by David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group, © 2014 ISBN 978-1-4555-2123-4 Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages, $10.00 When faced with the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to take down a global threat—U.S. President Cassion weighs the risks and reluctantly gives the order. The mission must succeed. Failure means certain retaliation, probable impeachment, and…
Author: DremaDeoraich
The Seventh Victim
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…
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)….
Back Burner
Recently, I finished a speculative fiction short I’ve shown to no one yet (except hubby). I haven’t even looked at it myself in almost two weeks. I wrote, finished and set it aside. On purpose. I’d heard of this tactic before, but never tried it. Then several short stories were rejected months after I’d submitted…
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King Pocket Books © 1999, 2002 ISBN 9780743455961 Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages, $11.19 The “King” of horror fiction got his start just like most other writers: trial and error and a lot of persistence. Growing up in Maine, surviving high school, thriving in college, then working a day job, raising a family,…
The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman
Pan Publishing © 2014 ISBN 1101988649 Mass Market Paperback, 354 pages, $36.99 hardcover Imagine a reality where librarians live forever (or near enough), a truly magical place that intersects with other worlds and other timelines through hidden doors and a secret language. This is the world of The Library, an enormous secret world where agents…
Like Minds and Other Sounding Boards
Earlier this year I signed up for fiction classes at my local writer’s center (The Muse Center – the-muse.org). Two were one-time workshops: one to focus on finding and querying an agent, and one to discuss the importance of the first 1000 words in a manuscript. Both were excellent, and gave me a lot to…