Mary S Palmer is the author of Time Will Tell, recently published by the speculative fiction imprint Urania. She has also co-written other books, such as To Catch a Fish with David Wilton, which is being re-released on June 1st. After a handful of emails, Mary gladly agreed to write a guest post for my blog. Thank you, Mary! Continue reading “Guest Post: The Underside of Writing by Mary S Palmer”
Warm weather has finally arrived and it is time to start thinking about what to read as you lounge around the pool, while your kids play in the park, or during your hour-long commute on the transpo. To help you prepare your summer-time TBR list, every Monday for the next few months I will be talking with some really fabulous authors about their latest or upcoming books.
It may not be a Monday, but as a little something extra for all y’all wonderful book-lovers, I am posting a second interview this week! I was asked by Simon and Schuster to be part of the Canadian blogger tour for a debut author from the UK. Here is Sarah Alderson talking about writing and her brand new novel, Hunting Lila. You can also check out my review on this book here. Continue reading “All About Authors: Writerly Questions with Sarah Alderson”
Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson
The three of us stared mesmerized as the knife hung there in the jagged space between us. And then I felt it. The weight of the knife in my mind.
It was physically painful to tear my eyes away from his shoulders and arms, like ripping a Band-Aid from my eyelids.
Warm weather has finally arrived and it is time to start thinking about what to read as you lounge around the pool, while your kids play in the park, or during your hour-long commute on the transpo. To help you prepare your summer-time TBR list, every Monday for the next few months I will be talking with some really fabulous authors about their latest or upcoming books.
Today I have Mary S Palmer discussing her novels Time Will Tell, released by Urania imprint on March 9th, and later this week will be a guest post! Continue reading “All About Authors: Writerly Questions with Mary S Palmer”
Last month I received an email from Simon & Schuster asking if I would like to read a book by a debut author from London. I don’t mean London, Ontario, but that lovely place where royalty lives and Big Ben stands and awesome accents are abundant. Basically, I was willing to accept just at the words “UK”, but the story itself did also sound like an interesting read.
Being me, after a couple weeks, it slipped my mind that I had a couple books on the way from various publishers, so I was thoroughly ecstatic when I found a package in the mail containing this: Continue reading “Book Haul: Hunting Lila”
Thanks to Jen Armentrout and hannahelt who inspired this meme. They claimed I get excited over the simplest things, so I decided to post something “simple” that I get excited over just to prove that the smallest things really do make you smile :0)
Today’s smile is… Continue reading “Simple Smile Saturday: Grimm Legacy”
Synopsis: When the students at Silver Towers are invited to The Prince’s Party, the girls begin to take dancing lessons. The problem is Sophia is having so much trouble learning the steps that she doesn’t think she’ll even be allowed to go.
It is the end of the term and the princesses are trying to figure out if they have enough tiara points to graduate. Princess Emily doesn’t think she will have earned her silver sash, let alone get to see The Wishing Star!
Note to Reader: This is actually two children’s stories compiled into one, and there are a couple other similar books in the Silver Towers mini-series, which is part of the larger series called The Tiara Club. Continue reading “Book Review: Sophia &Emily at Silver Towers by Vivian French”
I always love it when I open up my email inbox and hear three little words “you’ve got mail”. It is even better when I realize that it is an author writing to me to say they are interested in doing something on my blog! This past month Paul Stansfield, author of “Dead Reckoning” published by Melpomene, agreed to do a two-part guest post about dealing with rejection. Continue reading “Guest Post: Rejection by Paul Stansfield – part 2”
WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.
All you have to do is answer these 3 questions:
1. What did you recently finish reading?
2. What are you currently reading?
3. What do you think you’ll read next?
I am finished reading “How to Wed a Baron” by Kasey Michaels.
I am reading “A Bride Unveiled” by Jillian Hunter.
I am next reading “Hunting Lila” by Sarah Alterson.
Captivated by Nora Roberts
The purest magic is in the heart.
“Finding love is like finding air. We can’t survive without it.”
JaimeKristal 