The headline caught my attention: Music is a lesson in “Yes, you can” By the way, I liked headlines better when they looked like headlines, not a sentence that someone forgot to punctuate. But I digress. The headline was for a column in The Dallas Morning News written by Tracy Begland, a freelance writer and […]
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The Summer Son Craig Lancaster Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: AmazonEncore (January 25, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935597248 ISBN-13: 978-1935597247 Craig Lancaster has a knack for exploring relationships on all levels, and The Summer Son does that as well as any book out there. Mitch Quillen has had a rocky relationship with his father that has
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It’s been a while since I shared some of the nonsense…. er, humor, from my friend, Tracy Farr. Enjoy…. When life is getting you down, just fiddle There comes a time in a man’s life when he wakes up one morning, feels his bones creak as he gets out of bed, and realizes his tree-climbing
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First, I want to thank everyone who has bought copies of One Small Victory this month for their Kindles. The book has become quite popular, and I am so thrilled that Jenny’s story is getting read by so many people. Today I am blogging on All Day, All Night Romance Divas about the tools writers
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Tomb With A ViewBy Casey DanielsISBN: 97804252355152010 mass market releasefrom Berkley Prime Crime Pair one of our less interesting presidents, James A. Garfield, with a cute slender, sexually aware private detective, cum medium, and what do you get? You get this delightful cozy mystery, one of several in Casey Daniel’s series of Pepper Martin adventures.
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Since the news from Japan continues to be so depressing, I thought I would focusing on positives this week… A Methodist church in Lewisville, Texas has recently opened a drop-in teen shelter for kids who are homeless and need a place for support. At the shelter teens can get tutoring, mentoring for college applications, Internet
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Today I am a guest on Patricia Stoltey’s blog, where we are sharing tips on characterization. Stop on by if you can to read what we all have to say about the people in our stories.
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The other day while we were watching news reports from Japan, my husband wondered aloud when the Blame Game would start. That’s what usually happens after a disaster of that magnitude… well actually after a disaster of any magnitude. We have a day or two or three of collective horror and sadness, and then we
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Does anyone but me hate Daylight Saving Time? I woke up this morning at my usual time according to my internal clock, but it was an hour later according the clock on my nightstand. My watch agreed with the clock on the nightstand. Getting out of bed at 7 in the morning and starting a
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Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another review with us… Kind of Blueby Miles CorwinISBN: 978-1-60809-007-5From Oceanview Publishing323 pages, November, 2010 A few years ago, this author wrote a couple of serious non-fiction books about the Los Angeles Police Department. He spent a lot of time with cops in that city and wrote books that
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