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The Blog Thingy
Where Emotion and Information are Dispensed Inconsistently... Sometimes
You'll find some interesting stuff here...
a few Op Eds, some Writing Craft Information, Book Reviews, and More. Poke around the categories and see what ruffles your feathers... in a good way!



Indie Reads Aloud with Wendy M. Kok and "The Choice"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 301 The Choice Book Three in the A Thousand Years of Crooked Forest series Written by Wendy M. Kok Something sinister is waking in the Northwoods town of Neelsville. Birds are slamming into windows. Crosses at the church are turning upside down, and people are walking around with eyes as black as the lake at midnight. Scout never expected to be caught in the middle of it-or to feel an undeniable pull toward the mysterious Traveller, who see
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Indie Reads Aloud with Theresa Sederholt and "The Black Book Series Special Edition"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 300 The Black Book Series Special Edition Written by Theresa Sederholt LISTENER ADVISORY: Violence Murder by Mistake: Book One One bomb; the ripples of devastation-endless. Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . A bomb, that was meant for me, killed my mother, and unleashed a world I was never supposed to know about. Now I am surrounded by the FBI and mafia families. Good guys. Bad guys; the line blurs. One wrong decision could end so many liv
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Indie Reads Aloud with R. Roy and "Save Them"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 287 Save Them Written by R. Roy LISTENER ADVISORY: Strong Language, Mature Situations, Violence A cruise to Antarctica turns deadly when a crew member is murdered, revealing a sinister plot to control the riches at the bottom of the world, and the power that comes with it. A group of strangers must uncover who is willing to destroy a continent for money and power. A fierce battle for the planet is brewing. The entire human race is at stake.
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Shattered Echoes by B.A. Shapiro
One of the most wonderful things about reading is that books never expire. For example, I recently read Shattered Echoes . It was published in 2015. Still, it hadn't grown stale on the shelf, and it didn't smell weird. The story was as vibrant the day I read it as the day it was published. This is only one small reason books are so appealing to me. But that's a blog post for another day. Ms. Shapiro has crafted a tense, creepy, and curious story. A ghost story with a tw
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Indie Reads Aloud with Russell Luyt and "The Midnight Factory"
Indie Reads Aloud Radio Episode # 276 The Midnight Factory Written by Russell Luyt LISTENER ADVISORY: MATURE THEMES, MATURE LANGUAGE Shimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything. In the near-future and rain-soaked New Albion, shimmer is both escape and enslavement—and the Bureau for Virtue, always watching, ensures the world stays hooked. Anouk Walker only wanted to survive until her next fix. But when a Bureau raid tears her closest friend away, she’s pulled into a R
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A Secondhand Life by Pamela Crane
From time to time, I listen to audiobooks as a way to get in more personal reading time, and to make good use of those long road trips...
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