THE MAD RAMBLINGS OF A JOKER By Brandon Dillon Publisher: Paper Airplane PublishingPub Date: January 24, 2021Pages: 156 pagesCategories: Poetry / Psychology / PTSD / Veteran Stories Scroll for Giveaway! +++ BOOK BLURB +++ Poet Brandon Dillon makes his debut with The Mad Ramblings of a Joker, a brutally honest collection full of metaphor and vibrant …
Before I started writing novels and screenplays, I was a journalist, working for a few regional and national publications. At the regional level, I wrote two newspaper columns, one humorous and one general. At that second gig, I could write anything I wanted, oh bless that editor’s heart who let me do that! Often those …
THE TAKEAWAY MEN By Meryl Ain Publisher: SparkPressPub Date: August 4th, 2020Pages: 265 pagesCategories: Historical / Jewish Literature / Sibling Fiction / Holocaust With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after …
Dire’s Club by Kimberly Packard Publisher: Abalos PublishingPublication Date: March 23, 2021Pages: 326 Pages Categories: Action & Adventure / Contemporary / Women’s Fiction Scroll for Giveaway! Dying isn’t just hard on the ones left behind, the regret of unfinished lives weighs heavily on the terminally ill. That’s where Dire’s Club steps in, a specialty travel agency that …
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A friend sent me this meme. The same one who sends me the humorous ones, and I contemplated this for a bit, thinking about how it applies to both of us, as well as all artists. My friend is a visual artist, primarily sculpting, while I’m a word artist, but we’ve bonded through the years …
STIFF LIZARD By LISA HANEBERG Series: A Spy Shop Mystery Publisher: Written Pursuits PressPages: 364 pagesPub Date: March 13th, 2021Categories: Women Sleuths / Cozy Mystery / Private Investigator / Humor Rodent Roger, a popular Galveston Island exterminator, goes missing the day after he tells private investigator and spy shop owner Xena Cali about a concerning …
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. The pandemic sure is taking it’s toll on folks, a fact that Janice and Annette can testify to. Sometimes it makes us say the oddest things, and it’s hard to recognize a joke when we can’t see a smile. Before turning the blog over to Slim, …
Happy Spring to everyone. It’s the time we celebrate the emergence of new life out of the barrenness of winter, and I always delight in the wildflowers that pop up in my yard and neighboring yards. I’m not sure what those lovely flowers are called, but they sprout up abundantly in early spring here in …
A WALL OF BRIGHT DEAD FEATHERS By Babette Fraser Hale Publisher: Winedale Publishing Pages: 216 Pub Date: March 1st, 2021 Categories: Short Stories / Literary Fiction Scroll for Giveaway! Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even as the troubles they hoped to leave behind persist. Twelve …
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First up, Happy Spring everyone. Here in NE Texas spring is popping up all over. These pansies are in a large pot in my front yard, and they will soon give way to other flowers that are happier in the heat of summer that will come our way in a couple of months. In the …