This post originally ran in the Riverside Press Enterprise, July 25,2021, as one of the column for Inlandia Institute. It seems like a...

A Hand to Hold in Deep Water by Shawn Nocher It is hard to believe, in a way, that this is Shawn Nocher’s first novel. It is so...

It's been a good month for reading for me. I spent the past four weeks at an artist colony residency where I wrote the first "shitty...

This blog first appeared as a guest blog on Novels Alive: https://novelsalive.com/2021/06/10/guest-blog-the-relatively-unexplored-relevan...

I read a bit more than usual in May because I was putting off my next writing project until I left for my residency at Dorland Mountain...

Over the past 15 months, thousands of writers have evoked the plagues of the Middle Ages to either make us feel better or worse about the...

A version of this blog was published in the Riverside Press Enterprise and other Southern California News Group newspapers Sunday, May 9....

A version of this post originally appeared at https://novelsalive.com/2021/04/27/guest-blog-diaspora-by-marj-charlier-plus-giveaway/ One...

This is a repost from the blog, Any Shiny Thing - Life After 50. Thanks to Lynne Spreen for sharing these thoughts with her readers!...

My book reviews for this month include two non-fiction, one fiction from an esteemed author and, yes, finally, some chick lit, to ease...

Have you ever heard of a book-blog tour? Until I left corporate America and started writing and publishing books for a living, I’d never...

Doing nothing doesn’t suit me very well. It probably doesn’t suit many of us. Not only is it boring, it is enervating, encouraging even...

This April feels so much better than last April already, doesn’t it? This year, we were able to go to the store at the right time for...

A Feigned Madness, by Tonya Mitchell, Cennan Books/Cynren Press (2020) I have to tip my hat to Mitchell for taking on this story. It is...

If you live in Seattle, you know that. But in Palm Springs, you hear a lot of whining on rainy days. I actually like them. It gives me an...

I had never heard of the Campaign for the American Reader until the founder, Marshal Zeringue contacted me recently to offer me a spot on...