Guest Post from Danny the Dog (owner of author Andrew Joyce)
While I’m away this week celebrating last child’s University graduation, the brilliant Danny the Dog has offered to sit in …
Category Archives: writing: craft
Guest Post and #Pg69Challenge: Claire Fullerton’s #paranormal #TimeTravel A PORTAL IN TIME
Welcome back, Claire Fullerton! Today I’m excited to turn the blog over to guest Claire Fullerton. You may remember her visit …
#RBRT #bookreview for #YA #GhostStory WILL O’ THE WISP by C. S. Boyack
Blurb: There is something evil up Bergamot Holler, and it’s been targeting the Hall family for generations. Patty Hall is …
Review of #YA #steampunk AUTOMATON, plus interview and bonus Chapter 1
A clockwork heart can’t replace the real thing.” ― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart As a genre, I love steampunk’s science …
Review for 5-star #western MOLLY LEE by Andrew Joyce
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).
#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.
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?
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.
Barb Taub 