Update on my writing

My current favourite contemporary listen is a show called "Madison on the Air" - Modern day Madison is zapped into old time radio dramas. No technology, no Starbucks, and no one is PC! Will she survive? I find Madison on the Air to be a lot of fun, and I appreciate that Chrisi Talyn Saje,…

There Will Be Consequences: A Biographical Novel of Old New Mexico by Loretta Miles Tollefson

Thank you to the author and booksirens.com for the opportunity to read and review this book. This is a book relaying a story about a revolution - or civil war - that took place in New Mexico in 1837. This subject matter was enough to interest me at first because I didn't know anything about…

Publication News from My Writing Cohort

Gemma L. Brook

My colleague from Running Wild Press, Elan Barnehama, recently shared some great news: his second novel, Escape Route, is coming out May 4^th.

Escape Route is set in New York City during the tumultuous late 1960s. The story is told by teenager Zach, a first-generation son of Holocaust survivors and NY Mets fan, who becomes obsessed with the Vietnam War and with finding an escape route for his family for when he believes the US will round up and incarcerate its Jews. Zach meets Samm, a seventh-generation Manhattanite whose brother has returned from Vietnam with PTSD. Together they explore protest, friendship, music, faith, and love during a time littered with hope and upheaval around the globe.

Elan Barnehama, Contemporary Fiction Author

I first read Elan’s writing in the Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Vol. 2. His short story about these same characters, “Just Be,” was…

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Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford

There ain't a square man in this part of the country that won't feel some honored an' proud to be called a friend of Hopalong Cassidy. Them's the sentiments rampaging hereabouts. I ain't denying that he's gone an' killed off a lot of men fist an' last - but the only trouble there is that…

Thunder Road by Colin Holmes

Debut novel Thunder Road from Colin Holmes is a tale of a veteran and “cowboy” detective, navigating corruption, conspiracy, and romance in 1947’s Texas. This book takes us to a world where UFOs, the Mob, Hollywood, the military industrial complex and cattle rustlers collide, (the rustlers only appearing disappointingly briefly.) I received a copy to…

Author’s Note for Ain’t No Cat

I have recently completed work on the weird-western-horror story known as "Ain't No Cat" - which includes a hunt for a mountain lion. (I edited it in a rush. It's pretty rough. But it's done --- for now!) I am scared of mountain lions, but I am not a fan of hunting them willy-nilly. And…

The Texas Job by Reavis Z. Wortham

The Texas Job by Reavis Z. WorthamMy rating: 4 of 5 stars I recalled an old woman down in the Valley once told me that when the world goes quiet, it's because the ol'Devil is close by. I wasn't scared of the Devil himself. The things he made people do was what worried me. I…

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

We sat down in the leaves, off the trail, just as the first sun touched the top of the mountain across the hollow. From his pocket, Granpa pulled out a sour biscuit and deer meat for me, and we watched the mountain while we ate. The sun hit the top like an explosion, sending showers…

Dead Man’s Hand by David Nix

Gus had seen such men before and during the war, on both sides of the fight. Men who lusted for blood as they would for a woman. Men of violence for whom abusive power was not enough. Men who would drive the lash long after the victim had fallen insensible or died... Yes, he'd seen…

What’s your WIP tag

WIP stands for Work In Progress in online writing community lingo! I am borrowing this tag from Hamlette's Soliloquy Who got it from a Katja, who I don't think I've met yet, but hello! The tag rules are: Thank the person who tagged you & link to their blog. (thank you hamlette!)Link back to the…