Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Hello and welcome to the virtual book tour for Damned If You Do! I’m JL Merrow, and our lovely host has been kind enough to interview me today. I made sure to bring along a giveaway—leave a comment below by 11:59pm on 6/28/13 and you’ll be entered in a week-long contest to win a $10... Continue Reading →
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton When Danny Costessey falls for a man, he literally falls… Okay, literally, he falls from a tree and concusses his noggin and breaks a few assorted bones, too. But it’s that fall that... Continue Reading →
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton When Danny Costessey falls for a man, he literally falls… Okay, literally, he falls from a tree and concusses his noggin and breaks a few assorted bones, too. But it’s that fall that... Continue Reading →
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 →
The play’s the thing… - William Shakespeare In contemporary times, Ted Ennis endures. He understands loss better than most. Ted has borne a terrible, terrible grief, the result of a deadly accident that has left its share of scars behind. Plagued by the physical remnants of that accident, his employment options limited by his afflictions,... Continue Reading →
Healing is impossible in loneliness. – Wendell Berry George Johnson is a man whose soul bears a heavy burden, weighted by the yoke of shame and self-recrimination, so deeply scarred by an event in his youth that even years later its aftermath leaves George running frightened from the man he once was, the man he... Continue Reading →
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston And then there were Matt Berridge and Tim Knight and a cat named Wolverine who’s really the star of the show but deigns to allow his insignificant humans to share his space if for nothing more than the fact that they... Continue Reading →
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – Leonard Cohen Tom Paretski is pretty proficient in the art of divination; not the kind of divination that means he can prophesy but the kind that means he can find things that are hidden—like water, for one thing. And dead bodies, for another.... Continue Reading →
The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. – Meg Cabot You know how sometimes you read a short story and the first thing you wish, when it ends, is that it’d been much, much longer? Yeah, me too. Odd, then, that finishing Permanently Legless didn’t leave me feeling... Continue Reading →
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. – Alfred North Whitehead Pardon me while I channel my inner Buddy the Elf: I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it! Yes, I’m in love with Alan Fletcher, quite possibly one of the most guileless characters ever to live in... Continue Reading →
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. – Gabriel García Márquez Luke Corbin has a very practical attitude toward sex: If it gets him a roof over his head, food in his belly, and a free place to study as he works to get his English degree, then bartering his booty... Continue Reading →
“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” – William Cowper – The Task and Other Poems • Post Mortem by Jordan Castillo Price • Dressing Down by Clare London • Et Tu, Fishies? by JL Merrow • Zones by Elyan Smith • Sollicito by Charlie Cochrane • A Few Days... Continue Reading →
“Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.” – William Cowper – The Task and Other Poems • Post Mortem by Jordan Castillo Price • Dressing Down by Clare London • Et Tu, Fishies? by JL Merrow • Zones by Elyan Smith • Sollicito by Charlie Cochrane • A Few Days... Continue Reading →
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