by Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Riverhead, © 2009 ISBN 978-1594484629 Paperback, 336 pages. From $14.97 Lifelong Christian Science devotee Barbara Bradley Hagerty, inspired by a spiritual encounter she could not explain, spent years exploring the nature of God. Fingerprints documents her journey through the labyrinth of stories from people who’ve experienced a transcendent connection with something…
Author: DremaDeoraich
Setting the Scene to Write
I have a DJ in my head. For some reason, that sucker likes to torment me by playing the same melody fragment of the same song over and over and over for days (or weeks) without pause. Right now, for example, it’s playing a very old Bette Midler tune from her burlesque days. (“If you’re…
Fueling the Fire
My friend William recently asked me to explain what I meant by “God” in five minutes or less. After I finished laughing, I said I was pretty sure no one in this reality could explain or describe God at all, much less in five minutes. However, to me, God is that quintessential Other, who I…
The Target
by David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group, © 2014 ISBN 978-1-4555-2123-4 Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages, $10.00 When faced with the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to take down a global threat—U.S. President Cassion weighs the risks and reluctantly gives the order. The mission must succeed. Failure means certain retaliation, probable impeachment, and…
The Seventh Victim
by Mary Burton Kensington Publishing, Inc. © 2013 ISBN 978-1-4201-2505-4 Mass Market Paperback, 362 pages, $7.99 When Texas Ranger JAMES BECK arrives at the crime scene, the details—victim clad in a home-made white dress, blonde hair fanned out around her head, and a penny clutched in one hand—seem familiar somehow. It’s only after Beck begins…
Time is a Four-Letter Word
I know. I’ve written about time before. I probably will write about it again. It’s that important. Writing takes time – between day-job and daily commute, between cooking/eating/showering/sleeping, between family and friends and home maintenance, there’s blogging, reviewing, researching, brainstorming, writing and editing and rewriting. That was the point of my previous post. This time,…
Just Fall, by Nina Sadowsky
Ballantine Books, © 2016 ISBN 978055394863 304 pages, $26.00 Looks can be deceiving. That’s what ELLIE LARRABEE finds out moments after saying “I do” when the man of her dreams reveals in one shocking sentence a truth that shakes her world. Everything she has taken for granted is built on shifting sands and suddenly her…
Rewrite
Every writer knows this drill. You put words to paper (or screen), read them over and think, “Hey, that’s not half bad. In fact, I am a genius.” Okay, maybe not those exact words. I started my first novel with no clear idea of where I wanted it to go. By the time I took…
Intermission
How often have you come back from a week vacation and felt as though you needed a few days off to recuperate before heading back to work? That’s where I am right now. But it’s all good. I got to spend time with family exploring new territory in an island nation I’d never visited (Bermuda)….
Back Burner
Recently, I finished a speculative fiction short I’ve shown to no one yet (except hubby). I haven’t even looked at it myself in almost two weeks. I wrote, finished and set it aside. On purpose. I’d heard of this tactic before, but never tried it. Then several short stories were rejected months after I’d submitted…