Ships, trains, planes…and Folkestone Taxi. #Vacation, #Paris
Lemon Macarons (click for recipe) Paris might give you lemons, but they’ll be in your macaron citron… There was good …
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Guest blogger: ex-pat Ellen Hawley on UK Beach Holiday. Plus #Bookreview THE DIVORCE DIET
At the height of the British summer, my partner and I went to Swanage, a beachy resort town on England’s south coast.
That sounds simple, but we’re Americans living in Britain, so nothing stays simple for long.
What to call Granny?; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
The traditional facebook announcement from my daughter I believe it was Emily Post who said that the proper way for a …
Dark #Fantasy or Horror? The Felix Chronicles: #BookReview, interview & excerpt
What if Harry Potter didn’t know about magic until he went to college? And what if (along with almost everything else to do with dorm life as a freshman) Hogwarts turned out to be more horror story than dark fantasy, and Harry’s fellow students had a tendency to end up as ketchup?
#UrbanFantasy tropes and Page 69 challenge: THE TIES THAT BLEED
Today I’m excited to present page 69 excerpts from my personal favorite paranormal genre, Urban Fantasy So what is this urban …
#Vacation part 5: A death in Paris
NOTE: No dogs, husbands, or French people were harmed in the making of this blog post. (Although there were a few REALLY good candidates…)
Help for #political #insult wannabes; #FridayFiveChallenge from @rosieamber1
Benjamin Disraeli on how to tell the difference between a misfortune and a calamity—”If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”
#Vacation part 4: Knife envy and the perfect Workation
Top ten steps to a perfect vacation? Bwahahaha! Like I’d know? When we decided to go to Spain for the …
Page 69 challenge: #Irish #historical #fantasy excerpts from Sheila Lamb’s BRIGID series
Today I’m joining Sheila Lamb’s virtual book tour with a Spotlight and page 69 excerpt from her Brigid Irish Fantasy series Fiery …
@fatjew: thieving bastard or the sincerest form of flattery?
The real problem is that there is a deep-seated, fundamental belief that the internet and everything on it should be free. It’s the internet’s greatest strength and its Achilles heel.
Barb Taub 