The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was pregnant with? What became of it?
There are enough rules about when to use a comma and when not to use one to drive any normal person insane. Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are commas between adjectives and sometimes there aren’t? Why is that? Order of AdjectivesDid you know that there is an order in which adjectives should appear?…
Tragedy changes a person’s life. Some lives change for the better; others change in not so great a way. Some are pulled closer to God during times of pain and grief; others push God as far away as they can. Sol Harkens pushed God away. Let There Be Light is a love story. It is…
For this month’s Author Spotlight post, I interviewed Atty Eve, the author of the dark and powerful My Beautiful Suicide series. Was there anything that happened in your life that inspired this series? Anything you noticed going on in the world? The original inspiration for this series was the first line of a letter I…
Idlewild Hall is a place where the girls no one wants are sent. But there is more than learning going on in this boarding school. Then one of the students disappears. There are two timelines in this book: one in the 1950s while Idlewild Hall was an active boarding school and the other in 2014.…
Bring and take are two words that a lot of people are confused about how to use. I’ve heard them used wrong on television shows, in movies, and on radio talk shows. Is there a reason for this confusion? Some people grew up in regions or households where these words were consistently used in the wrong way. Others…
Nathan is not having a good day. He’s on a business trip, but that’s not the bad thing. The bad thing is that the building he’s in is attacked by terrorists who are after him, and he, along with his attorney, must escape them. He doesn’t just want to escape them though. While most would…
Who doesn’t like music? To say music is powerful is the understatement of the millennium. It activates our brain in ways nothing else can. It makes us feel emotions and remember times gone by. We know thousands—if not tens of thousands—of songs, but we think nothing of it. Music is an alphabet of twelve notes…
The words your character just yelled are so very important, and you want to be sure those who will be reading your story notice them. How do you draw attention to those words? How do you convey their importance to your readers?
Political intrigue surrounds a murder and the framing of the son of the president’s right-hand man, and the infamous Russians are involved. The political intrigue, along with the search for the fountain of youth, makes this story hard to put down. A man who appears to be off his rocker forces his way into the…
