Sheila's Guests and Reviews

Today I'm showcasing a free ebook - Every Reasonable Double by Pamela Samuels Young. It's a mystery/legal thriller and I hope to read it soon - definitely on my to-read list. Enjoy! And thank you to Pump up Your Book for introducing it. EVERY REASONABLE DOUBT PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG * MYSTERY/LEGAL THRILLER * Title : Every Reasonable Doubt Author : Pamela Samuels Young Publisher : Goldman House Publishing File Size : 722 KB Genre : Mystery/Legal Thriller When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their careers, they are less than thrilled about working together. Their strained relationship, however, is the least of their problems. Their socialite client—charged with the brutal murder of her husband—is demanding an immediate dismissal of the case. But a ruthless prosecutor is determined to make sure that doesn’t happen. Forced to fight a common enemy, the two women close ranks and, in the p...

Looking through those unpublished book reviews and unshelved but long-read books I found an Obsidian Trilogy and an Obsidian short story collection. It's definitely time to shelve them--the trilogy, in particular, is made up of quite large books and if I don't put them away the space will disappear. (Space does that--quantum book expansion I think.) So... I'll start with the short stories. Obsidian Worlds by Jason Werbeloff  is a fascinating collection, not for the easily offended, but uniquely odd, short enough to read while drinking coffee, and weird enough to have you reaching for your science book. Enjoy with some dark five-star coffee. Then there's the Obsidian Trilogy. Here, magic replaces science, but it's a well-thought-out kind of magic with genuine logic and fascinating differences, balanced by a well-developed fantasy world and fueled by good versus evil. I love how new characters and ideas are introduced in each book, extending the world and constant...

So much has distracted me this last few months that my pile of books-read is actually larger than the pile of books labelled must-read. I guess I'll start posting a few of those books-read reviews, so I can file the pile back onto shelves. We need to be tidy for Christmas! One of those "distractions" (the best and most rewarding of them) has been the fact that I've been writing a book about the Bible--Questioning Faith. I'm still hunting for a subtitle, so please leave one in the comments if you can think of something. It's a book designed to help teens, their parents and grandparents, and the teens-at-heart see that the Bible is big enough for all their questions, and God is big enough to encompass all their doubts. I started thinking about it back in England when my son's elementary school friend explained that he didn't believe Bible stories because he'd grown out of fairytales long ago... and I realized the Bible stories were told in elementa...

Today I get to welcome TG Wolff to my blog, author of  thrillers and mysteries that play within the gray area between good and bad, right and wrong. Clearly the author enjoys the thrill of the story, so I'm looking forward to learning... How to Write for Fun by TG Wolff Everyone has a different reason for writing, but one thing should be universal: writing is fun. For many, the mandatory writing on uninteresting subjects forced on us from elementary school on up has left a bitter taste in the preverbal writing mouth. It’s akin to my distaste of plaid after twelve years of Catholic school even though I haven’t worn a schoolgirl’s skirt for thirty years. But fear not, you can overcome the rigid constraints of noun-verb-noun and intro paragraph-body-summary paragraph. It may be hard to overcome the Pavlovian habits, but it won’t be painful. So, here’s the secret of how to write for fun…write like nobody’s going to read it. Counterintuitive, right? Well, I’m sure yo...