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paperback affiliate link biker preacher and other stories a collection of christian fiction from the sawdust trail of a small town camp meeting to the healing thermal springs high in the pyrenees author lyndon perry takes his readers on a journey of hope forgiveness and reconciliation with a bit of humor along the way via eleven short stories that showcase the writer s christian values and world view affiliate link to amazon posted by lyn at wednesday february 12 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christian living fiction short stories thursday january 23 2025 coming next week expanding my catalog of books at tule fog press this year starting off by adding two new genres for my indie publishing platform christian fiction and western mentioned our latest release yesterday ruth a journey to faith by revathi selwyn but today i want to announce the release of d m karder s rip roaring gunslinging wild west adventure rising from the ashes note affiliate links to amazon throughout it s currently up for pre order and has a page at goodreads now so mark it want to read here s the blurb chicago 1871 the city burns unrestrained in a sea of people a boy stands alone young david murphy witness through his mind s eye his transformation from a desperate youth to one of the fiercest gunmen of the wild west to capture murphy s story an ambitious writer of western lore is needed enter vernon shields who wants to publish an account that will define his career when shields meets a man now known simply as longhair he procures permission to write the gunman s life story rising from the ashes is a tale of blazing guns that stretched from the civil war to the turn of the twentieth century the guns and the people who mastered them made their own destiny most men died as fast as they drew the steel however a few like longhair walked the walk and lived to tell of their adventures of quick draws ambush killings and the excruciating challenges of life itself storytelling with no shortage of action delivers a fresh spin on the turn of the century don g porter author of yukon murders many events molded and transformed this country at the end of the nineteenth century my goal is to put the reader in the boots of the main character david murphy to provide an experience of what it was like to live life in the 1860s to 1890s from chicago s great boom to the end of the wild west author d m karder posted by lyn at thursday january 23 2025 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adventures fiction new release novel tule fog press western tuesday january 21 2025 new release from tule fog press excited about this announcement i just edited and published revathi selwyn s biblical novel ruth a journey to faith with this novel i m launching a new line of books at tule fog press christian fiction i hope to add two more titles to this category this year amazon link affiliate from the back cover ruth is a princess of moab naomi her mother in law from israel shares with her the love of yahweh naomi s god and people become ruth s god and people as ruth learns to trust in the god of creation the lord honors her faithfulness her journey to faith in yahweh is rewarded and she becomes an ancestor to kings about the book this creative imagining of ruth s story is based on biblical history and the truth of scripture especially as found in the book of ruth elimelech his wife naomi and their two sons move to moab due to severe famine in israel ruth meets mahlon and marries into the israelite family naomi loses her sons and in bitterness decides to return to israel ruth is determined to cross the jordan and follow her mother in law to a new life in the city of bethlehem ruth meets boaz in the barley fields he becomes her kinsman redeemer she marries him and becomes the ancestor to the kings of israel ruth has come a long way from being a little princess of moab she enjoys her final days spending time with her great grandson david teaching him to play the tambourine and to worship the god of israel about the author revathi selwyn is a family practitioner poet and author she loves writing and her books are fun to read she s written a series of short stories that encourage children to be kind to one another to animals and to nature in created for a purpose her stories emphasize that god has a purpose for everything he has created titles within this children s series include josh posh little hug me and the avocado josh posh little hug me and izzy busy and josh posh little hug me and the spotted dove her first children s book was published in 2014 tsip the little sparrow revathi lives in hyderabad india with her husband they have two grown children she loves nature birds and animals her favorite pets are her two labs amy and teddy she also enjoys writing poetry and has posted several of her poems online you can find all her books here on amazon posted by lyn at tuesday january 21 2025 email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bible stories christian living fiction new release novel tuesday november 12 2024 enter the realm of sword sorcery we re launching a new kickstarter today a campaign to introduce three new sword and sorcery proejcts by david a riley tim hanlon and andrew darlington you can get all the details here there are 10 reward levels and 10 add on options so you can build up your s s library quite nicely https www kickstarter com projects lyndonperry three new sword and sorcery collections check out these three stories representing three new collections by david a riley tim hanlon and andrew darlington arriving via kickstarter november 12 2024 free story the forbidden city of cyramon by david a riley test drive this beauty from riley s upcoming collection welgar the cursed free story queen of the shifting city by tim hanlon sample this delicacy from hanlon s upcoming collection path of the swordsman free story the blood beast from hellmouth an eternal assassin story by andrew darlington taste test this morsel from darlington s upcoming the eternal assassin chronicles posted by lyn at tuesday november 12 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anthology dark fantasy fantasy kickstarter short stories sword sorcery tuesday april 16 2024 latest kickstarter a sherlockian lovecraftian mashup sherlock friends eldritch investigations up on kickstarter a new campaign for fans of mystery with a bit of cosmic horror this is an anthology of 9 adventures featuring holmes s friends rivals as they pit their detection skills against lovecraftian horrors the campaign ends may 2 2024 so check it out here every backer at 6 or more will receive an electronic copy of the anthology sherlock friends eldritch investigations epub pdf which features 9 adventures over 80 000 words these tales channel the spirits of victorian and edwardian age detectives that graced the dime novels and pulp magazines of this golden era reward tiers for paperbacks and hardcovers available as well here s the cover reveal slick eh the stories are excellent as well all edited and ready to go posted by lyn at tuesday april 16 2024 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anthology dark fantasy horror lovecraft mystery sherlock holmes short stories thursday june 01 2023 book review thursday the dressmaker s gift my review of the dressmaker s gift by fiona valpy