Midnight Crystal represents the final installment in the Burning Lamp Trilogy, which covers all of Jayne Ann Krentz’s time periods and aliases. In each book, a descendent of Nicolas Winters, who did alchemical experiments on genetic code, is gifted with multiple talents that seem to be driving him insane. Only with the help of the […]
Author Archive: Christine
The Invisible Frog
Yesterday, when I was walking my children home from school, my daughter (3) points to the sidewalk and asks, “What’s that?” I stared at the gray path, trying to figure out what had caught her attention, but I didn’t see it. An older boy, walking home from school, glances at her and says, “It’s a […]
Book Review: Insatiable
The writer for a soap opera is told that they’re going vampire in order to compete against other shows using the same concept. She hates vampire-mania, and doesn’t believe in vampires, but before long she finds herself introduced to the Prince of Darkness himself — the son of Dracula. I enjoyed this book and found […]
Review and Author Interview: Flower Child by Sheila Deeth
Flower Child paints a beautiful picture of little souls growing in a flower garden until they are ripe and ready to live. But what if no one comes to claim a soul? What happens to the unborn child that never was? Megan is a mother whose first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, so she was never […]
Interview with Michelle Scott
Straight to Hell by Michelle Scott The moment Lilith Straight dies, the Devil appears to claim her soul and cash in on a longtime family curse. Now, Lilith has no choice but to work for him. The job is bad, the boss is worse, and she can’t imagine how she’ll explain her new reincarnation to […]
On Being a Lazy Bum
I have really let my blogging slack over the last few months, and I would like to apologize for it. I’ve had the time, it’s the motivation that has been a problem. Around the time my kids started going back to school, I started working hard on revising my Cassie Scot series, and I’m afraid […]
Book Review: The Dark Highlander
Daegus McKelter broke an oath — he used the sacred stones that allowed him to move through time for personal reasons, to save his twin brother’s life. Now, he is cursed with the spirits of 13 evil druids who want to take him over. Chloe is an antiquities expert who loves all things old and […]
Tips for Writers: Chapter Journals
I’m always on the lookout for new ideas, and as I am working on the latest round of revisions to my WIP, I have hit upon something that seems to be working well. I’m calling it a chapter journal, and so far, I feel like it is working very well. The goal of the chapter […]
Book Review: Quicksilver
Quicksilver is the latest installment in Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz’s Arcane Society series. This one was written under the pseudonym Amanda Quick, which means we went back to Victorian England, where doctors are coming out with revolutionary new treatments for female hysteria, and the paranormal is all the rage. Virginia is a glass light reader, […]
Tips for Writers: Let’s Talk About Sex
As I’m sure you can tell from my reviews of certain genre romance, I don’t have an inherent problem with sex in a story. I’m not someone who thinks it’s too personal or private to read about in a fiction story, and in fact, when it is well told, I enjoy the culmination of love. […]