Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Titles: Unworthy, Unbound, Unyielding Author: J.A. Vodvarka Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 447 Pages, 545 Pages, 705 Pages Category: Epic Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Saga: (noun) a dramatic and often complicated story or series of events. The Blacksea Odyssey Trilogy is this, and then some. The world building is robust, its characters richly... Continue Reading →
Reading used to be my refuge. Books were the unreality I escaped to, my heart wide open, my senses attuned to the characters and their journeys. I could ignore the outside world for a while, guilt free. Now, it feels like my favorite pastime has come to a screeching halt in favor of paying attention... Continue Reading →
Title: Cicadas: A Totally Ordinary Epic Love Story Author: Avery Cockburn Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 454 Pages Category: Romance Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Cicadas is utterly and unabashedly beautiful. It’s an uncommon sort of Romance with a familiar theme that delivers its protagonists to their happy ever after. It's a totally ordinary love... Continue Reading →
Title: The Iron Crown Series: The Darkest Court: Book Three Author: M.A. Grant Publisher: Carina Press Length: 103k Words Category: Fantasy At a Glance: The Iron Crown is every bit as passionate and poetic as the previous two books in this series. It is a journey of love and honor and heroism and sacrifice, building... Continue Reading →
Lisa: We’re so pleased to have author Elvira Bell joining us today on the tour for her latest release, Astray, book one in the Wavesongs series. Welcome, Elvira! Let’s start right out with a question about the book. What’s your favorite scene in Astray, and what makes it a fave? Elvira: One of my faves... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Once Upon a Rainbow virtual blog tour, with NineStar Press contributing author Mickie B. Ashling! We have an Exclusive Excerpt from her story to share with you, and there's also a giveaway, so be sure to check out those details below. About the Book Title: Once Upon a Rainbow Authors: Sydney Blackburn,... Continue Reading →
We're so pleased to have author Brita Addams back with us today to help us celebrate our 5th Blogiversary. She's also offering five lucky readers the chance to win an e-book of choice from her backlist, so be sure to check out the entry details below. Welcome, Brita! Congratulations, Lisa, and the entire Novel Approach... Continue Reading →
Why We Need Romance Have you ever noticed that the “R” word has a bit of a reputation? You know the one, where the romance genre is pooh-poohed and scoffed at and labeled fluff and drivel, while we readers are sniffed at for rotting our brains on a spun-sugar plot as simple as two people... Continue Reading →
“It doesn't matter if you're 20, 40, 60, 80, or 100. Embrace your sexy-ass self and express it!” ― Steve Maraboli Pip’s Boxing Day Wish Summary: Having been sent to the North Pole with the Santa’s Little Helpers outreach programme as a child, Pip has always worried what the other inhabitants of Christmas’s homeland thought... Continue Reading →
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex. – Billy Joel I don’t talk about sex a lot, not unless it's the entire point of a book. To me, the sexual content of a book is tertiary to the plot and the development... Continue Reading →
Psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. – Philip K. Dick Patrick Trafford has everything he could want or need in his life: a place to call home, a lovely garden to care for, and a friend named Chad, who is a constant and loyal companion, happily spending his days providing company while... Continue Reading →
Psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. – Philip K. Dick Patrick Trafford has everything he could want or need in his life: a place to call home, a lovely garden to care for, and a friend named Chad, who is a constant and loyal companion, happily spending his days providing company while... Continue Reading →
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... Continue Reading →
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Like a feel good book that leaves you with a severe case of the warm fuzzies? Yeah, me too, and N.R. Walker’s Blind Faith is definitely one of them. This is the incredibly sweet and sometimes poignant story of a... 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 →
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