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March 26, 2016
Revisiting the Past to Gain Insight on the Future | Best of Posts
Most of us spend so much time worried about the next bend in the road or the step ahead of us on our journey that we don’t see how much we have grown. When we cannot reflect on where we began, how can we continue to improve, and reach the next stage of our lives and careers? With this thought in mind, I’ve decided to go back through the stats from my blog’s beginning to find the best of the best within my posts.
My blog was born in 2013. That year, only one post stuck out: a description of my...
March 23, 2016
Ghost Beach and Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns by R.L. Stine | Book Review Wednesday
Earlier this month, I reviewed R.L. Stine’s The Secret in honor of my daughter’s birthday. I enjoyed it so much that I have read three more R.L. Stine books since then!
Today I’m reviewing two books from my favorite book series as a kid, Goosebumps. My daughter has slowly been collecting these, and I plan to eventually get through them all myself as we complete her set. I never forgot how much fun these books were, but I think part of me said (at about 13 years old) that I was too old for a...
March 21, 2016
A New Novel | Camp NaNoWriMo
“We run, we jump, we swim and play, we row and go on trips,
But the things that last forever… are our dear friendships.
Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts,
And when we think about you – it makes me wanna fart!
It’s ‘I hope we never part’. Now get it right or pay the price.”– Salute Your Shorts
I don’t know about you all, readers, but when I think camp, I think that old ’90s TV show, Salute Your Shorts. Maybe that shows my age, but I don’t care. ’90s kids television was way better than...
If You Like A, You’ll Like B for March 2016 – Goosebumps | Mention Monday
In February, I gave you romance recommendations in celebration of Valentine’s Day. From Undead and Unwed
to Fatal Shadows
, that post was a lot more spicy that your mother’s romance novels.
For the March edition of If You Like A, You’ll Like B, I decided to celebrate the birth of my daughter ten years agoby paying homage to some of her favorites. Like me, she loves a good scary story, and I got her into R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books pretty easily.
She’s still collecting (and devouring) those,...
March 20, 2016
New Release: Cluster B (Deviant Behaviors #2)
After several months of planning, working, and waiting, the day is finally here! Cluster B is available for publication!
The kids aren’t all right in the local youth shelter.
They’re dropping like flies, and the one person who cares is forbidden from following their bloody trail…
In this sequel to Maladaptation, Harry Thresher has been stripped of her badge and her livelihood pending a formalinvestigation into the shooting death of a former suspect. She’s furious – and bored as hell. On the...
Old Ideas, Fresh Spins with Stephanie Ayers | Guest Post
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie Ayers about her multi-faceted career, her process, and her awesome stories. I reviewed one of those stories, Til Death Do Us Part, back in January. One of the comments most of the reviews of Til Death Do Us Part
had was that it was too short, and people wanted more of it. I was curious as to why Stephanie ended it when she did, so I asked her to write a guest post explaining her reasoning.
The End
I killed my darling. I had a p...
March 16, 2016
The Secret (Fear Street Saga) by R.L. Stine | Book Review Wednesday
Ten years ago in March, my daughter was born. When I look back at my lifeat the time thatshe was born,the changeis nothingshort ofmiraculous. Mylife now is so fundamentally different than it was in 2006. I was a different person. One little girl set in motion a series of events that I wouldn’t believe if I hadn’t lived them myself.
In honor of her birthday, I’ve started reading books from her favorite authors. The first on the list, my old childhood favorite, is R.L. Stine. She’s as fond of...
March 15, 2016
Letting Characters Speak | Teaser Tuesday Guest Post by B. Lynn Goodwin
I love featuring writers on my blog. Writing a guest post is a lot different than writing a post for your own blog, so I think that allowing authors a space on my blog gives them a chance to speak for a different side of the story to what we might normally get.
This month, I have the managing editor of Writer Advice andauthor B. Lynn Goodwin interviewing the main character in her new book, Talent, the story of a girl who is trying to find her way and her place in the world. Without any furthe...
March 13, 2016
Where to go next? | Serial Sunday
Some of you may have noticed that my last Serial Sunday story, “The Drunken Barista,” never ended. The last part of the story just… won’t come. I suspect it might be because I was trying to end the story too soon, or there was a missing piece in the beginning. I’m not really sure. All I know is that the story has stalled.
So I’m going to have a Serial Sunday hiatus for the next couple of months, or until the story resolves itself in my mind – whichever comes sooner.
In the meantime, I will st...
March 11, 2016
The Price of Freedom | Fiction Friday
This week’s Fiction Friday came from three different prompts:
Our Write Side’s Master Class Monday Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Friday Be Kind Rewrite’s Inspiration MondayMy idea this week was to write an entire scene without dialogue that left the reader sort of in the dark until the reveal at the end. See if you can figure out what’s going on here before the end.
The Price of Freedom
She slipped the head over the delicate curve, careful to avoid carving the delicate skin at its apex, an...
