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Sep 27, 20211 min read

Review: Friends to the End, by C. L. Colyer

Question: Where can you find scary, funny, and sad all in the same story? Answer: Friends to the End, a captivating middle-grade novel by...

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Feb 2, 20212 min read

Review of The Safekeeper, by Esther Archer Lakhani

This YA fantasy/sci-fi novel begins with a seemingly normal fifteen-year-old girl on her way home from school and quickly evolves into a...

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Jul 31, 20205 min read

Excerpt From THE HAUNTED PURSE

Toni and I sat on the bedroom floor, the purse centered between us. We were eying it uneasily, as if it were a wild animal that might...

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Jul 13, 20202 min read

The Calendar That Predicted My Husband's Death

Christmas day 1994. I was a young wife and mother living a comfortable domestic life with my husband, Richard, and our three children,...

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Jul 10, 20202 min read

The Haunted Purse: Inspired by a True Story

My YA paranormal novel The Haunted Purse is about a teenage girl who buys an old purse at a thrift store. When random items in the purse...

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Jun 26, 20204 min read

Reading: For Me, It's All About Premise

Give me a story I can lose myself in. As a reader, I’m a sucker for a high-concept, uniquely premised story. I want something hot off the...

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Jun 6, 20201 min read

Nostalgia, Part 2

Is there anything sweeter than being a happy, healthy young person with decades of life ahead of you? Not in my book. Maybe that’s why...

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May 29, 20203 min read

We Found a Secret Fairyland

Me, Sharon, and Merrill. Median age: eight. Inseparable, wiry, bouncy as grasshoppers. Our summer days were toy chests filled with squirt...