Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“…The Laird o’ Phelps spent Hogmany declaring he was sober. Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.”-- Louis MacNeice Last Leap of the First-Foot is another short story included in Dreamspinner Press’s Advent anthology. I have to admit that I had no clue what the title meant when... Continue Reading →
“…The Laird o’ Phelps spent Hogmany declaring he was sober. Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.”-- Louis MacNeice Last Leap of the First-Foot is another short story included in Dreamspinner Press’s Advent anthology. I have to admit that I had no clue what the title meant when... Continue Reading →
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!" – Ebenezer Scrooge Haven Marley has to be one of... Continue Reading →
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!" – Ebenezer Scrooge Haven Marley has to be one of... Continue Reading →
Where are we now? Okay, so we've gone over turning an idea into a story. We have looked at how important words can be to describe a scene. Let's hit on a point some writers don't think about a lot: the setting. Where and when we are can color a story as much as the... Continue Reading →
Where are we now? Okay, so we've gone over turning an idea into a story. We have looked at how important words can be to describe a scene. Let's hit on a point some writers don't think about a lot: the setting. Where and when we are can color a story as much as the... Continue Reading →
Thank you so much for having me here today! I am happy to be here and excited to talk about my new release, Wholehearted. Wholehearted came out on December 9th from Dreamspinner Press. It is the second book in the Hope Cove series and picks up just after Brokenhearted left off. Oliver and Mack, the... Continue Reading →
Thank you so much for having me here today! I am happy to be here and excited to talk about my new release, Wholehearted. Wholehearted came out on December 9th from Dreamspinner Press. It is the second book in the Hope Cove series and picks up just after Brokenhearted left off. Oliver and Mack, the... Continue Reading →
“There were moments, he’d always believed, when you could feel your life changing around you. He could feel that weight in the air now, every crisp detail of the medieval walls around him heavy with significance.” – Amy Rae Durreson Amy Rae Durreson is prepared to take you on a journey with the ghost of... Continue Reading →
“There were moments, he’d always believed, when you could feel your life changing around you. He could feel that weight in the air now, every crisp detail of the medieval walls around him heavy with significance.” – Amy Rae Durreson Amy Rae Durreson is prepared to take you on a journey with the ghost of... Continue Reading →
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”-- Aberjhani The Healing Power of Eggnog is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Advent Anthology. It was a quick read at only 68 pages. The title refers to the eggnog concocted every Christmas by the mother of... Continue Reading →
“Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.”-- Aberjhani The Healing Power of Eggnog is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Advent Anthology. It was a quick read at only 68 pages. The title refers to the eggnog concocted every Christmas by the mother of... Continue Reading →
“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.” ― Kahlil Gibran What an amazing story. I've read Scars by this author and absolutely loved it, so I jumped at... Continue Reading →
“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.” ― Kahlil Gibran What an amazing story. I've read Scars by this author and absolutely loved it, so I jumped at... Continue Reading →
Transparency by Ethan Stone and Sara York A few months ago a comic about the orientation police came out. It was an interesting look at the classifications we assign sexuality and the value people place on certain types of people. Some times those values interfere with seeing people as they are, instead focusing on the... Continue Reading →
Transparency by Ethan Stone and Sara York A few months ago a comic about the orientation police came out. It was an interesting look at the classifications we assign sexuality and the value people place on certain types of people. Some times those values interfere with seeing people as they are, instead focusing on the... Continue Reading →
“Fate has a way of putting in front of us that which we most try to leave behind.” ― Theodore “Mozzie” Winters In the midst of all the commercialism of the Christmas season, Gale Stanley has offered, in Bashert, a lovely story of what it means for two young men to be gay and to... Continue Reading →
“Fate has a way of putting in front of us that which we most try to leave behind.” ― Theodore “Mozzie” Winters In the midst of all the commercialism of the Christmas season, Gale Stanley has offered, in Bashert, a lovely story of what it means for two young men to be gay and to... Continue Reading →
“Miracles are what happens when you get out of the way of yourself.” ― Brad Szollose I absolutely loved this story! In fact, I did something I rarely do with a book: I read it twice! Nick St. George is on a mission to drive to San Francisco in time for Christmas. Along the way... Continue Reading →
“Miracles are what happens when you get out of the way of yourself.” ― Brad Szollose I absolutely loved this story! In fact, I did something I rarely do with a book: I read it twice! Nick St. George is on a mission to drive to San Francisco in time for Christmas. Along the way... Continue Reading →
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… Explore. Dream. Discover.” -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Holy Sexapalooza Batman! Taking A Chance was relatively short, only about 11,000 words. I think approximately 8,100 of them were sex scenes. The sex... Continue Reading →
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… Explore. Dream. Discover.” -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Holy Sexapalooza Batman! Taking A Chance was relatively short, only about 11,000 words. I think approximately 8,100 of them were sex scenes. The sex... Continue Reading →
Hello all! Thank you so much for joining me on the first stop of my blog tour for The Heart of Frost, book two in my North Pole City Tales series! When I set out to write the first book in the series, Mending Noel, I knew I wanted it to be sweet, but I... Continue Reading →
“Did someone drawed a fireplace for you, Uncle Marco?” “Not this year, honey.” “Then how will Santa find you?” “Oh, I’m sure he’ll find a way.” --- Tia Fielding What a beautiful, heartbreaking little Christmas story this is by Kim Fielding. Another new author to me, but I quickly became a fan. Though Alaska did... Continue Reading →
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