Serial kid-producer reveals top 10 reasons not to have kids (Freshly Pressed)
This inability to accept adult realities goes a long way toward explaining such phenomena as Cubs fans, ‘lite’ cheesecake, and Republican presidential candidates.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Laughter Lines: Life at the Tail End FREE download: Authors and Bloggers Against Piracy
Sue addresses a problem facing every publishing channel. (My own publisher doesn’t even distribute to Spain anymore because net sales …
#MagicRealism, #AlternateHistory or… Review of BLINSBY, plus interview & excerpt
Magic realism is a genre that I like better before and after (as opposed to during) the experience. Actually reading the book is work. Or maybe the hard work happens at the beginning, when you have to turn off all the ways you normally look at and think about the world.
#Wired #1984, MAD SCIENCE, the Superbowl commercial that changed my life, and #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
…the 1984 commercial on Superbowl XVIII directed by Ridley Scott that changed my life.
Guest Post and #Pg69Challenge: Claire Fullerton’s #romantic DANCING TO AN IRISH REEL
I can think of no better culture clash than America and Ireland. I say this because I happen to know to the Irish, we Americans are a bit brazen, we have the annoying habit of being direct. But the Irish are a discreet lot, culled from a set of delicate social manners that seem to dance around everything, leaving an American such as I with much guesswork.
Review: luminous #memoir: Leaning Into Love by Elaine Mansfield
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ― Elisabeth …
Should writers be reviewers?
Has a friend ever asked you to review a book you didn’t like?
#GraphicNovel THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Rosie Amber’s Friday Five challenge is to take ONLY FIVE MINUTES to browse an unfamiliar category and select a book …
Review of #YA #Fantasy #Quest THE BLACKWELL FAMILY SECRET, plus interview
I’ve never been a fan of blaming future generations for the sins of the fathers, but it’s a popular trope with certain gods, villains, and really pissed off ex-lovers.
Review: Lost and Found –humorous mystery thriller
In this character-driven humorous thriller, Daisy is a one-woman curvy strawberry-blonde bombshell force of nature. She can’t hold a job, can’t cook, and has a strange sense of dress. Her trademark charm, humor, and joy in life can send any situation spinning out of control, threatening her and hapless partner Solomon with danger, and even chance of death, but just as often providing the clues needed to solve the case.
Barb Taub 