Can you believe this is the last week of September? O_o Hubby & I celebrated our 17th Wedding Anniversary last weekend, which was super cool. And October means birthday month for both hubby & daughter. Plus daylight savings! Anyway. As usual, I had a to-do list I wa…

Bo  Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and an alcoholic mom. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo doesn't care what anyone thinks.  Agnes Atwood has never stayed out past ten p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any of her pa…

Enchantingly dark, a novel for dark psychological gems.   When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel's familiar house, what she finds is e…

Yikes! Can you believe another week is almost over? This year is going way too fast. Anyway. The production line must keep moving, so I had a bunch of things I wanted to achieve this week: Write 5k UF short story featuring a character from the Sierra Fox series Brainstorm an…

Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hard-working student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bubblegum Reaper - the mysterious, out-of-print cult-classic - the reb…

Natasha was dead for 13 minutes. And it changed her world completely...   I was dead for 13 minutes.   I don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't an accident and I wasn't suicidal.   They say you should keep your friends close…

o_O So. Another week is almost over, and I once again managed to cross everything off my to-do list. Yay. Love that feeling! We've had some strange weather lately. It's mostly sunny and the days are warming up, but there's also random rainfall and a fair share o…

From award-winning author Angela Slatter comes her first full length novel, VIGIL, where the normal and the weyrd combine on the streets of Brisbane.  Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but d…

For the first time, fans of Sarah J. Maas's sweeping New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass saga can experience the vivid imagery of her expansive world. Celaena battling the ridderak in the catacombs, Chaol in the gardens of the glass castle, Manon riding her wyvern through…

Supernatural: The Official Coloring Book by Insight Editions My rating: 5 of 5 stars The other day, I received my beloved Horror Block--which is always full of awesome, creepy horror collectibles--and this was one of the items. I might have fallen behind on Supernatural , b…

Hey! How's everyone today?  Well, the first (official) week of September turned out to be very productive. I put together a weekly to-do list--which I then broke down into daily blocks--and this process worked really well. It's not the kind of thing I can see myself doing a…

Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days.   In 2014, Jack Sparks - the controversial pop culture journalist - died in mysterious circumstances. To his fans, Jack was a fearless rebel; to his detractors he was a talentless hack. Either way, hi…

If you read last week's blog post , then you already know that I decided my daily routine needed to change.  This is what I'm mostly talking about: "So I want to get out of my head a bit more and get into the cycle I enjoy when it comes to work: a busy production li…

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke My rating: 5 of 5 stars After absolutely loving Wink Poppy Midnight , I wanted to read more books written by this author. So I was super excited when I found this book at the library. :) Violet and her twin…