Where Fiction and Reality Meet
No two persons ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson This is such a true statement, isn't it? It's what makes this whole review business such an arbitrary affair. Well, today we're hosting dueling reviews of Ben Ryder's Side Line--the same book seen through the eyes of two different people: Bruce and Tina. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
We don't get to pick who we fall in love with, and it doesn't happen like it should. – “No Strings Attached” I have to say when I first met Detective Jeff Woods and Detective Parker Trenkens I wasn't very fond of either one of them. They were both fairly jaded and had some unpleasant... Continue Reading →
Whoever called snooker ‘chess with balls’ was rude, but right. — Clive James Snookered is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Collection for June. It is a cute little short that works well as what it is. Neil Davis is a three time World Snooker Champion. He is traveling from New York to Florida and... Continue Reading →
Whoever called snooker ‘chess with balls’ was rude, but right. — Clive James Snookered is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Collection for June. It is a cute little short that works well as what it is. Neil Davis is a three time World Snooker Champion. He is traveling from New York to Florida and... Continue Reading →
We're so excited to have the always delectable Amy Lane with us here at The Novel Approach today to celebrate the release of her latest book Forever Promised. Jackie wrote a fantastic review of the book, then she, Tina, Bruce, and I put our thinking caps on and came up with a few questions for... Continue Reading →
We're so excited to have the always delectable Amy Lane with us here at The Novel Approach today to celebrate the release of her latest book Forever Promised. Jackie wrote a fantastic review of the book, then she, Tina, Bruce, and I put our thinking caps on and came up with a few questions for... Continue Reading →
Maverick: “I feel the need…” Maverick & Goose: “...the need for speed !” – Tom Cruise & Anthony Edwards in Top Gun. Wow. Heart of the Race is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthology for June. As usual with Ms. Calmes’s work, it towers above the rest. I must issue a disclaimer that I... Continue Reading →
Maverick: “I feel the need…” Maverick & Goose: “...the need for speed !” – Tom Cruise & Anthony Edwards in Top Gun. Wow. Heart of the Race is part of Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthology for June. As usual with Ms. Calmes’s work, it towers above the rest. I must issue a disclaimer that I... Continue Reading →
To die will be an awfully big adventure. – Aristotle Imagine, if you will, standing upon the banks of a lazy river, its surface a cool and contemplative deception that masks the roiling current tumbling below. You wade into its deceptive stillness, unaware of and unprepared for what lies beneath, an unknown variable that, in... Continue Reading →
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca It is not an original trope. Two men love each other. They are in a professional situation in which their love may not be accepted. Due to circumstances beyond their control, they are forced to hide their feelings from everyone... Continue Reading →
When love is not madness, it is not love. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca It is not an original trope. Two men love each other. They are in a professional situation in which their love may not be accepted. Due to circumstances beyond their control, they are forced to hide their feelings from everyone... Continue Reading →
So they were both crushing on each other, and yet, both were afraid of venturing into dangerous territory. – Andrea Speed Luke Diaz has his friend Marc and an herbal drug laced health shake to blame for his sudden, and now soberly inexplicable, urge to sign up for an adult dodgeball league. He’s baffled, sure,... Continue Reading →
So they were both crushing on each other, and yet, both were afraid of venturing into dangerous territory. – Andrea Speed Luke Diaz has his friend Marc and an herbal drug laced health shake to blame for his sudden, and now soberly inexplicable, urge to sign up for an adult dodgeball league. He’s baffled, sure,... Continue Reading →
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ― Chad Sugg, “Monsters Under Your Head” There are so many things that scare me about the “Infected” series. Not the beasties that could eat my face off. No, that’d be too simple. What I’m... Continue Reading →
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is. ― Chad Sugg, “Monsters Under Your Head” There are so many things that scare me about the “Infected” series. Not the beasties that could eat my face off. No, that’d be too simple. What I’m... Continue Reading →
As the author of the Vasquez and James books, I called a number of the characters together for a meeting because readers had been asking questions—questions I couldn’t answer—and I thought it was time to put their concerns to rest, once and for all. When I called to make arrangements, it seemed at first as... Continue Reading →
As the author of the Vasquez and James books, I called a number of the characters together for a meeting because readers had been asking questions—questions I couldn’t answer—and I thought it was time to put their concerns to rest, once and for all. When I called to make arrangements, it seemed at first as... Continue Reading →
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game. - Joe DiMaggio Jonathan Young did a very bad thing. Something so bad that he was turned into a pariah by an entire city. You might not think it such a bad thing. I certainly don’t. The very bad thing that Jonathan Young did?... Continue Reading →
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game. - Joe DiMaggio Jonathan Young did a very bad thing. Something so bad that he was turned into a pariah by an entire city. You might not think it such a bad thing. I certainly don’t. The very bad thing that Jonathan Young did?... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained. ― Neil Gaiman August Ferrell and his high school basketball team are playing in the North Dakota Class A basketball tournament, and this one’s for all the marbles because August is a senior, so there are not more... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
Love is blind and thinks that others don’t see either. – Danish Proverb Flexibility is Maja Rose’s second contribution so far this year to Dreamspinner Press’s Daily Dose Anthologies. Her previous story Made Good Under Pressure was featured in DSP’s “Closet Capers” anthology. In Flexibility, we meet a pair of Olympic Men’s Gymnastics hopefuls. Jared... Continue Reading →
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ― Sophocles Goose bumps and tears. That’s what this book gave me, goose bumps and tears. Pretty nifty, that, I think, because it means an author has not only written a story that has provoked an emotional response but... Continue Reading →
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