by Carolyn Bass | Feb 25, 2013 | Ovations
Last November my friend Ian Barker tagged me in a blog hop of sorts called “The Next Big Thing.” I was still revising my novel, The Sword Swallower’s Daughter, and was rather busy with all kinds of other life, and I forgot about it. Truth. Then a couple of weeks ago...
by Carolyn Bass | Feb 19, 2013 | Ovations
I’ve met the coolest people through Twitter. Just recently I’ve come to know author Dana Sachs. Last December she threw a brilliant literary dinner party (#litdinner) during the Twitter Literary Festival. Then I learned she had a book coming out which...
by Carolyn Bass | Feb 14, 2013 | Ovations
Hope you are getting all of the love you need and returning all of the love you get.
by Carolyn Bass | Feb 13, 2013 | Ovations
A new journey begins today. Although I will be walking beside her, the journey is my sister’s, Robin Richardson. In April she was diagnosed with LEUKEMIA. She successfully completed her first round of chemo three weeks ago, but today she goes in for a bone...
by Carolyn Bass | Jan 14, 2013 | Ovations
Once upon a time there was a bright and beautiful parakeet that lived in the swamps and forests of the eastern US. Farmers and trappers killed them all by the 1920s. I learned this from Ron Rash’s haunting new novel, THE COVE. THE COVE is a haunting tale of...
by Carolyn Bass | Jan 1, 2013 | Ovations
BassMan and I spent last night in Mobile, Alabama, while on the way home from our son’s graduation from the U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas. It’s been quite a trip so far, and I haven’t had any time to...
