by Bethany Maines A funny thing happens when you read your own reviews – you start thinking about them. I’m about a month away from completing the manuscript for Glossed Cause, the fourth book in the Carrie Mae Mystery Series, and I made the mistake of checking out a few of the reviews on High-Caliber […]
by Bethany Maines In Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice and Benedick, the worst of rivals, are set up by their friends to fall in love. So that by Act 2, Scene 3, when Beatrice says, “Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner,” Benedick believes that Beatrice is madly in love […]
by Bethany Maines Several years ago I realized that over the course of a year I would collect an assortment of what I would call one-off photos. Photos of memories that I didn’t want to forget, but that didn’t necessarily rate printing out and hanging on the wall. My solution was to create a “Year […]
by Bethany Maines It’s the Christmas season. A time to contemplate the things we’re grateful for. (I’m grateful for awesome readers like you!) Meanwhile, you’ve been running around buying gifts for everyone. Isn’t it time someone else gave you something? In honor of the holidays, I have done some arm twisting and procured a coupon […]
by Bethany Maines It’s almost time to change the art in my office. I’ve had the same art since I moved in five years ago and it’s now covered in layers of other art. It’s time to relocate, re-shuffle and change up. Maybe you are not one of the people who feels that deep need […]
by The Stiletto Gang Want to avoid the crowds, but still get a little shopping done? Sit back, peruse this list of 2015 Stiletto Gang Releases, and order the gift of the written word from the comfort of your own couch. Sparkle Abbey Downton Tabby (The Pampered Pets Series) Amazon 5 Star Review: How would […]
by Bethany Maines In my recently released novel High-Caliber Concealer, #3 in the Carrie Mae Mystery series, the heroine Nikki Lanier returns to her childhood home for what she hopes will be a nice, quiet visit. Of course, since she’s a covert agent for an espionage agency, her hometown appears to be harboring drug dealers, […]
It’s that time of year again. The holidays. Starbucks is apparently hating Jesus because they continued their paired back design aesthetic and put out simple red cups. (Yes, because from hell’s heart they stab at Christians with a red cup filled with the artfully foamed blood of the saints – muwahhahahahah!!) Black Friday ads are […]
by Bethany Maines I was thinking this morning about how much writing is like karate. Actually, to be perfectly honest, everything is like karate. You’re laughing right now. I can hear it all the way through the internet. (Although, that might be the photo.) While teaching karate I occasionally make such lofty statements, and my […]
Today Bethany Maines uses her blog space to interview first time novelist J.M. Phillippe about her debut novel Perfect Likeness. Bethany Maines, a native of Tacoma WA, is the author of the Carrie Mae Mysteries, and Tales From the City of Destiny. When she’s not traveling to exotic lands, or kicking some serious butt with […]