• Book Review: Kill Box

    I received this book from NetGalley. Kill Box is a Thriller by Nichole Christoff. Today we’re starting with the description: Hardworking Jamie Sinclair can’t wait for the weekend. She plans to be off the clock and on the road to…

  • Coolios

    I just got invited to be in a really awesome anthology based on another writers oh so awesome world. I can’t give details. Sorry. But it’s going to be amazing and so I’m rereading the novels starting today. In other…

  • Book Review: Wrapped in Red

    Received from Netgalley. This book is actually two novellas about Christmas, both contemporary romances. I don’t really have a lot to say about them. I found them fine, but not really all that appealing to me on an emotional level.…

  • Book review: The Society Lilith Saintcrow

    I received this book from NetGalley. I enjoy reading Lilith Saintcrow. I was looking forward to The Society quite a bit and sadly found myself disappointed. It has a terrific premise, but it wasn’t executed as well as I hoped…

  • Politics and how much I really hate them

    I have just learned about the Hastert rule. No, that isn’t true. I just learned it had a name and how it came to be. I think this method of governance is both irresponsible and unethical and should be criminal.…

  • Book review: Shadow Fall

    I’m way behind on book reviews. Way behind. I counted. I have at least nine books that I’ve read and haven’t yet written my reviews. Some of the books were really good, some less so, some really less so. I’ll…

  • Writing Insight

    I had a kind and generous friend beta read the manuscript I’ve been working on. It’s something I’ve worked on for awhile and yet very quickly–at a couple writing retreats mostly, and then a little more. She made a comment…

  • Today I mourn

    I am weeping. Ugly crying. A mass shooting occurred at a community college south of here. A good friend teaches there. He is okay. Others are not. One paper reports a student eye-witness saying she saw her writing teacher get…

  • Title Announcement

    The new title for the third Diamond City Book is . . . Are you ready? Whisper of Shadows The release will happen sometime in January, maybe February. More on that when things get definite. Meanwhile, I’ve been working on…