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BVC Announces Ghost Point by James A. Hetley

Ghost Point
A book in the Stonefort Stories series

by James A. Hetley

Eight years ago, Dennis Carlsson returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals, a head full of nightmares, and a plastic foot. Now he just wants the world to leave him alone on his isolated point of Maine coast, caring for injured animals and living as simply as he can.

However, both real and spirit worlds have other plans for his guardian strength. His nightmares have followed him home in a face from those memories, wildli...

Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, George RRM, and ConneryBeagle

…Which if these things is not like the others?

Sometimes the degree of separation is smaller than you think.

ConneryBeagle has a Magic Hands friend. This quietly powerful massage therapist helps me keep him totally pulled together in spite of the damage from the early dog attacks, the damage from the early medications, and the damage from the more recent medications.

Along with a careful regimen of exercise, stretching, supplements, and few critical meds, our Magic Hands friend (Spirit Hands Mas...

Story Excerpt Sunday: from The Pure Cold Light by Gregory Frost

The Pure Cold Light

by Gregory Frost

Heffernan would never appreciate that magnetism was what killed him.

The alarm klaxon honked twice in the tiny lunar shack, so loud that he fumbled his coffee cup and seared a stripe across his thighs. He hopped to his feet, shouting,“Son of a bitch!” and prying the wet pant legs away from his skin. He had been absorbed till then in a movie on the monitor—a Betty Davis film called Jezebel—but shut it off, cut the overheads, and pressed his face against the co...

Gluten Free, Dairy Free Shortbread Cookies

Hey, I started this cookie thing and I rarely eat cookies any more as I’m gluten-free, dairy-free, and additive free. If you want to sell books like Oreos, as Bruce says, you need to be aware of the true quality factor.

I’ve made these several times and they are really good. Rice flour makes a delicious and crisp cookie. Adding the oat flour makes the cookies crumbly and satisfying. Fleischmanns unsalted margarine is dairy-free and makes a fantastic baking shortening.

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Sh...

The Tajji Diaries: Rehearsal and Reversal

We’ve started the Reactive Rover class given by Sandi Pensinger of Living With Dogs, in order to help Tajji with her reactivity to dogs and, to a lesser extent, people she doesn’t know. The first two sessions were watching videos about reading canine body language and specific relaxation techniques. We’d recently seen both, as Sandi invited us to attend the “classroom” part for a previous class that was full. Because the dogs work individually in the “fieldwork” part of the course, each class...

Jennifer House Spice Cookies

When I was a kid there was a weird antique-cum-kitsch store in the town where my family spent summers: Jennifer House. They had beautiful furniture, expensive handmade garments, and the cheesiest, most bizarre “furnishings”–aprons that said “Kiss the Cook,” and awkward faux Colonial tschotchkes with mottoes, and… you get the idea. And the place was huge: it occupied a young city of barns and outbuildings. And in one of them they sold country-store style candy: candy sticks and penny candy and...

Getting Women’s Stories Right

Back in the late 70s, I went to a conference on women and the law. Most of it was panels on important legal issues of the day, but one night they had a show that included a comedian.

She told jokes about the trials and tribulations of having your period, including a hilarious bit on inserting a tampon for the first time. The women in the audience were on the verge of rolling in the aisles. A lot of the men squirmed uncomfortably.

That was a very liberating moment. Women were not only capable of...

WWW Wednesday 6-25-2014

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you recently finish reading?

• What do you think you’ll read next?

• What did you recently finish reading?

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

This is the nonfiction memoir by Nathaniel C. Fick as he recounts his experiences training as a marine officer and then deploying for the first time — just before the terrorist attacks of Sept...

Don’t Crush That Writer (Hand Me the Duct Tape) – Two

There are two parties involved in critique: the critiquer and the critiquee.

Okay, I just made those words up. So, let’s say there is thegiver of the critique and therecipient of the critique. This is true whether the parties are part of a group or engaged one on one.

Both of these parties have responsibilities to each other and to the work of art under discussion. Today, I’d like to look at the responsibilities and goals of the Critic.

The goal of a critique is to help the writer produce a read...

Murder at the Opera: An Aria of Omens by Patrice Greenwood

Patrice Greenwood returns readers to the cozy Wisteria Tearoom with a new mystery set against the dramatic backdrop of Santa Fe’s world-famous Opera.

Wisteria Tearoom owner Ellen Rosings coaxes Detective Tony Aragón to go with her to the Santa Fe Opera, but the magnificent performance of Tosca ends in disaster. In bizarre counterpoint to the opera’s plot, the leading man is murdered in his dressing room, and Tony must rush to secure the crime scene. Ellen is left to comfort Vi Benning, a forme...