Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“Everyone’s got secrets. It’s what makes people interesting.” ― Cat Clarke Title: Coloring Outside the Lines (Different Paths to Love #2) Author: Diana DeRicci Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 112 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Different Paths to Love: Book Two Photographer Ralph Haraldsson’s birthday celebration starts to turn disastrous when he runs into his... Continue Reading →
“Everyone’s got secrets. It’s what makes people interesting.” ― Cat Clarke Title: Coloring Outside the Lines (Different Paths to Love #2) Author: Diana DeRicci Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 112 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Different Paths to Love: Book Two Photographer Ralph Haraldsson’s birthday celebration starts to turn disastrous when he runs into his... Continue Reading →
I’m happy to be here today to share my novel, Serpentine Walls. Serpentine Walls is a contemporary coming-of-age romance set at the University of Virginia. I got the title both from the actual serpentine walls that enclose the gardens at the University of Virginia: and from the serpentine paths that matters of the heart often... Continue Reading →
I’m happy to be here today to share my novel, Serpentine Walls. Serpentine Walls is a contemporary coming-of-age romance set at the University of Virginia. I got the title both from the actual serpentine walls that enclose the gardens at the University of Virginia: and from the serpentine paths that matters of the heart often... Continue Reading →
“The World Changes. Empires fall, oceans run dry … and little desert spirits rise up to challenge the great powers of the world.” – Amy Rae Durreson Title: Reawakening Author: Amy Rae Durreson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 260 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: For a thousand years, since their defeat of the Shadow at Eyr,... Continue Reading →
“The World Changes. Empires fall, oceans run dry … and little desert spirits rise up to challenge the great powers of the world.” – Amy Rae Durreson Title: Reawakening Author: Amy Rae Durreson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 260 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: For a thousand years, since their defeat of the Shadow at Eyr,... Continue Reading →
“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” ― Groucho Marx Title: Settling the Score Author: Christopher Koehler Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 320 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Stuart Cochrane and Philip Sundstrom make an unlikely pair. Philip’s brother, Brad, can’t imagine his brother with another man, let... Continue Reading →
“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” ― Groucho Marx Title: Settling the Score Author: Christopher Koehler Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 320 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Stuart Cochrane and Philip Sundstrom make an unlikely pair. Philip’s brother, Brad, can’t imagine his brother with another man, let... Continue Reading →
“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.” – Horace Mann Title: Jurassic Heart Author: Anna Martin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When paleontologist Nick Eisenberg learns that someone thinks they have found velociraptor bones in Alberta, his curiosity overrides his desire... Continue Reading →
“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you.” – Horace Mann Title: Jurassic Heart Author: Anna Martin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When paleontologist Nick Eisenberg learns that someone thinks they have found velociraptor bones in Alberta, his curiosity overrides his desire... Continue Reading →
The journey is complete. Yes, it truly happened; all three books of my trilogy are out! Spark, Fusion, and Flare. When I first wrote these stories in close succession so I could keep all the details straight in my head, I never dreamed they’d all be released so closely together. This started in September and... Continue Reading →
“Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.” – Charles Bukowski Title: Crossing Divides Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Carter Hopkins is on a mission. He has already written about the conflict in Syria, but is determined to go even deeper. With... Continue Reading →
“Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.” – Charles Bukowski Title: Crossing Divides Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Carter Hopkins is on a mission. He has already written about the conflict in Syria, but is determined to go even deeper. With... Continue Reading →
Title: Sparks & Drops (The Wheel Mysteries: Book One) Author: Susan Laine Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 170 Rating: 4.25 Stars Blurb: Magic is in the air when Gus Goodwin, a pagan shopkeeper and owner of the Four Corners’ occult shop, meets a Niall Valentine, a mysterious PI investigating the disappearance of a local witch... Continue Reading →
Title: Sparks & Drops (The Wheel Mysteries: Book One) Author: Susan Laine Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 170 Rating: 4.25 Stars Blurb: Magic is in the air when Gus Goodwin, a pagan shopkeeper and owner of the Four Corners’ occult shop, meets a Niall Valentine, a mysterious PI investigating the disappearance of a local witch... Continue Reading →
Hello, Internet! I’m Lex Chase and thank you for joining me on stop #8 on the Pawn Takes Rook: Conventional Love blog tour. Conventional Love is the final installment in the Checkmate trilogy where Rook and Garth leave it all on the line for one last grand adventure. I’ve decided to make this tour a... Continue Reading →
Hello, Internet! I’m Lex Chase and thank you for joining me on stop #8 on the Pawn Takes Rook: Conventional Love blog tour. Conventional Love is the final installment in the Checkmate trilogy where Rook and Garth leave it all on the line for one last grand adventure. I’ve decided to make this tour a... Continue Reading →
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Title: Legally Wed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Love comes along when you least expect it. That’s what Duncan Taylor’s sister, Scout, tells him. Scout has everything Duncan wants—a... Continue Reading →
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Title: Legally Wed Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Love comes along when you least expect it. That’s what Duncan Taylor’s sister, Scout, tells him. Scout has everything Duncan wants—a... Continue Reading →
TNA: The Novel Approach is thrilled to have Rick R. Reed back with us today, as he tours the internet to introduce his newest novel Legally Wed. Thanks for being here with us, Rick. Why don’t we start off with a quick introduction? Tell us a little bit about what makes you, you. Rick: Thrilled,... Continue Reading →
TNA: The Novel Approach is thrilled to have Rick R. Reed back with us today, as he tours the internet to introduce his newest novel Legally Wed. Thanks for being here with us, Rick. Why don’t we start off with a quick introduction? Tell us a little bit about what makes you, you. Rick: Thrilled,... Continue Reading →
“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” ― Samuel Johnson Title: The Billabong Author: Jack Byrne Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Having long ago lost his wife and children, cattleman Jim Kelly works the family farm in the harsh 1800s Australian outback, most days wondering why... Continue Reading →
“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.” ― Samuel Johnson Title: The Billabong Author: Jack Byrne Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Having long ago lost his wife and children, cattleman Jim Kelly works the family farm in the harsh 1800s Australian outback, most days wondering why... Continue Reading →
Editing is a reader’s and writer’s friend 2013 was my most satisfying year for my writing. For some context: a predatory publisher closed up shop and with that, I recovered the rights to eight of my publications. Some I’ll rewrite, others I will bury. I was happy to see the publisher cave under the weight... Continue Reading →
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