Welcome back to another exciting edition of Books Worth Your Bucks. As August settles in, the only truly comfortable place to be is at the beach. If like me, work demands are making a getaway impossible for you at the moment, grab a copy of Undertow, an anthology of summer beach reads from Troll River Publications. As each of these stories is a nice length, and a satisfying read in itself, I’ll take you through them one at a time in the remaining weeks of August.Story number 2, Riptide, by author Rachel De Lune. The Break by Rachel De Lune  When Victoria Abbott makes the hard journey back to her…

True bibliophiles seek other bibliophiles. My friends, even those that are not authors, love to read. One series that I shared with my reading buddies was Nevada Barr’s Anna Pigeon series. Being that we all love national parks and a good mystery, they burned through everything she had written in a few weeks. While we were waiting for her next book release one of them commented that it would take a couple months beyond that to get a copy to read at the library because the wait list would be so long. In the course of that conversation I learned they never bought books from their favorite fiction authors. I…

More accurately, I am back in production again. Writers never stop writing, but I did have to stop releasing books for awhile. My works in progress were tied to the Pantherian Tales series, Passions Portal, and the Games 4 Love series. The first few books in those series were all with the same publisher and that publisher was in trouble in a number of ways which brought books sales for many authors to a halt. With things going nowhere I requested rights be returned so I could find another publisher or re-release the books and continue the projects as an independent author.  Unfortunately, while I could write while waiting for…