Message from Bizarro World: You’re Not Crazy
I know—I’ve been mostly absent after a break from the blog earlier this year, which is why one does not break habits! (Year-plus DuoLingo Russian streak, I’m looking at you.) So I thought I’d pop back in for a relaxed check-in and gradually build those blogging muscles back rather than pulling something the first time out. I’m coming to you from Bizarro World, which isn’t solely a reference to the continuing “Panda Bear” drama, or the “Corbin Bernsen Times,” if you prefer. (In today’s episode of Random Tangent, did you know the actor is married to the lovely Amanda Pays, Read more…
Prodigal is just 99¢ this Week!
The week is slipping away and I feel like there’s something I should have mentioned. 🤔 Oh yeah. If you’re a Sydney Brennan fan, but never quite got around to reading that other series she writes, this is your opportunity… Prodigal, Book One in the Dead Hollow Trilogy, is just 99¢ this week! The series name—Dead Hollow—should be a dead giveaway, but these books aren’t Private Investigator Mysteries like Sydney Brennan. I like to call them crime thrillers with a dash of woo-woo, woo-woo meaning a psychic and some other weirdness here and there to give you shivers. I noted Read more…
Who’s Afraid of Free Kidnapping Stories?
I’ll have more in-depth blog content coming to you soon, but today I wanted to pop back in again to share some coolness. And by coolness, I mean free reads, just in time for the weekend. Kidnapped! Thrillers and Mysteries Where Kidnappers Abound features twenty-two stories about kidnappers, their victims, and the heroes who set out to find them. These tales of justice—and vengeance—include series books and standalones, romantic suspense and psychological thrillers and everything in between. My book Prodigal falls in the “in between.” 💀 Get a free novella length excerpt of Book One in the Dead Hollow series Read more…
Free Creepy Reads, Because It’s Too Hot to Sleep
So, hey, it’s been a while, huh? I’ve been… contemplating. (I thought you might appreciate the Sydney-esque hair; I know I would.) And I’ve still got a bunch of contemplating to do about how I’m moving forward in various places. Gee, that’s not vague! 😜 But I wanted to pop my toes back in here at the Blog to start building the habit again, and specifically to share something you might enjoy. This month, contemplate trying something new with sixty-nine authors giving away free Creepy Reads. Mwah-ha-hah! These are mysteries and thrillers that are great to curl up with (if Read more…
This Christmas, Don’t Buy Your Books at Amazon
I’d intended to share this soapbox on Black Friday, but we spent the Thanksgiving holiday eating cans of soup and ramen, not Tofurkey and trimmings and leftovers, as we completely rearranged our house. It’s a small house, but there are a lot of books! And bookcases. We moved Every. Piece. Of. Furniture. And reversed our offices. Not only were my floor-scrubbing hands cramped into contorted claws incapable of holding a mouse, I didn’t have a place to plug in my computer. I’m happy to say I do now, though many less crucial items are still floating in search of a home. Read more…
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