![]() ![]() Hi, I’m Heidi Belleau! Over the coming days I’ll be touring the web showing off the gorgeous new covers for my queer NA rom-com series Rear Entrance Video, all about a diverse house of Vancouver roommates who wind up running a dilapidated porn store. Readers Copies were provided in exchange for honest reviews. ![]() MtSnow reviews ‘Straight Shooter:Rear Entrance Video #3 by Heidi Belleau (Riptide Publishing 274 pages, released April 7th 20140 Dawn reviews Apple Polisher (Rear Entrance Video #1) by Heidi Belleau (Riptide Publishing, July 29, 2013, 228 pages)ĭana reviews Wall Flower (Rear Entrance Video #2) by Heidi Belleau (Riptide Publishing, October 21, 2013, 205 pages) ![]()
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![]() ![]() The author's narrative voice is conversational, so reading the book is like barstool/family room sofa beer-fueled chats with your best buddy.In my youth, predating the author's by a decade or so, I loved finding the old issues of Popular Mechanix and the others of that stripe in my father's pack-rat piles or the library's musty old boxes. ![]() My Review: A fast-paced, entertaining overview of how Today was supposed to look. Includes phenomenally inaccurate predictions such as:Space tourism will be ubiquitous by the year 2000Nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolitionEngineered and man-made oceans will cover the planetWeather will be as predictable and controllable as a train scheduleAn eye-opening, fascinating, and endlessly entertaining collection of truly boneheaded scientific predictions from the past hundred years, Your Flying Car Awaits shines an illuminating light on the people of the previous century by examining the ridiculous theories they envisioned about this one. ![]() Your Flying Car Awaits looks at the most outrageous predictions from twentieth-century scientists, novelists, and social commentators, detailing the technologies and philosophies that led some great (and not so great)minds to think the ridiculous was achievable. Welcome to the present!People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Rating: 3.25* of five The Publisher Says: Talking dolphins. ![]() ![]() I’ve always been an advocate for literacy so this ticked all my buttons when I first heard about it three years ago. Camp NaNoWriMo is a virtual writing retreat, designed to provide the community, resources, and tools needed to complete any writing prompt, novel or not.The Come Write In program provides free resources to libraries, community centers, and local bookstores to build writing havens in your neighborhood.The Young Writers Program promotes writing fluency, creative education, and the sheer joy of novel-writing in K-12 classrooms. We provide free classroom kits , writing workbooks, Common Core-aligned curricula, and virtual class management tools to more than 2,000 educators from Dubai to Boston.Through all our programs, we work to empower and encourage writing and vibrant creativity around the world: National Novel Writing Month is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (formerly known as the Office of Letters and Light) that believes your story matters. It also stands for National Novel Writing Month and here’s the official information from their website: ![]() Just keep on going till you get to 50K and even higher. It sounds crazy, but the whole point is to get the story down on paper. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a monthlong write-fest for people like me to write 50k words in 30 days. ![]() Well, it’s November 1st, and that means that NaNoWriMo has officially started. ![]() ![]() He provided a map of the area, with the names of the villages and towns he coined to represent actual places.īut other features of southern England also influenced Hardy, especially as a poet. Moreover, Hardy called his novels the Wessex Novels, after one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon Britain. Strongly identifying himself and his work with Dorset, Hardy saw himself as a successor to the Dorset dialect poet William Barnes, who had been a friend and mentor. One of the poorest and most backward of the counties, rural life in Dorset had changed little in hundreds of years, which Hardy explored through the rustic characters in many of his novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he was an architectural apprentice in London, and spent time there each year until his late 70s, Dorset provided Hardy with material for his fiction and poetry. Hardy’s youth was influenced by the musicality of his father, a stonemason and fiddler, and his mother, Jemima Hand Hardy, often described as the real guiding star of Hardy’s early life. He died in 1928 at Max Gate, a house he built for himself and his first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford, in Dorchester, a few miles from his birthplace. One of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history, Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in the county of Dorset. ![]() ![]() For example, “ Bride & Groom ” by The Airborne Toxic Event was a big one for me when I would pump myself up to write All Your Perfects. And yes, I definitely have to listen to songs that I feel fit with the story. Yet music is what inspires books and characters for me, and gets me into the mood to write. ![]() In fact, if there’s any noise, even the sound of a clock, I have to remove the batteries. I actually can’t listen to anything at all while I’m writing. Do you listen to music while writing? Does it help you get into a certain mindset? For the Record had a chance to chat with Colleen about her work, her playlist, and audiobooks. As a bonus, Colleen created a Spotify playlist that incorporates songs that stuck with her as she worked on the novel and built onto the lives of Lily and Atlas. ![]() And today, fans can get their hands on the next installment of the story: It Starts With Us. Colleen wasn’t planning to write a sequel to the best-selling book, but requests from readers made her realize she wasn’t quite done. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is her curiosity a kind of betrayal? And if James says he loves Ellen, isn't that just another way of saying he still loves Link?įeaturing a new introduction by Michael Cart, this enhanced edition ebook also includes a video of Garret Freymann-Weyr revisiting My Heartbeat ten years after publication. Ellen's parents want Link to keep his secrets to himself, but Ellen wants to know who her brother really is. And then James refuses to stay friends with a boy so full of secrets. ![]() The question is simple enough-but Link refuses to discuss it. But then something happens that makes Ellen question the kinds of love shared between the three of them-someone at school asks if Link and James might be in love with each other. And she is head over heels for James, with his long eyelashes and hidden smiles. She looks up to her brother, the math genius and track star. My Heartbeat Garret Freymann-Weyr Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Young Adult Fiction - 178 pages 16 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. ![]() And when they fight, she makes sure to never to take sides. The 10th Anniversary enhanced ebook edition of the Pritz Award Honor YA novel that explores essential questions about love in all its forms.įourteen-year-old Ellen loves her older brother Link-and she really loves his best friend James. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way he'll let Faith anywhere near Alex is if she agrees to co-teach a class. But there's one obstacle in her way: Professor Mason Mitchell is head of the theater department where Alex is studying "real" acting. The only way to redeem herself is to convince Alex, the former star of her show, to come back. Now she's untouchable in the industry - not in a good way. But as creator of the hit dramedy Modern Women, she'd had enough of his sexist insults. ![]() Jayne Denker (Kensington Publishers, $3.99)įaith "Freakin'" Sinclair probably shouldn't have called her boss a perv. The full-color book is illustrated by Carrie Stariha of Rochester. Along the way, he encounters unique creatures who teach him the value of gratitude. Ungrateful tells the coming-of-age story of Dakan, a young boy on a journey across the African savannah to his uncle's village. Mody Bouare (Pancoast Publishing, $14.95) ![]() ![]() ![]() Her knack for detail allows her to dissect bizarre murder cases and bring readers into the heart of darkness. Aphrodite Jones is an award-winning American reporter and author who writes about murder. Simpson, Scott Peterson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Phil Spector, and the list goes on. The series follows Jones, who's written a string of best-selling true crime books, as she unravels new mysteries lurking behind cases that shocked America: O.J. Jones is now filming her sixth season, uncovering secrets about riveting cases across America. Now, the author has taken her career to TV as the executive producer and TV host of the ID series, True Crime with Aphrodite Jones, which airs on Investigation Discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.Ī teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.Ī man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.Īnd a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.Īn unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. ![]() deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." - The New York TimesĬatriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! ![]() Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel!Īn Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!Ī Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King ![]() ![]() ![]() Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. ![]() |