I read for a variety of reasons, but the main one is probably to escape. The daily grind has a way of weighing down even the most happy-go-lucky among us with work commitments, family life, and a seemingly never ending to-do list. Sometimes it’s nice to forget that I have bills to pay, let the […]

Reading slumps are a fairly rare occurrence for me, but they do indeed occasionally happen. It is possible to have too much of a good thing, and although it does take A LOT for me to not feel like picking up a book, I do have a few ‘triggers’ that I try to avoid at […]

I don’t think that I have EVER dated a man who’s loved novels as much as I do, and although my husband does pick up the occasional book (namely, whenever a new installment in THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES comes out—my doing!) I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a reader. Diving between the […]

For many this would seem like a natural progression, I like books, and I write on average four posts a week, so why not combine my two hobbies, and step into the publishing world, right? I know of many bloggers who have done just that, and I have given the idea some serious thought over […]