a few months back i organized a book club at our condo community i thought it would be a good way to meet new people here in puerto rico first two meetings there were only two of us but we persisted and had five last month to discuss john grisham s legal thriller the judge s list most people liked it i thought it was meh check out my review our next meeting is next saturday and we ll be talking about the dressmaker s gift affiliate link to amazon i liked this novel fairly well but with some caveats to start it was a narrative and reflection heavy story a lot of tell not show and it was slow i know this isn t supposed to be a thriller but the bulk of the story is set in occupied paris during ww2 i thought there d be a lot more tension then there s the structure of the novel it s a modern trend i guess but the time jumps please can t we just have a regular historical novel set in the past there are three main plot threads the first is about harriet the modern day character from 2017 she s piecing together the story of her grandmother claire who was a seamstress in 1940s paris the flashback chapters involve three friends claire vivienne and mirieille and their roles in the french resistance another meh for me was the modern day premise i guess you need a rationale to start a story but the set up was a bit too convenient harriet goes to paris in 2017 on a kind of inner journey of discovery and ends up working in the same dress shop as her grandmother claire and meeting mirielle s granddaughter simone in the same couture shop they board in the same upstairs bedrooms as their grandmothers okay all well and good so how do we flashback harriet wants to find out about claire and simone writes her grandmother mirielle who s still alive at 100 for details the backstory is slowly revealed fortunately this is told in good old fashioned third person past not via letters thank goodness it involves the other two plots sometimes it s about mirielle sometimes it s about claire i d have preferred one pov but heh but even this portion of the novel was slow until about 60 when the tension mounted i just was not interested in the modern day character s angst and commentary i think you could skip the harriet passages altogether and still enjoy the novel but evidently this is the trend today plus harriet and the author herself from what she said in the afterword got stuck on the idea of inherited trauma as a motivating driver behind the mc s search for meaning which i thought distracted from the story i d recently read another flashback three character plotted ww2 novel called across the winding river by aimie k runyan which i really enjoyed 4 5 stars despite its structure so i m probably comparing the two books this one gets 2 5 stars the narrative time jump device got a bit tiresome and while the writing was good enough the dressmaker s gift just wasn t that compelling for me your mileage may vary it has over 90 000 ratings and 61 are 5 stars question do you enjoy historical novels and are you into this modern trend of a contemporary chracter discovering some post card or photograph about the past and launching into a journey of discovery this is book 20 in my race to read review 52 books this year click here for a list of all my 52 week challenge reviews posted by lyn at thursday june 01 2023 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book review books novel thursday may 11 2023 book review thursday two ray irish mysteries my review of ray irish mystery case files 1 2 by gordon brewer i think i found these two short pulp noir detective mysteries via a freebie newsletter dealybob and went to the author s website to download a few samples the writer is gordon brewer and he had these two ray irish case files available for visitors plus a short two volume sword and sorcery e book called clovel sword saga which i ve read and liked but have yet to review the first ray irish mystery is titled death stalks the runway and was quite intriguing and enjoyable it starts out strong with a vicious crime and the shamus or private eye is off and running tracking down suspects as the tension mounts and the acts of violence increase this story features a model and a suspicious agent along with some gangsters and other nefarious players the women the agent represents are living in fear but a courageous dame wants justice and ray irish is happy to seek it despite the danger to himself and his colleagues if you enjoy hard boiled pulpy noir set in the 1940s i think you ll like this first one it s gritty and raw but well written and full of interesting characters it s a short novella or a long novelet about 65 pages and is just the right length for this kind of adventure i give it 4 5 stars the second ray irish mystery reaper walks the garden is not as good as the first whereas case file 1 bolts right out of the gate with danger and fast pulpy action case file 2 opens with a grisly murder followed by lots and lots of talking lots and lots the hard boiled detective action didn t really start until a third of the way through and for something this length overlong at 95 pages that s too far into the story for me to stay interested so i skimmed to the end where everything was explained basically our shamus mr irish tries to figure out who killed a dysfunctional woman in a dysfunctional family everyone s a suspect but none of the characters grabbed me and they were all unlikable also quite vulgar and violent like i said it just didn t match the intrigue and engaging style of the first novelet not as strongly written plus more than few typos which distracted me every now and then only 2 5 stars for this follow up mystery but do grab the first one here this is book 17 in my race to read review 52 books this year click here for a list of all my 52 week challenge reviews posted by lyn at thursday may 11 2023 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book review books novella short story review older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome thanks for stopping by i m lyn perry and i write mystery thriller mainstream lit and a variety of spec fic including sf fantasy paranormal and horror anything that strikes my fancy i m a pastor coffee drinker and herder of cats i also run tule fog press an indie publisher of a variety of genres for monthly perks and prizes subscribe to our newsletter i ll send you a free ebook right away for your trouble also drop me a line in the comment section below and let me know what you like to read i look forward to hearing from you like indie publishing tips welcome charlie thanks you the last 50 books lyndon has read lyndon s favorite books share book reviews and ratings with lyndon and even join a book club on goodreads this week s top 5 posts sunday book roundup 3 august 21 2022 sunday post sunday salon stacking the shelves in today s edition personal update stacking the shelves bl blue star turns gold please be in prayer for some good friends of ours they just lost a son to a roadside bomb in iraq sunday morning april 29 7 a m cst stacking the shelves weekly roundup for aug 1 to 6 stacking the virtual shelves with cozies this past week grabbed three new cozy mysteries this week the first 2 listed from among over 60 t13 bible misquotes edition thirteen of lyn s favorite bible verses answers and winners posted here do you 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