Month: December 2020

Monday musing

2020: Almost gone

BestSelling Reads authors continue their look back at a year so singular, it seemed surreal. J.L. Oakley I don’t think a novelist could come up with the crazy scenario we have been living in the past 11 months since COVID-19 hit. 2020 started with a promise as I traveled to […]

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Thursday teaser

The Man in the Cave

A special Christmas Eve teaser from the story By J.L. Oakley Christmas Eve in Seattle can be dreary, often with rain or fog in the forecast. But when there is snowfall and Mamma’s Christmas julenisse figures are in the window, I remember a time long ago on this very same […]

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Monday musing

2020 in the rear-view mirror

It’s almost over: the year that everyone wants to leave behind. The year of a new pandemic, of civic strife around the world, of new threats and of dangers re-emerging. BestSelling Reads authors are taking the next two weeks to look back on a year that left scars on every […]

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Monday musing

The season of waiting

Monday musings by Scott Bury I am looking out the window of my study in Ottawa. I should be writing, or editing, but I feel more like I am waiting. Like the whole world is waiting. For what? Waiting for Christmas, of course. Or other holidays. As we all well […]

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Monday musing

Writing in the holidays

The holiday season is well and truly upon us. The next few Monday Musings will be all about how holidays and seasons of inspire bestselling authors—or don’t.  By Scott Bury Long, dark nights. Cold temperatures. Deep snow.  Thick sweaters on my shoulders. The feeling of leather gloves on my hands, […]

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