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Mexican Gothic: Vintage Book Review

 Posted by on Oct 14, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Oct 142024
 
Mexican Gothic: Vintage Book Review

Mexican Gothic vintage book review by Tam Francis The Synopsis Mexican Gothic Del Rey Publishing (June 30, 2020)  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia fits into a 1950s Gothic style horror mystery with hints of Historical Fiction and romance set a small villiage in Mexico. Receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin, Noemí embarks on a journey […more…]

Oct 022024
 
This Ravenous Fate Vintage Book Review by Tam Francis

The Synopsis This Ravenous Fate (Sourcebooks Fire, August 6, 2024) by Haley Dennings is the first book in a lush Sapphic vampire duology set against the backdrop of Jazz Age Harlem, where desire simmers beneath the surface, and death prowls the night. It’s 1926, and reapers—once-human vampires cursed by a horrifying affliction—are stalking the streets […more…]

Texas Jailhouse Music: Vintage Book Review

 Posted by on Jul 3, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Jul 032024
 
Texas Jailhouse Music: Vintage Book Review

Texas Jailhouse Music: vintage book review by Tam Francis The Synopsis Texas Jailhouse Music, The History Press (May 2, 2016) by Carolilne Gnagy is a lovely Texas-sized non-fiction that brings to light an almost lost history of iconic Texas music and the players behind bars who contributed to it. For a brief moment in Texas […more…]

Fashion Archetype & Personal Mythology

 Posted by on May 24, 2024 at 5:52 PM
May 242024
 
Fashion Archetype & Personal Mythology

Why Look for a Fashion Archeytpe? As I am growing older, I find myself attending more funerals and memorials than I’d like to and while sitting in a church, garden, or hall listening to eulogies, I contemplate my own. What will people say about me when I die? What impression have I left people with? […more…]

May 112024
 
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier: Vintage Book Review

Last Dance on the Starlight Pier vintage book review by Tam Francis The Synopsis Last Dance on the Starlight Pier St. Martin Press (April, 2022)  by Sara Bird is a lovely Texas-sized historical fiction that spotlights marathan dances of the great depression era. Amidst the tumultuous era of the Great Depression, Sarah Bird’s Last Dance […more…]

DIY Vintage Botanical Wedding

 Posted by on Apr 26, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Apr 262024
 
DIY Vintage Botanical Wedding

The History of our Vintage Botanical Wedding How did this vintage botanical wedding happen? Well, it happened in a blink of an eye. Only yesterday, my precious boy was asking for another bowl of cereal, needing to be picked up from soccer practice, and walking across a makeshift, pandemic stage with cardboard cutouts of admin, […more…]

How to Host the Hottest Fourth Wing Book Club

 Posted by on Mar 3, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Mar 032024
 
How to Host the Hottest Fourth Wing Book Club

I’ve had my book club for over ten years now and as a result we’ve done some great reads with amazing food & cocktails, but discussing FOURTH WING was fire and because of that, I need to share all our amazing Fourth Wing Book Club fun. Firstly, you can’t have a lively book discussion without […more…]

Would you Read my New AI Narrated Audio Books?

 Posted by on Aug 9, 2022 at 10:40 AM
Aug 092022
 
Would you Read my New AI Narrated Audio Books?

Three New Audio Books (Finally, right?) Folks have been asking about audio books and I tried creating books through Amazon’s ACX for Audible, but the talent I was working with disappeared in the middle of production and yours truly can only afford to do the royalty split production path for audio books at this time. […more…]