Ten-Second Movie Reviews … by Katherine Valdez

July 16, 2015 By: Patricia

My love of stories started with books and got an adrenaline boost with movies. It’s all storytelling. Read. Watch. Learn. And eat popcorn. Lots of popcorn. Jupiter Ascending I wanted to love this movie. I mean, Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum? Hot. But the Wachowskis skimped on story here, and it shows. Eddie Redmayne, stellar …Read More

I’m Still Here….

July 14, 2015 By: Patricia

Late news flash: There’s a Goodreads giveaway going on for April J. Moore’s wonderful women’s fiction novel, Bobbing for Watermelons. It closes July 26th, so hurry on over and enter. You’ll find the giveaway here: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/145646-bobbing-for-watermelons I’ve been a truly delinquent blogger this week. I’m not sure where the week went, but I know I …Read More

Do-Overs … by Patricia Smith Wood

July 9, 2015 By: Patricia

If you could have only one, what would your “do-over” be? Everybody has at least one, right? I’ve thought about that long and hard over the years. For example, my husband Don and I were high school sweethearts. We talked back then about getting married sometime after he graduated from college. But his parents had …Read More

Finally, My New Computer is Working

July 7, 2015 By: Patricia

What a nightmare this has been. After the old one crashed and I thought I’d lost my files, I ordered a new desktop. It arrived on June 26th and I loaded the old files my husband had cleverly recovered for me while we waited. Then bad, bad things started happening with the new computer. I …Read More

I’m On the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog Today

July 6, 2015 By: Patricia

Toward the end of May, I posted here about writers who take breaks, or who choose to move on to different interests. Today I have a companion post at the RMFW blog: “What if You Want to Quit Writing?” Hopefully newer writers will see they’re not alone when they suffer through self-doubt and want to …Read More

Three Winners

July 5, 2015 By: Patricia

Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh, Allan J. Emerson, and Susan Gourley for leaving comments on Robert Spiller‘s guest blog post. I hope you enjoy your copy of Napier’s Bones as much as I did. If you missed Bob’s guest post, Dark Night of the Soul, click here.

Dark Night of the Soul … by Robert Spiller

July 2, 2015 By: Patricia

Van Morrison sings of being Torn Down ala Rimbaud. This experience of finding oneself in the ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ is by no means unique to either Van the Man or Arthur Rimbaud, the wonderful French poet. Sinners and saints all speak of falling so low that they have nowhere to go but up. …Read More

Recording for Radio, Tomorrow’s Guest Blogger, and Biting Off More Than I Can Chew

July 1, 2015 By: Patricia

Recording for Radio Yesterday I joined J. P. McKinney, Nancy L. Reed, and E.A. Cook to record an interview with our esteemed host of Between the Pages (and frequent blogger here because he keeps twisting my arm until I holler Uncle) for our local community KRFC radio….a station primarily staffed by volunteers who benefit by …Read More

Blog Posts You Might Not Want to Miss

June 29, 2015 By: Patricia

Today I have my sad story about my computer crash posted at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog. Hopefully you’ll find “What Will You Lose if Your Computer Crashes Five Minutes from Now?” an incentive to immediately go run a backup of your important files and photos. At Anne R. Allen’s Blog, a place I …Read More

The winner of a copy of Laura Pritchett’s Red Lightning is….

June 28, 2015 By: Patricia

Congratulations to Joannah Merriman the winner of a copy of Laura Pritchett’s new release Red Lightning Joannah is a writer and blogger and an adventurous trekker. Check out her blog, Woodswoman Walking, where she chronicles her walks along the Camino de Santiago.