Book Description It’s her destiny to die young. The man who loves her can’t live with that. Promise, a talented young vocalist with a terminal illness, is counting on fame to keep her memory alive after she dies. Porta is an aging witch and art collector in search of the goddess who will grant her immortality. When Promise inexplicably survives a series of freak accidents, Porta believes that Promise is the one she seeks. But Chase, an autistic artist who falls in love with Promise and opposes Porta, comes between the women with his mysterious visions and drawings, and plunges everyone into a flesh-and-blood confrontation over the true meaning of...
What I’ve Been Reading
I love my Kindle. Love. Love. Here’s a little snipbit of what I’ve been reading the past few weeks, and my thoughts on them… Reference/NonFiction – The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman I’ve had this on my to-read list for years. Every author sings is praises, and I’m quick to agree. It is a great book about the nuts and bolts of a solid novel. This helped me during a bout of writer’s block and helped spur some important changes and edits for my work in progress. All authors – read! From Dust and Ashes by Tricia Goyer Another one I’ve had on my list forever. I loved this...
Book Review: Lady in Waiting
“Love is a choice you make every day.” Those words on the back cover intrigued me the most. Susan Meissner’s Lady in Waiting is a beautiful novel with two tales woven together by a single ring and an inscription. Back cover: Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay had never expected to watch her husband, rad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him and the course of events that follow Brad’s departure… In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be...
Getting back to the joy of reading
In the craze of that which is life, there are so many demands on our time and it is rare we get to slow down and enjoy something to the fullest. The week of Christmas I was able to do just that—I took a true “vacation” and didn’t check my work emails. I haven’t really done that in years. During that time, I was able to catch up on my towering pile of books to be read. (Thus the slew of book reviews on my blog this past few weeks.) Out of all of those books, the most delightful was one I’d heard about over and over again. Sometimes, I...
Review: The Charlatan’s Boy
Description: As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. With his adolescent accomplice, Floyd perpetrates a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier, such as the Ugliest Boy in the World act. It’s a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see young Grady perform as “The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp.” But what can they do? Nobody believes in feechies anymore. My Review: I’ll be perfectly frank here—the main reason I picked this book was...