by Mary Burton Kensington Publishing, Inc. © 2013 ISBN 978-1-4201-2505-4 Mass Market Paperback, 362 pages, $7.99 When Texas Ranger JAMES BECK arrives at the crime scene, the details—victim clad in a home-made white dress, blonde hair fanned out around her head, and a penny clutched in one hand—seem familiar somehow. It’s only after Beck begins…
Month: June 2017
Time is a Four-Letter Word
I know. I’ve written about time before. I probably will write about it again. It’s that important. Writing takes time – between day-job and daily commute, between cooking/eating/showering/sleeping, between family and friends and home maintenance, there’s blogging, reviewing, researching, brainstorming, writing and editing and rewriting. That was the point of my previous post. This time,…
Just Fall, by Nina Sadowsky
Ballantine Books, © 2016 ISBN 978055394863 304 pages, $26.00 Looks can be deceiving. That’s what ELLIE LARRABEE finds out moments after saying “I do” when the man of her dreams reveals in one shocking sentence a truth that shakes her world. Everything she has taken for granted is built on shifting sands and suddenly her…
Rewrite
Every writer knows this drill. You put words to paper (or screen), read them over and think, “Hey, that’s not half bad. In fact, I am a genius.” Okay, maybe not those exact words. I started my first novel with no clear idea of where I wanted it to go. By the time I took…
Intermission
How often have you come back from a week vacation and felt as though you needed a few days off to recuperate before heading back to work? That’s where I am right now. But it’s all good. I got to spend time with family exploring new territory in an island nation I’d never visited (Bermuda)….