If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! My poor husband has been quite disappointed that in all the romance novels that have made their way on to my bookshelves, his own occupation has not so far represented. Wheres the IT geek love? he wants to...

This post is part of Verseday, hosted by VerseNovels.com Lorraine Marwoods Note on the Door is a mischievously eclectic collection: its a smattering of wondering, tangential thoughts about daily life and the tightrope of strangeness and familiarity we walk every day. Each poem is tiny and contained, and theres something about them that...

If youve ever looked back on your life and felt a nagging feeling of regret, youre not alone. The desire to start over or to be given a second chance is a universal one, and its a concept thats been touched on in innumerable creative works. Author Juliet Madison had the idea for her own do-over novel Fast Forward (Escape Publishing,...

  Ive never been able to read in a neat, linear manner, working in orderly fashion through whatever is sitting by my bed. Rather, I tend to find that each book I read in some way makes way for some other book, a book that might have been sitting on my shelf for years, or that I might finding myself rushing out to buy. I read a comment yesterday that...

  Its like were complementary coloursyou know what those are, right? Colours that make each other disappear? So if you cross red with green'or blue with orange, or yellow with purple'you get a pale, pale colour, almost white Interestingly, though, if you put complementary colours next to each other, they make each other...

  Well-behaved women seldom make history, wrote laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1976. Having spent this past year or so reprising or catching up on all sorts of classic literature for young readers, Im quite convinced that the same is true of literature.'If theres a common thread among the books Ive read, its that their protagonists...