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  • The Story Behind the Story: David Lucero “Big Jim”

    The best thing about reading is having the opportunity to go on adventures you know you’ll never get around to taking. “Big Jim” by David Lucero is a good case in point. Through his novel, I was able to travel back in time and halfway around the world to experience the thrills and danger of…

  • The Story Behind the Story: Laurie L.C. Lewis “The Dragons

    “The Dragons of Alsace Farm” by Laurie L.C. Lewis touches on many different themes as it explores the lives that come together on a once thriving farm. The one thing that unites all the characters besides the farm itself is their troubled pasts. Even Noah and Tayte, two young people with their whole lives ahead…

  • The Story Behind the Story: Kerensa Jennings “Seas of Snow”

    I think most of us readers know when we’ve stumbled onto something universally powerful. Books like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, WAR AND PEACE, THE NIGHTINGALE take us on journeys we know from the start are going to be painful. Yet we are intrigued by the premise and the promise of a…

  • The Story Behind the Story: Cynthia A. Graham’s “Beneath Still

    As I’ve said before, Twitter has been a wonderful source for discovering authors I would’ve never found otherwise. Cynthia A. Graham is one of the exceptional writers I connected with there. I downloaded a free sample of her first book in the award-winning Hick Blackburn series, “Beneath Still Waters” and was instantly caught up in her…

  • The Story Behind The Story: Nina Romano “The Secret Language

    I’m very honored to present the Story Behind the Story of “The Secret Language of Women” by the very talented Nina Romano. I stumbled upon the author and the first book in her Wayfarer Series on Twitter. I was intrigued by the gorgeous cover and downloaded a sample. I was immediately drawn in by the…

  • The Story Behind the Story

    The ideas for books usually come when you least expect them. It’s when the mind is free to wander that inspiration drops in and starts tinkering with random thoughts. I can say that most of the ten books I’ve written came about that way. They started out as odd musings and continued to expand to…

  • Making the Transition From Reader To Writer

    Those of us who spend a good deal of our time in make-believe worlds slide fluidly in and out of these alternate realities as easily as a fish swims through water. As readers, or job is to bring our willingness to imagine the scene the author is describing, to be open and engaged in the…

  • Reading Vs. Writing: The Goodreads Phenomenon

    Long before I took a blind leap at writing, reading was one of my favorite pastimes, allowing me to explore different points of view, different cultures, different periods in history. It expanded my world and my knowledge, and offered me a chance to live vicariously as the characters took all the risks. As readers, we…

  • Finding Writers in Twitterville

    Anyone who’s tried their hand at writing knows that time designated for that purpose often seeps away without fulfilling its promise. This is especially true if you write at home. Distractions are numerous and constant. When I look back at when I started my first book, I marvel at how I managed to complete it…