Once upon a time in 1911, a beautiful princess was born. The love child of an Irish Lord and a Russian princess, she was given to strangers to raise. At least, that’s what she told her son Mike.
While I’m away this week celebrating last child’s University graduation, the brilliant Danny the Dog has offered to sit in …
Welcome back, Claire Fullerton! Today I’m excited to turn the blog over to guest Claire Fullerton. You may remember her visit …
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.
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.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ― Elisabeth …
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