What I’m Reading This Week— I’m just finishing up The Apostle by Brad Thor. This is a satisfying political thriller involving an American doctor kidnapped in Afghanistan and the special team hired by her rich mother to rescue her. Features Scot Harvath, Thor’s series character, who is a former covert counterterrorism operative. Next book on …Read More

Here are the reasons you want to send advance review copies of your book to as many magazine and online reader review sites as you can: 1. Reviewers are real people. Real people have a variety of preferences, preferred genres, and writing styles. Just because one reviewer doesn’t like your book so much, doesn’t mean …Read More

It was so gorgeous yesterday in my part of Northern Colorado that I set a lawn chair in the shade of my grape vine and ate my yogurt/blueberry/granola lunch outside. Chilled a bit. Still couldn’t go back inside, so I grabbed my book and read out there for thirty whole minutes. Okay, enough of that …Read More

Do you have days when you feel something good is about to happen? A little tingly across the shoulder blades? A desire to turn around, look in all directions, make sure you’re not missing something? I started feeling that way yesterday, so I checked phone messages, perused my e-mail, and searched through the snail mail. …Read More