Book Reviews, both traditionally published and Indie. Indie Authors are welcome and celebrated here! I do Indie Book Reviews and promotion on my Indie Spotlight feature. I will also share photos of my life in the Smoky Mountains, and my husband and I dabble in writing from time to time under the name Bonnie Douglas. See Review Requests tab for guidelines about submitting reviews.
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Christmas is Coming: Sunday Post and Sunday Salon
Weekly Update Christmas is coming! I can’t believe how fast this year has gone. I will be thinking about my favorite books of the year for the next two weeks for those end-of-year updates. Today I wrapped a bunch of presents, with the help of Opie the cat. Doug tried to get the dachshunds to…
Scams Against Indie Authors Are On The Rise–Protect Yourself.
Watch out for scams against Indie authors! I have been getting a lot of emails lately from “book review teams” and “book marketers” about what a genius writer I am and how their “review team” can help make my book a best-seller. The catch: I haven’t published a book! So it was easy for me…
Review Requests – An Important Update
Hi everyone. I have gotten so many review requests lately that I’m going to have to change my guidelines a little bit. At the Review Requests Policy tab on this blog are instructions for submitting your book for possible review. Unfortunately, a majority of the requests I get do not follow those guidelines. I am…
Thankful, Thankful, Thankful
I am thankful for so many things today, especially for God who protects us day in and day out. I’m thankful for my husband, family, dogs, and even the cat who is getting on my last nerve. 😆 I am thankful I was introduced to most of you through this blog. It has been five…
Historical Fiction Book Reviews: The Winds of Freedom Series
I love writing reviews of Historical Fiction books for the Historical Novel Society! Below are reviews of Books Two and Three in the Winds of Freedom series by Beth Kanell. My review of Book One, The Long Shadow, is here. Book Description (Historical Fiction) Alice Sanborn, seventeen years old in October 1852, expects Abolitionist political…
Indie Spotlight: Free Book! Path of Treasures by Gail Meath
*Indie Spotlight is my effort to help Indie authors with marketing. You can help too by sharing this post far and wide. Below please see a book description and links for Path of Treasures by Gail Meath. It is FREE and rest of today and tomorrow. BOOK DESCRIPTION Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Erie…
Indie Spotlight: Book Review of When Secrets Bloom by Patricia Furstenberg
Indie Spotlight is my effort to help promote Indie books. You can help too by sharing this post with all your social media followers. Below see my review of an amazing novel, When Secrets Bloom, the first book of a new series set in 15th Century Transylvania. BOOK DESCRIPTION (FROM AMAZON) Transylvania, 1463. A land…
Sunday Post and Sunday Salon: Changing Seasons and Riding Trains
It’s November 9th, and fall colors are finally out in full force. They were quite late this year, and not as vibrant as years past. Our peak leaf season was supposed to be the third week of October, and it was still very green then. I took a ride on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad…
Indie Spotlight: Review of The Washashore by Marshall Highet and Bird Jones
Indie spotlight is my effort to help Indie authors with marketing. You can help too by sharing this post far and wide. Below is a review I did for The Historical Novel Society, The Washashore by Marshall Highet and Bird Jones. BOOK REVIEW 1929. Emily Cartwright has just lost her mother, and her Aunt Isabel,…
Amanda in Ireland by Darlene Foster: Indie Spotlight
Indie Spotlight is my effort to help Indie authors with marketing. You can help too by sharing this post far and wide. See below my review of Amanda in Ireland, part of a wonderful series for middle-graders by Darlene Foster that takes kids (and adults) all over the world with Amanda as she travels and…
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