For those of you that don’t know, my husband is a bit of a computer genius. He can spend hours staring at random dots and slashes (that to any “normal person” (like myself) looks like nothing more than gibber jabber) and definitively determine who/what/when/and where something may or may not be occurring. He speaks a language that I fail to understand (usually including words like: bit, ram, server, cache, appatach…I could keep going.) and can usually fix anything (in 5 minutes or less) that my computer illiterate ass can screw up. Because of this deep understanding of the digital world, he is Captain Paranoid
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Last year (during a book event – go figure) I learned a very important lesson. One that for obvious reasons (I was raised by a wheelchair bound mother) I thought I fully understood. “Your past can only dictate your future if you allow it.” See, I was sitting in a room full of very hyper teenagers (and roughly 40 amazing authors) when Libba Bray (author of Going Bovine, the Gemma Doyle Series and The Diviners) walked on stage to deliver her keynote speech. At first she kept it light. Making cracks about getting bad perms and annoying bodily functions (that
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Quote This… “I’d meant to stay reserved, so that I didn’t freak him out as soon as he walked inside by assaulting him with one hundred and twenty pounds of emotionally flawed android enthusiasm.” In an alternate reality I’m a bad-ass. Move over “Man of Steel” Misty is here and she makes “leaping tall buildings in a single bound” sound like Sunday morning Sesame Street. I can punch through walls. I know every form of martial arts known to man, and deep-sea diving? Pfft…tanks are for pansies. But…In THIS reality, I’m a glorified version of a soccer mom. I
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Killer Thriller Book Launch Event Q&A with Consuelo Roland Author of Lady Limbo TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT YOURSELF YOU’VE NEVER TOLD ANYONE: I once kissed a total stranger on an empty night train making its way out of Frankfurt. He asked me to go to Paris with him for the weekend and I refused. I’ve always wondered what would have happened if I’d said yes. WHO’S ON THE COVER AND WHY IS SHE IN SUCH TROUBLE? The perfect life… Or a beautiful lie? Forced to hunt down Lady Limbo, the ghost of a youthful
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Eight years ago I learned a rather interesting lesson. That lesson being: The second you have a child, every fear you have ever possessed instantly become obsolete in comparison to the fear you have of losing your child. Claustrophobia. Arachnophobia. Achluophobia. Chump change. The loss of a child is just something you do not recover from. Yes, a funeral, a trip or two to a therapist and moral support from your friends and family will help you deal with that loss (“Come to terms with it” is the phrase I hear bounced around the most.) And after a few years you are bound
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Until about a year ago, I worked full-time. Housewife (though I cooked and cleaned for my family at the end of each business day) was not a word on my radar. I was not a housewife. I was an independent woman with an income, and a commute. Then I quit my job. The next thing I knew I was researching recipes on Pinterest and blackmailed into being a part of the PTA. This is when I realized “Housewives” are a particular breed of creature with a particular set of skills that I do not possess. They make each-other bedazzled t-shirts for bake
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As a stay at home mother of two I often feel my life is on a loop, much like the conveyor belts you see in grocery stores. Constantly moving but never actually going anywhere. Because of this I crave action. I want to move, feel the wind blowing through my hair as I speed down the highway top down, bugs in my teeth. I yearn for danger, intrigue, a spark…of anything, just to break up the monotony that has sadly become my everyday existence. (Wow, that sounded melodramatic.) Of course these are just thoughts. Ones that if I’m honest with
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All good things must come to an end and today it’s my book high. Every now and then I stumble upon a book that is absolutely, no questions asked, do no pass go do not collect $200 out of my league. For one reason or another they just don’t click with me. It’s not always the story, sometimes it’s the writing style, sometimes it’s the characters. The only thing that is clear, is that they take a significant amount of effort not to DNF them. A Circle in the Woods by Winston Emerson is one of those books. “In a
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Everyday we wake up and know who we are. We throw on some clothes, rush to work, take our kids to school, or even enjoy the solitude of a day off. We live a life of routine, BUT the routine is one that we own. We understand. We relate to. It is our life; we have created it and therefore we live it. But imagine if that were not the case. Imagine waking up to nothing. You do not know your name, you do not know who the man/woman/child who is sleeping in the bed next to you. You have
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About a month ago I reviewed (on Amazon, not here) a book called “Flip.” In “Flip” a teenage boy wakes up (after a horrible accident that was never actually described) in another boy’s body. Not exactly the best way to start off your morning right? Well, as the story progressed we learned that even though Alex (the boy now living inside Flip’s body) had technically kicked the bucket, his soul had other plans. As in “Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Go directly to…. the closest available body.” Anyways…I was not a big fan of this book, I
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