The Cutting Room Floor by R.Phoenix

The Cutting Room Floor My Google Drive is littered with countless documents with a sentence, a thought, a character name, or a deleted scene that will never see the light of day. I’m not even going to admit how much Read more

Monthly Guest Post—Andrew Q. Gordon—5 Goals For The New Year

Happy New Year! (And Happy Day to those who celebrate the New Year on a day other than January 1.) I’ve always found it interesting that we put so much emphasis on turning a new leaf on one specific day. Read more

God Bless Us, Every One – or Anna Butler on the power of Christmas story-telling

. Charles Dickens started it all when he wrote about the slow unclenching of the miser’s heart when infused with the real spirit of Christmas, that “… good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know Read more

Happy Holidays 2017-style

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and all that jazz! Holiday stories are all the rage at this time of year. A little escape is a nice thing but there’s a place for acknowledging that life in 2017 America has not been Read more

New Year’s Resolutions with C.S. Poe

Hello, friends! Welcome to C.S. Poe’s final post of 2017 here at Love Bytes! Holy crap. I can’t believe the year is over. I did not get everything done. Not even close. Okay, so naturally this is going to be Read more

Finding the Good Stuff

There are always more new books coming out than anyone can possibly read. There are genres that I want to sample, but don’t know where to start. Finding the good stuff can be a challenge. I use friend reviews and Read more