Five Books/Music/Movies that Influence My Writing by Susan McBride 1. Def Leppard. I don’t listen to music while I write, or I end up jamming and not working. But if you read my books, you’ll find musical references peppered throughout, often involving Def Leppard....

Five Things I’ll Miss after the Trumpocalypse I am, for all intents and purposes, a bona fide country girl: I live on the edge of a cornfield, stroll down a long swath of gravel to fetch my mail, and am often seen rooted to the spot as I watch a family of wild...

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.  Although Oscar Wilde wrote the original short story, this updated  and VERY reinvented movie version (made in 1944) and starring Robert Young, was my favorite movie as a kid.  I felt SO BAD for the cowardly ghost played by Charles Laughton,...

  Your siblings are your first peers. In many ways, you are who you are because of them. Pushovers are often a product of a domineering brother or sister. Overachievers usually became that way because of their superstar hyphenate sibling who not only was an...

Editor's Note: Generally, authors will, for Five Things, pick books, albums or films that had an impact on their lives. Today, Luke Delaney presents a list of events that literally changed his life, including illness, addiction (tobacco) and even a certain serial...

MY TOP FIVE MUSICAL INFLUENCES – Karin Salvalaggio   My childhood years can be mapped out in a series of top 40 hits that played on the radio so often you’d memorize every word without realizing it. Decades later I still get chills when I hear a song with a...