I chose this title for my blog last May 2009. I was sitting up late at night, trying to wrap my mind around my husband’s palliative care diagnosis. Just looking back at the original journal entry, I felt on the edge of a precipice.

Well, taking it one day at a time, almost eight months have passed.

I’ve written a new novel, LA Blues, edited and re-issued another one, Hostage of Lies, all while caregiving, and always feeling on edge.

Here lately, because of the economy, and the uncertain publishing industry, so many of the writers I talk to, as an agent, and, as an editor, are on the edge.

But, you know what? In writing, this can be a good thing.

Have you ever read a book or seen a movie that was described as “edgy?” Aren’t those books or movies generally life-changing experiences?

When I work as a writing coach, I urge writers to push the envelope. Take risks. Shock your readers. Shake it up. Upset our reader’s world and make changes in the world with your writing. Edgy is defined in the dictionary as  ”daringly innovative; on the cutting edge.”

With that said, I am placing a call for good, edgy  book reviews that can be posted on this blog. I will be posting some over the next week.

For an example of edgy, a reader sent me this email.
“If you want happy endings, Hostage of Lies is not the book for you. If you are looking for typical formulaic fiction, this is not a book for you. It is an edgy, dramatic  look at family secrets and lies, and how they become generational curses. I love it!”

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