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( Blurb ): When architect Gregory Hampton’s son, Davey, starts having trouble in Little League, Greg takes him to an eye doctor. The diagnosis hits them hard. Davey’s sight is degenerating rapidly, and eventually he’ll go blind. Tom Spangler is used to getting what he wants. When Greg captures his attention, he asks Greg for a date. They have a good time until Greg gets a call from the friends watching his son, telling him Davey has fallen. Greg and Tom return to find the worst has happened—Davey can no longer see. With so much going on in his life, Greg doubts he’ll see Tom again. But Tom has researched beep baseball, where balls and bases make sounds to enable the visually impaired to participate in Little League. Tom spearheads an effort to form a team so Davey can continue to play the game he loves. But when Greg’s ex-wife shows up with her doctor boyfriend, offering a possible cure through a radical procedure, Greg must decide how far he’ll go to give Davey a chance at ge...

(Blurb): What would you do if you found out your husband had been unfaithful? Divorce him? Take him back? Kill him? Mark Monroe becomes the victim of option “C” after his wife, Kelly, discovers evidence of an illicit affair and stabs him to death. In a panic, she flees, deciding she will turn herself in the next day. But before she can, Kelly learns devastating secrets about her husband, and starts a frantic mission to unravel the mystery of the man she married and murdered – all while trying to stay one step ahead of a dogged police detective determined to bring her to justice. Review and Rating Hello all! Today, I am going to provide a book review for Sweet Little Lies by Bianca Sloane. I was given this book to review after reviewing her amazing book, Live and Let Die . So...let's get into the review!  When I first received this book, I have to admit that I was a little scared because of my high expectations of this book. You see, I have p...

When I first made it known that I intended to serialize my beloved, but Lit Agent rejected, Battery Park Trilogy the first responder wanted to know what my story had to do with serial killers. Um nothing, please don’t go around telling people I’m starting up a serial killer. But as I thought about it I realized ‘serial’ isn’t a common word anymore except when it involves violent crimes. Some explanation is necessary. Introduction Fiction serialization refers to scheduled installments of a story. If you do a Google search you’ll find lots of chatter about this old guy to my left who is upheld as our most famous serialization success story. That’s right – Charles Dickens got his start having chapters published in magazines. It was totally in vogue back then and everyone did it including Henry James with A Portrait of a Lady. But history remembers Dickens. It was a way for writers to get their work into people’s hands without readers having to invest their hard-earned cash on a very...

Is copyrighting really that important for a blog? Do you ever worry about copyright infringement (either by yourself or by others)? What would you do if a post/image you spent many hard hours on suddenly appeared on another site with no attribution? How can you help deter internet leaches that spend their time taking credit for your time? Would you really like others to share and expand on your ideas without infringement? How do you know if it is okay to share another person's work? If your answer is yes (or I don't know) to any of these, a simple solution is to make sure your page is copyrighted (and to look out for a CC on other pages). In the past, going through a copyright process cost time and money. It involves legal talk, lawyers, and specificity that are way beyond the general public's understanding. But in the age of media and viral sharing, another method has come about (and it's completely legitimate!). There is an option, a FREE and UNDERSTANDABLE opti...

Krissy Bells was born and raised in the Detroit metro area. A former school secretary, she now spends her days as a stay-at-home mom. She is passionate about her family and friends, her Dachshund named Harry, and anything topped with cheese or chocolate. Krissy can be contacted at authorkrissybells@gmail.com . Thank you for reading! The inspiration behind her novel, A Special Love: The story of, A Special Love, began to form in my mind when I was lucky enough in life, to stumble upon a job at a school for special needs students. While working there I spent my days laughing, smiling, and crying too. I fell in love with not only the students but their families as well. I recently left my position after having a baby, to be a stay-at-home mom. At that time, a family member began publishing and inspired my decision to actually start writing. I had always wanted to focus on young adult/teen stories, and missing the students I had grown so attached to, I co...