Let’s talk about all things Classics. Do you like the genre? What are some of your favorites? Julie: Honestly, I’m not very well read in the classics genre. I read the ones we had to for school, but seeing as those were quite a bit stuffy and we analyzed them to death, I mostly got […]
No Book Buying Challenge 2015 – April Update As you know, we are co-hosting the Show Your Shelves Some Love: A No Book Buying Challenge. You can also review the details of the post on the “No Book Buying Challenge“ page from the menu above. It’s almost the middle of the year, you haven’t bought […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Lynn’s Quote: “Once upon a time, an undeserving boy pulled a little half-drowned, wannabe mermaid out of the ocean. He laid her on the sand, thinking his heart would […]
Guest Post: Inspiration for Fly Again by Tracy Sherwood As a writer, you never know from where your inspiration will arrive. For instance, in my earlier days of becoming a published writer, I had the opportunity to submit a personal essay to A Cup of Comfort for Women. I was excited by the prospect of having […]
Celebrate the Bard’s birthday (April 23) by taking this quiz from Grammarly.com. (Click the image above.) For more of the Bard, check out their article, Do You Understand the True Bard or the False? Some Shakespeare Etymologies. I got: Shakespearean English Student. Ha, I only got 4 right. This one is hard, and I […]
Lynn’s Review: I really don’t know how Tammara Webber manages to capture my attention and empathy for the characteres in the first chapter of this book, but she does. Sweet is the third book in the Contours of the Heart Series. It is a stand-alone, but also a spin-off of the other books in the series. […]
At what point do you break up with a series or an author? Julie: Honestly, if I’m not enjoying where the series is going, I’m probably out. If it takes me several books into the series to realize it isn’t fun anymore, oh well. If I only have a couple of books left to finish […]
Lynn’s Review: There you are, trying to decide which historical romance genre to read next. Do you pick English nobility? Do you pick Western? Or do you try one of those you got your English nobility in my Western mash-ups? Well, if that’s the case, To Love a Lady might not be the way to […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. Julie’s Quote: “Do you cook too?” he asked, the tone teasing. “ ’Cause any woman who does a weapon striptease, handles a Benelli like she knows how to use […]
Guest Post: Writing Influences by Tania Joyce As I find with all my writing, Propositions was influenced by a combination of many elements. Some straight forward, while others were so left-wing, I was even baffled sometimes wondering where the ideas came from. When I started writing this book two years ago, I was going through […]