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#BookReview of Blazing Summer by Gordon L. Rottman #TuesdayBookBlog #DystopianYA

April 14, 2020

  In yesterday’s post, I compared standard young adult dystopian tropes to the new standard of life in the time …

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Nailed it! #humor #kids #parenting

August 26, 2019

I was TOTALLY right! As CNN reports here, in a new study by a team of researchers at Germany’s Heidelberg …

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#BookReview of Mahoney by Andrew Joyce #Western #GenerationalSaga @huckfin76 #RBRT #TuesdayBookBlog

June 18, 2019

I was fascinated by Andrew Joyce’s new generational saga, because in many ways his tale of Irish refugees in America …

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So you want to write a western? Plus #BookReview of Marta’s Daughter by Gordon Rottman #Western #humor

February 10, 2019

Thinking of writing a Western? As genre’s go, this one’s tropes are relatively easy to nail: Set it in the American …

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Top ten great reasons to get older. #humor #SundayBlogShare

September 16, 2018

[Excerpt from Life Begins When The Kids Leave Home And The Dog Dies] The advantages of geezerhood Every time I …

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Surviving the 6 worst things about #Christmas Part 3 ~ Plus #BookReview Marta’s Ride by Gordon Rottman #Western #humor

November 29, 2017

Barb’s guide to surviving Christmahannukwanzadan Solstice….You’re welcome #6: The Office Party. (here) #5: Waiting in lines.  (here) #4: Visiting Santa.  …

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Most dangerous relationship question. Answered. PLUS #BookReview of HELL NIGHT by Matt Kincade #zombie #horror #humor

April 20, 2017

The most dangerous relationship question: What do you want to watch? With the possible exception of joint DIY projects or …

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#BookReview for 5-star #western RIDE HARDER by Gordon Rottman

February 12, 2017

Of course, 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). Occasionally, the Soiled Doves—if they had a Heart-of-Gold—would become good saloon owners (like Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke) or even wives. On any given noon, there could be shoot-outs on Main Street. Or perhaps a gang of black-hats wearing long dusters would arrive in town, scope out the saloon, and then rob the bank, shooting their way out of town in a hail of bullets as they hightail it back to the Hole-in-the Wall/territory line/Mexico.

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#Westerns, buffalo chips, and dogs. #Bookreview YELLOW HAIR #SundayBlogShare @huckfinn76

November 20, 2016

Andrew Joyce doesn’t so much take on the stereotypes, as he presents a revisionist history of epic events from a human scale. But in the light of recent elections, I also have to say that it feels like a cautionary tale. As Americans, we’re invited to examine our past, and to take an honest look at what happens when we stop viewing other people—their lives, their looks, their cultures—as having the same level of human value as our own.

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Best ‘horrifying, #romantic, tragic, comic, #SciFi cowboy #detective novel’ ever! The Devil’s Mouth by Matt Kincade #FridayReads

June 17, 2016

Genre bingo (or How to Write a Bestselling Book/Hit Movie) : Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, …

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WHERE DID NULL CITY BOOKS GO? (and how can YOU read them for FREE?)

I've split with my publisher, so books 1-4 are getting a makeover in time for the release of OPEN FARE, the final NULL CITY book. If you'd like to read free copies before then, I invite you to join our Beta Reader team. Please send email (barbtaub (at) gmail (dot) com and be sure to let me know which format you prefer. I'll send you my undying thanks plus advanced readers copies of all books, including the upcoming OPEN FARE.

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Superpowers suck? Try Null City. After one day there, imps become baristas, and hellhounds become poodles. But someone should have told them the angels were all on the other side.

Each morning, hope flares in the tiny flash of a second before I touch that first thing. And destroy it.

Warden Carey Parker's to-do list is already long enough: find her brother and sister, rescue her roommate, save Null City, and castrate her ex-boyfriend. Preferably with a dull-edged garden tool. A rusty one.

Two novellas: "Payback Is A Witch" & "Just For The Spell Of It"

The story of three women eating our way across India in search of adventure, elephants, temples, palaces, western toilets, monkeys, the perfect paratha…and the kindness of Indian strangers.

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