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Say You’ll Haunt Me… Is everyone a little bit crazy or insane?

Say You’ll Haunt Me… Is everyone a little bit crazy or insane?

[image error]Penny Childs’ novel Say You’ll Haunt Me opens with a bone chilling, death defying rescue by vacationing FBI agent Jason Mackenzie in an icy Michigan river. Samantha O’Connell was assumed to be committing suicide, but a gut feeling, or was it a voice in Jason’s head, tells him that the assumptions may not be true, that there is a whole lot more waiting to be discovered just below the surface. Ms Childs had me from the first paragrap...

The Last Dance A Love Story of a Lifetime

The Last Dance
A Love Story of a Lifetime

[image error]The Last Dance is a love story of a lifetime that will leave readers analyzing their own relationships, wondering if they have or will ever have what James and Alejandra found in a chance meet in a quiet little diner. From the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor when they first fall in love, to after the war’s end exactly four years later and on until nearly the next decade, we wonder how they will ever find each other again, and what will happen w...

Beaneath African Skies: A True Story That Reads Like Fiction

Beaneath African Skies: A True Story That Reads Like Fiction

[image error] Gillie Bowen, born in Nakuru in Kenya and now living in Loire Valley, France, traveled the world extensively as a child. She is a retired British journalist and the best-selling author of amuse-bouche (rough translation… taste tantalizer), a collection of French recipes and photographs adapted for British and American markets. Amuse-bouche is available on Amazon.

[image error]What I am writing about today, though, is not French “taste tantalizers...

Is Anyone Deserving of Death?

Is Anyone Deserving of Death?

It was the best of days; it was the worst of nights.

Deserving of Death opens with this somewhat familiar, or maybe not, line that keeps running through CJ Washburn’s head. He has worked himself into a frenzy because his girlfriend has gone missing, or so he thinks.

One might say that CJ Washburn is obsessed with Stella Summers.

But at this particular time, this particular night, things weren’t so great.

How could he not think to check his email or voice mail or not...

There’s Been a Mars Quake; What’s That Under the Sand?

There’s Been a Mars Quake; What’s That Under the Sand?

Mars Quake or Earth Quake ~ Which Came First?

When I was asked to read Jon Batson’s Mars Quake, I was inclined to decline, however, my inner voice (see my blog article about my imaginary friends) told me to first check out his Amazon profile. What I found was not only the driving force behind Midnight Whistler Publishers, an independent press located in Raleigh, NC, but also a surprisingly talented entertainer. He has won the Lower Cape Fea...

Writer’s Block – When Your Imaginary Friends Won’t Talk To You

Writer’s Block – When Your Imaginary Friends Won’t Talk To You

Do I get writer’s block?

You’ve probably seen some form of this title floating around Facebook and Twitter—author, anonymous. I sometimes wonder—to myself more than to anyone else because writers generally only have themselves to talk to—do I get writer’s block? My answer is no, by the definition above that is, at least not when it comes to my craft of fiction writing. My imaginary friends are always talking to me.

You might think I...

Christmas Giveaway Is Over – Still 4 Great Authors

Christmas Giveaway Is Over – Still 4 Great Authors

Had a great time this year with the Christmas Giveaway. Rubbing shoulders (virtual of course) with Regina Puckett, Clive Johnson, and Charity Parkerson, whose genres could be found in all corners of any bookstore, leaves me feeling maybe I’m finally making it in the indie author world. Regular prices have been return, however there are still great prices and great books. Hit the green and red button and you’ll find links to all titles in 9 dif...

Christmas Giveaway 5 Days – 5 Authors

Christmas Giveaway
5 Days – 5 Authors

I am really excited to have been asked to join in this wonderful Christmas Giveaway. Rubbing shoulders (virtual of course) with Regina Puckett, Clive Johnson, Charity Parkerson, and Raeden Zen, whose genres could be found all corners of any bookstore, leaves me feeling maybe I’m finally making it in the indie author world. In addition to the selection of FREE titles listed below, there are also a few available for $0.99. Hit the green and red button and yo...

Sabre-Toothed Cat Sightings Reported by Montana Cattlemen

Sabre-Toothed Cat Sightings Reported by Montana Cattlemen

Before you get into this post you must realize that not everything a novelist (writer of long fiction) says is fact, nor is everything he says fiction. Read on and decide for yourself.

Wow! Could the sabre-toothed cat be real? Could these animals, believed to have gone extinct 11,000 years ago, actually have managed to survive undetected in and around Montana’s Bob Marshal Wilderness? Or could someone have developed the technology to ove...

Heir to Power by Michele Poague

Heir to Power by Michele Poague

Such Gentle People About To Discover The World

[image error]I have to say I really enjoyed reading Heir to Power by Michele Poague. The beginning seemed a little slow with trying to figure out who these very tall people were–Gentle giants, one might call them, the Survinees of the colony of Survin–and in what time frame they were living, and with sorting through the various characters with names I had a hard time pronouncing in my head, like Isontra, Jettina, Kairma, and Natu...