Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz Though for Kurt, that puppy is about as welcome as a raging case of jock itch when Matt, an overly enthusiastic guy at the gym—who can’t seem to take the hint that Kurt is intensely(!) uninterested in the attention—comes along and makes Kurt begin to think... Continue Reading →
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. – David Wong Understatement. Well, if I didn’t know it before, I know it now. Jordan L. Hawk has definitely taught me that dead things just need to go ahead and stay dead, dammit. This book made me channel my inner Haley Joel Osment,... Continue Reading →
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. – David Wong Understatement. Well, if I didn’t know it before, I know it now. Jordan L. Hawk has definitely taught me that dead things just need to go ahead and stay dead, dammit. This book made me channel my inner Haley Joel Osment,... Continue Reading →
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill World War II London was a place of suffering and sacrifice, a place where the strength and character... Continue Reading →
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill World War II London was a place of suffering and sacrifice, a place where the strength and character... Continue Reading →
ACK! And GAH! I’m really feeling a psychotically unhealthy kind of love for this book, peeps. Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, Book #1 ) is part Historical, part Horror, part Egyptian Mythology, part Fantasy, part Alchemy, part Thriller, part Arcane Grimoire paying homage to an ancient and evil Magick. And it’s one-hundred-percent romantic too; if, that... Continue Reading →
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. – Friedrich Nietzsche ACK! And GAH! I’m really feeling a psychotically unhealthy kind of love for this book, peeps. Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, Book #1 ) is part Historical, part Horror, part Egyptian Mythology, part Fantasy, part Alchemy, part Thriller, part... Continue Reading →
The road to true love is awash in the tears of the brokenhearted. – Unknown Aw. Just…aw. If you’ve been following the Lucky Moon series, at all, then you’re pretty familiar with the formula: a healthy dose of lust plus a dash of conflict equals the recipe for true love. It’s a formula that’s worked... Continue Reading →
The road to true love is awash in the tears of the brokenhearted. – Unknown Aw. Just…aw. If you’ve been following the Lucky Moon series, at all, then you’re pretty familiar with the formula: a healthy dose of lust plus a dash of conflict equals the recipe for true love. It’s a formula that’s worked... Continue Reading →
A computer is like an Old Testament god, with lots of rules and no mercy. – Joseph Campbell Jerry is an old dog, and Quin is the guy who’s going to try to teach him some new tricks in J.M. Snyder’s Quintessential, a story in which the porn’s the thing that will capture the conscience... Continue Reading →
The world needs more love at first sight – Maggie Stiefvater Jack Fisher is singlehandedly upping the love-at-first-site quota in Farewell Jake Fisher, the story of a man whose life changes for the better after a series of coincidental encounters at his local Meijer Superstore finds him longing for a man with a physical affliction... Continue Reading →
N.R. Walker's new release, Blind Faith is due January 26th from Silver Press. I've been giving this one the hairy eyeball of intense interest, let me tell you! I've never read anything by this author before, but I'm a sucker for a romance with a character who has a disability, because really, what is sweeter... Continue Reading →
I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed. – Robert Frost No, I’m confused, and clearly, so is Alec Caldwell. Seriously flummoxed. A person has to be to use the word flummoxed, right? I was going to go with the whole discombobulated thing too, but I didn’t want to get too carried away. But, come on!... Continue Reading →
I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed. – Robert Frost No, I’m confused, and clearly, so is Alec Caldwell. Seriously flummoxed. A person has to be to use the word flummoxed, right? I was going to go with the whole discombobulated thing too, but I didn’t want to get too carried away. But, come on!... Continue Reading →
Oh my gosh! The Novel Approach was nominated by author Cardeno C. for a Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Cardeno is a self-described "hopeless romantic who wants to add a little happiness and a few 'awwws' into a reader's day. Writing is a nice break from real life as a corporate type and volunteer work with... Continue Reading →
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. – Robert Louis Stevenson Do you remember in the movie Jurassic Park, when Dr. Ian Malcolm is talking to Dr. Alan Grant about Chaos Theory? In science, chaos means something only slightly different than the typical utter confusion, madness, and mayhem we mean when... Continue Reading →
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War, is an extraordinarily well written gay romance, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Told in first person, present tense, it flows beautifully, with emotion, drama, villains, heroes, and good friends. This rest was pure poetry. So lyrically told, the story of loving a man during... Continue Reading →
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War, is an extraordinarily well written gay romance, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Told in first person, present tense, it flows beautifully, with emotion, drama, villains, heroes, and good friends. This rest was pure poetry. So lyrically told, the story of loving a man during... Continue Reading →
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. – Billy Crystal Warning: I’m about to say stuff, so rather than assault your unguarded and delicate sensibilities, I thought I’d give you a heads up first. Please, excuse my crudely crudeishness. And now… the naughty bits… George Michael once sang the praises... Continue Reading →
Sarcasm isn't just a way to mask your emotions and distance yourself from others. It's also super-duper satisfying. – Unknown. Howie Jenkins is a man with a plan. Yeah, that’s right, his plan is to work at the locally owned Artie Kraft’s Arts and Crafts store so he can increase his odds of getting laid... Continue Reading →
Maxim #35: That which does not kill you has made a tactical error. – Howard Tayler “The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries” Cyberpunk! It’s my second favorite punk behind that of the Steam variety, and Rachel Haimowitz and Aleksandr Voinov have delivered some really fantastic steamy Cyberpunk in Break and Enter (Red Cell Book... Continue Reading →
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. – Leo Buscaglia Captain Harry Thompson of His Majesty’s Royal Navy is a man of honor and commitment... Continue Reading →
Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.” ― Mike Murdock Casey K. Cox’s FREE short story, Be My Boy, isn’t at all what I was expecting it would be. For one thing, with the Master/Slave dynamic as the entire premise of the book, I was expecting quite a lot of... Continue Reading →
To touch is to heal To hurt is to steal If you wanna kiss the sky Better learn how to kneel On your knees, boy — U2 Cosmo Rawlins isn’t really what you might call lazy. No, he’s more of what you’d call…aggressively unemployed. But he has his music! Yeah, he has his band to... Continue Reading →
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