Sheila's Guests and Reviews

I'm delighted to welcome author Elizabeth Bourne to my blog today. Her recently released novel, A Fickle Wind, is an inspirational rags-to-riches story of an English girl who moves to North America. Elizabeth Bourne is a fellow ex-pat Brit, just like me, so I jumped at the chance to invite her to my blog. Elizabeth Bourne left England as a young woman and now divides her time between California and Canada. Travel is still an important priority but she also enjoys participating in family life with her two daughters and her grandchildren. The seed to write was planted many years ago but it was not until recently, when Bourne had the uninterrupted time to devote to it, that she decided to fulfill her long-time ambition to be a writer.   A Fickle Wind is her debut novel. So here is Elizabeth Bourne to tell you herself what the book is about, and what inspired her to write it. Thank you for visiting my blog Elizabeth. I decided to write A FICKLE WIND because I felt I ha...

I was reading about a possible Amazon move toward book memberships, with rentals of ebooks offered for a fixed monthly charge. Of course, some ebooks would cost extra, just like some movies do. I'm guessing some websites would offer one publisher free while another would charge, and a serious reader might end up having to subscribe to several different sites, just as the serious TV and movie-watcher must. Or they could just buy books. This week I traveled cross-country to help my son move into his new home. With all those flights, you'd think I'd just have packed a kindle full of things to read. But I wasn't sure how easily I'd find a place to charge it in an apartment full of boxes. I wasn't sure how many spare sockets he'd have in his home full of electronics. And I wasn't sure how easily I'd find my own electronic device left lying around among his. So I read those paperback things called books , and I had a great time. I also built several ch...

Today I planned to welcome author S. R. Grey with her latest romantic suspense novel, Harbour Falls. (Yes! She spells Harbour the English way!) But I'm not sure if it's S. R. Grey who's here, or Maddy Fitch instead... See what you think... EXCERPT FROM HARBOR FALLS: The Harbour Falls Mystery was the real reason I was here. I had every intention of basing my next novel on the facts of the case. I was tired of fiction; I wanted to write a true crime novel. Plus there was a little part of me—the detective that lurks in all of us—that dreamed of solving this case. But nobody knew that this case held more than a professional interest for me. Not because the main locale was Harbour Falls, and not because the mystery involved the disappearance of a local I’d once known. And, truth be told, had once envied. Nor was it the fact that this local, Chelsea Hannigan, had gone missing the night before her wedding. Scandalous, though it was. What piqued my curiosity...

A while ago I read and reviewed Dire Salvation by Charles Neff. It was a fascinating book, set in the Pacific Northwest, centering around drugs and Indian tribes and more. When I learned that Charles Neff's recent book, Fractured Legacy, was also set in the Cascades, I began to wonder if the stories were connected. They are, but it turns out those connections run both deeper and wider than I'd imagined. So now I'll have too look out for the whole series... except it's not a series... and the author's enjoying the Party of His Life. So party on! Welcome to my blog, Charles, and thank you for letting me learn so much more about you and your  books.                                 Writing: The Party of My Life By Charles B. Neff During my working days, I read for relaxation, favoring spy thrillers and detective fiction. ...