I have a 4 year old who never wants to sleep. She would go adventuring all day if she could. That’s why I was interested in reviewing Penguin and Tiny Shrimp Don’t Do Bedtime. This fun book takes us on all kinds of wild adventures with these two goofballs who refuse to go to bed. Naturally, …
Book Review: Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
Dark family secrets, love, and history all play a role in Cocoa Beach Virginia Fortescue leaves her home in New York City to seek out a life of adventure serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver in World War I France’s battlefields. Setting her toxic family history behind her, she focuses on her job and the …
Book Review: Same Beach, Next Year by Dorothea Benton Frank (TLC Book Tours)
Please join us for an Instagram tour and review tour for Same Beach, Next Year We’re at the part of spring I love – it’s warm enough to want to be outside a lot, but the bugs aren’t out yet. Those who know me know how much I dislike bugs, particularly mosquitos, as they love …
Book Review: True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness by Christine Lahti
I have a little bit of a confession: I spent many hours watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. So many, in fact, that every time I run I wonder if maybe I’ll discover a body. That’s neither here nor there, because I’m about to tell you why i’m telling you about my previous SVU obsession: Christine Lahti …
Book Review: How We Work by Leah Weiss
We can all use tips for being more productive in the workplace. In How We Work by Leah Weiss, she explores how to be more productive, successful, and mindful in our daily interactions with the work we do. Her book is another addition to the genre of business success books that advocate practicing mindfulness as a …
Book Review: Scenes and Sequels by Mike Klaassen
As a writer, I know it’s important to continually improve my craft. So, when I was offered a review copy of Mike Klaassen’s Scenes and Sequels: How to Write Page-Turning Fiction, I jumped at the chance. Klaassen gives two definitions. He writes: With that in mind, I define a scene as a passage of writing in which …
Book Review: A Mother’s Book of Blessings
May the strength of the wind and the light of the sun, The softness of the rain and the mystery of the moon Reach you and fill you, May beauty delight you and happiness uplift you, May wonder fulfill you and love surround you, May your step be steady and your arm be strong, May …
Book Excerpt: The Water Lord by Matt Minor
Political Suspense Date Published: To Be Determined Publisher: Dead Tree Publishing A town has gone dry, and the general manager of a water district is found dead, presumably a suicide. His crazed widow is in denial and recklessly loose-lipped. Texas House District 100 is again in turmoil, and the interests of …
Book Review: The Mindful Day by Laurie Cameron
“Be here now.” What seems like a cliche now was my mantra about 15 years ago. I would constantly remind myself to be mindful and to take in what was going on in the present, not what may or may not go on at some point in the future. When I was given the opportunity …
Book Excerpt: From Little Houses to Little Women by Nancy McCabe
Creative Non-Ficion / Memoir / Travel Date Published: Paperback out this March / eBook November 2014 Publisher: University of Missouri Press Nancy McCabe, who grew up in Kansas just a few hours from the Ingalls family’s home in Little House on the Prairie, always felt a deep connection with Laura …
