Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Instead of a tropical vacation in Hawaii with his parents, Brian Morris decides to remain stateside and house-sit for them and their cat, Mr. Doodles. He even takes some time off work to fully unwind in their well-appointed mountain home. About a week into his repose, an unusual disturbance disrupts the peaceful calm. Driven by […]
As the colors of spring, summer and fall drain away, a witch’s curse brings a harsh winter upon the land. Within the woods live families of trolls, including the newest family, the Tooths. As the Tooths family endures their first winter, they also discover a blight that comes with the cold colorless season, the Ogre
A surprisingly touching, and at times tender, tale of a man haunted by his choices. A successful novelist by any account, Charlie Forte is putting the finishing touches on his magnum opus. Only this story will transcend the written word. This is the story Charlie. His conquests, his insecurities, his missed opportunities, his successes. “No
Perry The Fairy And Her Tail is the first in an enchanting series of books geared toward children aged 4 to 8. The Tell Me A Story, Grandma books follow the adventures of the ever curious Sapphire and the consummately wise and patient Grandma Glee. Sapphire asks Grandma Glee why stories are called tales. The
A honeyed tale about a beautiful girl with a beautiful soul, who truly finds her voice. Abigaia Grena may not speak out loud, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t clever. Under the care of her Aunt and Uncle since the loss of her mother and father years earlier, Abi has proved resourceful with her small
Damian Lystad is a young king who never imagined inheriting the throne. A string of events leaves the tender hearted Damian in charge of keeping order and enforcing the rules of law. One of the most important duties of the king is to keep the kingdom safe from the once unstoppable magic of the dragons
Jennie Dorny has hit her stride with Hybrids, Volume Three: Fear, a treat for fantasy lovers. Epic space opera Hybrids, Volume Three: Fear brings us back to the bustling Earth Metropolis. Jack mourns his missing brawan, Farren, who has been held on Gambling Nova instead of dead like he had been told months earlier. Jack
Heartbreaker proves its namesake in this highly emotional, disturbing and bewitching book. We are all shaped by our experiences. For Addie, these experiences have shaped her into a hero for her people. Addie returns to her home and finds that time has not been kind to Decim. Monsters have ravaged the land and her grandmother
Ash is having a bit of an identity crisis. And not the kind that causes one to question their long-held beliefs or quit their job. Ash is struggling to figure out who he actually is. What he does know for sure is that trouble is in store for the planet and that New York will
Christopher D. Ochs channels Stephen King in this unexpected and entirely unique urban fantasy novel. My Friend Jackson is a wild and wonderful tale that straddles the line between powerful contemporary fiction and offbeat urban fantasy. The story centers around Jasmine Price and her difficult transition to a new high school. Having come from the
A bold mystical fantasy novel that demands to be read in one sitting. Sharlene Carolynn ‘Lynnie’ Diamond Russel is a vibrant young woman trapped in Havana, Arkansas. Determined to escape the confines of oppressive small town life, but with no real plans to get away, Lynnie decides to really live it up on her twentieth
A well-balanced and creative fantasy novel. Macy Steward helps her parents run a Safekeeper Center out of their mountaintop home. It’s a weighty job considering that she’s also a high-school kid trying to make it through adolescence unscathed. An unusual family with many surprising skills, the Stewards provide the highly exceptional service of facilitating opportunities
Wildly descriptive and impossibly imaginative. Young James Lamport has just graduated from Eton and has a promising career in banking lined up by his father. While most in that position would savor the moment of achievement, James merely feels stifled by his conventional, though privileged, life. To him, both his education and his childhood home
Politics and religion dance with fantasy and adventure in The Synchronized Six. In The Synchronized Six, the world is powered from the vitae reservoirs, yet nobody fully understands the power. There are Conductors who harness the power of the vitae, manipulating the energy through weapon-like instrument. The world is enjoying a fragile peace, not long
Brilliantly conceived and perfectly executed fantasy story. In a land ruled by fear and steeped in ceremony and long-held beliefs, young Galen struggles to find out where and how he fits in. To his father, the boy is meant to carry on with family tradition and become a fisherman. For Galen, his wild imagination and
More a novella than a full-length novel, The Plot Against Heaven is an unconventional love story about a man named Paul Desuthe. Paul lodges a complaint to Heaven about an error that took his wife. Kate died tragically in an accident and Paul demands to speak to God about the injustice. Paul makes his way
A worthy tribute to a classic book. With an interest in Geography, young Cygnus gets a sensible job working for an airline, hoping to see the world. Unexpectedly, he finds himself alone, tethered to buoyant airplane seats floating somewhere in the Pacific Ocean after his plane crashes. Salvation comes in a most unexpected form—a group
A fresh choice for an eerie fantasy novel that parallels the moral choices we face. Heartmender by V. Romas Burton is a fantasy novel with a unique premise and lofty moral overtones. Adelaide Tye lives in the land of Barracks where the human heart passes for currency. Most hearts are small and gray, but those
Tales from an Odd Mind may be small of words but is big in complexity and depth. Enigmatic author Nom D. Plume has bestowed upon readers a bizarre amalgamation of miscellaneous parts and pieces belonging to a vast array of diverse tales. There are beginnings, middles, and dramatic ends. The thread that really ties all
Scientific advancements in the hands of humans will always be used for good as well as for profit. In The Perfection of Fish, governments desperate to curb violence turn to Testrial, a testosterone reducing supplement. As people’s testosterone levels reduce, so do their violent tendencies. Suppressing a misogynistic culture, women rise to power in government
A suspenseful fantasy novel that will leave you breathless. Life is about choices. For young Sinisa Rizyr, she makes a choice that will forever change her life’s course. Sinisa is transferred to Veltuur, the realm of the dead, where she enters into a cheerless servitude as a Reaper. Despite the notoriously distasteful vocation, Sinisa takes
Daisy, Bold & Beautiful is a delightful story about an inspiring young girl It must be some kind of cruel trick, right? First day in a new school after moving into a cramped new place on April Fool’s Day? What middle-schooler wouldn’t be anxious? For DJ, the anxiety over her first day at Kirkland Heights
A fast-paced tale that whimsically hearkens a bygone era. Witches and werewolves and wizards, oh my! Dusk is the beginning of the epic Runemaster saga penned by Rey Clark. On the eve of adulthood, Mira Hultgren is met with a horrific tragedy. Her mother is dying in the middle of the ransacked apartment they share
UpSpark is a new inspirational fiction novel geared toward young adults or anyone looking to develop a sunnier outlook. Enya, 18, gets some terrible, but not entirely unexpected news; she inherited her dad’s Huntington’s. The diagnosis is not an immediate death sentence, but more like a slow miserable demise that steals your independence and dignity
