• Link roundup

    I am over the moon to say that Eloisa James likes my books! In an interview, she says so. I’m so very excited!!!! In other news, Path of Fate is on sale this month on Amazon for $1.99. If you…

  • Other Interesting ‘Found’ Research

    Today I found out that they use liquid nitrogen at my husband’s worksite. He’s a machinist and they use the liquid nitrogen to shrink the metal enough to slide it inside a hole and when it heats back up, it…

  • Poisons

    For no particular reason, I started looking at poisons today. I figure it’s something I’ll stash in the back of my head for future writing use. The one I discovered today is Thallium Nitrate, which is odorless, colorless and tasteless.…

  • Where does the time go?

    How cliche is that question? It’s summertime and therefore the kids are home, the folks are up here (they are snowbirds), friends have visited, events have needed attending, and then all the kid fun stuff that has to be done,…

  • Book Review: Follow Me by Tiffany Snow

    Received from Netgalley. I enjoyed Follow Me by Tiffany Snow. It’s romantic suspense with a fair bit of geekery, which made me happy. Here’s the back of the book description. Brilliant, quirky twenty-three-year-old China Mack is totally satisfied with her…

  • Book Review: Sins That Haunt, Lucy Farago

    Received from NetGalley. Sins That Haunt by Lucy Farago is a romantic suspense novel. Here’s the back of the book blurb: Civil attorney Shannon Joyce walks the line of law and order, but she learned from day one how to…

  • Diamond City Magic #4 Snippet

    Here’s a snippet from Diamond City Magic #4: Questions bubbled in his mind. Pointless and useless. He had no idea who’d taken him, how, or why, or where they were taking him. Had they harmed Christina? By God, but the…

  • Overdoing It

    I’ve been making an effort to walk. Basically, I’m trying to work up to 10K steps on my fitbit. I realize the number is fairly arbitrary, but given that I’m out of shape and given that I have a sedentary…

  • Book Review: Romance, Hard to Handle

    I received this book from NetGalley The book is Hard to Handle by Raven Scott. It will be published August 30th by Kensington Books. It’s romance with some suspense thrown in. Here’s the description: A covert ops specialist, a cyber-surveillance…