Learning to Fly - Autocrit Short Story Challenge
We reached the third day of our journey and, to be honest, things were not going well. With steam coming out of the radiator and my car...


Louise Penny - Another Favorite Author
Each of the murders—the retired schoolteacher felled by an arrow, the death of a prior at an isolated monastery, the carnage from an interna


Guilty Pleasure - Steamy Crime Fiction
New York homicide detective, Eve Dallas, is the main character in the In Death series. She is the lead in an ensemble assemblage of characte


Favorite Authors - Suspense
Baldacci authors a number of series. I’ve enjoyed the plot and character development in all of them. However, my two favorite series, as evi


Favorite Authors - Sue Grafton
In honor of Sue Grafton’s recently released ‘Y is for Yesterday’, the penultimate book in her alphabet series, I choose Ms. Grafton as my fa


Indie Authors Find Acceptance in the Public Library
Through a free service developed by the Library Journal in 2015, indie authors are now offered an opportunity to provide royalty-free access


First Impressions – An Indie Author's Lesson Learned
I had made an erroneous assumption that good quality stock photographs were expensive. They aren’t.


PUBLIC LIBRARIES - Relics of the Past?
With the advent of E-books, and the availability of instantaneous, computer-generated information on Google, public libraries could easily h


If You Don't Have Time to Read, Just Listen
If your excuse for not reading is that you don’t have time, think again. If you haven’t discovered audio books (either via Audible download


It's Never Too Late - On Becoming a New Author
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED APRIL 2015. Re-published in Jan 2017 to resolve text viewability issues. Blog content is unchanged from 2015....