Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...

by Renee Kimball “Giants are not as powerful as they seem and sometimes the shepherd has a sling in his pocket.” — Malcom Gladwell David...

by Helen Currie Foster August 8, 2022 Our family’s favorite mystery quote (bolded below) appears in Strong Poison, by Dorothy Sayers,...

by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...

by Renee Kimball Reading is like swimming.  Sometimes a novel is like a wading pool, low-level, light, humorous.  Then there are others...

Translated by Laura Vergnand –A Book Review by Renee Kimball What started as a post about the use of “bees” as literary metaphor became...

by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...

by Renee Kimball “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” ~...

by Kathy Waller The definition of reading readiness is the point at which a child goes from not reading, to reading. ~ Sight and Sound...

by Renee Kimball Sometimes you stumble unawares into a book and then, in total surprise, you are rewarded.  That was my experience when I...

by Kathy Waller George Woodstock received the peculiar phone call on his sixty-sixth birthday. . . He let the phone ring twice, then...

By K.P. Gresham First off, the best job I ever had (short of writing mysteries) was teaching. And yes, I taught Middle Schoolers, which...

Whatever may be said about Through A Glass Darkly, it was and remains a hugely popular historical fiction novel.  I recently re-read...

By N.M. Cedeño Do you enjoy speculative fiction? Do you know what speculative fiction is? The dictionary defines speculative fiction as...

by Helen Currie Foster Driving into New Mexico with my husband (favorite long-time travel companion) I peer anxiously out the car...

By K.P. Gresham “Good cover design is not only about beauty… it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader....

by Renee Kimball It has been a year of extremes—Covid, freezing weather, and higher than average temperatures forecast for the summer...

by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...

by K .P. Gresham I suspect most of us have our secrets about how we survived the Pandemic of ’20-’21. Video games, binge-watching movies,...

by Kathy Waller Today is Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, when we remember the men and women of the military to whom we cannot say,...