So what is it about sad love stories that has us coming back for more? Is it that we’re just happy to be able to say to ourselves, “Well, my lover didn’t kill himself over my (faked) death, leaving me no other option than to fall on my dagger. So that’s all good, right?”
In honor of FlashBack Friday, author Stephen Merlino offers his award-winning epic fantasy, The Jack of Souls, this weekend only. So …
Blurb: There is something evil up Bergamot Holler, and it’s been targeting the Hall family for generations. Patty Hall is …
A clockwork heart can’t replace the real thing.” ― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart As a genre, I love steampunk’s science …
We all know about the Wild West. Men wore cowboy hats—white stetsons for good guys, black for bad ones. Everyone was armed with a six-shooter, and cowboys were old white dudes with names like “Tex” who’d grown up on the open range. Women came in two kickass models: good (frontier wives/ preachers’ daughters) and bad (dance-hall girls/Soiled Doves such as Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday’s common law wife).
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.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ― Elisabeth …
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.
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.
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. (Psalm 139:12) What’s the difference between dark fantasy and horror …
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