Just as there’s no one right way to write a book, there are also no true rules for writing. Ask a group of writers how they start a book and work through to the end of it, and all of us will tell you something different. But for what it’s worth, here are my own [CONTINUE READING]
Apr 172012
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Prominent businessman, and friend of the chief of police, Nathan Stanley is stabbed on the frontsteps of his Grand Avenue Hill home. Catherine O’Brien and her partner Louise Montgomery are tasked with figuring out who-done-it, in two days or less. The investigation is complicated by the fact that Stanley wasn’t a nice guy. His assistant, Tracy, [CONTINUE READING]
Apr 122012
The Night Circus was and still is a hit since it’s release last September. It’s definitely a book I’m interested in grabbing a hold off and from all the praises out there regarding this book, it might even be a keeper, one of the shelves, and one to get in hardback. It’s the story of [CONTINUE READING]
I have a very vivid dream life. I have since I was a child. From the ages of five until I was twenty-five, I dreamed several times a week that someone was trying to kill me. I spent many nights in my dreams running, running, running from some unknown assailant. Fortunately those nightmares have taken [CONTINUE READING]
Shore Excursion {#Book Review}
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Apr 102012
Travel agents are a vanishing breed, but Sidney Marsh, a New York transplant from Mississippi, is holding her ground–at least on land. She is the tour leader on a cruise through Scandinavia for a group of eccentric senior citizens who call themselves the High Steppers. Sidney expects her days to be filled with long meals, [CONTINUE READING]
Apr 102012
Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope’s Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the last thing she needs is to get involved with the [CONTINUE READING]
Today we have Stacy Verdick Case, author of A Grand Murder, which is the first book in her Catherine O’Brien mystery series. (Our review will be posted next Thursday and we’re giving away a copy!) When she asked me if there was anything in particular I’d like her to write about, I suggested that she [CONTINUE READING]
(Click the tour banner to follow the book tour.) Interview subject: Jameson Clares Jolene Perry: Tell me a little about you… Jameson Clares: Uh, okay. I’m a senior in high school. Lived in Las Vegas my whole life. Both my parents work at the Paris Hotel on the strip. We live in a nice house [CONTINUE READING]
Exiled from her home in the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 262012
I interview my characters in my head all the time in order to flesh out their motivation for making the choices they do. It was great fun to do it out loud, so to speak! Today I’m interviewing Brodie Thorne, hero of my HQN release WOODROSE MOUNTAIN. Brodie, tell us a little about yourself. (Shifting [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 162012
The ideas of sweetly, child-like faeries are largely a product of the Victorian age. In ancient lore, faeries were a mischievous, and sometimes downright murderous, lot. And Cornish pixies (or piskeys) could be be the most magical and evil of all. According to Pixie Folklore and Legends by Enys Tregarthen, God once called on Adam [CONTINUE READING]
Forgiveness is a central theme in BEYOND JUSTICE. Today Josh talks about its transforming power. When I was a child back in the Mesozoic Era, whenever a kid would tell us to stop doing something the common retort was always “It’s a free country”—in other words, I can do whatever I like. Indeed, relatively speaking, [CONTINUE READING]
(We’re sitting at a strategically placed table on the front patio of a well-known crowded Beverly Hills restaurant) K.T.: Why do we have to be so conspicuous? You know I don’t do scenes. NDV: Puh-leaze. Get over yourself. If it’s any comfort, no one is interested in you if they can’t place you in the [CONTINUE READING]
Mar 072012
As a start-up entrepreneur in the medical device industry since the mid-80s, I’ve been privileged to have the opportunity to see the newest innovations in healthcare and work with some of the most brilliant researchers, scientists and physicians in the industry throughout the world. It’s allowed me to witness technologies that could easily be viewed [CONTINUE READING]
