30-minute Gluten-free Cookbook
Just glancing through the 30-minute Gluten-free Cookbook, it looks like a good choice. However, when I dug deeper, the flaws kept piling up. First, the positives include flags for other types of allergens and full nutritional information. There is also a great variety of recipes from appetizers to desserts. ThereContinue Reading
Buzz Books 2020: Fall and Winter
In this troubled time of curbside pickup, the Buzz Books 2020: Fall and Winter is an invaluable resource for finding new books and authors to read. When looking for a new book to read in a bookstore or library, everyone reads the blurb on the back or the front flap.Continue Reading
Furmidable Foes
I loved the previous books in the Mrs. Murphy series. However, Furmidable Foes made Mrs. Murphy and the other animals a side story. Front and center are St. Luke’s gardens and the historical fiction of runaway slaves in 1787. The Dorcas Guild’s events also play a role in the presentContinue Reading
A Walk Through Hell
Something evil lurks inside a Long Beach warehouse in A Walk Through Hell. Two FBI agents, Goss and Hunzikker, walk into a warehouse never to return. An eight-person SWAT team is sent in to find the missing agents. Thirty seconds later, they come out talking of dread and someone comingContinue Reading
The New Girl
Maggie is The New Girl at Haute, a London fashion magazine. She is doing a “maternity cover” (filling in for the fashion editor during her maternity leave). Her friend, Margot, is the very pregnant permanent fashion editor, who suggested Maggie apply. Margot believed, “Maggie would be so indebted to meContinue Reading
Shakespeare for Squirrels
Anything, like Shakespeare for Squirrels, that makes me laugh out loud this much in these troubling times deserves 5 stars! Oh, dang, I’ve spoiled the ending! Meet Pocket of Dog Snogging upon Ouze, all-licensed fool to kings etc. He and the large ninny Drool are set adrift by pirates withContinue Reading
Fireworks, A Firecracker & Foul Play
Author Guest Post Why cupcakes Fireworks, A Firecracker & Foul Play while being a standalone story is also book 5 in the Death by Cupcake series. The series is set in Callie’s Cakes a cupcake bakery where Anna the baker extraordinaire, Kristie the coffee-obsessed barista, and Callie the nerdy ownerContinue Reading
Nearly Departed Guest Post and Giveaway
Author Guest Post Creating a Series Protagonist: The Importance of Gal Pals The Eve Appel Mysteries contain mystery, a bit of romance, humorous scenes, dialogue and adventures, but best of all the close relationship between the protagonist and her best friend. I write in first person so the story isContinue Reading
#ENTRYLEVELBOSS
I agree with the author of #ENTRYLEVELBOSS that as you get further into your career, you lose empathy for those just beginning theirs. I think this clearly laid out plan of attack would be very useful. If not for the full-time gamers in their parent’s basements, at least for theContinue Reading
Secrets of the Treasure King Guest Post and Giveaway
Author’s Guest Post In the first four books of the Seaside Cove Bed & Breakfast Mystery series, everyone wants to find the San Manuel, a fictional 400-year-old Spanish galleon. Supposedly, the San Manuel is filled with riches including china, ivory, and ancient artwork. So, the question is, could such aContinue Reading
A Study in Murder
It’s 1890 in Bath, England. Independent-minded Lady Amy finds her recently ex-fiancé dead in the new historic cozy mystery, A Study in Murder. “How dare St. Vincent come here uninvited and then land on the floor in her library with a knife in his chest? The whole thing was soContinue Reading
A Deadly Inside Scoop Review, Interview and Giveaway
My Review Win is finally re-opening her family’s ice cream shop in small town Ohio in A Deadly Inside Scoop. Construction delays have forced her to open Crewse Creamery on the first snow day of the year. In Ohio. Not exactly ice cream weather. Even Win knows what to doContinue Reading
This is How I Lied
When a murdered girl’s Doc Marten is found twenty-five years later, the police reopen the case. The death of Eve, her best childhood friend, had been tragic for Maggie. finding her body with Eve’s younger sister, Nola, was especially painful. Now one of only two detectives in the small ruralContinue Reading
The Last Day
The Last Day is about what happens to the world when a rogue star causes the earth to stop spinning. No more sunrises or sunsets. Freezing cold and darkness in one area. Burning heat and abandoned cities in another. There is one thin sliver of temperate climate. How do youContinue Reading
The Goodbye Man
In The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw is searching for two boys. The reason? For the $50,000 reward, of course. That’s his job. Adam and Erick are accused of painting racist graffiti and burning a cross on a church lawn. Worse, they shot the church’s janitor and its lay preacher. WhenContinue Reading
The Down Days
The Down Days is about an African epidemic of laughter that quickly turns sour when it is found to be 100% fatal. It is based on a real pandemic of mass delusions that happened in Tanzania in 1962. The Down Days seems like it is a news report from ourContinue Reading