by marciadmin | May 18, 2018 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Romance Novel Trends Round Robin May 2018 topic: What changes have your seen in romance novels in the past decade? Is there a change in romance novel direction? Is there still a market for non-explicit sex stories? What is the next romance novel trend? Back in 2006, I...
by marciadmin | May 2, 2018 | Reviews
Review of Jax Starlight by Jenn Nixon Blurb: When the Exodus ships left Earth, we all thought we had a chance at starting over, finding a new world to build a colony. Only that didn’t happen. We crashed on an inhabited planet and woke up to a nightmare we...
by marciadmin | Apr 20, 2018 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month’s Round Robin is about how I establish a story, its characters, and setting. How do I immerse my readers in my story? First, I must immerse myself in the location. This means either research or I’m very familiar with the area. For such stories...
by marciadmin | Apr 11, 2018 | Reviews
Review of A Cowboy for Alyssa by Shirley Penick Shirley Penick’s writing has grown a great deal from the last time I read one of her books. I’m so glad that, when I came back to her, I picked up A Cowboy for Alyssa. Alyssa Jefferson is in the last semester of college,...
by marciadmin | Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Turquoise Bones book review In The Turquoise Bones, Apjay is a boy on the verge of manhood in a harsh world of drought and famine. Gifted with messages from the dead, he can never please his father, the Hunt Leader. His entire tribe struggles from day to day to...
