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,… Continue reading Update on my writing
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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… Continue reading There Will Be Consequences: A Biographical Novel of Old New Mexico by Loretta Miles Tollefson
Publication News from My Writing Cohort
My colleague from Running Wild Press, Elan Barnehama, recently shared some great news: his second novel, Escape Route, is coming out May 4th.
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.

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… Continue reading Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford
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… Continue reading Thunder Road by Colin Holmes
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… Continue reading Author’s Note for Ain’t No Cat
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… Continue reading The Texas Job by Reavis Z. Wortham
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… Continue reading The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
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… Continue reading Dead Man’s Hand by David Nix
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… Continue reading What’s your WIP tag