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It’s the simple things, and I am a simple woman.

I had to look up my web stats for a form today. I don’t look at my stats…the amount of comments I get tell me all I need to know! And so I am amusing myself by seeing who refers to me (only a handful make sense) and what brings people to my site. Currently […]

Interview with Renee Novelle!

This is the first interview that wasn’t brought to you via Goddess Fish tours…I ran into Renee at Goodreads, and I really wanted to introduce her to you…and I’m glad I did. Her interview is a lot of fun to read. 1. Please, tell us about your latest book. Reflections is a paranormal suspense novella […]

My soul can tell you, my balance is bad

I keep trying to balance all these aspects of my life. I want to be a great secretary, an awesome fencer, a world traveler, a good daughter, healthier and slender, a well-loved author. It’s a narrow platform, and I keep slipping off, scraping my knees, bruising my arms, and I shake myself off, and climb […]

Review of The Author’s Guide to Working With Book Bloggers

Today we’re featuring The Author’s Guide to Working With Book Bloggers by Barb Drozdowich. This is written from the point of view of a book blogger. She wants to help author promote their books to her fellow book bloggers more effectively. I agreed to do the review (my first in ages) because I wanted to [...]

The Poetry Muscle

I think I may have mentioned before that I used to write poetry. In fact, for years, it was really what got me through school. At first, I liked it because, well, I could finish a poem. Then, all I felt, all the ugliness and misery, the longing and hope, I could write. I could [...]

Stuck in the middle with you…

So, I’m writing. It’s slow. So I am taking some of my own advice, and thought I would share it with you…understanding, of course, that we are all different. 1. If you get stuck, go back a couple of chapters and see where you went wrong. I got this from an interview with Barbara Hambly, [...]

Strings of Glass…

Today I am featuring Emily Kimelman on my blog…she has written a series of mysteries that sound really fun! She will also be giving away an Amazon Gift Card to one lucky (and randomly drawn) commenter. Enter below! A little about the book… STRINGS OF GLASS is the fourth novel in Emily Kimelman’s Sydney Rye [...]

Any excuse for books, right?

I have to confess, I have a love of social history books. I don’t care when so and so lead what to who during this date, but if you can help me compare and contrast different horse drawn conveyances in Victorian times, I’m a happy camper. Especially if they are glossy and have lots of [...]

Of Bears and Death Stars

So, anyway, I posted a comment to the Bloggess today, because her newest post is hilarious (yes, yes it is, go here: http://thebloggess.com/2013/09/i-does...) and the comment auto generated a link to the last thing I posted here…which, I realized, was in April. Actually, I sort of should have realized, as one of my non-Internet friends [...]

Melodie Campbell graces our blog today. :)

1. Please, tell us about your latest book. This is book 2 in the Land’s End comic fantasy series, which some reviewers have called “Game of Thrones Lite” and “The Princess Bride with sex.” When Rowena is abducted back to medieval Land’s End, all is in turmoil. Gareth is trapped in the middle-world. Cedric is [...]