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Blue Moon – Is it ever too late for love?

I wrote the short story Blue Moon from prompts given by the Romantic Friday Writers. I continued the story over three (or was it even more?) of the themes given out each week. I based it closely on my feelings for my first love and how I’ve dreamed that he would come back to me someday. This week I got a one star review of it! That hurt a lot. But hey, I’m a professional, I can take it. I’m curious, though. What do you think? Do you agree? Read the story and let me know what you think (even better, post a review on Amazon, whether you like it, hate it, love it, don’t care!) Get it free on Kindle here, or keep reading… Blue Moon by Ruth Madison Copyright 2012 by Ruth Madison *** “You’ll never guess who’s back in town.” Cindy bounced...

Inspector Lewis

Last week I mentioned a new show that was doing disability right. Today I have to report a show doing it badly. At least it’s only one episode. My father discovered a detective show on Masterpiece Mystery that he really likes. It’s called Inspector Lewis. We watched the first episode together on Netflix and quickly found that one of the suspects in the first mystery is a paraplegic. The younger detective specifically says that this man is “paralysed from the waist down” (to use the British spelling, since it takes place at Oxford!) Yet this character is using a power wheelchair and has a personal care assistant. What?! Are they serious? He’s also the most vile, bitter, horrible, cruel character I’ve seen in a long time. Of...

Monday Book Review: They Call Me Sunshine

I’m not even going to provide a buy link to this book. No one should buy it. Ever. This is the worst that self-publishing has to offer. I know the company this author published with and they likely charged her a lot of money to slap her book up on the web. And if she were smart, she’d take it down and learn to write in a way that isn’t highly offensive. The subtitle of this book is “Inside the mind of a quadriplegic” yet it seems very clear to me that this woman has never met a quadriplegic. She knows nothing about it. Her descriptions of it are unrealistic to the point of absurdity. This character is supposedly not able to speak at all and yet he also isn’t on a ventilator. I’m getting ahead of myself, though. Let me...