Monthly Archives: March 2008

Review – Pandora’s Box

By: Natale Stenzel Love Spell ISBN: 978-0-505-52752-3 Mina’s life was in the toilet. Her live-in lover left her for another woman, she’d lost her teaching position, her house was sure to be foreclosed upon and then to top it off, … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger: Leslie Carroll / Amanda Elyot

REAL LIFE HISTORICAL HEROINES Hello, everyone! My mother calls me Leslie Carroll (well, she’s called me a lot of things over the years), and I’ve been writing contemporary fiction under that name for the past several years. As Amanda Elyot … Continue reading

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Enchanted

I watched ENCHANTED with my daughter and grandchildren last night. This movie blew the genre doors wide open, and did it beautifully. They took an old fairytale, put a few spins to it, shook it up, and tipped it out. … Continue reading

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Welcoming Janette Kenny and Waiting for a Call of a Different Kind

Firstly, we are really thrilled that Janette Kenny, a good friend of all of ours at Magical Musings, is coming on board to blog every Thursday. Jan’s first book, a Western-set historical romance One Real Cowboy, was a March 2007 … Continue reading

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Deep Characters

I have thought, on and off, about a particular plot point of a Ruth Rendell book for many years. So I thought I’d blog about why it’s so memorable to me. The reason is, the hero (the head of police … Continue reading

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Changes

Magical Musings is having some changes. Theresa Monsey is leaving us. Because of a new job and the travel time involved, she doesn’t have time to blog. We wish her the best, and hope she’ll come back and visit. There … Continue reading

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Ripples

Its an amazing thing … ripples. Whether its watching the ripples caused by dropping a pebble in a pond, or the ripples that are caused by the people we associate with. Today, I’m talking about the ripples that were caused … Continue reading

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Review: Agent Zigzag

Title: Agent Zigzag Author: Ben MacIntyre ISBN: 9780747592839 I bought this book for research purposes, but as it read like a thriller, it was certainly no hardship to get through. Quite the contrary. In fact, if a writer were to … Continue reading

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Week Ahead with Leslie Carroll (aka Amanda Elyot)

Next Saturday we are pleased to welcome Leslie Carroll (also writing as Amanda Elyot) as our guest blogger. She’ll be letting us in on the trials, tribulations and rewards of writing novels using real-life historical heroines. Native New Yorker Leslie Carroll … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger: Carrie Bebris

Travelers’ Tales I am writing this in an airport. Don’t worry—you are not reading raw copy; by the time I send this to Edie for posting, it will have been through my usual multiple rounds of revision. I can’t send … Continue reading

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