Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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 →
Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart. – Jonathan Anthony Burkett Blindside is the third book in the Blind Faith series by N.R. Walker. This is the long awaited story of Mark Gattison, best friend to Carter Reese from books... Continue Reading →
Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart. – Jonathan Anthony Burkett Blindside is the third book in the Blind Faith series by N.R. Walker. This is the long awaited story of Mark Gattison, best friend to Carter Reese from books... Continue Reading →
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg Oscar Wilde once said something to the effect that every portrait painted with feeling is truly a portrait of the artist, not the subject. I suspect there’s some truth to that, and also suspect the same can be said of poetry. What is... Continue Reading →
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg Oscar Wilde once said something to the effect that every portrait painted with feeling is truly a portrait of the artist, not the subject. I suspect there’s some truth to that, and also suspect the same can be said of poetry. What is... Continue Reading →
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night. – Betty Grable A rich man moving to a new country living as a poor man. A poor man raised in rural Alabama... Continue Reading →
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night. – Betty Grable A rich man moving to a new country living as a poor man. A poor man raised in rural Alabama... Continue Reading →
Is he dressed to thrill... or out for the kill? Does he pray for forgiveness... or prey through the night? Will he take you down a dark, cobblestone alley to have his way... or make you pay? Intrigued yet? Well, that's Ethan Stone for you, folks, here in the flesh...almost, and pun fully intended...to celebrate... Continue Reading →
Is he dressed to thrill... or out for the kill? Does he pray for forgiveness... or prey through the night? Will he take you down a dark, cobblestone alley to have his way... or make you pay? Intrigued yet? Well, that's Ethan Stone for you, folks, here in the flesh...almost, and pun fully intended...to celebrate... Continue Reading →
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. – Lao Tzu I must admit that I have been a fan of Ethan Stone’s for a long time. I have followed his career closely since the beginning. There is so much growth and maturity as a writer evident in his most recent effort, Past... Continue Reading →
Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. – Lao Tzu I must admit that I have been a fan of Ethan Stone’s for a long time. I have followed his career closely since the beginning. There is so much growth and maturity as a writer evident in his most recent effort, Past... Continue Reading →
I’m so excited to be here at The Novel Approach. This is my third visit, and each time gets better than the last. Lisa and I always have a great time doing what we do best. Chatting and knocking back drinks. You know, for such a tiny woman, she could drink a man twice her... Continue Reading →
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi I am the new kid on the block here, and in preparation for Wilde City Press Week, I was asked to review Moral Authority by Jacob Z Flores. Now, I will be honest and... Continue Reading →
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi I am the new kid on the block here, and in preparation for Wilde City Press Week, I was asked to review Moral Authority by Jacob Z Flores. Now, I will be honest and... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of reading this book way back when, in its original incarnation, so I'm going to cheat just a wee bit and post an excerpt from my original review for Top2Bottom. It's a great book, and believe me, it's a memorable one too. I'm still hanging from that cliff, Mr. Edwards! :)... Continue Reading →
I had the pleasure of reading this book way back when, in its original incarnation, so I'm going to cheat just a wee bit and post an excerpt from my original review for Top2Bottom. It's a great book, and believe me, it's a memorable one too. I'm still hanging from that cliff, Mr. Edwards! :)... Continue Reading →
Through this magical portal called the internet, we're pleased to be able to welcome Patrick Darcy to The Novel Approach today. Patrick is the author of the Confessions of a Gay Rugby Player series of books published through "Charlie Harding Presents...", Wilde City's Black Label press, a premier selection of stories approved by none other... Continue Reading →
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Sherlock Holmes, “The Sign of the Four” Before August Brandon became an agent with the Canadian Supernatural Investigation Team, he was a wizard-in-training who nearly didn’t survive his education for reasons that... Continue Reading →
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? – Sherlock Holmes, “The Sign of the Four” Before August Brandon became an agent with the Canadian Supernatural Investigation Team, he was a wizard-in-training who nearly didn’t survive his education for reasons that... Continue Reading →
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. ― Frances Hodgson Burnett Hilary Kent has something Tom Laurence very much wants—his garden. But it’s not just any garden Tom’s after; it’s the centuries-old physic garden planted by a priest called Thaddeus who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, some four-hundred years before,... Continue Reading →
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. ― Frances Hodgson Burnett Hilary Kent has something Tom Laurence very much wants—his garden. But it’s not just any garden Tom’s after; it’s the centuries-old physic garden planted by a priest called Thaddeus who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, some four-hundred years before,... Continue Reading →
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. – Alphonse de Lamartine Mountain Memories is a sweet story with some great twists and turns. We have Jax the concert pianist and composer. Then we have Mason, the park ranger with the National Park Service. Jax is running away from a broken... Continue Reading →
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