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Tawny, what is it about the romance genre that draws you in?
I love the idea of love. To me, its the strongest emotion in existence. I love writing about love, about two characters’ adventure as they fall for each other and how that emotion pushes them to overcome their own emotional issues, t[......]

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Once in a while I receive a book as a gift that I’m just not sure about. It might be that the book is from an author I’ve never heard of or am not wild about. Sometimes the story looks a bit limp. Well, Tick Tock had both of those factors working against it. I’d been in the mood fo[......]

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Within the first two lines, the problem is, in devastating succinctness, presented:  “I thought I saw my mother / in the lesbian bar.” If, in fact, the reader presumes that his mother is, and always has been, a lesbian, then how could she really be his mother, in that under normal circumstances, as [......]

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One of the worst fights a parent could ever have with their child is one where the child wishes that they had different parents. Though they may not mean it, symbolically the child is saying that they want to sever all ties with the people who loved and nurtured them from the moment of their birth. [......]

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Even though we’re not supposed to judge books by their covers, when it came to Paint It Black by Janet Fitch, that’s exactly what I did. The trashy glamor of the girl languidly smoking a cigarette on the book’s cover caught my eye. I decided to see if it might be worth giving this [......]

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Jon, I read that an online writer’s workshop played a part in the start of your Lawson Vampire series. How big a role did it play?
I was a member of Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope website back in the late-90s and had a great group of friends there. While I was working on more conventio[......]

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It seems impossible that all of these factors can be packed into a form that has only three lines! Of course, one should look to the masters to see how a proper balance can be achieved. With that in mind, a great example of Haiku is a mysterious entry by Basho (tra[......]

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Haiku: A Quick Vacation for the Mind – Part 1
In a time where limitless amounts of conflicting facts and opinions are only a mouse-click away, the quiet reflection of a Haiku poem can be a welcome and well-needed break. A Haiku, when read properly, allows one to escape from the technology-dominated,[......]

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Macedonia Passage: Dangerous Cargo is a sweeping adventure that takes the reader, right along with the colorful cast of characters, on a wild ride across the Atlantic and on to the Mediterranean Sea.
When Frank Brown, a widowed, wearied Vietnam vet takes on the job as skipper of the Belle Tata, he i[......]

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