Pantser (Sociopath) or Plotter (Psychopath)? Take my quiz! #Writing #humor

May 9, 2021

A friend asked me to tell her how to write a book. “Um…you just type words,” I told her. “With, …

Mother, please! Two #Bookreviews! #relationship #CozyMystery @JudithBarrow77 @KassandraLamb

September 29, 2020

Mothers. They take nine months growing a human under their heart, push them out a hole the size of a plum, see that they are perfect, and spend the rest of their lives trying to fix them.

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Lockdown Updates From a Naked Dog. (Plus #BookReview of #CozyMystery LORD OF THE FLEAS by @KassandraLamb) #humor #summer

June 24, 2020

Lockdown Updates from Peri Dog: Hi, everyone! I don’t blog much because obviously, I have better uses for my …

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Dog Days… plus #BookReview of #CozyMystery A Star-Spangled Mayfair by @KassandraLamb #humor #summer #camping

August 15, 2019

My friend Ro lived, as we said in academia, in “the Real World.” In fact, she lived in the realest …

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What’s wrong with your HEA? (Part 3) plus #BookReview of A Season of Surprises at the Villa des Violettes by @patricia_sands #humor #ContemporaryRomance

July 23, 2019

Happily Ever After. What if the fairy tales got it wrong? Why do we love fairy tales? Some say they …

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What’s wrong with your HEA? (Part 2) plus #BookReview of The Sound and the Furry by @KassandraLamb #GothicNovel #CozyMystery #Humor

July 16, 2019

As I mentioned in my last Happily-Ever-After post here, HEAs come in lots of shapes, sizes, genres, and (occasionally) paws. …

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Pregnancy checklist PLUS #BookReview for #cozy #thriller Patches In The Rye by @KassandraLamb #TuesdayBookBlog

July 31, 2018

I heard that a recent scientific survey showed readers find women’s magazines damaging to their self-esteem. Women who …

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Don’t throw out the baby! Why #Amazon doesn’t want your #BookReviews

April 15, 2018

Writers, potential customers, publishers, and oh yes—you, Amazon—should be jumping for joy and giving thanks that I’ve taken hours to read and yet more hours to craft reviews for hundreds of books. Instead, Amazon, you’ve decided to punish reviewers like me.

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