There's just some great guitar and vocal work in this Bachman Turner Overdrive hit of 1973. They did something with this song that I'm sure most musicians hope to accomplish: everyone recognizes those first few bars of this song whether or not they can accurately identify the band. It's a good oldie –…

              Near Dark by Brad Thor is the latest thriller in the Scot Harvath Series.  Scot Harvath is a broken operator, having been forced by a Russian ops group to watch the slaughter of the people he loved, and then to be transferred and tortured and crashed into the…

  Woe to those who plan iniquity,    to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light they carry it out    because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them,    and houses, and take them. They defraud a man of his home,    a fellowman…

                          Have you ever . . . ?   Broken your nose? Yes. A line drive softball direct hit at me, the pitcher. Knocked me down. Blood everywhere.    Thrown something in anger? Of course – probably outdoors.    Screamed at the top…

                                                                            Destination   Thomas Grand serves his time for manslaughter in the second degree and leaves jail as…

              Oh, the crazy thoughts and things (some) writers think, do . . .  Speaking solely and soul-ly for myself, here's what I've been known to think and do.  While driving, I picture scenes and characters interacting, hear their dialogue, describe the weather, see the background.  While washing dishes,…

      Such a great song. Really love this one.    Father, may the musicians find you and be grateful for what you've given them to do. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.  

                              In Cold Blood by Mark Dawson is Book 1 in the Beatrix Rose Thriller Trilogy. Beatrix Rose is Number One of Group Fifteen just as John Milton is beginning his new career in The Group. Their first mission together with…

  . . . You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and…

            Reading other writers' thoughts on writing used to be reinforcing or totally discouraging for me. Although most of us have particular things we can claim to have in common in the process of writing, just as many of us do not have things in common in the writing process.…