A Special Find in Berlin: Café Maja (Photos)

Thirty minutes early for an appointment, and it’s highly impolite to arrival thusly in Germany. The business contact may very well be doing nothing thirty minutes before the scheduled meeting, but you still don’t present yourself even if they are at their desk looking at the ceiling. So I decided to walk-on, and besides which…I […]

Review by Valentina Heart of “The Angel of Berlin”

Reviewed by author Valentina Heart at The Romance Reviews, “The Angel of Berlin” again received comments I especially found satisfying in that it a special mix of magic, reality and every day living, and a short story based entirely on a dream I experienced. Upon awakening from such a vivid and detailed experience, I immediately […]

Film Review “DeUsynlige” (Troubled Water) 2008

On a flight from New York to Helsinki, Finland, the people sitting close enough to see, and even possibly the staff, might have thought I was having a personal “episode” of some kind, because while watching this film, I not only teared up but I actually cried some minutes during one of the crucial scenes. […]

The Fortress Series by C.J. Cherryh

Although I love many books, there are few books I can read and reread and never, ever grow tired of them. This is one. It is unique, as exceptionally detailed and “alive” as any other Cherryh book, but it has a special place in my heart although I own each and everyone of her works […]

Write of a review of your own work? The Self-Critique

Here’s my review of “Katrdeshtr’s Redemption”, The Night Cat, Book One, written by me. Description: Ancient, brutal beauty, Katrdeshtr the Night Cat, Russian vampire and incorrigible mischief maker turns to old pleasures to relieve his eternal boredom, yet when his sometimes partner finds a new love, satisfaction takes on new meaning. This change of events […]