First, an apology for neglecting this blog for almost a full month. A lot of non-writing factors and concerns kept me unavailable. But now I’m getting back in the swing of things. I did post a book review yesterday (mystery novel fans might take note!) and now I have a ton of accumulated news about my […]
Read more "PUBLISHING NEWS: Updates, Delays, New Sales & Upcoming Publications"The Old Success by Martha Grimes (Mystery Novel, November 2019). Mystery writer Martha Grimes has more than 30 published books to her credit. The Old Success, her latest, is the 25th book about an ace British crime-solver named Richard Jury. With such an extensive series, one would expect a considerable back-story involving Inspector Jury being in […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Old Success"Peach Clobbered by Anna Gerard (Cozy Mystery Novel, July 2019). This is the first in a new cozy mystery series, set in a small touristy town in Georgia. Although the author has published no less than ten previous novels, Peach Clobbered is the first to appear under this name. The earlier books, comprising three separate mystery series […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Peach Clobbered"The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs (Historical Novel, 2019). Elizabeth Cobbs, the best-selling author of both historical fiction and straight history blends the two flawlessly in her latest book. She takes an important, if lesser known, military action from America’s Civil War and adds fictional inventions to produce an impressive based-on-fact historical novel. The war was […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Tubman Command"The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Classic Novel, 1926). How many of us sit down to read older books that have been long been proclaimed ‘classics’? Like many avid readers, I tend to read more recent titles for the most part. And it is a painful truth that not all books that critics acclaim will […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Sun Also Rises"Cherokee America by Margaret Verble (Historical Novel, 2019). Maud’s Line, Margaret Verble’s debut novel, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. I haven’t read that one, but I gather it was, like Cherokee America, a historical novel inspired in part by the novelist’s family history. As Verble explains in a 3-page Author’s Note after the book, Cherokee America‘s plot is entirely […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Cherokee America"The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (Historical Novel, 2019). An award-winning author of both Asia-focused history and best-selling fiction, Lisa See explores the once interconnected then diverging lives of a pair of free-diving women from the Korean island of Jeju. In the process, we experience the island’s unique culture and often painful histories, both […]
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