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  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 7)

    Heather Day Gilbert is another multi-genre author. You can find her in the Cozy Mystery, Mystery & Suspense, Viking historicals, and Psychological Thriller genres. Impressive, right? Needless to say, the lady from West Virginia is a multi-talented, outgoing, creator of strong female characters, and intriguing plot lines. You want variety? She writes it. And writes…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    The beauty of Chris Botti’s trumpet and guest musicians . . .

  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 6)

    One of my all-time favorite protagonists is the sort-of anti-hero Mike Romeo written by James Scott Bell. Bell is a multi-genre writer within the legal/suspense/thriller combination genres. Do visit his website to get a feel for what that means. I’ve read most of Bell’s novels and, although it’s hard to select favorites among so many…

  • Sunday’s Offerings

    “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth.” John 16:12 (NIV)

  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 5)

    Jack Carr earned his accelerated fame in the thriller genre. Starting out with The Terminal List, not only did Jack’s writing give the reader a hardcore and closeup experience of a broken-hearted, determined to eviscerate the ones responsible for his emotional state, an accurate accounting of the weapons used to accomplish his “terminations,” he did…

  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 4)

    For thriller lovers everywhere, the following character names are famous: Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath (Brad Thor), John Milton by Mark Dawson, Jon Reznick by J.B. Turner, and so many others. Thriller novels are the latest trend but have been extremely popular since the onset of the late great Vince Flynn who established my absolute favorite…

  • Tuesday Tunes

    Gotta love these oldies. One of my favorites.

  • Sunday’s Offerings

    Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25-26 (NIV)

  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 3)

    Those of you who know me have heard me say – or write – “I write what I want to read.” My genre is the love story heavy on the romance. So. “What I want to read” is generally not found in the romance genre in secular/general market fiction due to obnoxious graphics of literary…

  • Promoting Others’ Novels (Part 2)

    One of my very favorite authors who isn’t writing much in the novel category in recent years but has written some spectacular “speculative” fiction and one terrific 6-book series for youth is Robert Liparulo. (This site I linked to will show you his books but personal information is not up-to-date.) I met Robert many years…