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It’s a LABYRINTH

Well, we’re at the midway point or thereabouts with the Kickstarter for our newest all original music album, LABYRINTH. Yes,…

I Speak of The Target…

The Target by Catherine Coulter My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was hopeful about Coulter’s THE TARGET (second of…

Heroes

My daughter, Kristine, reads constantly. The day I originally wrote this little essay, she was, in fact, sitting in the living room reading Lord of the Rings with a stack of history books and Jane Austen-related material...

Author Interview: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and the Archaeology Thieves

From Book View Cafe member and New York Times bestselling author Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff comes a new private detective series featuring Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko, who goes undercover in the Mexican jungle to hunt down a ring of thieves...

Book Quote Wednesday

“Ha! Serves you right for trying to set me up with your stalker.”
“You think that’s who it is—Cruz Veras again?”
“I don’t know,” I admitted, chewing thoughtfully on a ring of calamari. “It’s hard for me to imagine him making threatening moves on you in a Chrysler LeBaron. A Beamer, maybe, but a LeBaron? Never.”
She tossed a shrimp at me. “Tth’izi,” she called me, Hopi for “goat.”
“Mule,” I corrected, and went back to my squid.

Excerpt From: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, The Antiquities Hunter

How I Got Suspended from Next Door

Those of you who know me may be surprised, nay shocked, by this and you may well wonder what happened to the usually mild-mannered person you thought you knew. What, you may well ask, did Maya say that got her tossed out of her neighborhood chat site?

I happened to stumble across a thread about San Joses attempts to house the homeless,...

A New Parable of the Good Samaritan?

A while ago, I witnessed an exchange between two members of a panel discussion on the caravans of refugees from South America that had once dominated the 24 hour news cycle.

Panelist A described watching a report in which a child fell prostrate from heat exhaustion. For her, she said, it would always be humanity first.

Panelist B retorted, in direct response: We are also a nation of laws and borders, which is part of my problem with the way some of this is being spun.

Both of the panelists...

The New Parable of the Good Samaritan

A while ago, I witnessed an exchange between two members of a panel discussion on the ”caravans” of refugees from South America that had once dominated the 24 hour news cycle.

Panelist A described watching a report in which a child fell prostrate from heat exhaustion. For her, she said, it would always be ”humanity first.”

Panelist B retorted, in direct response: ”We are also a nation of laws and borders, which is part of my problem with the way some of this is being spun.”

Both of the...

Book Quote Wednesday! Oops … Thursday!

THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER (Pegasus Crime) tells of her first major case in which she joins forces with her National Park Service agent friend...

THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER in Trade Paperback!

February 11, mystery/adventure lovers, my debut mystery novel, THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER (Pegasus Crime) releases in trade paperback. I await my author’s copies as I type.

It’s hard to spring for a hardback novel. I admit I only do it for a handful of writers whose work I simply cannot wait to purchase in a more (ahem) cost effective form. So if you are, like many readers, not that fond of eBooks, the trade paperback offers an enjoyable reading experience (I promise!) at a more affordable...