If I Had Your Face
“I would live your life so much better than you If I Had Your Face.” In a culture that only values females for their youth and beauty, is it any wonder that plastic surgery has become an almost-mandatory South Korean ritual for teen girls? The story is told from theContinue Reading
When It’s Time for Leaving Book Blast and Giveaway
About When It’s Time For Leaving When It’s Time for Leaving Traditional Mystery 1st in Series Encircle Publications, LLC (October 1, 2019) Paperback: 274 pages ISBN-10: 1948338920 ISBN-13: 978-1948338929 Digital ASIN: B07TYQ8PDL When his girlfriend dumps him and a dealer nearly rams him off a bridge, Al DeSantis quits theContinue Reading
Asbury High and the Thief’s Gamble Guest Post and Giveaway
Pilot Owens’ Character Guest Post If You Could Go Anywhere In The World With Anyone, Where Would You Go And Why? Also Why Did You Choose That Person? Cool question… the first part is obvious and that’s Carly Cosentino. Not only is she the world’s best girlfriend, super hot, athletic, andContinue Reading
Repo Virtual
In the not too distant future, Korea has been overtaken by greedy companies. The populace forgets its poverty and hopelessness by playing a massively multiplayer online game, VOIDWAR. People are so obsessed with buying virtual goods for VOIDWAR that now they buy them with real money on credit. If theyContinue Reading
In Five Years
“Where do you see yourself In Five Years?” is a standard interview question. Dannie is a driven corporate attorney interviewing for her dream job. It’s December 15, 2020. Later that night, Dannie’s boyfriend, David, proposes and she accepts. Slightly high from champagne, Dannie falls asleep on the couch and dreams…Continue Reading
Flight Risk Guest Post and Giveaway
Guest Post Cara Putman’s Bucket List Bucket lists are such fun ideas. A list of items, experiences, places we hope to have while we’re able. I haven’t written down a bucket list before, but it didn’t take long to create this list. You’ll see it’s a mix of writing andContinue Reading
Flight Risk
My Review “Some sins were hard to forgive no matter how willing she was to try.” Especially when the sin was her husband having an affair, and a child, with her sister. But that was water under the bridge and a long time ago. Now her teenage niece Addy JoContinue Reading
Vagabonds
Welcome to the dream world that is Vagabonds! The translation creates a prose poem that lasts through hundreds of pages. In the beginning, the Earth colonized Mars. Next, came the civil wars breaking the two worlds into separate societies. Finally, came peace activities including delegations from each world visiting theContinue Reading
Dirty Old Town
My Review: Down these mean streets, a man must go. It’s thirty years after the heyday of black and white film and book noir, when Shane Cleary walks the mean streets of 1970s Boston, the Dirty Old Town. Shane is a private eye trying to survive after returning from theContinue Reading
All We Buried Character Interview, Review and Giveaway
Character Interview of Sheriff Bet Rivers 1.What was your most exciting case when you worked on patrol in South Central Los Angeles? I don’t know if it was the most exciting, but it was certainly the most bizarre. I once participated in a slow speed chase. You read that right,Continue Reading
Ten Seconds to Dead Guest Post and Giveaway
Author’s Guest Post by L. A. Clayton on the Writing Process You asked me to explain how I organize my writing. This is a loaded question that will require some background explanation. First of all, I have been an avid reader my entire life. On average, I probably read aboutContinue Reading
The Address Book
The Address Book addresses why addresses are important. So why are addresses important? “Addresses are one of the cheapest ways to lift people out of poverty, facilitating access to credit, voting rights, and worldwide markets.” And, “most households in the world don’t have street addresses.” Before Americans feel too superior,Continue Reading
Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear
Which comes first, the feeling of fear or the physical expression of it? Surprisingly, in Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear, the author presents scientific studies showing that the physical symptoms are interpreted by our brain into the feelings—rather than the other way around. The author of this bookContinue Reading
Treasure Fever
Just as Raiders of the Lost Ark was Spielberg’s homage to the adventure serials of his youth, Treasure Fever is an homage to Raiders. This time the adventurer is named Max Finley. His original goal is to find Lexa, a beautiful woman wanted for copying an ancient text in Spain,Continue Reading
The Final Deception
My Review The Fireman has escaped from custody and the serial killings begin again in The Final Deception, the fifth book in the New York Confidential series. The Fireman strangles his victims, cuts out their tongues, gouges their eyes out, and burns their, then dead, bodies. FBI Agent Craig andContinue Reading
Second Coming: Volume One
Okay, I can see by page 10 why this comic upset so many people—even non-Christians. The god in this comic (indicated by a lowercase g) is a dick. As are most of the humans within Second Coming: Volume One. The book’s god calls all humans “jerks” and much worse. HeContinue Reading