Category: Ramblings of a Writer

• #Book Review Friday – Time to Let Go by Christoph Fischer

  I’m used to being transported to another era when I read a novel by Christoph Fischer. Set in England, his latest offering, Time to Let Go, transports the reader, not through the years, but into the lives of one family dealing with the splintered effects of Alzheimers. I’ve lost several relatives and friends to this…

  P. C. Zick

  June 27, 2014

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  Alzheimer’s, book reviews, Christoph Fischer, contemporary fiction, disease, Eastern Europe, England, fiction

• Author Wednesday – Janna Yeshanova

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Janna Yeshanova, the author of romance stories set in Russia. Love is Never Past Tense, the first in the series, on the Black Sea where a couple meets and falls in love. A speedy courtship led to a quick marriage, then the world showed up. A divorce inspired by…

  P. C. Zick

  June 24, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  book reviews, Bucharist, characters, Crimea, Egypt, love, novel, romance, Russia, Ukraine

• Author Wednesday – Christoph Fischer

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome back Christoph Fischer for a guest post about his latest release A Time to Let Go. Christoph’s three other novels are set in Eastern Europe during the years of the Great Wars, and offer glimpses into what it was like for people of all gender, religion (or lack…

  P. C. Zick

  June 18, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  airline personnel, airlines, Alzheimer’s, book review, disease, Eastern Europe, England, Europe, fiction, historical fiction, novels

• Book Review Friday – A Fitting Place

  Mary Gottschalk’s first novel A Fitting Place wraps the reader in a familiar blanket in the opening pages. A lovely surprise awaited me as I began reading a story told a hundred different ways of a marriage breaking up when a husband falls for someone younger. Lindsey Chandler and her story of growth leaves the…

  P. C. Zick

  June 13, 2014

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  bulimia, homosexuality, intimacy, lesbians, marriage, memoir, novel, same sex relationships

• Author Wednesday – Cate Beauman

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today Cate Beauman stops by Writing Whims to tell us about her new release Justice for Abby. Cate is the widely successful author of the romantic suspense series, The Bodyguards of L.A. County. Justice for Abby is the sixth book in this series. Welcome back, Cate. You’ve been busy since you…

  P. C. Zick

  June 4, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, Cate Beauman, fiction, L.A., novel, romance, romantic suspense, The Bodyguards of L.A. County

• Book Review Friday – The Bone Church

  The Bone Church by Victoria Dougherty with its suspenseful moments and supernatural whispers places it in a unique category of historical fiction. Set in Czechoslovakia between the years of 1943 to 1956, the characters are in constant danger, and one-step away from death throughout the entire book. Even when World War II ends, and Nazi…

  P. C. Zick

  May 30, 2014

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  Catholic Church, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, historical fiction, historical thriller, Nazi, Palestine, paranormal, Soviet Union, thriller

• Author Wednesday – Victoria Dougherty

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Victoria Dougherty, who has just published her first novel, The Bone Church. Set in Prague over the past fifty years, this historical thriller encompasses political, cultural, and historical boundaries. Welcome, Victoria. It’s my pleasure to have you drop by for an interview today. I’m always fascinated about the…

  P. C. Zick

  May 28, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, characters, Europe, fiction, historicla thriller, novel, Prague, writers

• Book Review Friday – The Light Never Lies

  The Light Never Lies is the second in the Crater Lake Series by Francis Guenette, and last fall I read the first in the series, Disappearing in Plain Sight (click here for the review). What a pleasure to come back to the stars of that first novel and watch as they interact with each other…

  P. C. Zick

  May 23, 2014

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, book reviews, Canada, character-driven novel, fiction, North Vancouver Island, novel

• Author Wednesday – Francis Guenette

  It’s Author Wednesday time once again. I’m so excited when I can welcome back a favorite author because she’s published a new book. Today I welcome back Francis Guenette who visited for an interview in November, and whose book Disappearing in Plain Sight, I reviewed back then as well. It is with great pleasure to bring…

  P. C. Zick

  May 21, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  amazon.com, authors, Canada, characters, environment, fiction, Vancouver, writers

• #RomanceinAMonth – Behind the Altar

  I’m taking the plunge this month. Starting on May 15, I began writing a romance with the trope–the well-known types of romance–of Forbidden Lover with an online group headed up by good friend and colleague, Rachelle Ayala. Every day for the next month we’re to write something, and by June 14, supposedly we’ll have the…

  P. C. Zick

  May 17, 2014

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, characters, fiction, novel, romance, women’s fiction