Enter to win January 1 – 18, 2017 One lucky winner will receive a $25 gift card from either Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) a Rafflecopter giveaway For more, have you checked out the Nav Bar lately? Every week, one of our authors will be posting a “Let’s Talk” article, and there […]
Four holiday survival tips By Maggie Toussaint From the belly-pleasing feast at Thanksgiving to ringing in the New Year, the holiday season is a fast-paced romp of calendar-filling must-dos. It’s easy to feel harried with extra demands on an already full schedule, but fear not, I have cobbled together four stress beating tips to help […]
In the spirit of Halloween… some “spooktacular” research By Karla Brandenburg Congratulations Terri Rinko. Check your email to get your ARC copy! Years ago, I did a cemetery walk as I was researching a novel. My first goal was to collect new character names by reading headstones. My second goal was to “feel” the atmosphere. […]
Happy Halloween Memories All of us have gathered to share a memory of Halloween, and we hope you’ll also share one of yours in the comments section for a chance to win our custom tote bag. My husband is a bored aerospace engineer, so our Halloween season begins in August. He begins scouring the yard […]
Fall into Everything By Maggie Toussaint We’re in the season of Fall, but did you know that “season” is not one of the definitions most dictionaries list for the word fall? As a verb, fall has 4 definitions listed in the Oxford Dictionary: 1) to move downward at a rapid rate, often uncontrolled. 2) lose […]
Enter to win October 1-18, 2016 a Rafflecopter giveaway One lucky winner will receive a $25 gift card from either Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) For more, have you checked out the Nav Bar lately? Every week, one of our authors will be posting a “Let’s Talk” article, and there are […]
Getting Setting by Terry Odell I’m a huge fan of reading books set familiar settings. I grew up in Los Angeles, and love following Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch, and Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole as they cover my old haunting grounds. I recently read a book set in Albuquerque. I’ve visited the city on several occasions, […]
Book Classification By Tina Whittle For the past few weekends, the biggest project here at Whittle Central has been putting down a new hardwood floor. By ourselves. My husband is a handy guy, and so he was more than capable of scraping the concrete floor of old stickiness, cutting and measuring the boards, gluing them […]
Enter to win September 1 -18, 2016 One lucky winner will receive a $25 gift card from either Amazon or Barnes and Noble (winner’s choice) a Rafflecopter giveaway For more, have you checked out the Nav Bar lately? Every week, one of our authors will be posting a “Let’s Talk” article, and there are […]
Clothing makes the man, er, woman By Maggie Toussaint Sometime in college or thereafter, I read a book, and I’m blanking on the title, and it was about clothing being our costumes for whatever we were doing. That was a realization I’d never articulated before, but it explained so much about my conservative wardrobe choices. […]
