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DAN BROWN

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:19 January 2021
Post category:Featured Author History Readers Thrillers and Suspense
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I've featured Dan Brown's work before, but The Lost Symbol bears special consideration. Even the cover hints at the complex layers of symbols and meanings found throughout the story: When…

Burning Questions

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:12 January 2021
Post category:Opinion
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So much has happened in only a year, but many questions have arisen. Is there truly a pandemic? The official figures put the survival rate at over 99%, which does…

JUDITH MILLAR

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:5 January 2021
Post category:Featured Author General Fiction Opinion Writers
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Most of the books we read are mass produced by large companies like Harlequin, Dell, Penguin, and so on. Some may have been published by smaller companies like Medallion Press…

Happy New Year

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:29 December 2020
Post category:Special Occasion
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May the end of the extraordinary year of 2020 be celebrated with gusto. May 2021 be filled with health, love, and the freedom to enjoy both. And may your days…

‘Tis the Season

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:22 December 2020
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It's that time of year again: The end of one season and beginning of another. In the north, Autumn ends and Winter begins the season of slumber that ultimately segues…

Evolution of an Idea

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:15 December 2020
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"Where are my socks?" Those were the first words of the original version of Citizen Marg, written in 2012 and unpublished. The story sat for years in my "done" box,…

Scarlett Scott

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:8 December 2020
Post category:Featured Author Romance
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Writer Scarlett Scott has written contemporary novels, but the majority of her steamy tales are historical romances―many of her characters noblemen, though not necessarily noble men. At least, not until…

Cyberspace Blues

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:1 December 2020
Post category:Opinion Readers Writers
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I get up ev'ry mornin' And I crawl out o' my bed, Hit the button on my laptop, Hear that voice inside my head. Oh, I gotta write a blog…

Arthur C. Clarke

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:24 November 2020
Post category:Featured Author Readers Science Fiction
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Like many other extremely successful authors, Arthur C. Clarke co-wrote some of his books with another author. In the case of a three-book series that includes Time's Eye, Sunstorm, and…

The Weirdness of Words

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:17 November 2020
Post category:Opinion Readers Writers

The definitions of words are, well, defined, right? Wrong. Apart from the fact many words have multiple meanings, some derived from one language and some from another, and apart from…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals