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Review of Richard Godwin's Getting High On Daisy

In the fifth installment of Paul D. Brazill's fantastic Drunk On The Moon series, Richard Godwin, has created a dark and delicious tale about Roman Dalton, the werewolf PI in only a way that Godwin can—brimming with sex and violence. Getting High On Daisy is classic Godwin at his finest. The character of Daisy is introduced in this story, a beautiful woman with a whip who dabbles in BDSM. Roman seems to have a primal sexual addiction to her as well as a psychic connection.

Daisy also suffers ...

Ink, Skin & Paper

Meet Teresa. She's enjoying an ebook while getting tattooed. Teresa's reading the stories in The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology. It's an excellent collection of noir from some of the finest crime writers in the industry, the brainchild of Fiona Johnson, Thomas Puck, and Ron Earl Phillips. The anthology contains thirty stories that benefit two children's charities. So you can enjoy reading some cool stories knowing you're helping a great cause.

Teresa particularly enjoyed The Return of the ...

Just Your Average Trestle Press Reader ...

Well, maybe he's more like above average. This is Matt. He enjoys reading Trestle Press ebooks while getting tattooed. Here we have him reading one of my short story titles, The Devil's Music. How appropriate that he's getting a grim reaper tattooed on his skull. Matt says the story was really good and he couldn't stop reading it. He'll be reading more Trestle Press titles during his next appointment. And I'll be sure he gives us a review.

Miles To Little Ridge by Heath Lowrance

There's something about a cowboy that makes a girl's heart pound a little faster. I must admit I've always loved those ten-gallon hat and leather wearing, big gun toting, whiskey drinking outlaws of the wild, wild west. I've enjoyed all the Clint Eastwood westerns (he's the coolest of the cool). But I can't say that I've ever read a western before, so it was a thrill to dive into the new edition of Edward A. Grainger's western short story series Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles. Th...

Missed Connections

Beautiful brunette in a skirt with black stockings subway am...
I had a green jacket on, with grey pants and black shoes. I read the paper, chewed gum and checked my phone once. You sat down directly across from me at College or so, and stayed on-board until I exited at York Mills. I know what you were thinking and you know what I was thinking.

My intuition is pretty bang on most of the time.

What was going through my mind was how much you remind me of a childhood friend. While we were driving,...

The Making Of Love Letters From The Insane

Fiction writers are like vampires in a way. We suck the stories, experiences, histories, etc. from our friends, relatives, and even strangers, and feed it like raw meat to the beast with an insatiable appetite for words dwelling inside of us. A little while ago one such exploit of a friend of mine triggered a story. My writing beast flayed, dismembered and feasted upon it like a stranded plane crash victim in the Alps gone mad and cannibalizing his mates. The result is a creepy short story ca...

An Indecent Death - Excerpt Of David Anderson's Debut Thriller

An Indecent Death is available now at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, the Apple iStore and everywhere e-books are sold. A Striking Death, also featuring Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm, will be available soon.

Excerpt: Chapter 3, from An Indecent Death...

Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm of the York Police Services, Violent Crimes Unit, was enjoying a well-earned day off. Life had been hectic just lately and the spring sunshine felt good on his face. It could be a little warmer, he thoug...

Q&A With Author Glenn Gamble

Glenn Gamble has dropped by today to talk about, Bon Appetit...

Tell us about your latest book.

After spending years building his gambling empire, Jim Money would love nothing more than to have a loving wife, and a stable family life free of the criminal elements that haunt him. He thinks he's found that with Jessica.

Until...

Jim Money bites off more than he can chew when he goes to collect a gambling debt. He's beaten, shot at, finds out that his girlfriend is involved with his best friend, an...

Trestle Press Author Mark Cooper

Trestle Press author extraordinaire Mark Cooper is here today with a guest post and new short story...


All Flesh Must Be Eaten

Okay, this whole blog post was originally going to be about Zombies. I love them – I make no bones about that – but to me a zombie story has never been about that shambling horde of reanimated corpses that are lurking just outside your door, waiting to feast upon your flesh. Zombie stories are all about the dysfunctional nature of human relationships; all the little pr...

Author Chantal Boudreau

Trestle Press author and fellow Canadian, Chantal Boudreau, has dropped by with a guest post today. Chantel is the author of Weird, Wicked & Wonderful and The Ghost In The Mirror.


Fictional Speculation by Chantal Boudreau

My husband and I were casually discussing the publishing industry and my latest release, Magic University, when we noticed a bizarre likeness between the current debate over traditional versus self-publishing and the divided magic system in my fantasy series. Any similarit...