Truth in Fiction
Fiction is first and foremost written to entertain, but within our entertainment if we can also learn something or experience something, that is an added bonus. Continue reading Truth in Fiction
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Welcome BT Harris to Creekside Cafe
No one is completely whole and no one is perfect. Some of us feel on a deeper scale, but who better to quote than Socrates when he said, “The real philosophers are those who love to see the truth.” Continue reading Welcome BT Harris to Creekside Cafe
What We Can Learn from Ethnic Movies and Books…
and suddenly the world becomes a little smaller, strangers become neighbors, and our differences don’t seem so foreign because they are the uniqueness of a friend or the peculiarities of a neighbor, so they are not as frightening as those of a stranger, nor a foreign as someone living half a world away. Continue reading What We Can Learn from Ethnic Movies and Books…
Women’s History Month
Women who behave rarely make history. We have freedoms now because someone was brave enough to fight the system. Continue reading Women’s History Month
Holiday Gifts 99-cent eBooks
I finally gave into my dark side and really had fun….I do believe in happy endings even if I have to blow things up and kill people to make it happen. Continue reading Holiday Gifts 99-cent eBooks
What Inspires Me?
Inspiration was everywhere and I just had to filter it out. Continue reading What Inspires Me?
Welcome Phil Bowie to Creekside Cafe
Each short story or novel begins with a theme that I think has enough inherent conflict to build an engaging story on. GUNS, for example, is about the black-market trade in weapons. I had a friend who’d spent a career in naval intelligence, and he helped fill me in on that. Continue reading Welcome Phil Bowie to Creekside Cafe
Welcome Back to Creekside Cafe
Well, the store is of course my main focus. I want the store to be a sort of hub for the literary arts community in Eastern North Carolina. I also welcome other arts like visual and musical. Continue reading Welcome Back to Creekside Cafe
Welcome Veronica Krug to Creekside Cafe
Both of my low fantasy novels include a group of four friends, Kayla, Jerry, Sarah, and Nick, who have a mystery to solve. The first, Good Beasts Bad Creatures, focuses on Kayla, Jerry, and Grimalkin; a panther who escapes a farm and is the progeny of the Beast of Bladenboro. The Beast of Bladenboro was a creature who terrorized the town in the 50s. Continue reading Welcome Veronica Krug to Creekside Cafe
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