Teenager Poem

Outdoor fun in Florida - it sounds like so much fun - A good friend of mine, travel writer and author Linda Ballou has had her article featured in Real Travel Adventures.

A three-mile causeway from Fort Meyers across San Carlos Bay…

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My beginning: No control.

Outside the window, the cold wind is howling and whipping back forth. Inside, deafening electronic music is pounding while dozens of drunken college kids slam their heads and blow their fists in the air. Steaming red lights beam into the room as half-drunk girls sip from their red cups and drift their eyes across the room, trying to latch on to something. Inside, the walls are cheap, paint chips crumbling and tumbling off.…

Why did you have to tell a lie?

I think of you sometimes when I'm stressed and all alone.

That's the reason that I  break down and call you on the phone.

I know that if there were any feelings there, now you are in another zone.

I didn't matter one way or another so, it's your fault that I'm gone.

You took my love, gnawned on it like a dog with a…

Summary: (science/medical thriller) In quarantined Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of people are dying from an unstoppable disease called the red death, bereaved Kate Cummings struggles to find the courage to live and to love. In the midst of a violent, autocratic takeover of society by agencies of…

The Quest Of Life (prelude)

            Where does it come from.....this need to be different....to be special?

I’ve spent the majority of my life pursuing success, believing that true happiness was based on achievements, wealth and fame. I have obtained all of them several times in my life. Whenever I would achieve a goal, I was still left feeling unfulfilled and moved on to something new. Searching for something, but what was it I was looking for? I…

  I joined recently and looking forward to "meeting" a lot of interesting people here... writers, travelers, photographers, journalists in the best sense of the word.   I have been running a series of sites since 1999, evolving over time.  I'm a photographer and writer.  I've been to around 27 countries and 40 states.  

   I read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people.   Just got back from the London Book Fair and some other business in UK.  

My Stitch of Courage book features Maggie Kennedy Pieratt, my gre at-great grandmother. She was orphaned at age three, and eventually sent to the Territory Kansas in the late 1850s to live with her brothers.

As a young woman, and arriving in the…

What are you passionate about? Who supports your interest? Have you ever been an activist? In Mustang Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry, Annie Johnston loves horses. So does her family and her future husband. One day after spying a cattle truck of horses more dead than alive, Annie became an activist. This is her story. What's even more noteworthy is that Annie Johnston, affectionately known as "Wild Horse…

Do you love to read romance novels?  Then we’re looking for you to join our yahoo group:  Authors and Readers of Romance. 

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We are a group of authors and readers who love romance novels.  This is a group for authors to promote their novels, share contests they're…

I do weekly book reviews almost predominately about children's books. I do this on a weekly basis.Here's the one for this week...

The ABC’s of Writing for Children complied by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

When I saw the title of the book, I thought I would find a book that gives you step by step instructions for how to write for children from various authors. That is not what…

    Please bear with me as I'm learning as I go here.  I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself to Book Blogs world.  I'm a 32 year old Mom of two who has recently dipped my toe into the world of publishing.  My first book, Convergence, was my first attempt at writing something original after spending a couple of years playing around with other people's characters and posting online in forums devoted to these kinds of works.  The time I spent doing that was priceless as it helped so much…

Circle City: Lord of the Wolfen - Book I is NOW AVAILABLE in ebook format for .99! It will release in print next month!…

In the two posts, World Crises And The Fiction Writer ~ Can They Help Humanity? and Two…