Where Fiction and Reality Meet
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. – Seneca It’s been said that money is the root of all evil. Whether that’s a true statement or not likely depends on whether you have it or you don’t, and if you don’t have it, what... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 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 →
Before we start, here is the blurb for Tarnished Gold: In 1915, starstruck Jack Abadie strikes out for the gilded streets of the most sinful town in the country—Hollywood. With him, he takes a secret that his country hometown would never understand. After years of hard work and a chance invitation to a gay gentlemen's... Continue Reading →
Before we start, here is the blurb for Tarnished Gold: In 1915, starstruck Jack Abadie strikes out for the gilded streets of the most sinful town in the country—Hollywood. With him, he takes a secret that his country hometown would never understand. After years of hard work and a chance invitation to a gay gentlemen's... Continue Reading →
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A solicitor walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Which were more scary, the deranged zombie officers from the dream sequence in An American Werewolf in London or the evil Nazi zombies in Dead Snow?”… No, I’d never heard that one before either. But if... Continue Reading →
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A solicitor walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Which were more scary, the deranged zombie officers from the dream sequence in An American Werewolf in London or the evil Nazi zombies in Dead Snow?”… No, I’d never heard that one before either. But if... Continue Reading →
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino Warning: This book may make you laugh until you wet your pants. Or snort out loud. Maybe both. That is not a confession. On the other hand, it may... Continue Reading →
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino Warning: This book may make you laugh until you wet your pants. Or snort out loud. Maybe both. That is not a confession. On the other hand, it may... Continue Reading →
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton When Danny Costessey falls for a man, he literally falls… Okay, literally, he falls from a tree and concusses his noggin and breaks a few assorted bones, too. But it’s that fall that... Continue Reading →
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton When Danny Costessey falls for a man, he literally falls… Okay, literally, he falls from a tree and concusses his noggin and breaks a few assorted bones, too. But it’s that fall that... Continue Reading →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... Continue Reading →
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason. – Mason Cooley Money makes the world go around. Or at least that’s how the song goes. But as poor, struggling college students, money is something Zack and Larry aren’t intimately acquainted with, though Larry’s got a get-rich-quick scheme... Continue Reading →
Healing is impossible in loneliness. – Wendell Berry George Johnson is a man whose soul bears a heavy burden, weighted by the yoke of shame and self-recrimination, so deeply scarred by an event in his youth that even years later its aftermath leaves George running frightened from the man he once was, the man he... Continue Reading →
Love will find its way Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. – Lord Byron For anyone who’s been following The Mountains Series, you know that Jake Landon’s been facing some intimidating fears about his sexuality and what it would mean to come out to his family and live openly as Kurt Carlson’s partner.... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. – Laurell K. Hamilton Poor Dusty Davis. So, he’s landed himself in California, with Rue and Erik and baby Alice, hoping to leave all the hard times behind him and looking for a fresh start. But then, stumbling headlong into a single... Continue Reading →
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