New Blog Schedule

If you’re looking for today’s Meet the Character, please come back in a couple of days. Now that I’ve had the blog posting schedule in place for a few weeks, I realized a couple of snags with timing through the week. I also just had my schedule at the newspaper shift around, so that makes [...]

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Free Par-Tay!

Several authors I network with have all joined together for a Free Par-Tay event — all of us have made books free on Kindle today through Saturday. (Don’t wait until Saturday to get them – a lot of the books will revert back to paid mid-day.) If you’re looking to stock up, head on over: [...]

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Good Writing Lets the Characters Share in Your Misery

 ”Best motivations for creating are the worst aspects of life: revenge, jealousy, loneliness, anger, pressure. Misery makes good inspiration.” — @JesseStern  I’ve said before that the stories I’m telling now, I couldn’t have told 10 years ago when I first wrote a novel. I hadn’t been miserable enough. Fortunately, I’ve since been miserable in many [...]

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Have a Wonderful Holiday Week!

Hanukkah has started, we had a rainy solstice (at least around here) and Christmas and Kwanzaa are coming up in the next few days. Since most of you will be making merry in whatever tradition you prefer to celebrate, and I am covering for a lot of vacationing people at both the newspaper and the [...]

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Looking For A New Read? Try Scorpio Rising

My TBR pile continues to virtually teeter as I add new books, but after reading this excerpt from Scorpio Rising, it’s going on the list.

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What’s Your Favorite Bookstore?

There’s a thread over on Kindle Boards about best bookstores. My personal favorite doesn’t fit because it’s a used bookstore, but it’s also a marvelous place that I wanted to share. The Shire’s located in an old textile mill in my hometown of Franklin, Mass., and it’s filled floor to ceiling with what must be [...]

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Guest Interview: Terri Giuliano Long on In Leah’s Wake

When I first picked up In Leah’s Wake, it was because I’d gotten to know author Terri Guiliano Long on Twitter. But it was her wonderful writing that kept me from putting the book down before it was done. She spins a wonderful, heartbreaking tale of a family spiraling out of control. And today, she’s [...]

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In Leah’s Wake review — and more coming this week

This week, I’m one of the hosts for the In Leah’s Wake blog tour. I first read the book after I started chatting with author Terri Guiliano Long on Twitter, and as great of a person as Terri is, her book is even better! I’ll have an interview with her later this week, but I [...]

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Inspirational Lawyers: Can You Name Them?

I’ve got a little contest running over at my Facebook page. There’s a great blog post highlighting the “Manliness of Atticus Finch” floating around. Atticus, for so many reasons, is probably my favorite fictional character of all time. He’s also one-fourth of the inspiration for Riordan, Exeter’s lawyer — or at least his approach to [...]

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Review: Stay Tuned, by Lauren Clark

Stay Tuned by Lauren Clark My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stay Tuned was interesting from the beginning because it centered around a newsroom, though in a different medium from mine (newspapers). Melissa, the main character, has an engaging voice and stepping into her daily chaos was an immediate hook. It was easy to relate [...]

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Sneak Peek: Stay Tuned, by Lauren Clark

I’m back after a nice, long vacation with my family, and I’ve got a sneak peek for you at a book I started reading on vacation — watch for my review later this week… As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Stay Tuned eBook edition has dropped [...]

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Exeter’s Cast of Characters

My mom and I were talking today, and I asked her which character in Exeter was her favorite. She had two, for different reasons, and some comments about other characters in the series. It was interesting to hear her take on the characters, so I figured I’d throw this out there: Who’s you favorite character [...]

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Take A Moment, Thank A Veteran

Welcome to Blog Tour de Troops, and thanks for joining us on this blog hop! You should have joined me from Shannon Muir’s Blog. This is the last tour stop today — it will resume tomorrow at Rachel Thompson’s blog. Ray Vincent: You don’t support the war? Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: I support the men fighting [...]

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Coming this weekend: Blog Tour de Troops!

Friday — Veterans Day — kicks off the IBC’s semiannual blog tour designed to provide free e-books to soldiers, sailors and Marines. The tour runs through Monday, and my contribution is posting Saturday. We’ll all be blogging about gratitude toward our veterans and military. Every commenter gets a free copy of that author’s ebook, and [...]

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Book Bloggers: The New Publishing Gatekeepers

Indie publishing and its effect on traditional publishing is a work in progress, and we can’t fully measure its impact. But as we head into a holiday season where ereaders are likely to be a popular gift, it seems clear that book bloggers and reviewers are the next gatekeepers in the world of publishing. Originally, [...]

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