Tag Archives: Janet Evanovich

Stringing Along

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Tonette Joyce

THIS WEEK:Do you enjoy reading SERIES fiction? Is there a “magic” number of titles in that series that you find most agreeable? Moreover, do you WRITE series fiction? How many titles do YOU plan in your series? I most definitely … Continue reading →

Posted in advice, authors, book review, Books, characters, collections, cozy mystery, editing, imagination, inspiration, novels, plots, protagonists, reading, reading preferences, romance, Tonette Joyce | Tagged Betsy the Vampire Queen, Geoff Rodkey, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, Janet Evanovich, Parnell Hall, Percy Jackson books, Septimus Heap, Stephanie Plum, Story set inthe Caribbean, The Chronicles of Egg, the Puzzle Lady, Tonya Hurley | 4 Comments

It Was a Noir and Stormy Night…

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Tonette Joyce

“What kind of book would you like to write that you haven’t tried before?” I’d like to be able to write a REAL mystery, an all-out head-scratcher from start to finish. A gritty, serious, police or even a spy novel. … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, big plans, book series, Books, characters, Clean Writing, cozy mystery, experiences, Life, memories, Miscellaneous, Mystery stories, novels, plots, Random thoughts, romance, short stories, subplots, Tonette Joyce, villains, writing, writing from experiences | Tagged Cozy Mysteries, Davis Way Mysteries, Gretchen Archer, Gritty Mysteries, Janet Evanovich, mystery novels, Noir Novels, Parnell Hall, Puzzle Lady Mysteries, Stephanie Plum, Writing crime novels spy novels, writing from experiences, Writing gritty novels | 6 Comments

Move Along, Movies

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Tonette Joyce

Best books-to-movies? I know that we have covered this; I absolutely know that I have brought up the best movies made from terrible books. Yes, it happens; books are not “always ruined” when made into movies. I will once again … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, characters, dialogue, favorites, imagination, inspiration, movies, novels, performances, romance, Tonette Joyce | Tagged "Rebecca", casting movies, Daphne du Maurier, Debbie Reynolds, Forrest Gump, George Sanders, Gladys Cooper, Hary Potter, J.R.Rowling, Janet Evanovich, Jaon Fontaine, Katherine Heigl, Lawrence Olivier, Movies from books, Optioning intellectual property for movies, Robert Ben Garant, Ship of Fools, Stephanie Plum, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Time Traveler's Wife, Thomas Lennon, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit | 5 Comments

Guest: Author Diane Vallere

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Tonette Joyce

I seem to be inexplicably drawn lately to writers from Pennsylvania, and today’s guest lived even closer to my mother’s people than most. Diane Vallere comes right from my mother’s neck of the woods. Indeed, my mother once lived … Continue reading →

Posted in author interview, author's life, authors, book covers, Books, characters, experiences, Guest, Guest author, hobbies, interview, jobs, Miscellaneous, novels, protagonists, research, Tonette Joyce, using talents | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Connie Blair, Daine Vallere, Doris Day movies, Janet Evanovich, K-Mart, Los Angeles, Lover Come Back, Madison Night, Masking For Trouble, Material Witness books, Material Witness mysteries, Nancy Drew, Neiman-Marcus, Pearls Gone WIld, Pennsylvia, Pillow Stalk, Pillow Talk, Polyester Press, Samantha Kidd Mysteries, Sarah Strohmeyer, Some Like It Haute, Space Case, Suede to Rest Midnight Ice, Sylvia Stryker Outter Space Mysteries, The Costume Shop Mysteries, The Decorator Who Knew Too Much, The Golden Voyages of Sinbad, Ther Pajama Frame, Tony Randall, Trixie Belden | 9 Comments

Traveling Buddies

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Patricia Kiyono

This week, our resident hound put forth an intriguing hypothetical question: You’re stuck in a minivan, for a LOOOONNNNGGG road-trip and you can’t drive. Which three people (living or dead, famous or not) would you prefer to travel with? The … Continue reading →

