By Tami Brothers Today is Halloween. Typically, Halloween is a time where people face some of their biggest fears. A few are able to conquer these fears, while others realize they never will.  I’m all about facing my demons.  Earlier this month, I stared down the belly of the beast and pulled the trigger on a project I’ve been contemplating all year.  This month I jumped into the self-publishing world with my book, Drool Worthy.  Okay, so it wasn’t all that dramatic since the story I self-published was a short story, it was one I posted here on the Petit [...]

Duty and Desire A Novel of Modern India By Anju Gattani http://www.anjugattani.com/ Greenbrier Book Company, LLC ISBN: 978-1-937573-01-0 Duty and Desire is the debut novel in Anju Gattani’s Winds of Fire series. To paraphrase the back cover blurb: Sheetal Prasad has it all: youth, beauty, wealth and education. But when this modern Indian woman surrenders love for honor and marries into India’s most glamorous and powerful “royal family,” the Dhanrajs, she is exposed to a web of lies, infidelity, greed and secrets. As Sheetal experiences a loss of freedom, she struggles to control her fate. The Prologue was intriguing. “It [...]

Phantoms & Fantasies By Annie Rayburn http://annierayburn.com/ Publisher: Annie Rayburn; 2nd edition (May 26, 2011) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services Zeenie LaShey is recovering from a horrendous act that has left her afraid of intimacy. For years Turk Fontaine has known he is Zeenie’s life mate but has not acted on the feelings that are such a huge part of their Crainesians race.  With his best friend dating Zeenie’s roommate, Turk is able to stick close while giving her a chance to heal from an attack. Now that Zeenie has decided to step back into the relationship realm, Turk is more [...]

Maybe it’s because ASHES has been sitting on an agent’s desk without comment for the better part of two months, but everything is starting to parallel the writing process for me. Can’t get my dishwasher to work? Neither did my last hero. Husband recently set himself on fire? Yeah, well, who hasn’t envisioned torching an entire manuscript? Incapable selling my latest project horse? Well, that comparison isn’t much of a stretch. Except it kind of is because we’re talking about Lucero here. Or Lucifer as we are prone to calling him when his owner is out of earshot. Anyway, it’s [...]

By Elaine Burroughs Memories are strange things. Sometimes we don’t think about a thing or event for years, and then suddenly images and details flood through us. Many times these memories are triggered by our senses: sight, smell, touch, hearing, etc. Cookies baking in the oven remind us of comforting days spent at Grandma’s house. A song on the radio can remind us of a wedding dance, a special time with friends, or a time period when life seemed simpler. While it’s never good to live in the past, I do think stepping back for occasional reflection is necessary. One [...]

Marilyn Baron wins a free, autographed copy of Homecoming In Mossy Creek, from Brenna and Darcy Crowder!  Congratulations, Marilyn!

Please welcome today’s Guest Chef, er Chefs, our very own Darcy Crowder and her daughter, Brenna Lauren Crowder – both contributing authors to the newest edition of the Mossy Creek Hometown Series, published by Belle Books.  Novelist and screenplay writer, Brenna Lauren Crowder, writes women’s fiction at the rate of about a pot of coffee a day. When she’s not garbed in her pajamas, hovering over her laptop and her latest project, she’s probably researching her thesis or spending much needed fun time with friends, loved ones and her Bichon Frise, Cooper. Women’s fiction novelist, Darcy Crowder, has a knack for [...]