by Helen Currie Foster Like many of you I’m fascinated by prehistory, always hoping for a chance to clamber up (or down) to visit...

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...

BY FRANCINE PAINO PBS television presented a new musical production by Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner John Mauceri: The Nutcracker...

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

By Helen Currie Foster If you haven’t read Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, or his latest, The Man Who Died Twice, fear not—no...

by N. M. Cedeño For writers, setting and meeting goals can be done in a variety of ways. Some people count words produced in a given...

by Kathy Waller The summer  I was six, my cousin of the same age was visiting our spinster great-aunt and bachelor uncle who lived up the...

“From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive.  It gets in your face.  Sometimes it shouts in...

Alfred Hitchcock at his Best Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte North by Northwest, a mystery thriller filmed in the 1950s, was Alfred...

Helen Currie Foster, October 25, 2021 At book groups I ask the beloved readers: “Why do we read mysteries?” After a pause, for modesty,...

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

By K.P. Gresham Since publishing my first book in 2016, all my ebooks were exclusive to Amazon KDP. Now, four books into The Pastor Matt...

BY Francine Paino AKA  F. Della Notte What exactly are these spherical bodies contained in the skull?  They appear as an orbit of...

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

By N.M. Cedeño A number of the stories sitting in files on my computer were written years ago, some over ten years ago, and have never...

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

The Nightingale—A Novel by Kristin Hannah is a weighty 564 pages.  The cover has shades of blue and grey with the embossed golden image...

by N. M. Cedeño Nothing makes a writer feel more like a know-nothing novice than a marked-up manuscript from an editor. Whenever I get a...

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....