TweetMailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host for the month of October being Savvy Verse & Wit. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who [CONTINUE READING]
TweetThank you Farrah for inviting me to your blog today. I’m excited to be here. With Halloween just around the corner, many children (young and old) will dress up as goblins, ghouls, and monsters. They will romp through the darkness, their disguises hiding them from evil spirits (depending on which lore your follow) and gather [CONTINUE READING]
TweetSecret Lives is a big novel about big issues—aging and death, the way our society treats its senior citizens, women’s friendships, the powers of love, the theory and practice of magic, the rebirth of the Goddess and Her ancient religion. It’s about the untidy mysteries of human life. As the baby boom generation ages, the [CONTINUE READING]
TweetObsessions are a fact of life. Okay, not a terribly unique observation, but it’s one we try to overlook because, let’s face it, we can get a little testy when one of our obsessions is pointed out to us. Like the other day. This guy, we’ll call him Dude-who-insists-on-pointing-out-my-obsessions-until-I-want-to-smack-him-in-the-face (ahem, or maybe just Dude), decided [CONTINUE READING]
Tweet Seventeen‐year‐old Dylan Kennedy always knew something was different about him, but until his mother abandoned him in the middle of Oregon with grandparents he’s never met, he had no idea what. When Dylan sees a girl in white in the woods behind his grandparents’ farm, he knows he’s seen her before…in his dreams. He’s [CONTINUE READING]
TweetBarbara Ardinger has written eight novels and is currently on book tour with Secret Lives. We asked if she felt that her writing and storytelling have improved with each book she wrote and whether she’s always know she wanted to be an author one day. I have written six nonfiction books about feminist spirituality. Two [CONTINUE READING]
TweetMailbox Monday is where other bloggers write about the books they received the previous week. The Mailbox Monday is now going on a blog tour with the host for the month of October being Savvy Verse & Wit. Visit her blog to see what books made it her way and check out the others who [CONTINUE READING]
TweetWhen thinking about what to write for my guest post, I thought about how I ended up on tour with Key of Solomon and decided I would share my journey with you. I hope you enjoy the look back. The path to publication with Relic Defender: Key of Solomon was a long and, at times, [CONTINUE READING]
TweetWhen I started writing “A Soul to Steal,” I didn’t think very hard about how I was going to market it. It crossed my mind, sure, and I even went so far as to picture the cover in my mind—the Headless Horseman racing down a moonlit path. But I didn’t really consider who the audience [CONTINUE READING]
TweetRecently I was running an errand near the local mall. I had not gone out there recently. While I was waiting to meet a friend I decided to stop by the massive Borders store. I had not been to that Borders for at least six months or so. Last year at Christmas time I had [CONTINUE READING]
Tweet He’s given up on happily-ever-after… Cinderella’s Prince Charming is divorced and at a dead end. The new owner of a bookstore, Charming has given up on women, royalty, and anything that smacks of a future. That is, until he meets up with Mellie… But she may be the key to happily-right-now… Mellie is sick [CONTINUE READING]
TweetThe women of ancient Egypt were the freest of any civilization on earth, until the modern era. In several dynasties of ancient Egypt the God’s Wives of Amun stood tall, priestesses of wealth and power, who represented the pinnacle of female power in the Egyptian state. Many called The God’s Wife of Amun second only [CONTINUE READING]
TweetStories come in a variety of ways including the urban-myth of a writer who saw dew on a rose one morning and was inspired to write a 400 page best selling novel. Yeah, right. For me stories come in pieces. As they come I make notes because sometimes I don’t realize it’s the same plot [CONTINUE READING]
TweetThe best tip I can give anyone who is contemplating a renovation, is before bringing in a contractor for a quote on the project and certainly before anyone begins any destruction or construction, try to have EVERYTHING designed and specified in writing. This is a concept that is difficult for a lot of people to [CONTINUE READING]
Tweet “A beautifully woven story…You will weep for and cheer on the O’Malley sisters …immediately miss them once the last page is turned.” —Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and These Hidden Things, on Good Graces Lesley Kagen returns with the sequel to her New York Timesbestselling debut, Whistling [CONTINUE READING]