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GUEST BLOG: When We are Betrayed by Someone We Love by Courtney Evan Tate

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 15 December 2020

Life often seems like a sea... and we grasp onto things that drift past in order to help us remain afloat. One thing we cling to, as constants, are our loved ones. We...

BOOK BLAST: A CURSE OF ROSES by Diana Pinguicha

LGBTQ Dayna Linton - 15 December 2020

Release Date: December 1, 2020 With just one touch, bread turns into roses. With just one bite, cheese turns into lilies. There’s a famine plaguing the land, and Princess Yzabel is wasting food simply...

Holiday Memories: Vignettes and Vinaigrettes by Carol G. Durst-Wertheim

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 14 December 2020

In the quarantined isolation of 2020 holidays, I think back to the 1980s, the weeks from the middle of November until early January, when I was catering in New York City, based...

GUEST BLOG: Some of The Background of My Novel, “Into the Unbounded Night” by Mitchell James Kaplan

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 14 December 2020

When you’re writing a novel you’re not thinking about what you’re trying to say. You’re trying to make sense of the world your characters inhabit. You’re learning to experience their world through...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Five Things That Went Wrong (Or At Least Awry) At My Christmas Wedding by Robin Wells

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 11 December 2020

Is it just me, or have you noticed it, too? Lately the click-bait headlines want to point out a specific number of ways I’m doing something wrong. They have titles like “Five...

BOOK BLAST: THE SECRET LIFE OF MISS ANNA MARSH by Ella Quinn

Historical Romance Dayna Linton - 11 December 2020

Now available in print for the first time, USA Today bestselling author Ella Quinn's second installment in The Marriage Game series is a witty, romantic historical tale about a young lady who...

GUEST BLOG: Five Lies Mamas Tell Themselves About Why They Can’t Write Their Book by Andrea R. Frazer

Leadership & Motivation Dayna Linton - 10 December 2020

As someone who has spent my life writing for everything from television, big blogs (Good Housekeeping/BabyCenter), huge corporations, magazines and newspapers, I knew at a very early age that writing was my...

GUEST BLOG: Searching for Soul in a FOMO World by Maria DeBlassie

Paranormal/Supernatural Dayna Linton - 10 December 2020

We’ve all been there. Too much out there. Too much hustle and bustle. Too many late nights out that leave you feeling empty the next day. Too much small talk and too...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Christmas Mixes (And We’re Not Talking Nuts) by Jess Montgomery

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 10 December 2020

Fifteen years or so ago, my dear husband started pursuing Christmas music. Year round. When we vowed “for better or for worse,” I didn’t realize that would include Christmas music… in July. And...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Beth’s Christmas Ornaments by Cheryl Holt

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 9 December 2020

My best friend in my life was a woman named Beth. I met her during my first week of college when we were eighteen. We grew up in uber-rural America, in cattle...

BOOK BLAST: TWO MURDERS TOO MANY by Bluette Matthey

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 9 December 2020

Barn burning in a sleepy farming community is a serious enough matter, but a grisly murder or two in a small midwest town is a showstopper. Throw in a serial blackmailer who...

BOOK BLAST: THE CORONATION by Justin Newland

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Dayna Linton - 8 December 2020

Publication Date: November 5, 2019 It is 1761. Prussia is at war with Russia and Austria. As the Russian army occupies East Prussia, King Frederick the Great and his men fight hard to...