Previously on JanMFlynn.net, we were checking out the cover for THE MOON RAN AFTER HER, my debut novel set during the Armenian Genocide and based on real events. If you saw the post, you will perhaps remember the proposed cover…
Let’s pretend you’re browsing through a bookstore. Picture your favorite independent bookseller’s shop, someplace with racks and racks of tempting volumes and plenty of light and comfy chairs, an espresso bar and maybe a cat (a congenial, hypoallergenic cat that only…
lynnesheffield.com Back in February, I blogged about slogging along with the first draft of my second novel (working title: Glory Days), and how the finish line seemed to keep receding as I tried to approach it. But. One day late last week I…
Does this date send a secret tickle up your spine? A ghost of a tingle? Do you find yourself avoiding ladders, black cats, cracks in sidewalks? There is a name for what ails you, my friend: paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek for…
In honor of Halloween — AKA All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, the Feast of the Dead — I offer you, my reader, a story. I wrote this for my very first writing competition, and as one of the delighted winners I had…