All right, I'm on a roll with these books, well, I guess Freida is on a roll with these books. I had ordered The Housemaid after how impressed I was with Never Lie. Now, I've completed The Housemaid and once again, I was flabbergasted. The character development was extraordinary, the plot was diabolical, and the … Continue reading The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
A key aspect to being even a halfway decent writer is a healthy diet of reading. Reading books you enjoy that you can't seem to put down are a good measure of what is exciting, entertaining, and engrossing. I found all three of those things in Freida McFadden's novel Never Lie. This is my first novel … Continue reading Never Lie by Freida McFadden
I wish I enjoyed smoking. Everyone you see in movies and TV shows seems to really enjoy it but I guess that's because you can't smell the tobacco through the screen. Smoking looks like a fantastically simple activity to make the time go by and it goes with almost everything. Writers of the past have … Continue reading 4/8/2024
I was pleasantly surprised last night and am still on cloud 9. I belong to a writers group that meets weekly to discuss our writing submissions, anything from short stories to novels to poems, and we had our annual meeting. It's mostly discussing the previous year in review and what's to come in the next. … Continue reading The Award
I sat down and was actually able to get some "writing" done today. Originally, I wanted to create something new, but I had trouble deciphering just what that "new" story would be. That didn't exactly work out. But, what I have been wanting to do for quite a while is write a sequel to Burn … Continue reading 2.15.24
Drew Schroeder 