Author Guest Post Getting Serious About Humor: Why We Don’t All Laugh at the Same Things A book categorized as a “humorous mystery” can be considered hilarious by one reader and totally off the mark by another. It may be the quality of the writing, but it may also beContinue Reading
Joan Dixon is having a bad year. She’s an unemployed journalist who can’t even get listicle jobs. This new reality has forced her to sell her car and move in with her parents—at age thirty-six. She truly is one of The Nobodies. Joan interviews as a junior copywriter at Bloom,Continue Reading
“Being Indistractable means striving to do what you say you will do.” The author presents four steps that fight the major time sucks in your life and how you deal with them. First, there are concrete methods to master internal triggers that distract from the task you should be doing.Continue Reading
In our modern world of teenage online influencers making six-figure incomes, it is natural to want to learn the Soulful Art of Persuasion. The book details four traits that make a person more persuasive: originality or genuineness, generosity, empathy, and soulfulness. Soulfulness is further defined as being ethical and anContinue Reading
“You give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear. For you.”—from the pulse-pounding new thriller, 29 Seconds. Sarah is having a bad year. Her husband has run off with another woman and won’t answer her phone calls. Her kids constantly fight. Her boss is refusing toContinue Reading
As gene research and CRISPR gene editing become more common, it may soon be possible to use doctored embryos to create “designer” children. That science, amped up on steroids, is the subject of Mother Knows Best. Claire and Ethan watch their eight-year-old son die from a rare inherited disease. ClaireContinue Reading
I adored Imaginary Corpse! It is an inventive take on a noir private investigator plot using a fantasy setting. The Stillreal is where ideas that are too real go when their creator abruptly sends them away. Tippy is a stuffed dinosaur who solves crime in the Stillreal. However, even heContinue Reading
Minneapolis during a freezing snowstorm is the setting for the serial killer police procedural Ice Cold Heart. Kelly Ramage is stuck in a marriage with boring Todd, an accountant. Todd won’t satisfy her need for bondage play. So Kelly looks elsewhere for satisfaction. Unfortunately, she met James, who took itContinue Reading
Jesse is fighting the opioid epidemic, his desire for a drink, and to connect to his newly found son in Robert B. Parker’s The Bitterest Pill. I read each of Robert B. Parker’s novels as they were released. I’ve only read one of the books by Michael Brandman, which IContinue Reading