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New Release / Giveaway: You Can Save Me – R.L. Merrill

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You Can Save Me - R.L. Merrill

R.L. Merrill has a new MM paranormal romance in the Carnival of Mysteries series, the sequel to You Can Do Magic: You Can Save Me. Sixties folk singer Dane Donovan vanished from a desolate highway rest area in 1979. Forty years later, he’s found hitchhiking in the California desert on a cold winter’s night. He hasn’t aged a day, but the roadmap of scars he wears tells a chilling tale. Veteran detective Walter Muse took over the case twenty years ago, but his haunting connection to Dane Donovan goes back to a peculiar run-in as a child with The Troubadour and his … Read more

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Point of View: Lessons Learned

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I’m fifty-six years old. I’ve watched this planet swing around the sun for 224 seasons, seeing winter melting into spring, spring blossoming into summer, summer sizzling into autumn, and autumn falling headlong once again into winter. When I was eighteen, I knew everything, and each new year since has been an exercise in realizing just how much I don’t know. And yet, I have learned a few things on this long road, life lessons that have served me well. I’ll share some of them with you here, in no particular order, i they hope that they might be helpful. Almost … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Mike Karpa

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Mike Karpa

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Mike’s fiction, memoir and nonfiction can be found in Tin House, Foglifter, Oyster River Pages and other magazines. He is the author of thriller Criminals, which was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2022 (Indie), the upbeat scifi romance Red Dot, and comic novel The Wealthy Whites of Williamsburg, which won Best LGBTQ Book at the San Francisco Book Festival. He lives with his husband and dog in San Francisco. Thanks so … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Sixteen

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, a stranger enters the scene, and food is prepared in loving memory… < Read Chapter 15 | Read Chapter 17 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter SixteenTortelli alla Lastra He sat in his non-descript Honda … Read more

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Point of View: Writing (Really) Short

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Over the last eight years, we’ve constantly been searching to cope with a world turned upside down. Mark and I have tried a variety of self-care methods – long showers, walks through the neighborhood, spending time in a coffee shop. But last year we discovered a new method. The daily haiku. The New York Times had an article about expressing yourself this way, and we thought “what the heck?” So we started sending each other a short poem each morning, encapsulating our hopes, fears, dreams and delights in seventeen syllables a day. We’ve since shared the practice with a few … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Naomi Rivers

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Naomi Rivers

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Naomi Rivers writes lesbian romance and women’s fiction.   Naomi Rivers is a wife writing team who believes in romance, fairy tales, and happily ever after. Their first novel, THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story, was written over twenty years to maintain their connection during multiple deployments. They are both retired U.S. military veterans and reside with their two rescue dogs on the east coast. Naomi’s work has appeared in I Heart SapphFic’s anthology Favorite … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Fifteen

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! Today, Marissa reaches out to Ainsley, who finds herself tongue tied on text… < Read Chapter 14 | Read Chapter 16 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter FifteenBzz bzz Bzz bzz. Ainsley cracked open one eye, … Read more

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Review: How Six Saved the Frogs – Blaine D. Arden

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How Six Saved the Frogs - Blaine D. Arden

Genre: Science Fiction, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Pan, Trans Get It On Amazon About The Book Can you leave your heart on the other side of the galaxy?When Wouter, a down-to-earth dyslexic caretaker, accidentally activates a travel disc sent by his late brother, he finds himself whisked away to a distant planet. Desperate to go home and reassure his grieving mother he’s alive, he’s instead stuck struggling to fill his brother’s shoes to keep the amphibian bani from freezing to death. Nif, a bani healer, clings to human music as a lifeline to memories of joy and a world … Read more

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Point of View: The Unsettling Pace of Change

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We live in one of those interesting times that the old (purported) Chinese curse speaks of. Change is happening all around us, epitomized by that greatest one of all, climate change, but also evident in our technology, politics, and society. In just twenty years, the idea that a man like me could marry another man went from patently absurd to an accepted reality. In just eight years, we went from the end of the term of our first black president to this churning reality we find ourselves in now, holding our collective breath while seemingly suspended over the abyss. And … Read more

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Author Spotlight: Patricia Loofbourrow

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Patricia Loofbourrow

Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work. Today: Patricia Loofbourrow is the NY Times and USA Today best selling author of the Red Dog Conspiracy steampunk noir crime fiction series. She has been a professional blogger, author, and editor since 2000 and began writing novels in 2005. Her first published novel, The Jacq of Spades, released in 2015 and has sold over 20,000 copies worldwide. A native of southern California, Patricia Loofbourrow has lived in Moore, Oklahoma since 2005. You … Read more