Mafia Romance That I Just Read
First of all, the featured picture is one I took while in traffic last week. There are two couples driving motorcycles with side cars. The woman behind’s sidecar contains a dog with goggles for his eyes and ears. He was…
A Review of One Wolf Next Door
Hello Everybody! I sometimes do some reviews of books I get off Netgalley. To be honest, I only do those I can say something good about because I don’t like tearing down another author’s book publicly unless I am taking…
Free Conference On Writing!
I’m taking part in a free conference on writing hosted by Weeknight Writers. It’s titled Storycrafting Sessions: Drafting. It’s a day long and I’m on the last panel, which is about how to craft a satisfying ending. While we all…
And yet MORE Snippets from Dirty Deeds 2! And a HUGE bonus!
From Liz and Eli Sitting: Eli didn’t talk a lot, no chitchat, no chain of consciousness patter, no gushy mushy stuff, so she seldom knew where she stood with him. Not that she needed that kind of emotional validation. Not…
And yet MORE Dirty Deeds 2 snippets!!!!
From 101 Ways to Die: Captain Hugh Frankson of the NYPD stormed to my desk and slapped a file down on the ever-growing stack of misdemeanors I needed to register in our database before I could leave. Any other day,…
More Dirty Deeds 2 snippets!!!
We’re getting great feedback on these stories. Devon and I talked today and we are so excited because we both want to write books that are fun and escapist and take readers into another fun headspace for awhile where they…
Read Along Part 1
Be aware that there will be spoilers as I read through this book. I started The Stranger Times a couple of days ago. My right-before-bed reading. I find that I’m reading it like a reader, and then as I think…
January 22 Newsletter text
Hi Everyone. I sent my newsletter out and for some reason known only to the computer gremlins, it only sent to a very few people. I am copying and pasting in the main text of it here, and hopefully…
Worse Than Anticipated
You know that book I was reading? Romantic suspense? And I wanted to keep reading even though I had fears about where it was going? It was so much worse than anticipated. I really don’t want to be mean to…
Annoying Tropes
I did a thing recently where I wrote down a list of tropes that I like to read in books, and started a list of those I don’t. The second list right now isn’t very long, probably because I had…