Posted in imagination, Patricia Kiyono, Travel | Tagged Grandpa, imagination, Janet Evanovich, Rick Steves, road trip | 12 Comments

My Go-to Book Gifts

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Patricia Kiyono

This is the season of weddings, graduations, and a host of other celebrations. We often bring gifts to these gatherings, and since all of us here at Four Foxes, One Hound have close personal relationships with books I thought it would … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Patricia Kiyono | Tagged Bob Carlisle, book recommendations, Bridget Jones's Diary, Butterfly Kisses, Dr. Seuss, Evelyn McFarlane, Helen Fielding, James Saywell, Janet Evanovich, Love You Forever, Oh the Places You'll Go, Robert Munsch, special occasions, The Big Book of If | 5 Comments

Heroes and….Heroines?

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week we are discussing our favorite literary heroes and heroines… do we use the word “heroine” anymore? Is it considered sexist, like “poetess”, “authoress” and “actress”? It’s ironic, really, that it was ever used because “Hero” in mythology was, … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, characters, protagonists, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged Agatha Christie, Andre Bolkonsky, Davis Way, Gretchen Archer, Hary Potter's World, Hercule Poirot, Jane Austen, Jane Austen heroes, Janet Evanovich, Jean Valjean, JK Rowling, Les Miserables, MaryJanice Davidson, Minerva McGonagal, Molly Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Stephanie Plum, War and Peace | 4 Comments

Good Books,Good Movies?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week’s question is: What books do we think would make good movies? That is harder to answer than I first thought. There is usually a great deal of change between book and getting it to the screen. In some … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, movies, protagonists, Random thoughts, reading preferences, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", "Where Rainbows End", Artemis Fowl, Cecilia Ahern, Davis Way series, Eoin Colfer, Eugene O'Neill, Forrest Gump, Geoff Rodkey, Getchen Archer, Ghost Girl, Harry Potter, If you could see me now, Italian Kitchen series, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, Lilies of the Field, One For the Money, P.S. I Love You, Rachel Joyce, Rachel Joyce's 'Perfect', Rosie Dunne, Rosie Genova, Standards and Practices, Stange Interlude, Stephen Vincent Benet, The Bishop's Beggar, The Chronicles of Egg, The Hayes Office, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye, Tonya Hurley | 4 Comments

The Egg and I

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week we are talking about movies we have seen because we read the books on which they were based, Next time, we’ll discuss reading books after having seen its movie. I am not only an avid reader, I love … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, Family, Life, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged Agatha Christie mysteries, Alec Guinness, Centennial, Deliver Us From Evil, Harry Potter, Heaven is For Real, Jane Austen novels, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, LOTR, Obi-Wan Kenobi, One For the Money, Peter Jackson, Shakespeare in the Park, Star Wars, Stephanie Plum, The Grinch, The Hobbit, Top Secret Twenty-One | 4 Comments

List-Ten

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Tonette Joyce

I am usually left out of many of the Facebook writer’s challenges because although I am a published writer, I am not a published book author. However, a rather famous author of my personal acquaintance recently hit me topic: Ten … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, childhood, Friendship, Lists, Miscellaneous, poetry, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged "There's No Place Like Here", A Remarkable Mother, Agatha Christie, An Hour Before Daylight, Anna Karenina, Artemis Fowl, Banned in the U.S.S. R., Boris Pasternak, Boris Pasternak's poetry, Can You See Me Now?, Cecelia Ahearn, Christmas In Plains, Daphne du Maurier, Doctor Zhivago, douglas adams, Dr, Eoin Colfer, Ernest Hemingway, Ghost Girl, Gretchen Archer, Hercule Poirot, James Herriot. All Creatures Great and Small, Janet Evanovich, Jimmy Carter, Kate Collins, Leo Tolstoy, MaryJanice Davidson, Oscar Wilde, Parnell Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rosie Dunne, Stephen King., Stephen Vincent Benet, Thanks For the Memories, The Bishop's Beggar, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Tonya Hurley, War and Peace, William Shakespeare | 9 Comments

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