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How do we end fraternity gang rape? (opens the original)
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How angry am I about the Cornell gang rape and university coverup? Early on in Book 5 of my Huntress Moon thriller series, my FBI team is called to a crime scene on a university campus: two frat boys have been hung from a wall under a sign: DEATH TO RAPISTS. 1<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SOwN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
Travels with the Holiday Hat: Malta (opens the original)
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Every year Craig and I go on vacation with a group of our Scottish friends we call The Holiday Hat — because we pick the next year’s destination in a secret vote by putting our choices on slips of paper and drawing the destination out of a hat. The rules are simple: It has to be a European city with a direct flight of under 4 hours from Scotland, it can’t be the country we went to the year before, and we have to go to wherever comes out of the hat. Side trips are allowed and we also always draw
5 on Five - August Fiction & Film (opens the original)
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This month’s 5 on Five bookish party is hosted by one of my favorite Substackers: Elle Reads Library Books. Elle lives in Brazil, and she’s chosen one of the most famous Portuguese words, saudades, for the optional theme. Saudades is a combination of missing something or someone, nostalgia, and yearning.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1618717863045-6c02cbe51e48?crop=entropy&am
5 on Five- July reads (opens the original)
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This month’s 5 on Five is hosted by Laura K. Bray. And I have to admit, the (optional!) topic, Books that Made You Hungry, is a challenge for me. I don’t cook. I’m not drawn to books that feature food. In my own books, I have to remind myself to at least indicate that the characters are eating enough to survive. (There’s more food in The Grapevine because Craig is co-wri
The moveable feast (opens the original)
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It’s festival time! I’ve always thought of book festivals as moveable feasts (originally, holidays with variable dates) with all the spiritual and secular resonances of those celebrations. <img alt="peop
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