Ep 1: Meet the Ghost Hunters

June 1, 2018

Ep 1: Meet the Ghost Hunters [podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/6683973/height/90/width/450/theme/standard/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”90″ width=”450″ placement=”top” theme=”standard”]I’m Riley Longhill, and my dog Geist and I are ghost hunters. Okay, okay, I confess. I’m new to this ghost-hunting business. You see, my mother died last year, and her death really brought home how truly short life is. A few months after […]

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The Writing Journey: Lost in the Wilderness

May 18, 2018

Lost in the Wilderness After I made the decision to cut off my writer’s soul (to stop writing fiction and focus exclusively on building my copy and marketing company), I basically found myself lost in the wilderness. Although, I didn’t realize it at the time. What I DID know was that I kept finding myself

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Book Review: “The Good Girl” by Mary Kubica

May 9, 2018

The Good Girl One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn’t show, she leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first, Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home turns out to be the worst mistake of Mia’s life. “The Good Girl” is

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The Writing Journey: Cutting Myself off from My Writing Soul

May 2, 2018

Cutting Myself off from My Writing Soul The early 2000’s were not kind to my writing career. In 1998, I quit my job to become a freelance copywriter. Part of the reason why I wanted to start my writing business is because I thought I would have more time to work on my novels. I

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Book Review: “Don’t You Cry” by Mary Kubica

April 25, 2018

Don’t You Cry In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter addressed to “My Dearest” is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend. Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in

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The Writing Journey: How I Almost Let a Bad Review Derail My Career

April 9, 2018

How I Almost Let a Bad Review Derail My Career In November 2015, I published my first novel, “The Stolen Twin.” And in launching that book, I did pretty much everything completely wrong. I’ll detail all my book marketing mistakes in another post, but today, I want to share how I very nearly pulled the

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Announcing: The Completion of the First Draft of “This Happened to Jessica”!

March 22, 2018

This Happened to Jessica Wow. Just. Wow. All my books have a bit of a story behind the writing. “Mirror Image” (which I wrote first but published second) took me about twenty years to write. I got the initial idea when I was a teenager, and it took all that time to get a real

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Book Review: “The Lying Game” by Ruth Ware

March 10, 2018

The Lying Game The day after a dog charges into the water after a stick but discovers something more sinister, three women in and around London—Fatima, Thea, and Isabel—receive a text they had always hoped would NEVER come from the fourth in their formerly inseparable clique, Kate, that says only, “I need you.” Even though

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