5 Reasons to Love Be Mine This Time: Having it All Book 1
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Morality
6 Reasons to Have Sex… or write about it.
Or why I have open door sex…in my novels I mean. In Romance fiction, historically and derogatorily referred to as “bodice-rippers,”
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Yann Martel’s Beatrice & Virgil: Book Review
Yann Martel’s Beatrice & Virgil I recently finished reading Yann Martel’s Beatrice & Virgil, and afterwards I was kind of speechlesslessly moved… and disturbed. But after the prickles in my skin smoothed and my fur unruffled, a couple of sleeps later… these thoughts came to me. One could say that it is ‘like’ Life of
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The Cut Direct
WHERE HAS BUSINESS ETIQUETTE GONE? BY-GONE DAYS Those of you who read Regency fiction will know what this term means: The cut direct. For those that don’t, it refers to the social snub, a complete diss. Which was done very rarely only under extreme circumstances when a person was in the wrong place
Corporal versus Cerebral Temptations
Come in, sit down, have a cup of tea. I want to tell you a story. Truly, I tell you, I’ve been absconded by fairies this past three days, and taken on a fanciful journey. My body aches with fatigue, my head spins, my spirit soars, and my feet have not yet returned to the
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Half-Blood Blues: Book Review
AUTHOR ESI EDUGYAN Earlier this month I had the pleasure of meeting Esi Edugyan, the author of Scotiabank Giller Prize winning Half-Blood Blues at the Denman Island Readers and Writers Festival, and to hear her read excerpts from her latest novel. At that time I had only just begun reading it, and as of last night,
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