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My heart is heavy tonight. The tears fall freely as memories wash over me of a time long ago — a time when my now twenty-something boys were but little ones. I recall the noise and chaos of our home in those days. It’s now been replaced with silence. As much as the Contemplative in me loves sile...

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The narrator / actress did a fantastic job voicing both male and female voices and a British cat. Altogether there are 25 voices (though some just a few lines for say a waitress.) She voiced a German male, a Scottish male, a Puerto Rican, a black man, a Chinese man et. al. Daisy, her five sisters... Read more of this blog post »

Chapter Four
Johnny's Time in the Past Continues....
Three Years Later

John's very serious threat to his son's life was dealt with by the local judge, who has known the family since before Johnny's birth. After several sessions with a doctor, and medication is order to help him with his anxiety, Joh... Read more of this blog post »

It's the magic that makes life worth worth living - the moment a song drops into your mind, when a vision for a comedic episode within a movie transpires and you suddenly burst out laughing knowing that you've got a hit script on your hands, when you wake up still reeling from last night's dream,... Read more of this blog post »

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for adding The Wartime Sisters to your shelves. Some of you have won early copies, but I look forward to sharing the book with ALL of you in January. In the meantime, I thought I'd use this blog to share some tidbits about what inspired this novel.

The sisters in my... Read more of this blog post »

Oswald floated through the sunlit air as a familiar feminine voice whispered to him. “Come closer, my love. Come closer.” The little guy half-closed his eyes in anticipation of the seduction. The closer he floated towards this voice, the brighter the sunlight became. Whoever was sending these vib... Read more of this blog post »

Non riesco più a ritrovarmi: sazia eppure insaziabile siccome ogni cosa è un magro contorno. E allora mangio sulla tavola nuda con la fretta del turnista per stipare lo stomaco. Senza pentole unte, e senza avanzi. E tutto è sbagliato perché c'è un cuore che sfrigola sul fuoco: il mio. E non posso... Read more of this blog post »

I’m supposed to be doing these every Sunday, but I keep forgetting. :P

So I just went on Smashwords and found out that they uploaded the wrong document for one of my books. And no, I’m not just blaming them because I was an idiot. I actually looked the book over after it was done converting to mak... Read more of this blog post »

Nila: Water - 5 Star Readers' Review by Divine Zape

Nila: Water by Daniel G. Linsteadt is a spellbinding opening into a fantasy series, a tale with great originality and that features themes with strong appeal to environmentalists and advocates against climate change. Meet young Seth, torn between... Read more of this blog post »

In this day and age of absolute busyness, characteristics like professionalism could easily get sidelined. Yet, professionalism is vital in every workplace. Being professional sets one on a higher level than others in the same position. Clients and Customers are immediately attracted to the profe... Read more of this blog post »

Discussing my new book Gift From Above, and education strategies for parents and students with publisher Tellwell.
Link to podcast
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Looking forward to Jericho Writers Festival in York, UK, Sep 7-9th to pitch my work in progress "Four Honeymoons" to publishers and agents (and drink champagne and eat heartily). Hope to see my black swan friends again



and the girl with the red sneaker hands



Then 3 days in Paris to visit my two f... Read more of this blog post »

The oozlumBoys book was written a little like a stream of consciousness. Some sentences are short, others run on. The point was to write a book that was filled with facts from the past so that we can better make sense of the news today. Without knowing the backstory on China, Russia, N.Korea and... Read more of this blog post »

I have a very important and scary story to share I wrote. Give it a read. It's published the Napa Valley Register (the main paper of a community where my wine business is newly located). The article is about one of the most common and unexpected ways people around the world die. I almost did. htt... Read more of this blog post »

So I've been experimenting with different genres, fantasy, romance, thriller and even a little sci-fi. But what I've gained so far is...people like it when I'm bad! Haha!

In real life I am a polite, soft-spoken lady, a dutiful wife and loving mother. A law abiding citizen. I work at the library, s... Read more of this blog post »

The Elves and the Shoemaker: A Play for Kids is free at amazon.com through August 19.

