Saturday Writers

There it is again no longer lurking in the shadows, but pushing to the surface. Fangirl! I fight the urge to squeal and point for that would surly turn into clapping and jumping up and down as I giggle.

It is my pleasure to introduce a friend and local poet, Dennis Maulsby.  I know Dennis because we both belong to the Border’s writing group.  This group has been around for over 10 years.  It started out at the local Barnes and Noble but migrated to Borders a few years back.  Because it is a [...]

you need to read everything Cheryl Saint John writes.  Cheryl belongs to the Heartland Writers Group out of Omaha Nebraska. I met her too many years ago to admit and have been hooked on her books ever since. 
Here is our interview -
Virginia – Where are you from?
Cheryl – I’m a Midwest girl, born in Iowa, but [...]

 
“My worlds are Darkness and Light.
For one requires the other for balance.
Mundane and Magic.
Without one, the other is meaningless.
Historical and Contemporary.
To exist in one, we must learn from the other.”
                                        -Francesca Hawley
 

 
This month’s author is a member of one of my writer’s groups.  She is the type of person who can walk into a room [...]

The headline said ‘The Butcher of Crows Creek Strikes Again.’  Allison Clemen’s father had spent the past fifteen years in prison for butchering her mother, sister and brother.  Somehow she’d survived being knocked on the head and strangled before the killer posed her in her own bed. Now the nightmare had started over in Crows Creek, Kansas.  Had [...]

Maybe knowledge is power, but it’s damned hard to think a burgler to death. – Glen McMullen, in defence of the Beretta under his pillow
In case you haven’t noticed, I like quotes.  I decided recently to open each of my blog posts with one.  You’re also probably wondering who the heck is Glen McMullen?  Well, [...]