Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it, you know it, you believe it. – Kevin Alan Milne Just open up your heart and let Colin and Martin in. That’s what I did and ended up finding an incredibly touching and sweet story of a love that grows between a blind man, Martin,... Continue Reading →
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it—you feel it, you know it, you believe it. – Kevin Alan Milne Just open up your heart and let Colin and Martin in. That’s what I did and ended up finding an incredibly touching and sweet story of a love that grows between a blind man, Martin,... Continue Reading →
Whether it be Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Boxing Day, or Kwanzaa, I wish you all the peace, joy, and love that holiday brings. May all our days be merry and bright and filled with wonder. Many blessings to you all. Hugs, Lisa
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 →
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. – Thomas Tusser Oh my, but did Christmastime just get a whole lot naughtier? And did the month of December just get a whole lot hotter? I think it did for Mike and Karl, and for me too, thanks to a... 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 →
Let me tell you, being a creeper on the internet sure can pay off sometimes! I just got the lowdown on a couple of FREEBIES and thought I'd hurry up and share. Available for a limited time--possibly for a very limited time--T.A. Chase's Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, Book One) can be downloaded one-hundred-percent free. Have... Continue Reading →
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do. – Potter Stewart I’m going to be one-hundred percent honest here and tell you I almost stopped reading this book at least a half dozen times before I even made it to the halfway mark. Yeah,... 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 →
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain. – Jonathan Swift Dusk Peterson’s Pleasure (Master/Other) is a story of slavery set in an alternate universe, though the setting isn’t really as important as the fact that it’s a story based around men and women whose lives include little more than working... Continue Reading →
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. – Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade A little light BDSM works its way into Joy & Pain, a Daddy/sub story of a twenty-two year old ex-ballet dancer, Tevin, who makes his living as a stripper, seducing an audience of men for tips. Zeke... Continue Reading →
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. – Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade A little light BDSM works its way into Joy & Pain, a Daddy/sub story of a twenty-two year old ex-ballet dancer, Tevin, who makes his living as a stripper, seducing an audience of men for tips. Zeke... Continue Reading →
How about some cover art, yeah? Right or wrong, I'm going to be the first to admit I have a hard time not judging a book by its cover. Sometimes a beautiful cover will make me pick up a book I might otherwise not have, and on the other side of that coin, I know... Continue Reading →
Well, it's that time of year again, the time of year when we all wonder where the days and weeks and months have gone, the time to reflect on some of the great books we've read throughout the year, the time of year I scratch my head and wonder if I'll ever live long enough... Continue Reading →
Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I'm yours forever. – Unknown It’s official. I’ve discovered my favorite Ava March series. I guess I should qualify that with “so far”, though, since I haven’t had the chance to read everything she’s written. Yet. Bound by Deception, Bound to Him,... Continue Reading →
The room at Beauchamps’s Introduction House in which I was ensconced, and which the Madame had so generously offered for my purposes, was uncomfortably warm. I’d removed my frock coat in an effort to alleviate some of my discomfort, though in the interest of at least a modicum of social propriety, I’d kept my waistcoat... Continue Reading →
The room at Beauchamps’s Introduction House in which I was ensconced, and which the Madame had so generously offered for my purposes, was uncomfortably warm. I’d removed my frock coat in an effort to alleviate some of my discomfort, though in the interest of at least a modicum of social propriety, I’d kept my waistcoat... 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 →
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca I first became familiar with Dusk Peterson’s work a couple of years ago when I read the book Life Prison. It’s more than a bit of an understatement to say I was impressed with it. It’s more closely accurate to say I was... Continue Reading →
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld Did you pick up these two books when Ava March was offering them for $.99 apiece at Amazon? If not, I can honestly say I wouldn’t have been at all upset if I’d paid full price for... Continue Reading →
Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools. – Orson Scott Card I think if Charles Dickens were alive today and had the opportunity to re-imagine Oliver Twist into a Steampunk/Fantasy/Alternate History adventure, he might have rewritten a story and characters very much like... Continue Reading →
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