Pink Think: “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” – Amelia Earhart Today, I have the pleasure of being part of my friend Donald Carey’s blog tour for his debut novel BUMPY LANDINGS. Be sure to scroll to the end of […]
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Pink Think: “Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice.” – Esai Morales *Update: This contest is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Adriana!* When I was in college, I discovered the magic and allure of Latino culture. I was a freshman in America from the […]
My Salsa Days & 3-Book Giveaway
Pink Think: “Whatever might happen, I’d believed in my parents’ dream: that Miami would make up for the long lost warmth, balconies, stars, and fishermen of Cartagena de Indias – the small Carribean port city where I’d been born.” – teenage protagonist Gabi from the novel Try to Remember I […]
Try to Remember Q&A, Book Giveaway
Pink Think: “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun I’ve been on a reading kick lately, and my latest find has been Libba Bray’s Victorian YA/light horror novels. I read Rebel Angels in one sitting (which left me wanting […]
Romance
Pink Think: “The first vision I had of this story was of a girl standing outside of her crude tent in the dark, playing a glowing blue flute under the full moon when a white wolf crossed the river and watched her play.” – Karen Hoover on what inspired her […]
The Sapphire Flute: Review & Giveaway
Pink Think: “There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.” – Aaron Sorkin art from stories.net.au Last night, something amazing happened. I’ve been revising this manuscript and had come to a scene […]
Power of Story
Pink Think: “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.” – Mark Twain Just recently read New York Times columnist Gail Collins’ nonfiction book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to The Present. [Read all the way down the post to see how […]
Book Giveaway: When Everything Changed
I review books in posts called “Pink Ink’s Picks”. If you are an author or publisher who has a book you’d like me to consider as a Pink Ink Pick, please email me at pink_ink at q dot com with the title, brief description, and link (if available). If it […]
Pink Ink’s Picks
Pink Think: “I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson Photo by austinevan on flickr (Say it fast: Pink ink’s picks, pink ink’s picks…) Since I started this blog, I have resisted the idea of reviewing books in the traditional sense for a number of reasons: Most of the time, […]