My Beta Reading Deadline
As an author and a critique partner, beta reading is always top of mind. This month, I have a looming deadline to get my WIP ready for beta readers to…
Month: December 2023
Dog Lessons: Learning the Important Stuff from Our Best Friends
This work by Hersch Wilson, the author of Firefighter Zen, is several books wrapped into one. Not literarily but figuratively. In other words, it’s both dog lover’s companion, childhood memoir,…
Book Teaser: UnSuited
A YOUNG WOMAN MUST DECIDE IF SHE CAN LEAD THE REBELLION AGAINST A CLASSIST, UBER-CAPITALIST SOCIETY IN THIS EXCITING SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE AUGLAND SERIES Ashton has escaped. She’s made…
A Christmas Miracle for the Frosty Marquess
Author Sally Forbes paints a lovely picture in this story about two lost souls bound by matrimony, who find that love truly can blossom in the most unexpected places. In…
Celebrating December Holidays Through Books
I love holidays. All holidays. And what would holidays be without books that tell stories about traditions, journeys, customs, stories, and personal anecdotes. In fact, many authors have launched their…
Santa’s Wish Fulfilled
Christmastime is filled with some bad memories for Roz Henry. Last year, she lost her boyfriend and her job, then her beloved grandfather fell ill. She’d returned to her small…
Happy Holidays and Thank You for Being You!
You know those newsletters that arrive in your email box this time of year from your favorite authors wishing you a happy holiday season? Well, this isn’t one of those….
Writer’s Corner: 5 Ways to Make the Most of The Publishing Industry’s Holiday Break
If you’re a writer, author, literary agent, publisher, or publicist, you get this title. It’s that time of year when all doors close to submissions and interactions with those in…
Out Of the Darkness: Book One in the Courageous Series
This historical novel by David A. Jacinto is a journey into the soul—both the author’s and the readers’. Pulling from his family history and deep research into the mid-nineteenth century…
Southern Book Affairs
I miss living in the South. As a writer and reader, and yes, human being, one of the things I loved most is the hospitality that seems to be a…