Princess Rosebud
A young girl goes to extremes to protect her Princess: First, to prevent a marital mistake, and second, to save her life. Gray The curse of gray encompassed the young Genevieve’s existence:dismal, dull, gloomy, uninteresting-gray. The banal spectrum of the rainbow; the never striking, never exuberant, gray. Genevieve lived in this world of gray: gray […]
Undercovers
Harley hurled. It was actually the flu, but vomiting worked well toward legitimizing his police undercover role as a junkie/dealer. Tossing your cookies into a street trash can is hard to fake, so it is accepted as legit. He was pissed that there was no one around to witness. His personal cell phone […]
The Shamrock’ A’
by Thomas White The light shining through the stained-glass windows refracted a barrage of color, slicing down from a multitude of angles, dissecting the chapel into segments. I categorized each segment as a separate era of my life: blue, being the wild child at church; mixed with yellow, as a blushing bride standing next to […]
The Sad and Inevitable Demise of Tiara Jewel
The muted light was gritty and sticky. Her eyeballs moved under her pasted lids, but they were unable to open. Her head slipped to the right, and the beating sun scorched her already dark, sunblasted cheek. The other end of her body sent a different stimulus. While one foot was bare, the other still wore […]
The Value of a ‘Like’
Since publishing my first novel 14 years ago, self-publishing has changeddrastically. Fourteen years ago, the world was new, exciting and offered anopportunity to those of us who, at least in my humble opinion, deserved to havetheir work see publication. Today, the market has overflowed, Amazon isoverwrought with content, and once again, your work sits in […]
How do you think up this stuff?
As is true with many authors, the question I get most often is, “Where do you get your ideas?” And quite honestly, it is often the simplest of things that will set you off on a path. That was exactly the case with ‘The Siren’s Scream’. While sitting on a dock at a mountain cabin […]
The era of self-publishing
The era of self-publishing is thriving. With the advent of e-reader devices, authors all around the world have the opportunity to get their work out into the public eye. At last, there is a functional way to be published without the scrutiny of publishing houses, agents and paid-by-the-hour readers. Self-publishing has long been […]