Kamilla Reid, autho… Continue

Even though the official release date of “The Dylarian Chronicles – The Tale of Karryn” is May 12th, it is presently available at Amazon.com. Here is a link:

I found this on a blog called, I kid you not, http://bookeywookey.blogspot.com/. What follows is the question posed. Your comments are welcome; my response to it is below. Do we all have reading comfort zones, I wonder - that is genres or specific types of authors or periods or subjects within which we like to stay, knowing that our reading experience in that chosen sphere will most probably be a pleasurable one? Or do we read much more freely, never saying "I don't touch science fiction/chick… Continue

I found this at http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/. She had bolded her favorites. Analogies and metaphors found in high school essays: His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. He spoke with wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking about the dangers of looking at a solar e… Continue

When I was a little girl, my mother pointed out to me the areas of the road patched by tar, and told me that those were, in fact, what was left a boy named Johnny, who, just last week, had played in the street and was run over. I didn't know any better, and, hell, at that point the woman hadn't given me any reason to doubt her credibility, so I stayed as far away from the street as I could, not wanting to be all flattened out and sticky like Johnny was. We'd go to the public pool, and in order t… Continue