Feature: Must Reads of the Summer 2019
HOME REMEDIES: STORIES By Xuan Juliana Wang The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth. A generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king, and life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, and, […]
Feature: My New Beginning
by D.L. Graser Writing a second book about Moustache and Macintosh a memory from my seventh grade art class stirred within me recalling when my art teacher gave us a simple, but difficult assignment (if that makes any sense). We had to draw a picture using letters that make up the objects which we were […]
Review: Original Syn by Beth Kander
“You’ll be surprised to see how quickly the world can change…” Tons of plot twists, strong female characters, diverse characters, messed up family dynamics, secrets, and lies. Without any spoilers, let’s dive in: 50 years before the story begins, there’s something called The Singularity, where the most powerful people merged their bodies with machines and […]
Review: The Fruithandler Time Engine by Allen R. Brady
When it comes to humor, this book has it, and not just from Fruithandler and his crew. Brady added clever ways to incorporate pop culture references: Hollaback Girl, Chewbaca, Hakuna Matata, Kwanza Chalupa, and others. I think I snorted a few times. What kept me reading was the characters. I kept wanting to know if […]
Review: Feast of Fates: A Novel of Geadhain (Four Feasts till Darkness Book 1) by Christian A. Brown
Scheming immortal kings and antediluvian horrors meet their match in a handmaiden. About His Book: Morigan lives a quiet life as the handmaiden to a fatherly old sorcerer named Thackery. But when she crosses paths with Caenith, a not wholly mortal man, her world changes forever. Their meeting sparks long buried magical powers deep within […]
Review: World-Mart by Leigh M. Lane
A New Dystopian novel where the world has become incorporated. A chilling vision of a future that is all too believable- class segregation, energy and food shortages, antibiotic resistance and a government controlling all choices and actions of society. World-Mart is a compelling new dystopian series where a family struggles to survive in a corporate-controlled […]
Feature: Christian Adrian Brown, Workout to Word Count
Workout to Word Count In my last piece, I discussed how fitness became a transformative force in my life and my career as an author, and this isn’t an isolated experience. Charles Dickens was famous for his long constitutionals; they helped to clear his mind and prepare himself for the state necessary for creative thought. […]
Review: The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
When Memories Become Currency – How Much are you Willing to Give? by Megan Lord This Momma was overdue for some serious reading, and WOW, this book delivered! The perfect vacation binge read. I started this book a day or two before we left on our trip, and got addicted quickly. I binge read the […]
Interview: Conscious Step
Conscious Step was created to bring more awareness to the problems faced by the world today and the organizations fighting these problems. Each pair of these socks show your commitment to education for all and provide one book to children in Asia through the work of Room to Read. Room to Read seeks to transform […]
Review: Meet Me in the Strange by Leander Watts
“It was like she’d lost everything. Her name, her voice, any idea of who she was or what she looked like, who the people were around her. The only thing that mattered was right there in front of her on the stage,” observes Davi, the main character of Leander Watt’s Meet Me in the Strange, […]