There’s a saying about real life: it’s very poorly organized. In fiction, we can have our make-believe people say all the right things in all the right places, craft our villains into anything from being totally evil to fatally misunderstood,…
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While the Bombs Fell by Robbie Cheadle and Elsie Hancy Eaton
Tagged with: memoir, Robbie Cheadle, While the Bombs Fell, World War II
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Moments We Love, Poetry by Balroop Singh
Balroop Singh has released a new poetry collection, and that’s an event that’s worth the attention of contemporary poetry lovers. Ms. Singh has a unique style, one I can appreciate as a short story writer. Her work is generally free…
Be Prepared: Hunkering Down in a Power Outage
California now has the dubious distinction of being an economic powerhouse with a third-world power grid. One windy day and we’re without power for yet another week. Oh, huzzah. And here I thought the comments about California couldn’t get any…
Tagged with: Being Prepared, coleman sotve, food and water storage, power outage, prepping, solar lights
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Posted in Being Prepared, Uncategorized
My Maine: Haiku through the Seasons by Bette A. Stevens
Bette A. Sevens is a real Renaissance woman when it comes to writing–she does it all. Children’s fiction and nonfiction with her charming story of Matilda the Monarch butterfly as well as her Tanagram puzzle book, historical fiction with Pure…
Seeds of Change by Willow Thomson
Willow Thomson is a writer pal of mine, and I’m excited to introduce you to her work here. As veterans of the same online forums, we’ve offered advice to each other as writers and publishers. And the result of all…
Tagged with: seeds of change, soft sci-fi, soft science fiction, willow thomson
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Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
MYTHAXIS: A new concept online magazine
Originally posted on beetleypete:
From Daniel Scott White, publisher of Longshot Island, Unreal, and Unfit, comes a new Fantasy Magazine project, Mythaxis. This offers an exciting opportunity to bloggers and writers (including published authors) in the Fantasy genre. Daniel is…
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Memory’s Wake by Selina Fenech
Memory’s Wake by Selina Fenech has a gorgeous cover, and this is continued inside with chapter illustrations that could make JK Rowling sigh with envy, all the work of the talented author-illustrator. This greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the accompanying…
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Survival of the Fittest by Jacqui Murray
Five tribes. One leader. A treacherous journey across three continents in search of a new home. *** That’s a great tagline. And I enjoyed the book, too. It starts like this: Xhosa is a female, a would-be budding leader of…
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Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized
Dragon Valentine
Nobody sends cards to a dragon, It’s just an unfortunate fact. Do they think that we’ll burn them to ashes or what? I would never commit such an act. *** If people sent cards to us dragons, Valentines with…
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Call of the Guardian by J.M. Williams
Call of the Guardian is a fun read, a classy and classic fantasy adventure. A boy, Draven, plunges into a dragon cave while running in desperation one day and discovers a mentor. The dragon, Razal, provides both strength and stability…
Cathleen Townsend 