Where Fiction and Reality Meet
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
Why do fairy tales eternally return? We never seem to get tired of them. While most people know the Disney versions best, surprisingly few have read the Grimm versions upon which they were based, which can be very grim indeed. Those in turn were based upon oral retellings of stories by German and Alsatian women,... Continue Reading →
Title: Hummingbird House Author: Kenzie Cade Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 57 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: To honor his grandmother's final request, Trenton Appleton drops everything to visit the family’s ancestral home: Hummingbird House, where he experienced his first kiss and first heartbreak with Callum Eason. Eight years ago, confused by his attraction to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Virgin Miracle Author: Rob Rosen Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 22 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Two strangers on a plane, one heading to Paris, the other Barcelona, both trying to get to their families in time for the holidays. It’s Christmas Eve, and all they have in common is a connection through... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Title: A Chaotic Range Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Most of the time ranch hand David rescues stray cattle, but this time he and his fellow cowboys Wally and Haven save a stranded motorist. David is surprised to find his former high school classmate nearly frozen... Continue Reading →
Title: Wait for Me Author: T.S. Morgan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 21 Pages Rating: 2 Star Blurb: To fulfill his grandfather’s final request, TJ Barclay travels to Scotland over Christmas to bury his ashes next to his lost love, so they can be together at last. While there, he meets Jamie, the orphaned grandson... Continue Reading →
The most common question I get, as a writer, is “where do you get your ideas?” I suppose that many writers would say the same thing. In the case of my Christmas story Matches, the inspiration came from two places—the wonderful, yet often poignant, fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the plight of the... Continue Reading →
The Flower Courting Ritual When I wrote The Fifth Son, I wanted to include a courting ritual, but I had no idea what shape that would take. I wanted something different from our traditional exchange of rings. Something different meant Googling... for hours, because it's so easy to sink into the quick sand that's Google.... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
Title: Tied Together (The Dark Angels: Book Two) Author: Z. Allora Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 257 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Josh has loved Robin since the day they met, although he never dared to follow his heart. After the two are kicked out of their house, a night of despair turns into... Continue Reading →
Title: Conflicted Author: Louise Lyons Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 300 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Two competing gangs of car and drag racing enthusiasts with a shared history of pain and rivalry leading to outright hatred. Two men from opposite sides of the tracks, yet with more in common than they’d like to admit.... Continue Reading →
Title: Happy Holidays Series: The Dark Angels Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Category: Holiday Romance/Erotica Cover Artist: PL Nunn Blurb: What do erotic sex toys and Hanukkah have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you're a member of the famous rock band The Dark Angels and the shy but kinky Robin gives gifts that... Continue Reading →
Title: Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA Author: Owen Keehnen Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A diary is found in a secondhand bookstore. The narrator opens the dusty cover and discovers that the book is the intimate diary of a man named Joseph. Reading the entries, the narrator is... Continue Reading →
Title: Smoky Mountain Dreams Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 425 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes holding on means letting go. After giving up on his career as a country singer in Nashville, Christopher Ryder is happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee. But while his beloved Gran... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dream Alchemist (Somnus: Book One) Author: Joanna Chambers Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 223 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares. Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely... Continue Reading →
Each year, Riptide Publishing releases a holiday collection in support of an LGBTQ charity. Twenty percent of all proceeds from the Share the Love collection will be donated to the It Gets Better Project. This collection would not be possible without the talent and generosity of its authors, who have brought us the following holiday stories:... Continue Reading →
Waking Up In Romance The Dream Alchemist is set partly in the ‘real’ waking world and partly in Somnus, my imagined world of dreams. One of my heroes, Bryn Llewelyn, is a dreamwalker. To a dreamwalker, Somnus is as real as the waking world, probably more so, in Bryn’s case, given that his constant attempts... Continue Reading →
Title: Outing the Quarterback Author: Tara Lain Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Will Ashford lives in two closets. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he attends art school and longs to live as... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
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