by Pepper Basham | Aug 19, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
Okay, so I’m there. Walking between the mountains of publication, dreams, and reality. If you’re a writer, you’ve probably been there before….counting the cost like clinking coins in a piggy bank. Is it worth it? Can I even do it? The coins in...
by Pepper Basham | Aug 16, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews, inspirational fiction
You’re standing in front of a shelve of deliciously tempting books inside Barnes and Noble or Books a Million…or even the library. The smell of imagination cooking between fresh print pricks your curiosity and you scan the rows looking for a title or cover to push you...
by Pepper Basham | Aug 15, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
I’m trying my hand at my very first novella. Anyone else had practice with that? It’s kind of tough for me to think in anything less that 75-90K words. I guess that goes along with being an extrovert/chatty sort of person, but thinking ‘short’...
by Pepper Basham | Aug 12, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
Okay, so last Thursday I focused on the ‘show’ not ‘tell’ of anger in writing. I used an example of Francine Rivers and Steven James. Today I want to pull in an example from one of my all-time favorite authors, Mary Connealy. Mary uses a fine...
by Pepper Basham | Aug 5, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
Warning – this book might lead to inability to sleep, paranoia, and intense nervousness. Whew…and you won’t be able to put it down. Seriously. I finished the book in one day. We went on vacation, and while I sat at the pool, sat with the kids while they watched a...
by Pepper Basham | Aug 3, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
Okay – so I just finished Steven James’ new thriller, The Bishop. I am NOT a thriller reader typically, but because I’ve enjoyed about everything else Steven has done, I decided to read this book. Whew…gripping does not BEGIN to describe the...
