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Does a cow lo or low? Would you mine a lode of ore or a lowed of ore? Do you apply for a loan or a lone at the bank? Are ringlets of hair called locks or lox?
The opening paragraph of the book sets the stage for a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat: 𝘈𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘛𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸, 𝘛𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳.
Many guinea pigs are skittish around their owners. It is very possible to teach your guinea pig to feel comfortable in your arms and trust you. Take time to gradually build your relationship with your guinea pig and to ensure that he feels safe when being held.
Laughter is good for you. Besides relieving stress, tension, and anxiety, it boosts your immunity, relaxes your muscles, decreases pain, and even helps to prevent heart disease. The boisterous laughter caused while reading this book will improve your health!
This psychological thriller takes you into a world where human trafficking abounds. Its victims are forced into slavery and prostitution, and most lose all hope. This author shows that where hope can be found.
My first try at writing was at age nine. I wrote a few poems expressing my feelings. Around age 18, I drafted a short story about aliens. At that time, I never thought about becoming an author.
In this fast-paced and action-filled political thriller, the pope has disappeared. An organization called The Sword has kidnapped him. But what do they want with the pope?
Would you go out on a limb or a limn for someone? Is lineament or liniment rubbed on the skin to soothe it? Would you call a wild cat a links or a lynx? Is whiskey a liqueur or a liquor?
In today’s world, most people have an email account. And in each email account there is a spam folder where all of the junk mail is supposed to go. But just as no human is perfect, neither is any email account.
What does Appalachian English have to do with a wheelbarrow?
Like Catalina in my novel 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑒, I love the ocean! Although until I learned to scuba dive, I was somewhat afraid of its mysterious depths and what could be lurking below the water’s surface.
Catalina, a scuba dive master, has an exciting life traveling the world. The ocean is her passion. She gets to experience firsthand the beauty of the ocean and all of its inhabitants while sharing it with the experienced and inexperienced divers she is taking beneath the water.But when one of the people under her watch decides to commit suicide, her life spirals into turmoil.
The residents of Barrow, Alaska, don’t see the sun for the 67 days of polar night, but during the summer months, the midnight sun gives them 80 days of continuous sunlight. What is it like to live in this city at the top of the world?
The past holds secrets just waiting to be told that will reveal the truth about what really happened when two men disappeared. Will Dylan and Letty be able to clear their great-grandfathers’ names?
Would you prefer to have a picnic in the leas or in the lees? Do you look through a lends or a lens to take a picture? Would you play a liar or a lyre? Does a levee or a levy prevent flooding? Does lichen or liken grow on rocks and trees? Which one accompanies a thunderstorm: lightening or lightning?
Enchanted is a world of magical items, sprites, fairies, and good witches. All should be peaceful and wonderful here, but the wicked witches who live among them won’t allow that.
Is bacon served with every meal in Bacon Level, Alabama? Was Deadhorse, Alaska named after a dead horse? Is it always Christmas in Santa Claus, Indiana and Santa Claus, Arizona? Is it a crime to eat your meals without ketchup in Ketchuptown, South Carolina?
When I was in my twenties, I worked as a receptionist in downtown Pittsburgh. At lunchtime I’d browse through little shops and big department stores, and I soon discovered there was a bookstore just a couple of blocks from my office.
If you love mysteries but don’t want to read one that will give you nightmares or scare your socks off, then this cozy mystery by Anita Kulina is just what you’re looking for. The mystery is sound, suspects abound, it is possible a crime has been committed, and Mrs. B. is involved up to her eyeballs.
Top Shelf Editing has created a new writers’ group on Facebook! I know what you’re thinking – there are so many groups for writers on here, why do I need to join another one? Well, this one is slightly different.
A close friend of mine in his eighties sent me his memoir in manuscript form. I found it fascinating as I’ve known the man thirty-five years. I had suggestions for him on perhaps reshaping it for a larger audience.
𝐴 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑉𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑠 takes you from the casinos of Las Vegas, Nevada to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the wineries of Sonoma, California. It is a story of a normal man with usual problems caught up in a situation where he has to break the law in order to remain a free man and prove he isn’t the guilty one.
Have you ever known anyone who when they talk just talk? They don’t gesticulate with their hands. Their eyes don’t roam around the room. They don’t pet their cat or dog. They don’t look through their mail. They just talk. They stare into your eyes and talk, their mind not going elsewhere. That’s just not normal under most circumstances, is it?
Imagine finding out that you’re dead, but you find this out while you’re alive. Kind of twisted, right? In this psychological thriller, Neve lives the last week of her life time and time again, trying to find out who killed her and to stop it from happening again.
