My virtual blog tour begins today! Pump Up Your Book is sponsoring my three-month tour, which includes a KINDLE FIRE GIVEAWAY! To sign up for your chance to win, just go to my tour page at Pump Up Your Book and sign up! First stop: A book review at Sara’s Organized Chaos. A complete list […]
Author Archive: Christine
Follow Friday: Best Fictional Mom
Q: Happy Mother’s Day! Who is your favorite mom from fiction? A: I’m going to be curious to read what everyone else has to say on this one! When I think of fictional moms, my mind immediately slips from the cliche of perfection to the cliches of evil with little room in between for raw […]
Cassie Scot Available for Pre-Order
Cassie Scot: ParaNormal Detective is available for pre-order through Barnes and Noble and Amazon! The ebook has been available for a little over a month, but now we’re gearing up for the full release on May 15th, not even a week away! You can pre-order the print version of Cassie Scot through Barnes and Noble […]
Book Review: Werewolf in Seattle
Vicki Lewis Thompson has a wonderfully engaging style that swept me away as I read her nerd romance novels. The humor and romance has kept me reading the werewolf series as well, but I have to admit I wish she’d move on to something else. I don’t think she will because she seemed to have […]
Book Review: Knife of Dreams (Wheel of Time Book 11)
After a disappointing volume that left the series in a holding pattern, this book was like the arrow suddenly released from the bow. Mat and Perrin in particular underwent huge strides forward. I’d even say that they both changed somewhat. Perrin learned he was willing to do anything to protect his wife, and Mat…well, I’m […]
Top 5 Painful Put Down Moments of 2012
This list is a little late in coming. It’s more the sort of thing to post on New Year’s Eve or maybe New Year’s Day. But I read most of these books in the summer of 2012, kept a running list, and then just plain forgot about it until I started cleaning out my drafted […]
Myth Busters, Grammar Edition: Starting a Sentence with And or But
Confession time: How many of you learned in school that you can’t start a sentence with a conjunction such as and or but? Go ahead, admit it. I won’t think less of you. It would make me a serious hypocrite since until late last week, I believed it. Countless English teachers couldn’t be wrong, could […]
The One-Word Sentence
These days, fiction writing is a somewhat less formal affair than it has been in the past. All-knowing narrators who set the stage with passages of elegant prose have largely made way for limited omniscient narrators who share the voice and attitudes of a single character. Those characters voices can still be elegant, flowery, and […]
Book Review: Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time Book 10)
Last week, I finished REreading the Wheel of Time. Now, I work towards the end, beginning with Crossroads of Twilight, the 10th book in the epic series. Winter’s Heart involved a huge turning point, one that I had hoped would spell a new direction for the series that had begun to slow to a crawl. […]
How Often Should You Step on a Scale?
Not often. How often do you get to the doctor’s office for your annual checkup? That’s probably good enough. One of my biggest challenges with mindful eating has been the numbers on the scale. Those numbers have dictated my actions for far too long, and it’s time to stop giving them power over me. Have […]