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LOVE LOST

LOVE LOST Those thoughts left unspoken that chill my soul When I failed to speak of my love for you; The passage of lost time is failure’s toll And your eternal loss my payment due. The sun cast light in your hair; a halo Begins the cherished dream that moved me towards That rare moment of daring; even though You never heard my loving whispered words. My heart so bested by folly’s anguish With scars self created can I atone; Now my soul’s path is stark and feverish, We can not be, my hear… Continue

Added by J.W. Nugent on October 5, 2009 at 6:47pm — 1 Comment

Help when you least expect it

This week, Diana Driver and I visited The Chocolate Bar, at 1835 West Alabama in Houston, a little west of the Montrose area. Just going in the door is a treat! The aroma of chocolate almost makes you swoon. The reason for our visit, besides to delight the senses, was to meet Gilbert the Chocolatier, who owns the shop and another one in West University. He had previously agreed to host our launch party for this fall's anthology by The Final Twist Writers, titled A BOX OF TEXAS CHOCOLATES, and w… Continue

Added by Cash Anthony on August 13, 2009 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

A Day at the Office

Jack has been a real challenge. The other day I spent about three hours on him and had a brutal ride. He knocked me over and took off down the lane then turned around and galloped back at me. He came thundering up expecting me to give way, but I just stood there looking at him until he was forty feet out then raised my arms to the side cutting down his options for pushing past me. He slid to a stop and I walked up and took his halter (I always ride with a halter under the bridle) regaining… Continue

Added by J.W. Nugent on August 1, 2009 at 10:54pm — No Comments

Getting the Focus

OK so two out of four goals are done, writing goals. Next year I want to add coursework but with the sarc, I'm doing well to get writing done. Got the submission in on the 9/11 children's story. I am obsessed with that getting published by 2011 and the tenth anniversary. For those of us who went through it, it is never forgotten. Even though I live in Houston now, I sometimes look up at one of the taller office buildiings and remember those moments, then the weeks filled with the dust and air, t… Continue

Added by Iona McAvoy on March 8, 2009 at 10:52pm — No Comments

The Didactic Function of Genre Fiction

Mark Twain wrote that,”Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” I would claim that novels can play a similar role. On the other hand, Cecil B. DeMille, when asked about the message contained in his latest picture commented that, “If I wanted to send a message, I’d use Western Union.” Our primary duty as mystery writers is to entertain, but many of us feel that even genre fiction can also contain profound ethical insights and illuminate social and political issues in all the… Continue

Added by Mark Phillips on January 18, 2009 at 5:15am — 1 Comment

Featured Author: Betty Gordon

by Betty Gordon A man goes missing—a shadowy figure, a phantom, a chameleon. Can P.I. Lisa Martin find him before dangerous forces stop her? International intrigue is set in motion when an importer/exporter of Egyptian antiquities goes missing. Lisa Martin, a gutsy P.I., alon… Continue

Added by Pauline Baird Jones on January 5, 2009 at 2:14pm — 2 Comments

Resolutions and getting back into LIFE

I've been setting goals for the last six months. Once the body started to 'wake up' after 2 yrs of a drug protocol for the sarcoidosis I have in the lungs and skin, I began to have energy to think past just going to work then collapsing at night and on weekends. That still happens but just not as much and as long. Naps that lasted 2 days are down to 2 or 3 hours. So I started setting goals- not really resolutions, but things I wanted to accomplish. I made a costume for Halloween, and in doing s… Continue

Added by Iona McAvoy on January 5, 2009 at 11:43am — 2 Comments

Happy New Year!

I can't believe 2008 is almost over and I really can't believe I survived it! Been a crazy year, but I'm still here. :-) As a gift to my writing friends, I've compiled an eBook of my "best of" tips, taken from Writers Nibs: Dip into the Well, a feature on my website. I've been posting tips, sort of on a schedule, since 2006, but I've never gone back and looked at them. So this was a looking back exercise for me, too. You can download the free eBook on my website and I hope it will give you a bo… Continue

Added by Pauline Baird Jones on January 5, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments