The Girdle of Melian

ew books! Some ideal summertime reads from among the books I've read in the past month: Can't Stand the Rain , the latest in the Wishing for a Hero romantic suspense series, by Kait Nolan "Delaney Newell knows what it means to be powerless. Against the family who wouldn’t support her. Against the man she loved who betrayed her. Against the gossips who won’t let her forget it. But after years of struggling, she’s finally getting her life together. Sean Murphy has spent years fighting forest fires. The former hotshot turned forester knows the growth that can sprout from unfathomable destruction. That’s what he sees in Delaney—someone who got leveled by life but didn’t stop growing. He's spent the past several months watching the shy red-head blossom, and he really likes what he sees. When Delaney is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, everyone is willing to believe the worst of her. Everyone except Sean. The woman he knows couldn’t possibly be behind the...

hree of Tara 's books are on sale at the moment! Snap them up while you can! Last Call , on sale here "Newly-single attorney Gwen Cooper’s list of things that make her happy is pretty simple: 1. her teenage sons 2. her stilettos 3. finally taking control of her own life While texting the first on the list to warn them she’s missed her flight home, she plows into a hot-shot movie star, has a lukewarm latte dumped down her blouse, and snaps a heel off item number two. When the actor shows up at the hotel bearing an apology of replacement Louboutins, she should be wondering how he got her room number. Instead, she’s simmering over his well-tailored suit and conjuring more sinful ways for him to make things up to her. And why not? The notorious bachelor is the perfect guy to kick off her post-divorce fantasies of no strings attached. Ever again. Blake Donovan claimed Hollywood’s top spot by playing the self-centered bad boy his manager and publicist created. Lo...

quick check in for ROW80, especially as I didn't actually provide an update last week! I've reprinted The Handful of Time to edit it all over again, but found myself at loose ends in general day-to-day editing tasks, so I've -- possibly foolishly -- sent out a few more queries for two of the other novels. And I went back to Larksong for the month, in order to participate in the latest exercise on The Lit Forum, which might be called the flip ... "When we write, we paint a scene with our words. Some writers provide a sparse scene with their words, leaving it to the reader to fill the blanks with their own imagination while others add so many visuals aids (colours, smell, touch, etc) the reader can use those to make this more than just a scene, it become alive in a way. However detailed, the end result is always that the reader has built up a mental picture of the scene, the surroundings, the character, and the reader is relying on this image to follow ...

avourite ending lines from novels! Here are some of mine, inspired by Malcolm Campbell's recent post, Some of my favorite ending lines from novels . I like especially his choice of Orwell, Milne, and Mitchell. Joyce's Ulysses was also one of the first to leap to my mind (impossible to quote the whole sentence, of course): "...and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes." I also thought of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and the line, "'God's in His heaven, all...