Month: March 2016

Still time to enter Kittyinaz’s Monthly Story Challenge

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April 2016 Writing Challenge

There are still a couple days to get your story in under the deadline!

 

Every month, Kittyinaz hosts a writing challenge. This month there a picture (which unfortunately I can’t reproduce). The rules are straightforward and the results are always fun to read.

Follow the link to April 2016, and look for the announcement that entries are ready for reading and voting.

Chapter 6 – A Fair Sea

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adistanthorizonI hope you enjoyed your weekend. For many of us, it was a weekend of celebrations. Some celebrations had religious overtones, and others were an acknowledgement of Spring. As you looked at the faces of those you loved, I hope you spared a moment to think of those whose week has been a nightmare. At this time in the northern hemisphere, when all is turning to renewal and rejuvenation, it is unthinkable that so many lives were cut short; lives that held promise and joy.

If I have one prayer, one thought I would send out to whatever spirit or great divine that makes the sun rise and grass grow, it would be that the anger that causes people to do such hateful things is quieted and that they find the peace to allow us all to live in grace.

Chapter 6 – A Fair Sea

Book Reviews

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Happy Easter to everyone,and if you find yourself in chocolate hangover, nothing cures it like a good book. As always, Breathesgirl has gathered a basket of the best.
Happy Holidays

SVM & TB Stories

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
The Hydra by Graham Stull

Ajoobacats, one of my regular reviewers, is in need of healing thoughts and prayers if any of you are so inclined.

The Swan and the Jackal
Seeds of Iniquity

from The Daydreaming Bookworm

Natalie’s Getting Married
The Three-Week Arrangement
The Longest Night

from The Book Review Directory

Baggage
The Nth Day by Jonathan Huls

from The Reading Bud

London’s Glory: The Lost Cases of Bryant & May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit
Mug Shot: A Java Jive Mystery
Tea With Jam and Dread
Wolf Camp
Brotherhood in Death (In Death #42)
Nettle King
Drawing Dead: A Cross Novel

from Journey Of A Bookseller

Hesitation Wounds
The Girl Who Stayed
Ball Hog
When A Nation Forgets God
Only Ever You
A Mind of Your Own

from Comfy Reading

The Giver

from Victim To Charm

Cupcakes,Trinkets, and other Deadly Magic

from Awkward Heather

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One of the fun things about writing….

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…is that you get to dictate the pace. For those of you who have already read Chapter 3 of Distant Horizon, you know I left things in a bit of a cliff-hanger. This is not something I do often, and frankly, when I’m reading, it bugs the crap out of me.

It is a bit of a holiday weekend here. For religious folks, there will be services and for those who have a different version of believing, there will be reasons to walk in the wide world and eat too much.

For me, it is also the perfect excuse to double down on releasing chapters. I will release Chapter 4 – Sailing Upwind, later today. Spoiler alert – it does not resolve the cliffhanger, but it does set the final pieces in motion that explain what is coming.

Chapter 5 – The Breakwater, will release tomorrow, and that does answer the remaining Eric/Sookie questions.

Consider it my holiday gift and nod to the Spring of a promising new year.

Thanks – and hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Spring