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June 15, 2016
A sexy cop, a rebellious bounty hunter, and a Special Agent with a soft heart dominate Girls with Guns by 3 masters of lesfic suspense
I love female-centered action fiction.
It’s different than the male-driven fiction in a lot of ways. In male-centered action fiction, the Leading Man is well-developed; sometimes so well-developed, in fact, that he borders upon an obscene amount of muscle, prowess, and knowledge.
Male action stars are nearly perfect, killing machines without a single weakness. That is, until you kidnap/rape/murder their girlfriend/wife/sister/daughter.Then, things get a little tricky. You learn that this unst...
June 8, 2016
Don’t read and drive: Mindfulness for Beginners by Tony Smith
What are you doing right now? Are you reading this post while eating, waiting in line, watching television, or driving? (Please don’t read and drive.) Or are you reading this post and really understanding all the words?If you’re not, changes are you don’t practice mindfulness.
Mindfulness is “maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment” according to UC Berkeley. If this sounds like a foreign concept to you, you’re not alo...
June 3, 2016
A rumble from upstairs starts a mother contemplating her life. #FirstLineFriday
This is another of the stories I wrote for theStory a Day May Challenge.It was a weird process, because I had no idea when I started writing that the story would end up the way it did.
One of those moments when it’s almost like my hands were possessed.
The RulesFor those of you new to the #FirstLineFriday game, here are the rules:
Create a post on your blog titled “#FirstLineFriday”, hashtag and all. Explain the rules like I’m doing now. Post the first one or two lines of a potential story...June 1, 2016
A girl is torn between love of the game, loyalty to her family, and the love of another girl in Bright Lights of Summer by Lynn Ames
Late last year I was on a quest to find and read all the LGBTQ books barred only by the somewhat limited funds I have allotted (by my wife) for book buying. I managed to score probably twenty books in the week or so that I was on my hunt, but I haven’t gotten around to reading a lot of them.
With my dedication to #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks, however, I decided that some of those would be the ones I would choose to finally tick off my TBR list. There were a lot of amazing books to choose from sitting...
May 30, 2016
Top 3 Books about Autism and Art from a Parent’s Perspective
It’s no secret to my readers that I have a son on the autism spectrum. He has an autism spectrum disorder, formerly known as Asperger’s Disorder or High-Functioning Autism. I talk about it a lot, because it makes up a huge part of how others relate to him and he relates to the world.
It doesn’t define him, but it is part of his identity, and we’ve chosen as a family to embrace it.
So, when we’re looking up projects to do, ways to learn, or outings to go on, it’s always on my mind.One thing I’...
May 28, 2016
Love Conquers All: The Resilience of the Human Spirit with Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven
It doesn’t happen often in life that we meet someone who really changes the way we look at the craft we dedicate our time to, someone who captures and illuminates all the thoughts we believe are singular to ourselves, and someone who lifts us up while sharing their own journey.
For me, Marcy McKay is one of those people, and if you read her publishing credits, you can see why.
From her website:
As seen on: Writer’s Digest, Write to Done, The Write Life, The Write Practice, Jane Friedman, Best...
May 27, 2016
Could you cry on cue with the widow staring you down? #FirstLineFriday
With so many stories pumping out of me lately, I had a hard time choosing which story to discuss here. Many of the stories I’ve created for the Story a Day May Challenge are unfinished or unedited. Some of them have been (or will be) sent off to magazines, websites, and contests.
But some of them have already ended up in my soon-to-be-published anthology of dark fiction, Darkness Comes.
It will be the third in my No End to the Dark series (following the perma-free Darkness Undone, and Consumi...
May 25, 2016
What would you want the world to know if your bones had just been found? Skeletal by Katherine Hayton
Check out this book cover. Isn’t it stunning?
When you see a book cover like that, you know you’re in for a great ride. Skeletal
by Katherine Hayton does not disappoint.
Three months before she died Daina Harrow faced a bully at school.
Six weeks before she died Daina Harrow suffered an assault in the park.
One week before she died Daina Harrow stole a secret people had killed to hide.That was ten years ago. Ten long years.
Now, her bones have been found on a building site. A coroner’s inqu...
May 24, 2016
Marked by Scorn is Marked by Greatness and Inclusivity
For Teaser Tuesday, here’s a review of the as-yet-unreleased anthology, Marked by Scorn, in which one of my stories is featured among many other amazing tales of non-traditional and diverse relationships.
Support the Indiegogo campaign & you’ll be guaranteed a copy of another Solarwyrm anthology, Fae Fatales: A Fantasy Noir Anthology.
What are you waiting for? Check it out and be a part of making something great!
When I learned Solarwyrm Press was gearing up to publish a...
May 22, 2016
Digging Graves, Part 3 | Serial Sunday
Digging Graves
In the end, we had to invite them in person.
Jannie couldn’t look Lance in the eyes, so she waited until the lights went down for a slideshow in their shared biology class, then changed seats. No one had sat in Kayla’s seat for months, like it was covered with germs – suicide germs – so it was open for Jannie to slide right in.
“There’s a party tonight. You and Trace are invited,” she whispered in his ear.
He glanced over his shoulder, but had to squ...
