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Boxing the Octopus (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning." Phyllis A. Whitney To Ms. Whitney's wisdom, I'd add, do you want to enough to put in the time and sweat equity and expend the effort to silence the voices of doom (many of which are located only inside your head)? If the answer to any of these...
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Murder by 4 (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
© Allyson Roy 2009 all rights reserved Allyson Roy translates as Alice and Roy, husband and wife collaborating authors and winners of a 2009 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. Their Saylor Oz mysteries combine gritty, urban suspense with wacky, over-the-top comedy and a dash of romance in a style they call Madcap Noir. Their second book in the series, BABYDOLL , came out...
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Readerville Journal (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
by Kat Warren | My earliest introduction to the literature of romance was my mother’s hefty collection of piratical bodice-rippers (Sabatini et alia) and gothic mysteries (e.g., Daphne du Maurier, Phyllis A. Whitney, Mary Stewart). Shortly thereafter I encountered the master of romance—Shakespeare, in both his comedic and tragic guises. When it comes to obsessional love, after all, no one...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Okay, now I know why Steve Stilwell lives in Minneapolis.
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The Daily Bitch (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
"A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth." Vida Winter When I was given a brief synopsis of this book, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, I immediately signed on; it sounded right up my alley. It's a story about a story, filled with half-truths, secrets, mysteries and scandal. LOTS of scandal. Definitely my kind of book. Conjoined twins, feral twins, death...
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