Book Review: “The Alias” by Mandi Slack

What happens when two FBI agents start to dog your footsteps and you’re afraid your violent ex-husband is going to track you down and make you pay for taking away his son (even with the court’s approval?). Obviously it’s time to get away—and how better than to take an...
How do You Train the Monkey?

How do You Train the Monkey?

I was reading a book recently and came across an interesting passage where Fo (short for Forest) talks about the difference in the way his best friend reacts to himself versus other people. In it he refers to that reaction as how they ‘trained the monkey.’...

Book Review: Fall by Jennifer Hurst

I admit to picking up this book knowing only that it had romance elements, and that the female character was heading a construction crew. (I love to see book where female characters work in non-traditional jobs.) What I got was that and a whole bag of chips. You see,...

Author interview about “Blank Slate”

Last May during the LDStorymakers Writer’s conference my author’s guild did a few video interviews–and I got to be one of the lucky people they spoke with. Here Frank Cole (author of the picture book series starting with Hashbrown Winters) asks me...