Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A solicitor walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Which were more scary, the deranged zombie officers from the dream sequence in An American Werewolf in London or the evil Nazi zombies in Dead Snow?”… No, I’d never heard that one before either. But if... Continue Reading →
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino Warning: This book may make you laugh until you wet your pants. Or snort out loud. Maybe both. That is not a confession. On the other hand, it may... Continue Reading →
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino Warning: This book may make you laugh until you wet your pants. Or snort out loud. Maybe both. That is not a confession. On the other hand, it may... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled to be a permanent guest blogger on A Novel Approach. As I told Lisa, I will attempt to provide scintillating commentary each month. For those who don't know me, I am a writer of historical and a limited number of contemporary romances. Writing historical romances are my favorites and I've written them... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled to be a permanent guest blogger on A Novel Approach. As I told Lisa, I will attempt to provide scintillating commentary each month. For those who don't know me, I am a writer of historical and a limited number of contemporary romances. Writing historical romances are my favorites and I've written them... 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 →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... Continue Reading →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... 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 will find its way Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. – Lord Byron For anyone who’s been following The Mountains Series, you know that Jake Landon’s been facing some intimidating fears about his sexuality and what it would mean to come out to his family and live openly as Kurt Carlson’s partner.... Continue Reading →
Southern summers are indifferent to the trials of young love. – Nicholas Sparks Oh, possum love. It’s way better than muskrat love, I don’t care what the silly song says. Why possums? Well, as I hear tell it, this story was born the night Eden Winters had a possum encounter of her very own, and... Continue Reading →
"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the Spider to the Fly. – Mary Howitt K.Z. Snow has done it again, written a beautiful and compelling book, of which there’ve been way more than a few that I’ve loved over the years, this one a story of the quiet strength born of the horror of... Continue Reading →
We're all like broken toys in the repair shop, waiting for that one person to come along and fix us. – Unknown Tim has no idea why Noel hates him. It didn’t start out that way, but the kinder Tim was to Noel, the grinchier Noel was to Tim, until Tim was going out of... Continue Reading →
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing – August Wilson I suppose I ought to do something like, say, tell everyone I was a lucky, lucky girl and got to Beta this book. And I suppose I ought to do something like, say, tell everyone that I love this... Continue Reading →
Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing – August Wilson I suppose I ought to do something like, say, tell everyone I was a lucky, lucky girl and got to Beta this book. And I suppose I ought to do something like, say, tell everyone that I love this... Continue Reading →
What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out? – Alfred Hitchcock Most of the time, Amy Lane’s books make me feel like my stomach and my heart are being pinched into a tiny little fluttering mass of anxiety that then makes my brain wonder if it should engage the failsafe stop-the-madness-drama-mama kill... Continue Reading →
The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare Simon Phillips hates Thomas Schultz. Or at least he hates the fact that Thomas constantly sings with his shirt off, which makes Simon capable of doing little more than focusing on the man’s chest rather than paying attention to tending bar the way... Continue Reading →
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. – Laurell K. Hamilton Poor Dusty Davis. So, he’s landed himself in California, with Rue and Erik and baby Alice, hoping to leave all the hard times behind him and looking for a fresh start. But then, stumbling headlong into a single... Continue Reading →
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. – Laurell K. Hamilton Poor Dusty Davis. So, he’s landed himself in California, with Rue and Erik and baby Alice, hoping to leave all the hard times behind him and looking for a fresh start. But then, stumbling headlong into a single... Continue Reading →
Monsters are real … They live inside us, and sometimes they win. – Stephen King Cliffhanger! The lemon juice to my paper cut. I kind of love them. Not paper cuts. Cliffhangers. If you want Holden Krause to have his own book, please raise your hand. ::raises hand:: Okay, maybe it’s just me, and maybe... Continue Reading →
Monsters are real … They live inside us, and sometimes they win. – Stephen King Cliffhanger! The lemon juice to my paper cut. I kind of love them. Not paper cuts. Cliffhangers. If you want Holden Krause to have his own book, please raise your hand. ::raises hand:: Okay, maybe it’s just me, and maybe... Continue Reading →
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next. – Mignon McLaughlin I don’t know the first thing about knitting other than I’m a fan of my sweaters. I don’t know the first thing about writing other than I’m a fan of my books. What I do... Continue Reading →
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next. – Mignon McLaughlin I don’t know the first thing about knitting other than I’m a fan of my sweaters. I don’t know the first thing about writing other than I’m a fan of my books. What I do... Continue Reading →
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