Carlyle Clark - A Nice Jagged Edge: A Short Story

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Reread. A Nice Jagged Edge: A Short Story by Carlyle Clark (2013)
The Atticus and Rosemary Mystery Thriller Series Book 0.5
Length: 14 pages
Genre: Short Story
Originally Read: 19 January 2014

Reread Finished: 8 August 2017
Where did it come from? Originally I downloaded a copy of this book for free from Amazon in January of 2014. I acquired this book again as a gift to myself from Amazon in July of 2017.

So back in January of 2014 - January 18th, to be exact - I downloaded a copy of this book for free from Amazon. Actually, I had initially read this short story in January of 2014 - January 19th - while I was also reading The Black Song Inside by Carlyle Clark. Although I deleted the first copy of the book right after I read it, I had always wanted to be able to reread the book again at some point.

I got my chance to download a second copy of this book back in July of 2017 - July 27th, to be exact - and I downloaded it for free again. I reread the book over one day in August of 2017 - August 8th, 2017. I'm keeping this book to read again at some point in the very near future.

May you read well and often

Calling All Book Reviewers!

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Hello everyone! :) I hope that you are all having a wonderful day today. I know that I am! ;) Anyway, I recently saw on Facebook that author Kathryn Meyer Griffith is looking for more reviews for some of her books, and because I think she is such a remarkable writer, I thought that I would make a request of all the readers of Emeraldfire's Bookmark.

Like so many authors out there, Ms. Griffith is always on the look out for more reviewers for her books - most specifically her horror novels The Calling, Evil Stalks the Night and Blood Forged. All that is required from these potential reviewers, is a willingness to read the book, and also to write a fair and honest review of what you read. As I've said before, this is just a request of all the readers of my blog - but if you do decide to review these books I would appreciate it very much! And I know that Ms. Griffith would as well. ;)

Meet Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Since childhood I’ve been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, over forty-two years ago now, and have had twenty (ten romantic horror, two horror novels, two romantic SF horror, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel, one historical romance and three murder mysteries) previous novels, two novellas and twelve short stories published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books/Eternal Press; and I’ve self-published my last five novels with Amazon Kindle Direct and my dinosaur novels are my best-sellers.

I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-six years; have a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois, which is right across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Mo. We have three quirky cats, ghost cat Sasha and Cleo, and live cat Sasha (Too), and the five of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes.

2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *FINALIST* for my horror novel The Last Vampire - Revised Author’s Edition ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *FINALIST* for my thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.

Connect and Socialize with Kathryn!

The Calling by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (2015)
Length: 339 pages
Purchase your copy from Amazon!

The Calling Blurb:

Faye Summer has been haunted by a three-thousand-year-old-murdered Egyptian princess, one of the five daughters of Nefertiti and the doomed pharaoh Akhenaton, since she was a young girl...and has glimpsed her desperate ghostly face in darkened mirrors and heard her whispers in her dreams. Whispers begging for Faye’s help in uncovering the true story of her and her family’s long ago disappearances and deaths, their terrible fate, so the ghost would no longer be damned to her eternal wandering. On that grave quest, Faye and her husband, Nick, reluctantly travel to Egypt and among the ancient pyramids, sparkling hot sands and the ghosts of the past they discover a truth far worse than they could have imagined and end up fighting for their own survival.

Evil Stalks the Night by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (2015)
Length: 402 pages
Purchase your copy from Amazon!

Evil Stalks the Night Blurb:

Twenty years ago psychic Sarah Summers fled from the evil that lurked in the woods behind her childhood home after it killed most of her family, but a nasty divorce and financial hardships forced her back when nothing else could have. With her son, Jeremy, she returns to her inheritance, her grandmother’s dilapidated house, and tries to begin a new life. She meets a police detective, Ben, who falls for her, and she prays her fresh visions of bloodshed and death deep among the dark trees aren’t true.



Then the murders begin again and Sarah is hurtled back into the familiar nightmare that has haunted her her whole life. The evil in the woods is awake again and this time it wants her last remaining brother, Jim; her son...and her. With Ben and Jim’s help can she defeat it this time...and live?

Blood Forged by Kathryn Meyer Griffith (2015)
Length: 453 pages
Purchase your copy from Amazon!

Blood Forged Blurb:

An ancient snake-demon lies trapped behind the stone walls of an Incan prison; for centuries demanding blood sacrifices and scheming to escape. Then it discovers a pathway into the world of men, forging itself into a malevolent and cursed 357 Colt Python gun, and making itself capable of giving misery and bringing death to all who touch it. Through decades it torments, decimates, the lives of the unfortunate people it comes into contact with until a married couple, Emily and Sam Walters, have enough love and faith - and the help of a mysterious priest who’s much more than he appears to be - to fight against and destroy it forever...and to finally send it back to hell where it belongs.

May you read well and often

Karl Drinkwater - If That Looking Glass Gets Broken

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Reread. If That Looking Glass Gets Broken: A Short Story by Karl Drinkwater (2016)
Length: 12 pages
Genre: Short Story
Originally Read: 10 July 2014
Reread Finished: 3 August 2017
Where did it come from? Originally I downloaded a copy of this book for free from Smashwords in February of 2014. I acquired this book again as a gift to myself from Amazon in July of 2017.

So back in February of 2014 - February 18th, to be exact - I downloaded a copy of this book for free from Smashwords. Actually, I had initially read this short story in July of 2014 - and after I learned that the book itself was being offered for free back in August of 2014 - I downloaded it immediately. I read the stories again and wrote my review on August 11, 2014. Although I deleted the first copy of the book right after I read it, I had always wanted to be able to reread the book again at some point.

I got my chance to download a second copy of this book back in July of 2017 - July 16th, to be exact - and I downloaded it for free again. I reread the book over one day in August of 2017 - August 3rd, 2017. I'm keeping this book to read again at some point in the very near future.

May you read well and often

Reading Wrap-up For July at Emeraldfire's Bookmark

Tuesday, August 1, 2017


Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Emeraldfire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog.

Anyway, I started out July with about two hundred unread books lying around the house and ended the month with...umm...uncountable amounts of books unread. All of the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch, an author, Amazon, and Apple I-Books.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Rereads
- Spooky Short Stories by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Diary of Anna the Girl Witch: Foundling Witch by Vic Connor

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! :))
- Five go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton
- Five Get Into a Fix by Enid Blyton
- Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton
- Five Get Into Trouble by Enid Blyton
- Night in Jerusalem: A Novel by Gaelle Lehrer Kennedy
- Monsterland by Michael Okon
- If That Looking Glass Gets Broken by Karl Drinkwater
- Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- The Enchanted by Elaine Cantrell
- Stonehill Downs by Sarah Remy
- The Crime of the Ancient Mainer by Russ Munson
- Before we Die Young by L. T. Quartermaine
- All Things Slip Away by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- The Soul of the Sun by Genevieve Crownson
- A Nice Jagged Edge by Carlyle Clark

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Spooky Short Stories by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
- Diary of Anna the Girl Witch: Foundling Witch by Vic Connor

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me, considering. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 542
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was July. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

May you read well and often