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Readers Lift New Release to Bestseller on Amazon
Thank you, readers! You have raised East of Evil into an Amazon Bestseller during its first week of publication. While it is a small thing to buy a book from a relatively unknown author, earning that sweet orange Amazon bestseller banner is a huge joy to that...
US Review Recommends East of Evil
Book review by Gretchen Hansen Nefi’s vision of how she wants her future to be is crystal-clear. She has a plan detailing each step needed to actualize her dreams. Getting accepted into the FBI’s summer internship program is crucial to this path. Her fiancé, Vincent,...
Paducah Page Turners Book Club
Joni M. Fisher
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
When my book club pals suggested we read Nutshell, the selling point was "you won't believe the point of view." Our club has read books that tell stories from the point of view of a dog, a dead girl, a drunk, and a madman, so sure, I was game to read this book. The...
Mom Rules
I have learned that teenagers live in the age of forgetting. Simple skills--even basic rules of civilized conduct--they mastered at age seven disappear at age 14, like closing doors, saying ‘please’ and ‘thank-you’, putting things back where they found them, hanging...
Damn Yankees and Other Pests
Since moving to Florida as a Yankee, I’ve learned most things about native pests the hard way. Mutant-size Roaches While unpacking that first week, I learned the two-part horror of what the gentry euphemistically calls a Palmetto bug. The first horror is that it looks...
Becoming Bold
Sometimes to become bold, one must attack fears head on. This is one woman’s experience overcoming fear of flying by earning her pilot’s license.
Grasslands Book Club Hosts Author
Thank you, to the Grasslands Book Club for hosting me to discuss North of the Killing Hand and the writing process. Thank you, Stephanie Patterson, for hosting the meeting at her lovely home. These photos were taken by Grasslands Club President Laurie Melton.I shared...
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
In Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead, Inspector Armand Gamache, haunted by two previous cases and injured from one, retreats to Old Quebec City to conduct research. At the Literary and Historical Society, he finds obscure historical battle information. The “Lit and His”...