Love Bytes Reviews: Book of the Week Poll November 13 – 19, 2021

Book of the Week Poll Welcome to the Love Bytes Book of the Week Poll! Here are the books which achieved a 4.25  and up review last week from our reviewers.  As a reminder, the top two books from each week’s Read more

Release Day Book Review: Dreidels & Do-Overs by Kim Fielding

Reviewed by Sadonna TITLE:  Dreidels & Do-Overs  AUTHOR:  Kim Fielding PUBLISHER:  Tin Box Press LENGTH:  67 pages RELEASE DATE:   November 16, 2020 BLURB: Caleb Stern was the high school hotshot, but a bad attitude and poor decisions led to years of misery. Now he’s Read more

It’s the length?

This month I want to talk about the importance of length. No, not that—get your mind out of the gutter! I mean story length. There are no set industry length standards for different kinds of fiction; different publishers (and other Read more

Recent Release Book Review: Camouflaged (The Bureau #8) by Kim Fielding

Reviewed by Sadonna TITLE:  Camouflaged SERIES:  The Bureau AUTHOR:  Kim Fielding PUBLISHER:  Tin Box Press LENGTH:  180 pages RELEASE DATE:  October 20, 2021 BLURB: Life isn’t always easy for a Bureau agent who’s also a dragon. Ever since Ralph Crespo was trapped in human form, he’s Read more

Monsters and Villains

Some of my earliest memories are in this room, a couple of years before this photo was taken. I share with you so you can appreciate the full beauty of early 1970s suburban Chicago wallpaper. On Sunday afternoons, my dad Read more

Letters of Recommendation

Lately I’ve been writing recommendation letters for my students who are applying for jobs or graduate schools. It’s a little more challenging nowadays, since I haven’t seen any of them face-to-face for 18 months, but I’m still happy to be Read more