Issue 37
Do You Get Your Money’s Worth At Writers Conferences by Sherry Perkins
Writers conferences. Are they worth it? Many of them cost upwards of $150 and I suppose, for the longest time, that’s what kept me from attending one. But several authors or other book friends had recommended going. Repeatedly.
Five Star Reviews
When the book begins, you immediately know that something horrible has happened, that a young couple met up with a psychotic killer when they went back-packing. Stacy Freeman lays in a hospital bed with a bassinet next to her holding her son, a son she refuses to look at or feed since it might be the child of the man who murdered her husband Cory. I am not giving away any spoiler because all of this is mentioned in the very beginning of the book but when the story goes back nine months when it all began I immediately knew I was going to be drawn into a nightmare.
Rockers and their bodyguards should be all you need to want to read this book but I will give you more information to whet your whistle.
Ryder Hampton is the lead guitarist of a very popular rock band, Maiden Voyage, but his trip to success started out as low as a young man could go. A mother who was more interested in the next man rather than whether her son ate or not. Juvie, dropping out of school until a man at a music shop helped him. Ryder loved his guitar, it was a part of him and when Derek the lead singer of the new group Maiden Voyage heard him it was the end of the bad times and beginning of the good times.
This is a really fun ride, combining the talents of four creative women who each riff on an offbeat theme: a gay/bi paranormal dad raising an adolescent child on his own, who he sends off to summer camp, hoping to enjoy a little “me” time—and maybe find romance.
Todd and Nick make this book an effortless read. The pair’s chemistry is off the charts, their sex is inventive, fun, and steamy, and they complement each other perfectly, yin to yang. I liked the preface, which gave me a good amount of background since I hadn’t read the first book in the series. I was able to jump right in and enjoy the duo’s new adventure.
I’m not the biggest fan of short-story-or novelette-collections. It’s not because I don’t think they can be great entertaining stories, but I love to dive into a book and story and dwell. However, Andrew J. Peters’ Slashed & Mashed book is a wild fairy tale mix of stories that go from mythology to Grimm’s tales, to the Japanese saga of ‘The Peach Boy.’ Another fairy tale story was ‘The Vain Prince,’ which I found a bit odd, and it was on the bottom of my favorite list, but still, there was sensitive darkness to it, the way Andrew Peters used the characters and mixed them up with something new, goth-like. I didn’t love it, but I was still fascinated.
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