Help! Chocolate Ricecakes Don’t Taste Like a DQ Peanut Buster Parfait… by Julie Arduini on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 9:39pm Hopefully that got your attention, I appreciate you being here this summer evening. But it’s true. Chocolate rice cakes are better than the cardboard kind from my college days but still. I live…
Guest post by Gail Pallotta Julie’s note: I’m part of the Clash of the Titles (COTT) blog alliance. Each week I feature an article from that site. COTT allows readers to choose their favorite snippet from their favorite authors…without knowing who their author is until after voting. Go visit them and learn more, voters are…
Last week I reviewed Melissa Foster’s latest novel, Chasing Amanda. Today I’m back with a review of her first book, Megan’s Way. With two Melissa Foster books under my reading belt I can say she is a well rounded story teller. Usually you find writers are really good with characterizations or imagery and setting. They…
I love surprises, don’t you? Thomas Nelson Publishers gave me a surprise when they shipped Eileen Button’s The Waiting Place: Learning to Appreciate Life’s Little Delays through the Booksneeze Blogging Program. Eileen Button writes a variety of essays about different places in her life where she had to wait. I thought they would be nice…
From Chasing Amanda’s back cover: Nine years ago, Molly Tanner witnessed a young girl’s abduction in the busy city of Philadelphia, shifting her occasional clairvoyance into overdrive. Two days later, the girl’s body was found, and Molly’s life fell apart. Consumed by guilt for not acting upon her visions, and on the brink of losing…
Guest post by Amanda Flower When you finish reading a novel, are you ever sad to see the protagonist go? Does it feel like you’re saying good-bye to a good friend? Those are signs of well-crafted main characters, like the ones in our excerpts this week. There are many protagonists whom I’ve met in…