When Not Writing Hello everyone! I’m Lex Chase and Kim let me drop by her blog today. A little about me is I am the creator of the Checkmate series for Dreamspinner Press with Pawn Takes Rook, the newly released sequel Pawn Takes Rook: Cashing the Reality Check, and coming in early 2014 the final …
In my short story “Care and Rehabilitation,” Ira has a Saint Bernard mix named–to his great embarrassment–Lady Gaga. Gaga rescues a baby dove, and that’s how Ira meets up with his former student, Caleb. I love Saint Bernards. We had one named Otis when I was a little kid: When I grew up and …
William Lyon’s past forced him to become someone he isn’t. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital. Jelley’s Valley State Insane Asylum was the largest mental hospital in California for well over a century, but it now stands empty. …
Talking About Trouble — Eli’s Top Five Scenes in “The Trouble with Tony” By Eli Easton “The Trouble with Tony” is a light-hearted, rom-com of a m/m romance novella. In the story, Tony DeMarco, a private eye, goes undercover at a sex clinic during his investigation into a young woman’s murder. He ends up …
My older daughter is 13, a high school freshman. She and I share an iTunes account and therefore share playlists. Mostly we enjoy each other’s music–or at least tolerate it–although I admit to being unable to listen to Skrillex for more than 60 seconds at a time. The other day she came home from school. …
Inspiration Post #15: The Midwest I consider myself a West Coast person. I’ve lived on the West Coast of the US for about 75% of my life. I feel most at home here. If I could freely choose any part of the US to live, it would be somewhere in California, Oregon, or Washington. But …
We have a winner in the Boring Contest! My kids read and graded all the entries and judged this gem by Sara to be the most boring: Very few people enjoy it, but washing dishes is vital for keeping a clean house. If you are not fortunate enough to own a dishwasher, you will need …
Excerpt from WHERE MY LOVE LIES DREAMING by Christopher Hawthorne Moss WHERE MY LOVE LIES DREAMING by Christopher Hawthorne Mosshttp://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4126When the Civil War began, it split more than just brothers… On the Mississippi 1860 A loud explosion somewhere on the river ahead interrupted her response. They were south of Memphis, but only by several miles. …
I dread going to the dentist. I’ve been fortunate enough to avoid too much major dental work, although I had an infected wisdom tooth 10 days before I got married (and over a holiday weekend), and a couple years ago I had a root canal. Ugh. So it was with considerable sympathy that I read …
Inspiration: Hello everybody, this is Rob Colton. Thanks for letting me take over for a little bit, Kim! Today I wanted to talk about the inspiration for my upcoming novella, The Ranch Foreman. It is coming out this Wednesday, August 14th, published by Dreamspinner Press. To be honest, the inspiration for the story came from …