Best Book on Motherhood I’ve Read. Maybe Ever. Sometimes I pick up a book because the title sounds good. Sometimes because someone I respect has endorsed it. Sometimes because people I know have read it and recommended it. Sometimes all three. The title Desperate – Hope for the Mom Who Needs to Breathe caught my… [ read more ]

One of my personal rules of writing book reviews is No Spoilers – so be prepared for this review to send you straight to your local bookstore! Lynette Eason wraps up the Deadly Reunions series with When A Secret Kills and, well, at the risk of sounding cliche… It starts with a bang. (Sorry, that’s all I… [ read more ]

If you’ve followed Out of the Boat for any length of time, you know that I have a serious addiction…to books! It began when I was quite young, was encouraged by my family, and as an adult, I’ve never attempted to get over it. It gets me in trouble occasionally…say when I stay up until… [ read more ]

Every now and then I come to a place where I need to step away from books about writing and spend some time with books about living. The crazy thing is that once I owned up to the fact that “I AM A WRITER” I found that just about everything I read has a writing… [ read more ]

A few months ago, I introduced you to my friend Emily when she reviewed Life with Lily by Suzanne Woods Fisher and Mary Ann Kinsinger . Emily is a fantastic writer and a great lover of books and I was thrilled when she agreed to come back and review the second book in The Adventures of Lily Lapp series for us. Here’s a little info about A New Home for Lily: Lily Lapp is moving with her family to Pennsylvania to… [ read more ]

It’s the first Thursday of February, so I’m over at The Write Conversation today, talking about Rumors of Water by L.L. Barkat . Come join the conversation!

One of the things Irene Hannon does so well is to give us a peek into the world of different types of law enforcement. In her new “Private Justice” series, she’s taken us into the world of private investigators. As it turns out, they aren’t all 100 pounds overweight, kicked back behind a massive desk, and puffing on… [ read more ]

Placebo by Steven James Placebo is the first book in Steven James’ new series, The Jevin Banks Experience. Jevin Banks is an illusionist with a successful stage show, a wife, and twin sons. Until tragedy lays him bare. Placebo opens with a first chapter that is so painful to read, I kept having to remind myself that… [ read more ]

When A Heart Stops Book 2 in the Deadly Reunions Series Back in May of 2011, I reviewed Too Close to Home by Lynette Eason . It was the first in the 3-book Women of Justice series and all three were excellent. Then, I eagerly read When the Smoke Clears—the first book in Lynette’s new Deadly Reunions series—as soon as it became available. ( You can read my review here… [ read more ]

I recently had the opportunity to take part in a unique blog tour. Instead of reviewing the book myself, I could ask a friend to read and review Life with Lily by Mary Ann Kinsinger and Suzanne Woods Fisher. I knew exactly who I would ask—my dear friend, Emily. Emily is an avid reader and a fabulous writer… [ read more ]