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Monday Book Review: A Life Worth Living

A Life Worth Living by Lorrie Kruse Review… Summary: Matt Huntz is a construction worker in a family business and engaged to a beautiful young woman when he has a car accident and wakes up in the hospital with damage to his spinal cord. The book follows as he works on getting function back, goes [...]

State of the Union

You may have noticed there wasn’t a book review this Monday. I’m reading a book now (A Life Worth Living) that was sent to me by the author after I requested her for an interview. I’m enjoying it a lot so far and I’m looking forward to reviewing it soon and then having the author [...]

Friday Story: The Happiness Pact

I wrote this story ages ago. Like, seriously, ages ago. When I was a teenager like the characters here. I don’t know if it holds up to my later writing. I think I have been improving! It does, however, have a couple of the very sweetest love stories I’ve ever written. My fondness for Alex [...]

The Next Big Thing

I usually don’t participate in chain-letter type things, but this seemed like fun and a neat way to connect authors and networks. It’s an interview about upcoming work and you get tagged for it. At the end I’ll tag five more authors to do the same interview on their blogs! I was tagged by R.G. [...]

Monday Book Review: Vittorio’s Woman

VITTORIO’S WOMAN (The Vittorio Series) by Kimberley Reeves Review… Summary: Lilly is a physical therapist, but she doesn’t do it for money, she just really likes helping people. She gets a call from the sister of a man she saw once at a party and developed a huge crush on, Simon Vittorio. The sister says [...]

Friday Story: Guru’s Grace

This week I’m continuing with the Indian theme! This short story has appeared in a collection, but has never been sold on its own. I wrote this while visiting an ashram in southern India. I think you’re really going to enjoy it!   Guru’s Grace by Ruth Madison Copyright 2011 by Ruth Madison   Sumitra [...]

Interview: A.N. Drea (Spiral Razor)

I am so honored to have Ms. Drea here today to tell us a little more about her novel, Shot in the Dark: A Killian McBride Novel (Volume 1). My trusted friend and vigilante reviewer extraordinaire, DevoGirl recommended this book to me and I’m glad that she did. I enjoyed it very much. (See the review from a [...]

Friday Story: Home Country

I’ve had a really excellent response to this story in the one place it’s been posted. So I’d like to share it with you guys today. A sequel for it is also bouncing around in my brain and gaining momentum. I’m starting to look at this as the first part in a serialized story. (Make [...]

Monday Book Review: The Squeaky Wheel

The Squeaky Wheel- An Unauthorized Autobiography Review… Summary: This one is a memoir, so it’s a little bit different from the romances I often review. It’s the story of how a young man goes in for an easy surgery and comes out a quadriplegic. The Good: I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this [...]

Blue Moon – Is it ever too late for love?

I wrote the short story Blue Moon from prompts given by the Romantic Friday Writers. I continued the story over three (or was it even more?) of the themes given out each week. I based it closely on my feelings for my first love and how I’ve dreamed that he would come back to me [...]