Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...” ― Sara Shepard Title: Relief Valve (The Plumber’s Mate: Book Two) Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 357 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: If you dig up the past, be prepared to get dirty. It hasn't been all smooth sailing since plumber Tom Paretski and P.I.... Continue Reading →
“The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets...” ― Sara Shepard Title: Relief Valve (The Plumber’s Mate: Book Two) Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 357 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: If you dig up the past, be prepared to get dirty. It hasn't been all smooth sailing since plumber Tom Paretski and P.I.... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, we hope you've had a quiet and relaxing weekend. We've got another great week ahead, filled with author visits, interviews, giveaways, and reviews, so go ahead and take a gander at what's on tap! Monday - Abigail Roux is our guest today on the Ball & Chain Blog Tour. She’s answered a few... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone, we hope you've had a quiet and relaxing weekend. We've got another great week ahead, filled with author visits, interviews, giveaways, and reviews, so go ahead and take a gander at what's on tap! Monday - Abigail Roux is our guest today on the Ball & Chain Blog Tour. She’s answered a few... Continue Reading →
Hi, I’m JL (Jamie) Merrow, and I’m here today as part of the It’s All Geek to Me blog tour. Thanks for having me here on The Novel Approach. :-) Giveaway: all commenters on the blog tour will be entered into a draw to win an ebook of their choice from my backlist, plus a... Continue Reading →
Hi, I’m JL (Jamie) Merrow, and I’m here today as part of the It’s All Geek to Me blog tour. Thanks for having me here on The Novel Approach. :-) Giveaway: all commenters on the blog tour will be entered into a draw to win an ebook of their choice from my backlist, plus a... Continue Reading →
Welcome back, everyone, I hope you've had a fantastic week. We've got lots of great guests, giveaways, and reviews coming up in the week ahead and hope you'll all stop in to see what each of our special guests has in store. Here's what's on deck in the week ahead! Monday - JL Merrow drops... Continue Reading →
Welcome back, everyone, I hope you've had a fantastic week. We've got lots of great guests, giveaways, and reviews coming up in the week ahead and hope you'll all stop in to see what each of our special guests has in store. Here's what's on deck in the week ahead! Monday - JL Merrow drops... Continue Reading →
“You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?” ― Dr. Seuss Title: It’s All Geek to Me Author: JL Merrow Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 57 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Jez is on a mission of mercy: to replace a tragically deceased comic book for his injured best mate, Tel. Venturing into the Hidden Asteroid... Continue Reading →
In the immortal words from Grease, with a little tweak: “Summer loving had me a blast Summer loving happened so fast I met a boy crazy for me Met a boy cute as can be Summer days drifting away To, oh, oh, the summer nights” This Summer Lovin’ is truly a blast! A hot and... Continue Reading →
In the immortal words from Grease, with a little tweak: “Summer loving had me a blast Summer loving happened so fast I met a boy crazy for me Met a boy cute as can be Summer days drifting away To, oh, oh, the summer nights” This Summer Lovin’ is truly a blast! A hot and... Continue Reading →
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” ― Marie Antoinette Some people have things in their past they’re happy to remember. Some people have things in their past they’d prefer to forget. If you’re Dr. Paul Ansell, there are things in your past you can’t remember. If you’re Dr. Paul Ansell, the forgetting... Continue Reading →
“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” ― Marie Antoinette Some people have things in their past they’re happy to remember. Some people have things in their past they’d prefer to forget. If you’re Dr. Paul Ansell, there are things in your past you can’t remember. If you’re Dr. Paul Ansell, the forgetting... Continue Reading →
The path to paradise begins in Hell. ― Dante Alighieri It’s difficult being a detective with the Paranormal Enforcement Agency when your only claim to anything even remotely magical is that your mother happens to be a Valkyrie, which means you happen to be half immortal. At least, it’s a bit of a thorn in... Continue Reading →
The path to paradise begins in Hell. ― Dante Alighieri It’s difficult being a detective with the Paranormal Enforcement Agency when your only claim to anything even remotely magical is that your mother happens to be a Valkyrie, which means you happen to be half immortal. At least, it’s a bit of a thorn in... Continue Reading →
Hello and welcome to the virtual book tour for Damned If You Do! I’m JL Merrow, and our lovely host has been kind enough to interview me today. I made sure to bring along a giveaway—leave a comment below by 11:59pm on 6/28/13 and you’ll be entered in a week-long contest to win a $10... Continue Reading →
Hello and welcome to the virtual book tour for Damned If You Do! I’m JL Merrow, and our lovely host has been kind enough to interview me today. I made sure to bring along a giveaway—leave a comment below by 11:59pm on 6/28/13 and you’ll be entered in a week-long contest to win a $10... 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 →
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz Though for Kurt, that puppy is about as welcome as a raging case of jock itch when Matt, an overly enthusiastic guy at the gym—who can’t seem to take the hint that Kurt is intensely(!) uninterested in the attention—comes along and makes Kurt begin to think... Continue Reading →
The play’s the thing… - William Shakespeare In contemporary times, Ted Ennis endures. He understands loss better than most. Ted has borne a terrible, terrible grief, the result of a deadly accident that has left its share of scars behind. Plagued by the physical remnants of that accident, his employment options limited by his afflictions,... 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 makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. – Zora Neale Hurston And then there were Matt Berridge and Tim Knight and a cat named Wolverine who’s really the star of the show but deigns to allow his insignificant humans to share his space if for nothing more than the fact that they... Continue Reading →
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. – Leonard Cohen Tom Paretski is pretty proficient in the art of divination; not the kind of divination that means he can prophesy but the kind that means he can find things that are hidden—like water, for one thing. And dead bodies, for another.... Continue Reading →
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