Sandra Ruttan: What’s your new book/work in progress about? Barbara Winkes: I have just introduced the all new covers for my Carpenter/Harding series. The next release will be #9, Implications, in which the protagonists Jordan Carpenter and Ellie Harding have to solve a murder that happened a long time ago. At the moment I’m writing...
Author: S Ruttan (S Ruttan)
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Barbara Winkes on What Fostered Her Love of Reading and Mysteries
My parents used to read to me a lot, and some of those stories continued in my mind long after the book was closed (this was perhaps an early attempt at fan fiction, but I soon came up with my own stories and characters). Words were like magic to me, and I wanted to practice...
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Review: Midnight in the Graveyard
It’s the perfect month for a great collection of chilling tales, and when I saw Kelli Owen, Somer Canon and Hunter Shea were all featured it automatically piqued my interest. I received a review copy, and read the entire collection cover to cover. There are a lot of truly fantastic stories in this anthology. I...
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Rigor Morbid
On October 20, 2019 Bronzeville’s first anthology ebook, Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become, will be on sale. A collection 12 chilling horror stories. Is what you should fear the most who you are, or what you could become? The anthology leads with Hailey Piper’s The Law of Conservation of Death, which is available to read...
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Review: House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Salt and Sorrow is billed as a retelling of ’12 Dancing Princesses’, a Grimm fairy tale. Since I was unfamiliar with the original, which itself is a variation of fairy tales passed on to the Grimm brothers, I did not research the origin until after I finished the book. House of Salt and Sorrow may...
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Friday’s Forgotten Books: The Last Deep Breath by Tom Piccirilli
The Last Deep Breath follows Grey, an orphan who is shaped by events in his past and continues to let the world chart his course, like a boat adrift at sea. And yet, there is something about Grey that doesn’t strike anyone around him (except perhaps his foster brother, Pax) as someone aimless. In fact,...
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Review: Passages by Kelli Owen
Passages picks up right where Wilted Lilies left off; Lily May is being driven far from home, to Pennsylvania, where she will attend a school for children like her. Other kids who have powers. Lily soon discovers that not all of the residents of McMillan Hall have the same abilities she does, and not all...
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Friday’s Forgotten Books: Wilted Lilies by Kelli Owen
Detective Travis Butler has been selected to interview Lily May Holloway. The reason? He isn’t from her town. He’s an outsider, and because he’s an outsider he doesn’t have any preconceived ideas about Lily May or some of the events she needs to talk about. This entire novella takes place in the police station. From...
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Insights: An Interview with Kelli Owen about Wilted Lilies and her most recent book, Passages
Sandra Ruttan: Almost the entire story takes place in one room, in a way. Was that your idea from the outset? Kelli Owen: I think so. I heard Lily’s voice in my head before I knew much of anything about the storyline, but that voice was telling me about something that happened after the fact....
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Movie Review: Tigers Are Not Afraid
“We forget that we are princes, warriors, tigers when things outside come to get us.” Estrella is in school, working on an assignment to write a fairy tale, when shots ring out. Her class dives to the floor, taking cover until the violence stops. While she is lying there her teacher gives her three pieces...