When others our age are going on cruises, my friend, Mary Coons and her husband, purchased three turn-of-the-century homes in a neglected neighborhood and transformed them into charming Air B&B [ Read More ]
What have I been reading lately? Warning: this post comes to you from a vulnerable place. My filter is off. My eyes are tired. My concept of time is fragile and damaged. Still, I need to process, a [ Read More ]
Reading Habits from Wee Girl to Mature Girl I’ve read from the time I learned the alphabet and strung letters together to form words. “Daddy, what does S T O P spell?” Then came sentences. An [ Read More ]
By Dana R. Lynn @DanaRLynn I once thought that as my children grew older, some of the business of my life would settle down and I would be able to spend more time reading. Don’t get me wrong, I s [ Read More ]
I believe my journey into reading and writing romantic suspense started long before I picked up my first book. As the youngest of my siblings, I had plenty of time to entertain myself growing up, [ Read More ]
For Such a Time as This I love a good contemporary romance story. I don’t care if it’s a trope I’ve read a hundred times before, if the characters grab my attention and the plot is solid, I [ Read More ]
By Emily Wright My journey in historical fiction began in the 3rd grade, when my best friend introduced me to the American Girlseries. For those not familiar with the franchise, American Girl is a [ Read More ]
Tried-And-True Tropes If I listed my favorite books you might say I’m an eclectic reader. I thought so too until I scrutinized the storylines. I discovered that I gravitate toward tropes. What’ [ Read More ]
By Kathleen Bailey @Piechick1 I can trace my desire to be a writer to the time I became a reader. I made up stories about my dolls and my friends, and wrote them in a 25-cent notebook. My first inf [ Read More ]
By Katherine Pasour @KatherinePasour Reading was my escape! After a long day of toil as a young farm girl, my favorite escape from hoeing weeds and milking cows was reading. For a special treat, tw [ Read More ]