How many of the following homonyms are you familiar with?

A treasury of words that sound alike, yet are spelled differently and have different meanings.

These holidays all have to do with food or other things that one would associate with Halloween, or they just happen to occur on the same day as the spookiest day of the year.

Fiction that is centered around holidays, such as Christmas and Halloween.

Hobson’s Choice is a collection of short stories by Clive West. I enjoyed these stories. They were very well written, entertaining, and thought provoking. The situations we go through in life do not always have happy endings. Each story ends with an unexpected twist, but not necessarily a happy one.

Historical fiction is fiction based on events that happened in the past or on people who lived in the past. I enjoyed history in school, but intentionally stayed away from reading any historical fiction. I really didn’t think that it would be any entertaining or enjoyable at all. How wrong I was!

Do you understand the definitions of hero, victim, survivor, and villain? When writing fiction, one needs to be aware of the differences between these terms.

Her Dear and Loving Husband, written by Meredith Allard, is book one in The Loving Husband Trilogy. The story has vampires, witches, and even a werewolf. And it is set in Salem, Massachusetts. What better location for a story with such supernatural characters?

What do you see when you look at this picture? Do you see just an old worn-out doll? Perhaps you think she is ready to be thrown away. Or do you see her as material for a story? I see her as a fighter and a survivor. She looks as though she has come through a terrible ordeal.

Have you ever stopped to think about all the things that could have happened in the hotel you stayed in? People from many different walks of life have slept there. Did all of them leave the room alive? The last occupant of your room could have been a thief, a bank robber, a kidnapper, or a murder