Monthly Archives: November 2014

“We’ll get you next time John L. Monk!” Ted yelled, shaking his fist and scattering a few remaining sparks of blue lightning via Disturbing incident at work today: they found out I’m a writer. Need a laugh? (Dumb question. Of … Continue reading →

Here’s a book I’d buy for the cover: a motorcycle-riding Vietnam vet! “It felt like the motorcycle had become a part of his body–a part that made him whole.” Get pulled back into 1972, a time before cellphones and the … Continue reading →

I haven’t read it yet, but you may have been watching for it if you read my blog post Good Morning, Young Lady by Ardyth Kennelly  — and here’s the scoop, thanks to Nancy Trotic, who knew Kennelly as her great-aunt: Variation West by Ardyth … Continue reading →

Love that cover! Man, the most dangerous animal ever to roam the earth, destroys Siberia’s Pleistocene Park. Soviet scientists found human sperm on the skirt of a Neanderthal woman recovered from the permafrost. Sperm rapidly cooled to subzero temperatures in … Continue reading →

She may be a full-time scientist, but E.E. Giorgi is an award-winning novelist as well–oh, and a photographer too. I’d just read her futuristic “Gene Cards” and loved the inside information on hackers, GMOs and genetics. (No surprise, “Gene Cards” just … Continue reading →

Originally posted on historywithatwist:
I’d like to welcome historical fiction novelist Deborah Lincoln to historywithatwist. Deborah’s novel Agnes Canon’s War was inspired by her own family’s extraordinary ancestors. It also turned out that, in creating other characters for her novel,…

Patty Wagstaff dreams of the day we hear a woman is one of the world’s greatest aviators. Period. Do we speak of great “male”pilots,  dentists, doctors, lawyers? (“Fire and Air: A Life on the Edge, Chicago Review Press, 1997). In … Continue reading →

What do these two world-famous, Oklahoma-raised men have in common? Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 — August 15, 1935), one of the most colorful figures of the early years of American aviation,  set many records. He was the first pilot to fly … Continue reading →

Holiday-themed fiction has become sadly predictable: ‘Tis the Season for Santa, reindeer, and family reconciliation. Not that we don’t love tradition and feel-good endings; but it feels like it’s time for something a bit…different. So for Liberty Island’s first annual … Continue reading →