Education in the USA: No one can spell anymore. From professionals to Facebookers. No one can speak correct grammar or spell. The English language is depleted by texts and phony words and misspellings. (I'm not speaking to those with specific learning disabilities. I'm speaking to those who go through the system without proper…

                                    Some of the traits associated with the left side of the brain are listed in the table. Not all of the traits will apply to you. Remember, we use both sides of our brain, but your left side gets the most exercise. Type of Cognitive Processing Brief Description Linear Processing information…

                                    Your book is debuting. Your marketing is in high gear. What is the one thing you want your readers to take away from the story?   Father, help me to leave readers with something valuable which can only come from you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.

                  Most of us writers look for ways to correct things. Can it be said better? What word should I have used instead? Do you ever go back and reread that novel you wrote four years ago? Are you editing it all over again? If you had time to devote to the story you…

                                       Wikipedia describes a "Cozy Mystery" as follows: Cozy mysteries, also referred to simply as "cozies," are a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. The term was first coined in the late…

  There are different kinds of gifts but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one…

                     Men can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Women can harbor joy or resentment for yet another year until the obnoxious holiday spreads its hearts and sensuous advertising via every means available to them all over again. Whether it's an important day to you or if it's a dreaded day, Valentine's Day…

  [I'm over here today, but that post has nothing to do with Valentine's Day. So here you go.]       Aahhh, Valentine’s Day. A day many men dread. And on which many more women become disappointed. Why? Because the expression of love sometimes has little to do with the depth of the emotion…

      Well-known television producer and writer Donald Bellisario, who is one of my all-time favorite producers, believes in the power of UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension). Long running series successes such as Magnum P.I., JAG, NCIS, and NCIS LA, have all given voice to the star-crossed, unrequited, or thinly disguised romance and sexual tension between co-star protagonists.…

                          The debut novel by Winter Austin (aka Winter Peck) is a romantic suspense titled Relentless published by Crimson Romance as a general market e-book. Featuring displaced Cajun Detective Remy LeBeau now working for the Dallas Police Department, there's a serial killer attacking women on the rodeo circuit called the Rodeo Sweetheart Killer. Remy's…