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Goddess Fish and Sorchia Present: One Take Jake-Last Call

Jay Hall will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Be sure to comment to enter and visit all the stops on the tour to increase your chances of winning. One Take Jake–Last Call by Jay Lang Avenging the death of his sister, Lance, a once successful musician turned vigilante killer, has never denied his guilt…but knows now he could’ve handled things differently. With dwindling hope after two years in the joint – and three […]

Novel Magic: From DIY to Mystery-Can Home Renovation Spark a Thrilling Tale

Any book with ‘Corpse’ in the title is going to be A-OK with me. And my Novel Magic guest, Lori Pollard-Johnson, spins a tale with a hidden body and a couple of BFFS who need to get to the bottom of a mystery. Women, Friendships, and Home Renovation           I’m often asked where I get my story ideas from, and my answer is always the same: people. I meet someone intriguing, or observe someone behaving outside the norm, and a […]

Fox Tale by Karen Hulene Bartell

Goddess Fish and Sorchia Present: Fox Tale

Sorchia and Goddess Fish Promotions feature a Paranormal Romance by Karen Hulene Bartell–Fox Tale. The author is offering a $25 Amazon Gift Card–Enter below. Visit and Comment at all the stops on the tour to increase your chances of winning! Advice for Writers by Karen Hulene Bartell I’ve received little writing advice. However, I started life as an actor and received an immense amount of advice for that career. The best advice I received was to keep at it–in that […]

Goddess Fish and Sorchia present–Cover Reveal

  > Welcome to the cover reveal of EXILES, a Literary Fiction/Coming of Age novel by L.J. Ambrosio. The author will award a $20 Amazon/BN GC, an autographed copy of the book, or a dragonfly necklace to three randomly drawn winners. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. In this final chapter, Ron’s story concludes from Reflections on the Boulevard (2023). Michael’s wish was for Ron to exile himself in the heart of Paris […]

Novel Magic: Love, Laughter, and Little Disasters-A Wedding Tale

My Novel Magic Guest today writes cozy mysteries–Golden Retriever Mysteries. Read on to find out how his own wedding may have provided inspiration for Blessing of the Dogs–the latest in the series. Wedding Mishaps by Neil Plakcy Your wedding can be one of the most important days in your life. But even with lots of planning, you can still run into trouble. While my own wedding wasn’t an emergency, it did have to happen pretty quickly. My husband and I […]

The Litter by Kevin R. Doyle

From Nightmare to Narrative: The Birth of ‘The Litter’ by Kevin R. Doyle

OK–as a retired Missouri English teacher myself, I identify bigtime with my guest. If you’ve never tried to write a book while grading several bajillion student-generated essays, research papers, short stories, and whatnot–not to mention all the lesson plans, parent meetings, administrator directives, and the rest of teaching –then you are a saner individual than the people who do. Having said that, I must note just being a writer makes for another question mark on the sanity checklist. Read on […]