This summer I’ve been walking my dog Jack each morning and then riding my bike 8-10 miles for exercise. Our area has plenty of bike/walking paths and bike lanes, so there are usually fellow bikers, dog walkers, parents with baby strollers, power walkers, joggers, and serious runners, depending on the time of day.
Some mornings there is a stream of high school boys running in shorts and bare chests, getting in shape for the new track season. Other days there are young army reservists jogging...
Today I am showcasing a new book by author Rebekah Lyn. I met Rebekah on a Facebook author forum quite a few years ago and have enjoyed reading her blog and many of her books. Her new release, Fragments of Grace, is a lovely story set in Venice, Italy. I have never been to Venice myself, but it is obvious that Rebekah has. I felt like I'd been dropped directly onto those cobbled streets where a briny sea breeze carried a hint of espresso on the air and church bells ring out from an ancient...
If you are looking for a new series that is shock-full of mystery, romance, and nail-biting suspense, all set in a small town filled with quirky characters you will grow to love... Double Barrel Mysteries is the series for you!
Blake and Shelby Gunner came alive for me in a dream. Yes, that does happen now and again. I woke up from a vivid dream with characters I just needed to put into print. It wasn't a full fledged story, but basically the outline of a series. Blake was a detective and...
Many of you have asked when my next book is coming out. I’m sorry to report that my latest suspense novel is still hung up in the works. Time and motivation have been nil and void lately.
It’s dripping icy spring rains this morning and snow is expected tonight. This morning’s weather is kind of how I feel about finishing a book and releasing it into the unmanned void.
The truth is, most of my books were stolen by Anthropic and others to feed to their AI, in spite of me going to the trouble of...
It’s a given in advertising. Beautiful people can sell much more than average looking people.
We all want to be those people with perfect bodies, hair, and teeth, buying that expensive car or feeding their kids delicious, microwavable pocket-pho-food items filled with so many chemicals they could cause a nuclear reaction. Sadly, when we look in the mirror, reality slips back in. But for a few blessed moments we relate with that character and their well-behaved children, and may just run out...
It’s hard to believe winter is halfway over and Valentines Day is almost here. I know, some of you don’t celebrate the day of hearts, Cupid, and pink and red decorations. But without Valentines to break up the monotony of February, we would be stuck in the middle of winter with nothing more than a random President’s Day celebration.
I’m as patriotic as the next American but I like to know just which president I’m celebrating. When I was a kid, we celebrated Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th and...
It's a New Year and I've resolved to read more books! Actually, that's a given. I always want to read more books. I don't always find enough time to read all the books I want to read though, but I give it my best try. The real problem is finding time to live my regular life in-between the beautiful, intriguing, suspenseful, romantic worlds I read about. Right now I am in the middle of J.T. Ellison's A Very Bad Thing, Beth Moran's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and Mara Williams' The...
I spent way too much time watching mindless, sappy, Christmas movies on Netflix this year. Good ones are far and few between, but sometimes you just have to wade through the mess to find a gem and get into that Christmas spirit.
I have always preferred stories with plenty of humor to counter the romance. My own stories have some of both and I personally don’t think you can have lasting romance without a touch of humor in your lives. Sitting around eating sugar cookies while making googly eyes...
As I stare at my iPad, scroll through news stories that read like sensationalized film noir and delete dozens of emails for Black Friday sales, political ads, and of course book platforms, I am reminded of simpler times when the news was just the facts, ma'am, and writing a letter was something you did with a pen and paper. The wait to hear back was much longer but you didn’t fret about whether the recipient would be mad at you or unintentionally offended by your emoji selection. Social media...
Time seems to be flying faster than a double winged buzzard! Don't know if that's really a thing, but I'm going with it.
The garden is drying up, the grand girls are back in school, but I'm still finding things I need to get done before I can sit for longer than an hour at my desk and write. I've heard it said that you just have to keep your butt in the seat and pound away at those keys and eventually the right words, sentences, paragraphs, and dialogue will accumulate and you will have a...
After our seventeen-year-old dog, Willow, passed on to doggy heaven this past spring, I thought I'd wait and see how things went. We've had a dog in the family since my son was five and he's now forty. So, a long time. I knew I'd probably be lonely without my shadow following me all around the house, but I thought I could handle it since I also have my granddaughters over quite a bit and they tend to make me plenty busy.
After just a few weeks I was already scrolling the internet for puppy...
Summer is a great time to catch up on all those books you've promised yourself you were going to read but never did. Regret is a word best used for letting all the vegetables in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator rot while you go out to eat every night of the week, or forgetting a load of wet laundry in the washer until it smells like a boy's moldy locker room. Don't let the awesome novels on your TBR list be left unread like a 1500 page bill before congress. That would be truly...