Yearly Archives: 2024

42 posts

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Motivation for Murder

I’ve been blogging for more than 7 years and have published over 500 posts. I’m currently updating and recategorizing all of these posts to make the content easier to access. In the process, I found a gem of a post to re-share with you today. I’ve updated it a bit. Enjoy. This morbid and possibly disturbing post was first published in October of 2017. Let’s Talk About Murder–and the Motives Thereof, Shall We? Love, Lust, Lucre, and Loathing A bad […]

Goddess Fish and S.K. Present: The Silvery Path by Dennis Scheel

A number of authors write with animals by their sides. I have no fewer than three cats at any given time lounging on my desk or on my lap or climbing on my shoulder or prowling across the keyboard. My guest shares his experiences with the furry muses. This is a Goddess Fish blog tour, so look for the contest to enter and be sure to visit all the stops. Slice of Author Life by Dennis Scheel I would like […]

Novel Magic: Ghost Hunt

Are you in the mood for a little spook chasing? Novel Magic guest Pia Manning shares the real-life ghost-hunting inspiration for Hometown Spirits, her latest erotic paranormal romance. The Ghost Hunt by Pia Manning In Hometown Spirits, the heroine, Emily Slater, buys what most of the Pinecone Creekers believe is a haunted cabin. Emily decides that 1 murder + 1 bloodstained cabin + strange sounds = 1 Haunted by Real Ghosts Home. So, she arranges to have paranormal investigators come […]

Novel Magic: Unexpected Journey to Writing

It seems we all come to Writing by different paths–even those of us who always planned to be writers. Nothing works as expected in life, but–in the end–we get where we were going. Novel Magic guest, Christina Lambert, shares her story. Words, Worlds, and Possibilities by Christina Lambert My Unexpected Journey into Writing I have always loved writing. For years, I wrote poetry and essays for fun, then stored them in a folder, never to be seen again. I never […]

Novel Magic: Writing Magic

Writing about magic doesn’t happen by, well, magic. IMHO, fantasy writing takes an astounding amount of forethought and planning. I mean, you have to invent the world, the rules that world operates by, as well as the plot of your tale. Novel Magic guest, Lisabet Sarai, adds to the discussion and shares her insights. Oh and by the way, score more than 50 FREE stories by Lisabet by visiting her website. FYI–Lisabet’s books fall in the paranormal erotic romance subgenre. […]

Goddess Fish and S.K. Dubois present: The Dark Court by Vyvyan Evans

This post is a Goddess Fish Promotion. Author Vyvyan Evans will award a randomly drawn winner paperback copies of both book 1 and book 2 on the series. Scroll down to Enter! The Dark Court is set in the near future, featuring Lilith King, the world’s most celebrated cybercrime detective. Lilith had always known she was different. Attitude to burn for one thing. The strange chanting in her head since she was seven, for another, coinciding with the day her […]