“Fiction is the art form of human yearning.” – Robert Olen Butler
“We are living...Chief?) – does little to quell its effect on my psyche. I’m in fight-or-flight mode all the time, feeling angry a...
I was born with a brain that works differently. I knew always, but the things my brain wouldn't do seemed so unimportant and so outweighed by its strengths that it wa...
Deconstructing Dark Romance, (Exploring the darker side of human nature in fiction)
What is dark romance? That was a question I was asked recently.
For me as a...
Apollo’s Lyre: The Art of Spiritual Psychotherapy
By Kenneth Porter, M.D.
This is a scholarly and precise journey into a whole new realm of psychotherapy called sp...
52 ancestors, week #1
The theme for week one of 52 ancestors in 52 weeks is Foundations. I decided to write about my maternal grandfather this week because his line i...
A Trilogy with Romance and Suspense Book Giveaway until Sept 14th: The Winner will have a choice of an E-BOOK or an AUDIOBOOK from Audible. Chivalry, Romance, and Adve...
John Michael Koffi’s “Refuge-e: The Journey Much Desired” is a memoirs of his teens _ years he had barely left when he self-published his book earlier this year. It is...
In her Pioneer Girl, novelist Bich Minh Nguyen offers us Lee, a protagonist who is both a thief and a literary sleuth. The morally complex detectives of the best myste...
The Keys to the Kingdom
Finding Place in Historical Fiction
When your eyes glaze ov...ronze mythical animals are situated above the entry way. Julia Morgan’s 1937 remodel of the façade and gold lobby...
Behind The Book
American Family
By Catherine Marshall-Smith
“What a long strange trip it’s been,” pretty much sums up my experience writing American Family. What...