Real Life Is Stranger

Have You Heard This One?

Don’t you just love a noisy title?

Reading is a quiet endeavor, so a title’s promise of sound intrigues us, often more than other sensory words. We typically use sight to read the book. And we stay glued to a good story while smelling the hot mug of coffee beside us, letting that square of Dove melt in our mouths, and scratching where it itches.

Actual noise, on the other hand, pulls our...

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Loree's Lough Down

Complaining, Criticizing, and Carping, Oh My

Amazing, isn’t it, just how often those three words are used to describe the wild and wacky publishing industry. Just as amazing, it seems that almost everybody—readers, writers, and an assortment of industry professionals—has at least two cents to toss into the discussion.

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Made For Movies

REkindled

Set in 1868, in the Colorado Territory, Rekindled opens with a vivid image of a horribly burned man, scarred beyond recognition, who watches from a distance while his wife, Kathryn, stands over a gravesite bearing a tombstone with his name: Larson Jennings. Flashbacks...

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