Missing, Assumed Dead

Prejudice, murder, insanity, suicide: Every small town has its secrets. And Marva Dasef’s book Missing, Assumed Dead – released today from M...

Jury Duty

I got lucky! I was assigned to jury duty today and tomorrow, but when I called the "jury hotline" last night, I was told not to c...

Gina Review: The Kane Chronicles

I have my daughter Gina here today reviewing the first book in The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. The Red Pyramid -- rev...

Show-n-Tell

Two weeks ago, my sister’s family drove in from Kansas for their yearly summer visit, and the week was capped off by a barbecue at my parent...

The Return of the Hound

Last fall, my brother-in-law Larry did some dog-sitting for Sorcia and wrote a brilliant account of it in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyl...

Does YOUR Refrigerator Tweet?

Dagnabbit! The refrigerator that came with our house gave up the ghost last year, and we bought a new one. It keeps food cold and also d...

Character Mannerisms

Whether it’s a matter of consciously choosing them, or visualizing my characters and letting them naturally develop, I try to give each of m...

She Recoiled in Dismay ...

It takes months for most of us to write an entire manuscript, and unless you recursively read all your chapters as you go, there might be qu...

How to Raft Without Your Raft

That’s a picture of the Salerni crew whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River in the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains a couple weeks ago. Yes, ...

First Impressions #15

Our final critique for First Impressions in July is Hot Flashes and Cold Lemonade , a novel by Susan Swiderski. Pearl Bryzinski emerged from...

First Impressions #14

Today’s post is our second First Impressions critique for July. This is the opening page of a YA dystopian novel called MASQUE , by Sarah ...

Fourth of July Facts

Look for the continuation of First Impressions on Wednesday and Friday. Today, I have just a quick post in honor of the holiday – a few inte...

First Impressions #13

I’m opening First Impressions for July with the beginning of a YA Dystopian Series – The Love Code by Lee Libro (which has the most awesome...