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About My Blog Posts
I use my blog posts to let people see what I am thinking and what I like. There are book reviews, author reviews and writing tips, and...


Book Review: The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Before I decided to read The Longest Ride, I had thought of Nicholas Sparks as purely a romance writer. And, because I had assigned him...
Writing Tip: How to Pitch Your Book
After you have finished your book, a fiction novel or a non-fiction book, you want to go that next step and have it published. You might...


Book Review: American Assassin by Vince Flynn
When I began reading Vince Flynn’s series of Mitch Rapp novels, I read them in no particular order. It didn’t matter if I was reading...
Writing Tip: Stray thoughts for beginning writing
This entry of writing tips is a brief summary of lessons I have picked up as I began writing. The list has resulted from many writing...


Book Review: The Third Option by Vince Flynn
While The Third Option is the second Mitch Rapp book that was published by Vince Flynn, it was the fourth book in the series when put in...
Writing Tip: Where do I get my ideas for my stories?
That’s a question I have been asked quite a few times. My stories are not plotted out in outline form before I begin the writing. I...
Writing Tips: Advice every beginning writer should know
Writing Tips Advice every beginning writer should know William Kercher There is one bit of advice that should be the beginning writer’s...
Writing Tip: Show, don't tell!
This may seem like an obvious tip, but it’s one that is difficult to follow. Essentially this tip means what it says, do not tell the...


Book Review: No Easy Day - The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark
After the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, and after the details of that raid were released to the public, the name Seal Team Six,...
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