by Pepper Basham | Jan 29, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
Sales clerk, barista, telemarketer, sign waver… At twenty-five, free-spirited Becca Daniels is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. What Becca doesn’t want to be is bored. She craves the rush of a new experience, whether it’s an...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 24, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
I’m fairly new to the writing contest circuit. I sent in my first entry in May 2009, and since that fateful day, I’ve entered four others. I realized today, I did something incredibly right in those first few entries. I didn’t look for the...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
As tempted as it may seem at the present moment, MRU (Motivation-Reaction Units), are not hideous little monsters trying to wreak havoc on my work-in-progress. In fact, they’ve become an interesting study in physical/emotional responses to situations. So,...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 12, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
So, my seven year old is a part of this new Webkinz craze. You know, the little stuffed animals that have an online counterpart. They’re actually pretty cute animals and some of the games online are educational, but that’s beside the point. Aaron loves them. Actually,...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 7, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews
This week I hired someone to do a line-edit on my work-in-progress, The Thornbearer. It’s always a bit unnerving to become vulnerable to someone else’s critique, offering my infant-manuscript to be sliced, diced, and redressed (just kidding, actually she...
by Pepper Basham | Jan 4, 2010 | Fiction Book Reviews, inspirational fiction
Olivia Keene is trapped. Caught with another man’s secret and hiding one of her own, she’s forced into a position as a governess for the mistrusting and ominous Lord Bradley’s two wards. But what begins as a tangle of secrets and mistrust grows into a beautiful bond...