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Looking for the Best Word? Tip #60

    A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the…

Fires, by Tom Ward: #BookReview.

This thriller, set in a steel city in the UK, treats fire almost as one of its characters. After the opening, in which we meet the…

Inside Moves, by Walter Danley: #BookReview.

Inside Moves is a thriller with elements that occasionally lift it above the usual formulaic presentation of such books. Starting with a climatic event, the book…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

Ah, progress! What a fine thing that would be, were it possible. But, fear not, it will eventually be reality. At present, I’m suffering a strange…

Shadeward: Exoneration, by Drew Wagar: #BookReview.

Shadeward: Exoneration, by imaginative science fiction writer, Drew Wagar, is a continuation of the story begun in ‘Shadeward: Emanation’. If you haven’t read that book, I…

Sons of the Crystal Mind, by Andrew Wallace: #BookReview.

Set on an almost unrecognisable Earth in a distant future, this novel deals with the perils of unregulated capitalism as it is allowed run rampant through…

Storm of Attraction, by Lily Black: #BookReview.

Storm of Attraction is a romantic thriller with an understandable bias in favour of female readers. After all, most romance readers are women. As a mature…

The Darwin Awards, by Wendy Northcutt: #BookReview.

Subtitled ‘180 Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker’, The Darwin Awards is not a book to read in one sitting, unless…

Long Time Walk on Water, by Joan Barbara Simon: #BookReview.

Joan Barbara Simon’s ‘Long Time Walk on Water’, is a phenomenon. There’s nothing ordinary, pedestrian, or conventional in this story of love, lust, prejudice, violence and…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #59

    A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the…