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

By Renee Kimball Biblioholism *. . .book, of books; the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess. ...

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

by Renee Kimball “Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of...

by Kathy Waller “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” ~ Mark Twain (or...

Try to imagine a mystery without its setting. What? You’re having trouble? Open a mystery and be denied the setting. What? You’re getting...

By N. M. Cedeño If you don’t read short fiction, 2020 is the year to start. Busy, stressed, out of time, out of energy? Then short...

by Renee Kimball Meredith Maran decided to write a book about writing to show her “gratitude to writers everywhere.”  To do that,...

* The first few years I studied Romeo and Juliet with my high school freshmen, when I was in my The way Juliet’s father tells her to...

by Renee Kimball “The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling...

Memoir – noun:  a narrative composed from personal experience  – Merriam Webster Dictionary. Every memoir reminds us of the faraway and...

By K.P. Gresham The spring of 2020 has provided me with the opportunity to return to one of my favorite pastimes…and escapes. READING!...

by Renee Kimball Neil Richard Gaiman will turn 60 this year. Gaiman’s stories and characters are now in our hearts and embedded in our...

by K.P. Gresham It begins with the kidnapping of the Saudi Crown Prince’s daughter. Allon, head of Israeli intelligence, is directed by...

Written by Renee Kimball “From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face....

No matter what they tell you, Texas isn’t all cowboys and cactus and bullets and brush. Texas Book Festival  opens on the grounds of the...

by Helen Currie Foster An author can get great mileage by giving the point of view to a Watson sort of character. The Watson can be...

By K.P. Gresham I existed in a happy, but small little world of people who get together to figure out how best to kill other people....

My heart speeds up on news that Donna Leon’s got a new police procedural, because I love her Guido Brunetti. Not in a romantic way, of...