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A Lesson Learned

Jun 18, 2025

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I love to read… everything… I have the compulsion to read. It can be a short story I come across, a news item, or the words on that packet of cornflakes that someone forgot to put back in the cupboard. I am also addicted to all those “How to be a Better Writer” books, and…

Review for The Convict and the Rose #Fiction #True Story Series @JanSikes3

Jun 16, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #challenge, #Dark, #Fiction, #New Release, #Psychological, #reading, #Suspense, blogging, books, inspiration, life as an author, promotion, review, sharing interests

Love knows no boundaries.This heart-wrenching, award-winning Biographical/Fiction sequel to Flowers and Stone shows how love can triumph over the toughest of odds. Join Luke and Darlina as they fight for freedom and battle to keep the flame of their love alive, even when separated by bars and distance. After Luke is sentenced to a seventy-five-year prison sentence,…

Inspiration Day…

Jun 11, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #achievements, #challenge, #Fiction, #journal, #Promises, #reading, #writing, blogging, books, fun and games, hope, inspiration, sharing interests, thoughts, Writing

I read this quote yesterday and it quite literally sent an electric charge through my brain, waking up so many long dormant feelings and ideas. I have also been reading John Truby’s amazing The Anatomy of Story. I haven’t read much of it yet, but enough to know that it will reintroduce me to the…

Review for The Forever House by Linda Acaster #Women Sleuths #Bone Chilling

May 30, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #Fiction, #reading, #Suspense, #Words, blogging, books, haunting, mystery, review, sharing interests

A chilling discovery. A sense of foreboding. They say I’m obsessing. I’m not. Resisting family pressure to sell the too-big house Carrie and her late husband began to renovate, she is determined to carry through their shared project to prove she can manage alone. And she can, until a discovery beneath old wallpaper chills her…

Review for Close to Home by Alex Craigie #Family Life Fiction

May 23, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #achievements, #Dark, #Psychological, #reading, #Suspense, blogging, inspiration, life in the raw, nightmares, promotion, review, sharing interests

“The book is brilliant. It reads like a memoir and grips like great fiction should – beautiful characterization”Viga Boland – Author – No Tears For My Father Talented pianist Megan Youngblood has it all – fame, fortune and Gideon. But Gideon isn’t good enough for Megan’s ambitious, manipulative mother, whose meddling has devastating repercussions for Megan…

My Latest Review… BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die

May 13, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #Dark, #reading, #Suspense, #writing, blogging, books, haunting, mystery, promotion, review, sharing interests

What if rediscovering your birthplace unearthed a secret so powerful it could rewrite history—and your own identity? A Russian-American writer obsessed with her birthplace – a ghostly derelict German military hospital near BerlinHer Austrian husband, who pines for the father he never metA passionate young doctor destined for darknessA demonic figure who changed the course…

Slipping back into business…

May 2, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #achievements, #challenge, #Fiction, #journal, #reading, #Words, #writing, blogging, inspiration, life as an author, mystery, sharing interests, Writing

Further news of my progress back to normal… pain seems to be easing a little, and the exercises are getting less painful, so I’m feeling very optimistic. Very slow going though… I have just finishing reading the existing chapters of Swan Song, my current WIP. and I am quite impressed with what I have written…

Review for Rivers of London…

Apr 29, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in life as an author

Book 1 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch. My name is Peter Grant, and I used to be a probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service, and to everyone else as the Filth. My story really begins…

Tale of the Seasons’ Weaver #Review #Epic Fantasy #Fiction

Mar 9, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #book tour, #Dark, #Fiction, #Magic, #New Release, beautiful things, blogging, books, haunting, promotion, review, sharing interests

The dust is finally beginning to settle after the last few weeks of chaos, and I have been taking stock and checking that everything is as it should be. Imagine my dismay to find our review for one of my favourite books this year had been missed. Huge apologies to Diana! “Already the animals starve.…

Winter Journeys.. a novel of music and memory #Fiction

Mar 1, 2025

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Jaye Marie, Anita Dawes

in #book tour, #Fiction, #New Release, #reading, #writing, blogging, inspiration, promotion, review, sharing interests

I have been reading a most unusual story, written by our good friend, Audrey Driscoll. The book description caught my interest, but didn’t prepare me for such an amazing roller coaster of a story… Winter Journeys is a story about the power of music and imagination. In 1827, a year before his death, composer Franz Schubert…

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