From the Reading Corner: In an Instant
A review of In an Instant for moms with full days and more books to read than time to read them – this one is worth it! 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Busy Mama Book Review: Anxious People
From one “busy” mama to another, here is a light read about serious topics that will offer some levity to your days (or nights). Read on for more about how Backman makes that magic happen!
Friday Fictioneers: The Truth Hiding in the Shadows
Her mouth twisted in jagged lines, chin and cheeks fractured in the reflection. Seven years bad luck. It’s already been eight. Elaine raised her glass to her lips. Ice cubes rattled against the crystal and rainbows glinted off the beveled squares that wrapped around the tumbler. She drew in a mouthful of bitter, honey-colored…
Writer Meme Monday: Accomplished or Annoyed? Or Something in Between?
I don’t know if I feel accomplished or annoyed… I managed to get closer to my usual routine for writing, blogging and posting! And yet the darn short story I wanted to write, the one that is running around in my brain, under development, has not yet made it onto the page. Some days you…
Friday Fictioneers: Your Chariot Awaits
“Your throne, Your Majesty!” The duke bowed and duchess curtsied. The king gazed at the perch across the moat. Light glimmered off the gilded royal seat. Rubies encrusted in the high back sparkled.  “How shall I get there?” The duke stepped back and gestured to the gleaming horse and carriage, both draped in the ornate dressings of the…
Writer Meme Monday: Synopsis. Enough Said.
Me, when the deadline for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge is approaching but you still have to write the synopsis. Still waiting for inspiration. Hoping the words will appear on the screen. Marveling at how the word “synopsis” looks funny after staring at it for five minutes. Forcing some words onto the page. Deleting them…
Writer Meme Monday: And Editing Continues…
The editing of the book continues! Quick recap: It came back from the editor several weeks back, right before I pitched it to an agent at a writing conference. The agent asked for chapters, knowing I had gotten it back from an editor and had work to do on it before it was submission ready. Then…
Friday Fictioneers: Precious
Precious (Fiction; 100 words) The boy bounced and strained against the belt. “Settle down, Precious. You mustn’t appear overactive.” His guardian, a middle-aged woman with deep wrinkles and a permanent odor of smoke, checked her watch again. “They could decide they don’t want you and then what? All that wasted time and effort.” He grimaced…
Writer Meme Monday: Monday-Morning Quarterbacking…Post-NaNo Review
Well, I don’t actually know my final word count, but I passed my goal (15k) last week on Monday. Yay! AND I did it without becoming a crazed, word-anti-smithing fool, hauled off by the NaNo Emergency Squad (or shipped off by hubby)! My bigger goal, establishing a daily habit of at least 500 words, is…
Book Review: Nightfall Over Shanghai (Kalla)
Nightfall Over Shanghai Author: Daniel Kalla © 2015 Publisher: Forge Books Genre: Literature & Fiction Subgenre: Historical Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Reviewer: Sara Book received by: Gift from family Synopsis: Shanghai in 1944 is an increasingly dangerous place for the Jewish refugees, including the Adler family. Father, daughter and step-mother find themselves in…
The Mom Who Runs: 