This classic story has been turned into a fun play for kids to perform. With short, easy-to-remember lines, and a bit of humor, this play is perfect for elementary aged kids.

Here are the links:

US: http://www.amaz... Read more of this blog post »

Falcon's call - the e-book version will be free for five (5) days on Amazon, from August 25th to 29th 2018. Normal price is $4.99 USD, so here is your chance to get your free copy.

Some people in this world are just gullible. I mean no offence. I happen to be one of them. Particularly when I was young I fell for every story or trick my brothers could come up with. I believed my brother who told me Bruce Lee was poisoned because he was too fast to shoot with bullets. Then th... Read more of this blog post »

You do things at a glance and with your instinct for bees. The behaviour of bees is telling!
When they are restless or aggressive, when they ventilate, when they buzz and make specific sounds, then you know that there is something wrong in the hive and you need to find the problem. When I take th... Read more of this blog post »

If you're ever on the corner of Granville & Robson, look up! You may see some familiar faces on the advertisement screen. We've partnered with the City of Vancouver to promote our fast approaching LiterASIAN Festival through their Vancouver Live! Video Screen Advertising Program. pic.twitter....

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Last night, after bolting dinner and changing into jeans, my husband and I walked two miles down the road to a large equine facility. We'd heard the RCMP Musical Ride was doing a demonstration there and, being a horse lover and dressage rider, I was keen to go have a look. I've seen the Musical R... Read more of this blog post »

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Touching Sin by J. Saman
#AlphaHero #SexyAsSin #ForbiddenLove
#LasVegasSin #RomanticSuspense

Release September 20th, 2018

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The audiobook for my fourth Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, mystery/thriller, Night Shadows, was just released:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GC6ZDW1

2015 Pacific Book Review Annual Competition Winner: Best Thriller
2014 Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner, Fiction/Mystery/General: Bronze
When a wealt... Read more of this blog post »

i'm not quite sure most people understand how lonely it gets here in my head. when you're constantly reliving your past, and can't seem to make any move forward with your future. it just sets off this snowball of events that always goes to the same place... always to the same damn question... wil... Read more of this blog post »

Book Two of my CRANE BROTHERS ROMANCE series is now live!

TEMPTING ENGAGEMENTS is a steamy, contemporary African American romance about hot-headed Dominic Crane and the soon-to-be-married (to someone else!) Sidra Lowell.

What happens when the two of them meet? Well, sparks fly -- from Dominic's t... Read more of this blog post »

Writers need to read not only their own genre but others as well. No matter how much a writer practices their writing skills, seeing how other writers handle a story helps.
So the reading list should be award winning books, right? After all, these are the ones writers and readers praise. They must... Read more of this blog post »

Today is The Glass Butterfly's official book birthday! HURRAH!

(gif by Heather Love King)

However, there's been a glitch. Since I've chosen to publish these books as indie titles (see story behind that decision here), I myself am responsible for uploading every version individually, paperbacks, ebo... Read more of this blog post »

I'm in Edinburgh at the moment. Writing the 1st draft of 'From the Stars' early in the mornings before exploring. It's my 2nd time in Edinburgh and the place is an inspiration. Nothing in specific, just the whole thing, the atmosphere, the gothic buildings, the narrow closes that snake through th... Read more of this blog post »

A quickie today...
I'm giving all my followers on Goodreads/Amazon a ten day heads up. On August 25th Books 1&2 of The Otherworld Series (The Silent Goddess and The Screaming Stone) will be getting face lifts and....on sale for free.
The books will be on sale for free for a very short time. My... Read more of this blog post »

I like living in Maine precisely because we don't usually have more than a handful of hot, humid days each year. 2018 has already broken the record. DO NOT tell me climate change is a hoax. It's pretty obvious something untoward is going on with the heat index.

