Matthew Barnes is a troubled kid from Chicago who hardly ever thinks about the consequences of his actions. When he became part of the cool squad during his freshman year, he started getting into trouble. After his religious, yet abusive father left him and his family, Matt started to lose his sense of self. Now a high school senior, Matt is being forced by his mother to get a job. While struggling to find one, he stumbles upon an ad begging for help. But when the job opportunity comes knocking … [Read more...] about Pretension by Leslie Flemons
Interview with Author – Diane Gallagher
About Diane Gallagher: Diane Gallagher is a novelist and Druid priest. She is the author of three novels: A Curse of Magick, Greenwich List, and the Bastard of Saint Genevra. She has long roots stretching into her Celtic past, although she splits her life between two islands—Vancouver Island on the west coast of Canada, and Sicily off the toe of Italy’s boot. She writes young adult romance based on ancient Celtic myths of the powerful women of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. She currently teaches … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Diane Gallagher
Dark Latitude by Art Barry
Lexi, a feisty millennial, finds her plans for a vacation after college shattered by the death of a friend and an echo from 1945. Everything changes when she becomes the target of an assailant and her conscience wrestles with her dead friend’s activities during WWII. She transforms from victim to sleuth with the help of a protective FBI agent, and a savvy history professor with ties to the intelligence community. Lexi’s discovery of a mysterious airplane leads her and an FBI task force to groups … [Read more...] about Dark Latitude by Art Barry
Interview with Author – Sam Muller
About Sam Muller: Sam Muller loves dogs and books. Ideal? No, for some of her dogs also love her books. Page edges and spines of old hardbacks for preference – a mystery she hopes to resolve, someday. The dogs in her stories never chew on books. Spooky, the daemon-dog in her first book, helps his human partner Allii uncover the killer of her beloved stepmother. Spooky also gives the novel its tagline: How dangerous it is to live among humans, even for humans. Sam believes words can help or … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Sam Muller
Interview with Author – Jeff Beamish
About Jeff Beamish: Jeff Beamish is a fiction writer, former journalist and author of the new award-winning novel, No, You’re Crazy. His first novel, Sneaker Wave, was shortlisted in 2014 for a national fiction award in Canada. He has had short fiction published in four literary journals, The Nonconformist Magazine, Consequence Forum, Litbreak Magazine and Free Radicals Magazine. His second novel, No, You’re Crazy, is the 2023 Beach Book Festival general fiction runner-up. What inspires you … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jeff Beamish
The Grass Sweeper God by Doug Howery
Precocious, effeminate, gender-confused, fragile, articulate and unforgettable 16-year-old Smiley Hanlon, observes the world with a dry detachment. A wise sense of what is right, wrong, and just plain mean; a voice, albeit, self-indulgent that says more about gender-based biasness and violence than anyone. The book centers around a close-knit family of drinking, fighting, womanizing with mental and physical cruelty to women forming a main theme, juxtaposed beside nation-wide societal change: … [Read more...] about The Grass Sweeper God by Doug Howery
Night Home by Rose Titus
When college student Muriel Aubrey inherits an old house in a small town, she imagines that moving into the rural community will be deathly dull. But the old house once belonged to her eccentric granduncle, a professor said to be researching something mysterious before his untimely death. Then Muriel finds the research notes that had been hidden away in the old Victorian; and she discovers what the professor was researching: vampires. It isn’t long before Muriel meets residents of the small town … [Read more...] about Night Home by Rose Titus
VOYAGE OF AN INDEPENDENT THINKER by Leila Naylor, MS
Many individuals feel pressure in living up to others' expectations of them. Voyage of an Independent Thinker aims to strikeupcandid conversations about practical life, social complexities, and how to independently navigate them. Author Leila Naylor wrote this book to inspire adolescents to become more independent thinkers. Voyage of an Independent Thinker addresses: • What skillsets are important for young adults to obtain to become more self-reliant? • What advice would help people resolve … [Read more...] about VOYAGE OF AN INDEPENDENT THINKER by Leila Naylor, MS
Interview with Author – Neil Herndon
About Neil Herndon: From an early age, Neil's passion was telling stories and putting word to page. He won the Illinois Young Authors competition several times, attending both state and county conferences. He was published in a young authors' poetry book before he entered his teens. At both Butler University and Columbia College-Hollywood, his focus was writing. After attending those school, he had work published at USAToday online, contributed for Forbes Online, was the subject of an … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Neil Herndon
Interview with Author – Michele Kwasniewski
About Michele Kwasniewski: After graduating from Loyola Marymount University with a BA in Technical Theater, Michele Kwasniewski spent over fifteen years in film and television production. Starting out as a film set assistant on movies such as INDEPENDENCE DAY, FACE/OFF, PRIMAL FEAR, and EVITA. Michele eventually switched to the small screen and worked her way up the ladder to production manager, gaining experience on television shows such as BIG BROTHER, ADOPTION STORIES, EXTRA YARDAGE and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michele Kwasniewski
Interview with Author – Michael D. Young
About Michael D. Young: Michael is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Western Governors University with degrees in German Teaching, Music, Educational Leadership and Instructional Design. Though he grew up traveling the world with his military father, he now lives in Utah with his wife, Jen, and their three children, where he creates online curriculum for BYU. He enjoys acting in community theater, playing and writing music and spending time with his family. He played for several years … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michael D. Young
Interview with Author – Dan O’Mahony
About Dan O'Mahony: I've self-published four books so far, and as of this interview will be releasing two more. I write mostly middle-grade fantasy, but one the books I'll soon be releasing, Death's Fair Maiden, will be my first attempt at young adult, not to mention my first fantasy-romance. I grew up in California, mostly in So Cal. Currently, I live in Phoenix, Arizona but have plans on moving back to Cali' in the near future. Oh, and I am the proud father of two … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Dan O’Mahony