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In honor of the 40th anniversary of Elvis’s passing, I offer this story that takes place on that date as one young woman makes an imaginative leap.  Where were you when Elvis died?   I was in Italy.

A CATHOLIC COUNTRY

This early in the morning, the dining room of Rome’s Excelsior Hotel was deser...

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The good news is: I’ve signed a contract for Halfway Home with Ylva Publishing.

The ‘bad’ news is: rewrites.

I see how they’re necessary, but sometimes it just seems brutal to cut again into your story – which of course you thought was already pretty polished (always compared to what...

Today is my stop during the blog tour for The Soul Mate (Roommates #4) by Kendall Ryan! i share my review with you today and some teaser images!

Title: The Soul Mate

Author: Kendall Ryan

Series: Roommates #4

Rating: 4 stars

Genres: Contemporary Romance

Links:

Blurb:

Fr...

The richness of life

dances on the waves

Its peace in the clarity

of the water

Quabbin Waves

Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation.  Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cy...

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Hasankeyf is an ancient town and district located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in southeastern Turkey. It was declared a natural conservation….

Here is the video:

Antik kentin kale kanyonunda tari...

Our book this month is written by one of the loveliest people you could hope to meet – Jane Harrison is a descendent of the Muruwari people of NSW, and is an award-winning playwright and author. Apart from all her amazing achievements, and being an awesome writer, Jane is just an all-round ace pe...

I have yet to play the cult classic Deadly Premonition or the bizarre-looking D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die, but I’m intrigued by the next game from their developer.

Hidetaka Suehiro, also known as Swery, has revealed that his next game (with his new studio, White Owls) is a mystery RPG called The...

My plastics cupboard had been driving me crazy for awhile. So when I asked for blog post suggestions and a follower asked me how I organise my Tupperware cupboard, it was just the motivation I needed.

Confession – I have zero pieces of actual Tupperware but I think we all call plastics “Tupperwar...

When I first started this series, I thought I was going to have trouble coming up with eight different aspects of fanfiction to talk about, when as usual, my real problem was learning to shut up. Now here I am, on the seventh of eight posts, and since the last one is mentally reserved for somethi...

JANE: As some of our readers may remember, you made several resolutions when you retired.  One of these was to get a dog.

ALAN: His name is Jake. He’s a Huntaway (a New Zealand breed) and he’s a very gentle giant.

Ain’t They Sweet?

JANE: Another goal was to finally pursue your long-hel...

Much like with prospectors at the peak of California’s Gold Rush, there was a time when writers rushed to self-publish because they saw other writers striking it rich when editors at traditional publishing houses spotted their books and signed them to lucrative deals. I understand the temptation....

Every now and again, I chime in on current events, mostly social justice issues. I write stories that are not overtly politcal or educational, but I’m always aware of the two-way connection between literature (culture) and politics. Literature can deepen understanding of cultural diversity, or st...

Seven years ago, James Cameron did an interview with MTV discussing his forthcoming Avatar novel, and while doing so, pissed all over the work done by people who novelize movies. Y’know, like me. The punchline to this is that Cameron never finished the novel, having apparently realized that writi...

You might have noticed that I’ve revisited two games quite a lot on this blog, one being Arkham Horror in its various guises, and the other being T.I.M.E. Stories. You might recall that in my initial review of Arkham Horror: the Card Game, that I said my preferences between T.I.M.E. Stories, Eldr...

This time it isn’t comics but Hollywood: actors who don’t get along with their families. I tried to get a variety so it’s not just abuse horror stories: Reese Witherspoon (she humiliates her teenagers by (gasp!) being seen in public with them), Gary Coleman (money stolen by parents), Julia Robert...

A volte il mondo dell’editoria mi lascia perplessa. Ad esempio capita che una casa editrice pubblicizzi tantissimo, online e non, libri che lasciano il tempo che trovano, e invece non pubblicizzi altri titoli già bestseller all’estero e già amatissimi e molto più validi. E mi chiedo perchè. Dopot...

Ch. 5.2 Fritter Visits a Witch

Fritter was very worried about Jay. He went down into the Tulgey Woods that grew on this side of the mountains to visit a witch he knew, and there he heard what had happened at the prince’s name day celebration. Fritter was dismayed but not surprised. He wished the...

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I read Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant’s book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy a few weeks ago. It’s a must read for every human on this planet.

Some of you know that I’m a huge fan of Adam Grant. His book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success is a key...

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[image error]Jack’s story Mother and Daughter appears in the new charity anthology, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, a NECON Anthology benefitting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

There is no greater horror in the world than watching a loved one battle cancer … especially if that loved one is a child...

It seems that my wildlife adventures continue here in Florida. If you read my previous post, you know of my close encounter with the two snakes (please God, let it only be two snakes!) who live in my front yard. And tonight? It’s lizards.

Smug Lizard

I was in the garage, getting the t...

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The environment that surrounds a child plays a major role in their development, and author Matthew Revert explores the moment of crisis between two men that serves as both an origin story and moment of (possible) catharsis; Human Trees is an exploratio...

The other day I posted my most popular tweet of all time. I didn’t really mean to but, as with most things on the internet, it’s never the tweet or the post that is most important to you that catches on like wildfire. In this particular case I was at Anderson’s Bookstore in Naperville to see Jaso...

In an interview on Unbelievable? with Justin Brierley, I had the opportunity to speak with a skeptic who cited Luke’s description of Quirinius (Luke 2:1–3) as a historical contradiction. Luke wrote that Joseph and Mary returned to Bethlehem for a census and “this was the first census taken while...

I am DELIGHTED to announce the kick-off of the MASSIVE Autographed Book Contest!

The contest went live today over at Bookfetti if you want to head straight over and check it out!

30 Indie Lesbian Fiction Authors have banded together to great a massive giveaway of 39 titles and a totoal of 43 book...