Review: ELEMENTARY, SHE READ, A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, by VICKI DELANY. A literate, clever and enthralling contemporary murder mystery with no offensive material. Rated 5 out of 5 stars by Iris Chacon. This writer received an Advance Reading Copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest, objective review. The Sherlock Holmes Bookshop…
Writers will enjoy this recent article written by George Saunders for The Guardian. Here’s just a molecule from it. Master of a universe … Illustration by Yann Kebbi for Review. We often discuss art this way: the artist had something he “wanted to express”, and then he just, you know … expressed it. We…
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It had been a tough week for a writer. A reader of the type I like to call “hell’s spawn,” left a horrible review on a major website about one of my books. It took many days for me to finally believe myself when I reminded me: (1) Many, many people have given the book…
FINDING MIRANDA, a comic romantic mystery by Iris Chacon, has been named a Finalist for the 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Award for adult fiction. (Important note: That’s “adult,” meaning the novel is for grownups, rather than children. There is no content of a mature-audiences-only nature in any Iris Chacon novel.) Edward Trayer, founder and chief…
I joined Goodreads as a digital way to keep track of the books I read. Over time, it has grown to a community where I chat with like-minded bibliophiles who love books, words, and anything related. Here are some of the activities I pursue on Goodreads: Chat with those who read the same book There…
Iris Chacon’s award-winning, humorous, “G-rated mystery” novels are available for FREE or HALF OFF from March 5 to March 11, as part of the Ninth Annual SMASHWORDS READ-AN-EBOOK WEEK promotion. Tens of thousands of authors and publishers participate in this annual offering, mean scads and scads of great bargains for frugal readers. You’ll find…
For the next few months, weekly writing tips will include word choice suggestions. That includes: colorful and original descriptions pithy words and phrases picture nouns and action verbs writing that draws a reader in and addicts them to your voice I keep a collection of descriptions that have pulled me into the books. I’m fascinated how…
Welcome to the fictional St. Francis Evangelical Ecumenical Economical Parochial School. If you’ve ever been to, or worked in, a parochial school, you’ll see the truth in this meeting of the PTA at St. FEEEPS. This side-splitting multimedia monologue, complete in three parts, is free to read now on Wattpad.com.
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