I'm so glad to have Brita back as my special guest today to talk a little bit about herself, the creative process, what she has coming up next. And, if you read all the way to the end, you'll get the 4-1-1 on some really great prizes she's offering as she hops the information super-highway... Continue Reading →
DOMA – A Demonstration Of Massive Absurdity
Today and tomorrow, March 26 and 27, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments and weigh considerations that, provided these men and women whose job it is to promote justice for all, will fall on the right side of history and bring same-sex couples into the fold of equality that I, and everyone like me,... Continue Reading →
When The Hero Of The Story Is A Four-Legged, Furry Male – Blind Faith by N.R. Walker
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... Continue Reading →
When The Hero Of The Story Is A Four-Legged, Furry Male – Blind Faith by N.R. Walker
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... Continue Reading →
A Man Is More Than The Sum Of His Parts – The Tinkered Pinkerton by Helen Louise Caroll
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. – William Ellery Channing Brom Donker is a survivor of the American Civil War. Well, at least some parts of him survived; other parts, important parts such as his left arm and both legs below the knees, became sacrifices... Continue Reading →
A Man Is More Than The Sum Of His Parts – The Tinkered Pinkerton by Helen Louise Caroll
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. – William Ellery Channing Brom Donker is a survivor of the American Civil War. Well, at least some parts of him survived; other parts, important parts such as his left arm and both legs below the knees, became sacrifices... Continue Reading →
Are You A Fan Of The "Dirty" Series?
Yeah, me too! So here's the scoop. Rhys Ford has generously offered to let me ask Neko a few questions. Whether she'll deign to answer them is another question entirely, but you know, who has a better insight into Cole and Jae's relationship than the four-legged, furry brains of the operation? :-D If you have... Continue Reading →
Are You A Fan Of The “Dirty” Series?
Yeah, me too! So here's the scoop. Rhys Ford has generously offered to let me ask Neko a few questions. Whether she'll deign to answer them is another question entirely, but you know, who has a better insight into Cole and Jae's relationship than the four-legged, furry brains of the operation? :-D If you have... Continue Reading →
When Surviving Is Only Half The Battle – Eye of the Storm (Lords of Arcadia, Book Two) by John Goode
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. – Author Unknown Being heroic doesn’t always mean being the bravest or the boldest or the strongest, or even the wisest. Sometimes acts of heroism are performed by the one who simply doesn’t stop... Continue Reading →
When Surviving Is Only Half The Battle – Eye of the Storm (Lords of Arcadia, Book Two) by John Goode
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again. – Author Unknown Being heroic doesn’t always mean being the bravest or the boldest or the strongest, or even the wisest. Sometimes acts of heroism are performed by the one who simply doesn’t stop... Continue Reading →
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Distant Rumblings (Lords of Arcadia: Act One) by John Goode
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Distant Rumblings (Lords of Arcadia: Act One) by John Goode
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
When Blindness Does Not Mean The Inability To See – Înflori by A.F. Henley
Fate controls who walks into your life, but you decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. – Author Unknown Dustin is a man who can’t seem to get out of his own way. He is a man who performs random acts of blindness to escape... Continue Reading →
When Blindness Does Not Mean The Inability To See – Înflori by A.F. Henley
Fate controls who walks into your life, but you decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. – Author Unknown Dustin is a man who can’t seem to get out of his own way. He is a man who performs random acts of blindness to escape... Continue Reading →
Who’s been chomping at the bit for more Cole and Jae? You definitely won’t want to miss this one!
You know… in case you want a copy. *grins*
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For ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis, each day brings a new challenge. Too bad most of them involve pain and death. Claudia, his office manager and surrogate mother, is still recovering from a gunshot, and Cole’s closeted boyfriend, Kim Jae-Min, suddenly finds his teenaged sister dumped in his lap. Meanwhile, Cole has his own sibling problems—most notably, a mysterious half brother from Japan whom his older brother, Mike, is determined they welcome with open arms.
As if his own personal dramas weren’t enough, Cole is approached by Madame Sun, a fortune-teller whose clients have been dying at an alarming rate. Convinced someone is after her customers, she wants the matter investigated, but the police think she’s imagining things. Hoping to put Sun’s mind at ease, Cole takes the case and…
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Look, look, look! Goodies. And good goodies too! :-D
Pride Goes Before Destruction – Honour by A.F. Henley
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld But for the unforgiving whims of fate could a man’s quiet seafaring existence be suddenly and inexorably altered by happenstance, by an event so incapable of being foreshadowed that he finds himself in the service of the... Continue Reading →
Pride Goes Before Destruction – Honour by A.F. Henley
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld But for the unforgiving whims of fate could a man’s quiet seafaring existence be suddenly and inexorably altered by happenstance, by an event so incapable of being foreshadowed that he finds himself in the service of the... Continue Reading →
Grief Is A Dish Best Served Told – After the End by Alex Kidwell
Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II Quinn O’Malley knows a little bit about grief; it’s buried him, after all, under the pale ash of a life devastated by the very act of surviving when the one he’d lived for, the one he’d loved for, left him; and with that... Continue Reading →
Grief Is A Dish Best Served Told – After the End by Alex Kidwell
Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II Quinn O’Malley knows a little bit about grief; it’s buried him, after all, under the pale ash of a life devastated by the very act of surviving when the one he’d lived for, the one he’d loved for, left him; and with that... Continue Reading →
If You Don't Think Doms Need Safewords, Think Again – If It Flies by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. – Marquis de Sade Nick is perhaps the baddest of the bad boys at Market Garden, the man who doesn’t mind at all doing a little violence—for the right price, that is. He’s introduced briefly in the first... Continue Reading →
If You Don’t Think Doms Need Safewords, Think Again – If It Flies by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. – Marquis de Sade Nick is perhaps the baddest of the bad boys at Market Garden, the man who doesn’t mind at all doing a little violence—for the right price, that is. He’s introduced briefly in the first... Continue Reading →
Oh, look, it’s another giveaway. That’s fun to say. :-D
Return to the Mountain will be available next week, and you might be the lucky reader who wins a copy at Stumbling Over Chaos. Just swing by and leave your name for a chance to win an e-copy. This is the fifth book in the Mountains universe, but it’s Gary and Seth’s first novel. The book stands alone, but you might recognize some familiar faces from my other works. Keep an eye out for the secondary characters!
Blurb:
Caddy Gary Richardson hungers for the lush life of the wealthy golfers he escorts around the course at Wapiti Creek. The contrast between his tiny trailer at the edge of a mountain town and the luxurious ski and golf resort is something he’s learned to live with but not like. Gary wants the fancy condo and late-model car not just for himself but for his childhood friend turned lover, Seth Morgan…
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Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World… The Mayfield Speakeasy by L.A. Witt
then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. – William Shakespeare I’m going to say something that I’ve most definitely never said before. I think I just imagined this book in black & white as I was reading it. Weird, no? Yes, it is. The stylized atmosphere of L.A. Witt’s novella Mayfield Speakeasy... Continue Reading →
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