Book Review: THE DEATHDAY LETTER by Shaun David Hutchinson

Imagine a world where impending death was announced by a Deathday Letter.  When it was your time to go, you’d receive a letter telling you that within twenty-four hours, you’d be dead.  What would you do with that time?  This book is about fifteen year old Ollie Travers and what...

The Delinquency Continues

Sorry.  The blog has to take a backseat to fulfilling my job as a wife, mom, the day job and my volunteering.  It also has to take a backseat to editing my novel and other writerly tasks – like reading a superbly awesome book called Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. ...

Short and sweet

I’ve been delinquent.  More than delinquent.  Downright neglectful.  But it’s not only the blog.  Anything that doesn’t need doing isn’t getting done.  I’m heads down editing.  Trying to write some new scenes so I can finally get a full MS to my beta readers.  I can see the finish line. ...

New Additions to My Library

Wow.  It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about the new acquisitions I’ve made in TL’s Library.  I’ve been keeping the bookstores and Amazon in business. The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson – I’m reading this now and loving it.  It’s morbidly hilarious and written in a teenage boy’s perspective. ...

My Thoughts on LINGER by Maggie Stiefvater

I hate to admit it took me longer to finish LINGER than I wanted.  Life just got in the way…  It was one of my most anticipated reads of the summer, since SHIVER, the first book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, is one of my favorite books. EVER....