Snarky: When Good Critiques Go Bad
Click image to read the full review. In my limited time blogging, I haven’t been shy about saying what I don’t like about a certain popular trilogy. In fact, I’m rarely shy about anything, even...
View ArticleLaws of Attraction
Painting by Cheri Reichers, available at CheriArt.com I don’t believe that we have one soul-mate in this life. While I love the idea that we might all have someone out there who is our bashert, and...
View ArticleEmotional vs. Physical Infidelity?
My friends and I have an ongoing debate about the relative weight that we place on emotional versus physical infidelity. The central question goes something like this: if you were to discover that your...
View ArticleVoice Part II –‘Caucasia’ by Danzy Senna
I won’t review this book here, except to say that I gave it five stars. One of the reasons I loved it was not just the unique nature of the voice, and of the situation it portrays, but because it is...
View ArticleSeven Days ‘Til ‘Secret’ . . .
There’s something about countdowns that invoke a mild sense of panic in me. Any countdown, even the one on New Year’s Eve. I don’t know what that’s about, but I am having a similar reaction to the...
View Article‘Secret’ Release Day!
Whew. It’s here! The release day for ‘Secret’. All the levers have been pulled and it will go live on Amazon sometime today. I spent the last several days agonizing because it’s so different from...
View ArticleJacinta Howard, Wine & More Writers
Not only is Jacinta Howard one of my top 3 favorite indie authors, she is definitely one of my top three favorite people that I’ve met through writing. And it also doesn’t hurt that she’s basically my...
View ArticleNEW RELEASE! ‘THE MAKEOVER’
This is my first release of 2018, y’all! It was a really fun but in some ways tough one to write. I’m not sure I’ve ever tried to do a book (that isn’t a sequel), where the couple is very much in love...
View ArticleBlog Stop: ‘The Breakup Plan’ by Tia Kelly
meet drew. Drew Wilkerson is a dangerous man. Not in the physical sense. Well, yeah, technically it could be related to something physical, but he’s the type of man that could get away with the most...
View ArticleIn Medias Res–A Guide to ‘FOUR: STORIES OF MARRIAGE’
in me·di·as res /in ˈmēdēəs ˈres,ˈmādēˌäs/ adverb into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. “having begun his story in medias res, he then interrupts it” into the midst of things. This one...
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