Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
Book Awards, Editorial Reviews & More!
This impactual collection of stories highlights the perils women face from every corner of the globe. Woman is a small collection of short stories that are related, not by geography or blood, but through the shared sufferings and mistreatment of women the world over. The stories are dark and desperate, filled with the tragedies that […]
As in life, the popular kids are far outnumbered by the not so popular kids in The Out Crowd. Ready for a stellar senior year, Hallie takes the reigns of the cheerleading squad with all her usual gusto. With the big Homecoming Game kicking off the start of the school year, Hallie finds some unexpected
A flawlessly written and thoughtfully conceived story. Eric Dundston isn’t exactly down-on-his-luck, but it’s getting more and more difficult for him to pay the rent on time with his freelance reporting jobs. Things take a turn for Eric when he arrives on the scene as a story is unfolding. He takes a quote that includes
The story is a sci-fi lover’s dream! A guy that is over six-and-a-half feet tall, is rail thin, and wears shoes sized to fit a clown has trouble blending in. That is unfortunate for Marshall Grissom, who doesn’t want to stand out. He has no special skills and isn’t a genius, so it comes as
A high-stakes adventure, filled with intense battle scenes. Connor Mackay has elevated alien fiction with this action-packed space novel. In The Albatross: Contact, Albatross is an ultra high tech spacecraft that brings Arthur, a leader of the Lumenarians, to the Earth to ask for help. A brutal and persistent war has been taking place among
Cassie is a NICU nurse who really needs a vacation. The constant pressure of a high stress job has left her with persistent headaches and lingering fatigue, and a trip to Hawaii with her wonderful boyfriend sounds like the perfect escape for her troubles. While enjoying an excursion on their last day in paradise, Cassie
Deleted is a one-of-a-kind young adult novel that has just the right mix of excitement and heart. Imagine a world where everybody is attached to their electronic devices… oh wait, that is our current reality! But in Deleted, technology has advanced to a greater degree. A clever hacker, Nick, has found a way to not
The story may get you choked up at times, but is balanced with a heavy dose of humor and love. Tavi Richman is a spirited English Golden Retriever and this is a delightful peek into his diary. The ‘tail’ begins when he is still a tiny pup nestled with his furry mom and his rowdy
Quinn, an Irish American Traveler, has her whole future laid out for her. Following in the family business, she is expected to swindle and con, and to submit to an arranged marriage. Although she loves her Da, the life of a Traveler is not what Quinn wants for herself. When her life is completely upended,
If you’re looking for a delightful afternoon read, there’s hardly a better option than… Joshua: Breaking Free. Everyone’s favorite aliens, Josh and Mani, are in for more interplanetary excitement in Joshua: Breaking Free. After forming an uneasy alliance with a third Theosian living among humans on Earth, Josh and his friends come up with a
The Secret Resort Of Nostalgia is a perfectly conceived entry in the mystery genre. Mike Denning just got a new job. Although his new employer is less than forthcoming about the specifics, Mike’s job comes with terrific perks like an attractive female boss, generous accommodations, great wages, and a beautiful resort setting. The island location
Flora Figglesworth is an adventurous young girl with one ambitious goal: Flora wants to broadcast shadow puppets on the moon for the entire world to enjoy! It’s a tall order, so she will need a little help and a lot of ingenuity. Moon Puppets uses a rhythmic method to convey a lovely story for young
Joshua Stelling has crafted a futuristic ballad steeped in science fiction. The setting is a modern Shangri-La existing not too many decades in the future, where self-sufficient machines leave humans with little to worry about. Even better, gene manipulation has stabilized humans, rid them of disease, even banished inconsequential annoyances such as ugliness. In this
Highest praise goes to Laura Kline for writing such an enjoyable story! While a job as a barista may pay the bills, it certainly isn’t the career that Edie Donne had planned for herself. With a strained relationship with her parents and only a trio of goldfish for company, Edie begins to do some serious
Daniel Maunz is an exceptionally talented writer. When Dave Randall was younger he wanted to be in the FBI. He worked toward that goal by training for it physically and even pursuing the right education to put himself on the right track. A back injury changed those plans and a career in law became Dave’s
There is a battle happening on the high seas. In the blink of an eye, four men, once at war, suddenly find themselves dazed in a small boat heading toward a lighthouse. Confusion reigns and the keeper of the lighthouse, Virginia, has few answers for the sailors. When Virginia presents a map of the area,
Justice in a Bottle will make you laugh and make you cry, but it will ultimately leave you immensely satisfied. After a school newspaper piece goes awry, thirteen-year old Nita Simmons loses a little bit of her journalistic fire. With the goal of joining the Junior Journalists, Nita knows she’ll have to do better than
In My Attic will grab your interest from the first page and will keep you guessing till the last! For Myrtle Coldron, everything in life seems to be right on track. That is, until she finds out that her eccentric aunt has met an untimely death. Myrtle travels back to the village of Avebury to
Nothing is simply black or white in the high fantasy novel All or None. On one hand there is Royiora Daralkaen. Roy is a young boy filled with magic that he has no idea how to control. When two compassionate mages find Roy on the street, basically a starving orphan, they take him in to
A perfect coming of age novel for anybody who has ever felt alone or like they didn’t fit in. “Why are Female Earthlings so illogical?” So begins the hilarious novel Joshua: Life after Theos. Joshua and his sometimes girlfriend, Mani, defy orders from their home planet, Theos, and take a one-way trip to Earth. For
In the Realm of Ash and Sorrow is a breathtaking spiritual journey. Trudging her way to way work in a munitions factory in Japan, Kiyomi Oshiro watches a man fall from the sky. The war is underway and the man that falls to his death is Micah Lund, a bombardier with a heart full of
Zack McGregor does not enjoy the life of a typical youth. Rather than attend school with his teenaged peers, Zack has a high level job working directly under the Prime Minister of the Inside, which is supposed to be a refuge from the dangerous people living in the Outside. He doesn’t like his job, but
The Nexus Mirror is as thrilling as it is creative. What happens when a comic book writer discovers that his creations are in fact a reality? For Raiden Williams, an ordinary human, this scenario lands him in the middle of a rebellion. A young girl at the school where Raiden works has a special gift.
A perfect read for anybody looking for a fresh take on a zombie story. “Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do.” John Lennon’s utopian ideals resonate with Birdie and Eric, residents of the Homestead. There, people have spent a decade relearning how to live without electricity, a functional government, or interference from the
