch
Chapter 4: The What-If Pitch by Ezra Barany
Chapter 5: Your Story Synopsis
Week Two: Get to Know Your Main Characters
Chapter 6: Interview Your Characters
Chapter 7: Uncover Your Characters’ Core Beliefs And Identity And How They Change
Chapter 8: Your Characters' Secrets
Chapter 9: Draft Your Character’s Emotional Core With The Empathy Formula
Chapter 10: The Character Relationship Map
Chapter 11: Focusing on What to Write
Week Three: Story Plot Points & World Building
Chapter 12: Uncover Your Character's Worst Fears to Discover Your Story Conflicts
Chapter 13: World Building: Questions to Brainstorm
Chapter 14: Your Story’s Structure
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The Torah Codes
Aug 12, 2011
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Ezra Barany
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Award-winner of the Hollywood Book Festival, bestselling thriller The Torah Codes has been called a Jewish version of The Da Vinci Codes.
"FIVE STARS - I wish I could put an additional star on the rating system for this book." - Roseanne Schmidt, July 21, 2011
"FIVE STARS - Let me put this quite baldly: the question before us is not a fictional one. If The Torah Codes describes a real phenomenon, then we are talking about statistical evidence that the scriptures are indeed supernatural--that is to say, holy, inspired by a force with, at the very least, a god's-eye-view of history. Including, one might presume, future history." - Ien Nivens, Berkshire Fine Arts, May 23, 2011
A reclusive computer programmer, Nathan Yirmorshy, pounds out ones and zeros in the quiet of his home while his landlord secretly watches from behind a two-way mirror. When an intercepted note connects the landlord to a secret society, and a detective ends up dead, Nathan must abandon his home and everything familiar to him, open his heart to a tarot reader he has never met, and trust her with his life--just as the ancient scriptures have foretold.
An appendix of essays by rabbis, doctors, and physicists discuss the themes of the book, specifically, the Bible codes and the Shekinah, the female aspect of God.
"FIVE STARS - I wish I could put an additional star on the rating system for this book." - Roseanne Schmidt, July 21, 2011
"FIVE STARS - Let me put this quite baldly: the question before us is not a fictional one. If The Torah Codes describes a real phenomenon, then we are talking about statistical evidence that the scriptures are indeed supernatural--that is to say, holy, inspired by a force with, at the very least, a god's-eye-view of history. Including, one might presume, future history." - Ien Nivens, Berkshire Fine Arts, May 23, 2011
A reclusive computer programmer, Nathan Yirmorshy, pounds out ones and zeros in the quiet of his home while his landlord secretly watches from behind a two-way mirror. When an intercepted note connects the landlord to a secret society, and a detective ends up dead, Nathan must abandon his home and everything familiar to him, open his heart to a tarot reader he has never met, and trust her with his life--just as the ancient scriptures have foretold.
An appendix of essays by rabbis, doctors, and physicists discuss the themes of the book, specifically, the Bible codes and the Shekinah, the female aspect of God.
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Ezra Barany
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What if you discovered your beloved was on a hit list?
In every generation, 36 righteous must live to prevent the Earth's complete destruction. When the list of 36 righteous is stolen and turned into a hit list, Nathan Yirmorshy must do all he can to stop the serial killer's onslaught. Especially since his girlfriend Sophia is on the list.
36 Righteous, A Serial Killer's Hit List is the sequel to Ezra Barany's award-winning bestselling thriller, The Torah Codes. Included is an appendix of essays and interviews by rabbis and reverends who tackle the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Contributors are Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reverend Amber Belldene, Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Rabbi Maury Grebenau, Reverend Leslie Nipps, Rabbi Tsiporah Gabai, Rabbi Aron Moss, Reverend Amy Roden, and Josh Rosenau.
In every generation, 36 righteous must live to prevent the Earth's complete destruction. When the list of 36 righteous is stolen and turned into a hit list, Nathan Yirmorshy must do all he can to stop the serial killer's onslaught. Especially since his girlfriend Sophia is on the list.
36 Righteous, A Serial Killer's Hit List is the sequel to Ezra Barany's award-winning bestselling thriller, The Torah Codes. Included is an appendix of essays and interviews by rabbis and reverends who tackle the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" Contributors are Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reverend Amber Belldene, Rabbi Daniel Kohn, Rabbi Maury Grebenau, Reverend Leslie Nipps, Rabbi Tsiporah Gabai, Rabbi Aron Moss, Reverend Amy Roden, and Josh Rosenau.
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Bullets Aren't Kosher (The Torah Codes Book 4)
Sep 2, 2019
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Ezra Barany
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6 Short Stories of Suspense
Dec 15, 2011
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Enjoy these six "minute masterpieces" of short suspense stories by Ezra Barany, Autumn Dove, Lila Rain Ekstrom, Jody E. Lebel, Christy McKee, and Kelly Whitley. A delightful collection of tales to make you shudder, laugh, and cry.
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