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HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Christmas Pageants in our Living Room by Anna DeForest

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 28 December 2020

Some of my favorite memories of the holiday season stem from my family staging our own Christmas pageant in our living room. My older daughter Sarah desperately wanted to be Mary or...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Christmas Eve―2020 by David Fitz-Gerald

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 24 December 2020

It is an enchanting day for those who celebrate Christmas, full of tradition, hope, and optimism. The sense of anticipation on the day before Christmas is like planning a vacation, which can...

GUEST BLOG: Do You Believe In Ghosts? by David Fitz-Gerald

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 23 December 2020

Do you believe in ghosts? If you do, you’re not alone. From a quick internet search, it appears that between one-third and one-half of us do. One website suggests that forty-five percent...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Christmas Customs in Late Eighteenth-Century UK by Lucinda Elliot

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 23 December 2020

When writing That Scoundrel Émile Dubois, I did some research on Christmas customs in the late eighteenth-century UK. In that novel, the main action starts with the arrival of Émile on Christmas Eve 1794...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: FINDING CHRISTMAS by KR Brorman

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 22 December 2020

The nest was empty: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The registrar’s offices had the tuition checks signed by the farmer father, for this tale chauffeur, and the...

GUEST BLOG: STOP! Whether “Others” Have Written a Book on the Subject You’re Writing is None of Your Business by Andrea Fraser

Non-Fiction Dayna Linton - 22 December 2020

As a non-fiction book coach for mothers, as well as a published author of two books (one traditionally published and one self-published) I know only too well the excuses women give themselves...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: Christmas Memories by Elizabeth Rose

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 18 December 2020

Christmas is a time for memories, and sharing those memories with the people we love. Growing up, I remember the St. Nick stockings hanging on the china cabinet and how exciting it...

GUEST BLOG: STEPPING BACK IN TIME TO DO RESEARCH by Simon Fairfax

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 18 December 2020

Although his was my fifth novel, it was the first in a new series and a complete departure from my more contemporary series set in the late 20th Century. There were a...

HOLIDAY MEMORIES: The Only One in the Class by Triss Stein

Holiday Memories Dayna Linton - 17 December 2020

Christmas songs are everywhere, even in this strange holiday season, and they still provoke nostalgia, don’t they? It got me thinking about celebrating Christmas when I was in elementary school. Yes, in...

GUEST BLOG: Discovering Interesting Locations: Anton LaVey’s Home-Celebrity Occultist and Founder of the Church of Satan by Connie di Marco

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 17 December 2020

I’m always casting about for interesting locations to use in the Zodiac Mysteries. Not just the historic or beautiful settings all around San Francisco, but the mysterious—secret stairways, dark alleys, and weird...

BOOK BLAST: SLIGHTLY MURDEROUS INTENT by Lisa Sideris

Thriller/Suspense Dayna Linton - 17 December 2020

A Southern California Mystery: Book 4 Publication Date: October 20th 2020 There's a shooter on the loose who keeps missing his target. But that doesn't stop him from trying again…and again. It's up to Corrie...

BOOK BLAST: MIMI’S PARIS DILEMMA by Elizabeth Cooke

Mystery Dayna Linton - 17 December 2020

Mimi’s Paris dilemma overwhelms her. She feels desolate, unappreciated, her celebrity status lost. The Parisiennes, the women of Paris, have turned against her. They are sympathique to the fate of a woman...