Month: October 2023

Paranormal Cozy Mystery Spooky Sweet

Spooky Sweet, by Connie Shelton  SPOILER ALERT!   With Halloween and other holidays fast approaching, an abandoned Victorian home seems the perfect location for Samantha Sweet’s […]

Good Bones

Just as your body needs a skeleton to give it structure, your novel needs a framework for its story. If you start with a solid, […]

Parallel / Tandem

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: PARALLEL / TANDEM These […]

Literary Novel The Other

The Other, by David Guterson     My life as an English teacher with a wife and two kids would have been poetically mundane if not […]

Oral / Verbal

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ORAL / VERBAL In […]

Women’s Fiction The Ocean Between Us

The Ocean Between Us, by Susan Wiggs     At forty, loyal Navy wife and mother-of-three Grace Bennett confronts her spreading figure and neglected dreams while […]

One of the Few / One of the Only

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: ONE OF THE FEW […]

Canadian Mystery Still Life

Still Life, by Louise Penny     Violence disrupts the tranquility of the Quebecois countryside on Thanksgiving weekend when an arrow pierces the heart of beloved […]

Off / Off Of

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: OFF / OFF OF […]