We have window units in three rooms... Read more of this blog post »

Bad Things Happen by Rowena Holloway

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Another brilliant read from Ro Holloway! Sensational ending with some unique twist and turns. Ms Holloway crafts an extraordinary thriller with well defined characters. The pace is well timed and the build up happens so subtly, you are a... Read more of this blog post »

Kraven embraced me (which he seemed to enjoy) and we began our teleportation back inside the mansion. The feeling was strange, a loss of breath and flash of bright light, then a slight dizziness after reappearing. I envied the necromancer's ability to magically transport his body, and my own, to... Read more of this blog post »

With colorful description and profound glimpses of personal experiences, SPARED author Shaun Deane looks back at the devastating circumstances that upended his life and his struggle to free himself from his self-centered father’s legacy of anger and bitterness.

Reading baby-boomer Shaun Deane’s me... Read more of this blog post »

OMG! I just learned the Dead Again, my second Emlyn Goode Mystery novel is in the running for the 2018 M&M Book Awards novel competition for Mystery & Mayhem Fiction.

Pray for me—and cross your fingers. Please.

If you haven’t yet read the book, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0OA1IV Read more of this blog post »

Book 2 of The Nemo Paradox, The Mysterious Planet of Captain Moreau, is now with the beta readers! I am getting ever closer to release.

I hope to release it close to Halloween, in time for Hallowcon, if not sooner!

Flash Friends: A Perry County Novel
Dennis Royer
Paperback: 334 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 23, 2017)
ISBN-10: 1547166517
ISBN-13: 978-1547166510
https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Friends-...


Reviewed by: Dr. Wesley Britton


I was delighted to meet author Denn... Read more of this blog post »

Or at least palatable. Not literally, unless you like the taste of paper, because it's a novel. :D All I can tell you at the moment is rather vague - it's a horror drama with LGBT themes, and one of its main topics is gourmet.
I have this insatiable drive to start publishing something every Hallow... Read more of this blog post »

My adult shaving experience began with the United States Army where we shaved daily whether we needed it or not. Cheap disposable cartridge razors and a can of chemical goo became a routine that I carried into civilian life for decades. The razor burn, ingrown hairs, and what I later learned were... Read more of this blog post »

“The romantic, intriguing adventures of New Jersey shore guest house owner, Cal Cozzi, and his husband, Michael, continue with Cozzi Cove: Happy Endings, the fifth volume in this highly entertaining, immensely enjoyable series from author Joe Cosentino. The colorful guest list at Cozzi Cove inclu... Read more of this blog post »

The new book is out!!

https://www.amazon.com/New-Haven-MN-E...

Here's the description!

“Jamie is dead.”

Sydney Dwyer had never considered returning to her hometown of New Haven, Minnesota until she heard those words. She’d left the town and her twin sister, Jamie, behind years ago with no intention o... Read more of this blog post »

Jon Hess has this to say about #1 Son and Other Stories , Michael Marcus’s debut story collection: “Michael Marcus takes us on a wild adventure through the darkest depths of addiction, sexuality, deceit, and depravity with a raw grace and eloquence that brings to mind the voices of Jim Carroll i... Read more of this blog post »

Sip

Sip is in paperback if you guys are into paperbacks.

Also, I think my last blog said I was back on Twitter.

I am no longer on Twitter.

Cheers! Read more of this blog post »

NOTE: Like brushing your cat when she wants to eat, this is going to be a relatively short session. Not because I have nothing to say. Heavens. Because it involves too many other topics better covered under other headings. You’ll see… Also, the direct answer is, well, fairly direct.

The question t... Read more of this blog post »

Building a primary character is a difficult process to describe to someone who is not a writer, mainly because the process is so intuitive. But if I try to look at it analytically, I estimate that crafting a character in a novel is about 45% imagination, 40% lived experience, 10% researched detai... Read more of this blog post »

Rare 80% off sale has started! US Kindle Countdown for 5-star, first-in-series thriller, 13 Days: The Pythagoras Conspiracy, available at $0.99 for a brief time.

https://www.amazon.com/13-Days-Pythag... Read more of this blog post »