Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Welcome to the new visitors of the tour, and hello again to my returning friends. As I've been explaining throughout, Second Star to the Right is a romance story about a man seeking to define himself, an escort caught between the desire to find connection yet keep himself grounded, and how the brilliance of love... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the new visitors of the tour, and hello again to my returning friends. As I've been explaining throughout, Second Star to the Right is a romance story about a man seeking to define himself, an escort caught between the desire to find connection yet keep himself grounded, and how the brilliance of love... Continue Reading →
“No one keeps a secret like a child.” – Victor Hugo Title: Bottoms Out (About a Bottoms: Book Two) Author: Etienne Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 266 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: After the death of their mother, Chris Bottoms adopted his little brother, Ted, and Chris and his partner, Mickey O’Donovan, settle down to... Continue Reading →
“No one keeps a secret like a child.” – Victor Hugo Title: Bottoms Out (About a Bottoms: Book Two) Author: Etienne Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 266 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: After the death of their mother, Chris Bottoms adopted his little brother, Ted, and Chris and his partner, Mickey O’Donovan, settle down to... Continue Reading →
“In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.” – C. Joy Bell C. Title: Klub Kids Author: Johnny Williams Publisher: Punks Publishing Pages/Word Count: 262 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In one... Continue Reading →
“In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.” – C. Joy Bell C. Title: Klub Kids Author: Johnny Williams Publisher: Punks Publishing Pages/Word Count: 262 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In one... Continue Reading →
And now, ladies and gentlemen, do not lick your computer screens as it's highly unsanitary. Coming from Dreamspinner Press in June 2014, Tequila Mockingbird (Sinners: Book Three), in which the Morgan men just keep getting sexier, and Forest Ackerman is the luckiest dude in fiction. :-D Enjoy! Prologue You cracked me open Sucked out my... Continue Reading →
And now, ladies and gentlemen, do not lick your computer screens as it's highly unsanitary. Coming from Dreamspinner Press in June 2014, Tequila Mockingbird (Sinners: Book Three), in which the Morgan men just keep getting sexier, and Forest Ackerman is the luckiest dude in fiction. :-D Enjoy! Prologue You cracked me open Sucked out my... Continue Reading →
I’m basically a shy person, so this part kills me. Lol. I learned at an early age to cover my shyness with something. At first, it was hiding in shadows, dressing in black, slipping on the leather and kind of using it in my mind as a second skin. But people kept laughing at anything... Continue Reading →
I’m basically a shy person, so this part kills me. Lol. I learned at an early age to cover my shyness with something. At first, it was hiding in shadows, dressing in black, slipping on the leather and kind of using it in my mind as a second skin. But people kept laughing at anything... Continue Reading →
“The real world is where the monsters are.” ― Rick Riordan Title: The Duality Paradigm (Blood and Bone: Book One) Author: Lia Cooper Publisher: The Spec Press Pages/Word Count: 261 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Everyone knows magic users and werewolves are intrinsically diametrically opposed... Seattle Police Detective Ethan Ellison, born into a long line... Continue Reading →
Title: The Duality Paradigm (Blood and Bone: Book One) Author: Lia Cooper Publisher: The Spec Press Pages/Word Count: 261 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Everyone knows magic users and werewolves are intrinsically diametrically opposed... Seattle Police Detective Ethan Ellison, born into a long line of Quebecois magicians, leads a fairly unassuming life... Continue Reading →
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.” ― Nick Hornby Title: A Better Man (The Men of Halfway House #1) Author: Jaime Reese Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 211 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Matthew Doner... Continue Reading →
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.” ― Nick Hornby Title: A Better Man (The Men of Halfway House #1) Author: Jaime Reese Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 211 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Matthew Doner... Continue Reading →
In the creative writing class I’m teaching, I start off by emphasizing how important it is to know how the story is going to go before you start writing. We map out the Triggering Event, the Turning Points, and try to bring it all to a Tidy Logical Conclusion in the end. We do outlines... Continue Reading →
“Sane is boring.” ― R.A. Salvatore Title: Love and Salvage: Eli’s Three Wishes Author: Mathew Ortiz Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 142 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Eli Gaither was a big, rough, mean sumabitch of a man. Solitary by choice, he only attended Gaither family events when he was made to. Still hurting from a painful... Continue Reading →
“Sane is boring.” ― R.A. Salvatore Title: Love and Salvage: Eli’s Three Wishes Author: Mathew Ortiz Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 142 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Eli Gaither was a big, rough, mean sumabitch of a man. Solitary by choice, he only attended Gaither family events when he was made to. Still hurting from a painful... Continue Reading →
"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart." – Paul Coehlo Title: Out of Hiding Author: Mia Kerick Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 180 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: After graduating from high school early, twenty-year-old Philippe Bergeron spent the past several years lost among... Continue Reading →
“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold Title: Someone to Keep Me Author: K.C. Wells & Parker Williams Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 246 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Eighteen-year-old Scott Keating knows a whole world exists... Continue Reading →
“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold Title: Someone to Keep Me Author: K.C. Wells & Parker Williams Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 246 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Eighteen-year-old Scott Keating knows a whole world exists... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Indra, and welcome to The Novel Approach. We’re happy to have you here with us today. Let’s start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself, hobbies and interests and other odds and ends things that make you, you. Indra: Hello, Lisa, I am absolutely thrilled to be here. I... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Indra, and welcome to The Novel Approach. We’re happy to have you here with us today. Let’s start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself, hobbies and interests and other odds and ends things that make you, you. Indra: Hello, Lisa, I am absolutely thrilled to be here. I... Continue Reading →
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Title: An Immovable Solitude Author: S.A. McAuley Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 153 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: The ocean isn’t ready to let go of him yet. Erik Hash, owner of a shark diving company in South Africa, loses everything in one night—his... Continue Reading →
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Title: An Immovable Solitude Author: S.A. McAuley Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 153 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: The ocean isn’t ready to let go of him yet. Erik Hash, owner of a shark diving company in South Africa, loses everything in one night—his... Continue Reading →
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