It’s 4 a.m. and I can already hear the birds chirping as they usher in a new day. But I have not been to bed yet, and I find their melodic voices are grating on my nerves. I can’t sleep because I’m worried about the direction our country is headed in and my 401(k) that’s going with it.
Felice Picano died March 12, 2025. He was well beloved, respected, talented, and will be missed. I’ll let those more eloquent than I say how much Picano will be missed.
When I lived in Japan, I was struck by how bookstores offered to wrap books at checkout. I never turned down the service; it was free. An employee would whip out a sheet of paper printed with the store’s name and logo and, with origami precision, fold it around the book. Was the goal to protect the book’s cover—or to hide it?
As we usher in spring and naturally warmer weather, I can’t help but get excited at the thought of visiting my local farmers market with my friends. We like to meet up and pick up fresh produce, sample gourmet treats like iced sugar cookies or fresh-made donuts, and interact with the local purveyors who take great care to bring us unique wares.
This missed title from March is a re-release from publisher ReQueered Tales and is termed misadventure which places it at the edges of the mystery-thriller-suspense genre. Set in the Mexican-American community of East LA, Trebor Healey's Faun is an urban fantasy, a new fairy tale about pagan earth spirit, lust and faith, Los Angeles, and history.
It’s month three in the KRL Coming Attractions Column Reading Challenge and I find my enthusiasm for generating new monthly themes and featured books has not waned. I’ve tried very hard to stay away from the obvious themes that society attaches to specific months of the year. But, for the month of March I couldn’t resist honoring Women’s History Month by focusing my Featured Five on strong female amateur sleuths.
On behalf of the Facebook LGBTQ+ Mystery-Thriller-Suspense Fiction Group and King’s River Life Magazine, we want to thank Meg Perry for giving us a little of her time today, answering questions fans of the genre really want to know.
One of my earliest memories of my mother was watching her watch classic movies on our Zenith television. Her face would light up when one glamorous starlet or another would enter a scene; her svelte body wearing a long gown of liquid fabric that hugged every curve. The movies may have been black and white, but I believe my mother saw them in luminous color and, perhaps, dreamt of being in them. I had time to watch and wonder what she was thinking though.
On behalf of the Facebook LGBTQ+ Mystery-Thriller-Suspense Fiction Group and Kings River Life Magazine, we want to thank Gregory Ashe for giving us a little of his time today, answering questions fans of the genre really want to know.
We have just said goodbye to one year, while ushering in another, and I can’t help but feel reflective. As is the tradition, shared by so many of us regardless of religious or cultural beliefs, it is time for us to take an inventory of our lives and resolve to shed unhealthy habits for healthy ones. For me, there is no better place to start than with one of my passions—reading.
