About Ashleigh Bello: Who am I? I'm a passionate explorer and unrealistic dreamer at best. I was born in Atlanta to the very last of the 80's and grew up in Missouri. What I've learned in my young years is that the real world and the beautiful people in it are magical through and through. I have been labeled a world traveler, an adventurer, and a risk taker, but I'm really just curious... about everything. Currently, I'm a New York City resident, and I couldn't feel more lost (in a good way of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Ashleigh Bello
When She Smiled by Ritoban Chakrabarti
Mrityunjoy Roy is a fifteen year old Bengali who has spent the last ten years of his life growing up in Shimla, India. While his family is completely academically oriented, he wants something more. Finally he meets Akanksha in school, who turns his world upside down with her gorgeous looks and mind boggling smile. As fate would have it, she joins his tuition, and thus begins the torrid year of puppy love, romance, heartbreak, tragedy, and self discovery. Set among the scenic Shivalik hills of … [Read more...] about When She Smiled by Ritoban Chakrabarti
Interview with Author – Kelly St Clare
About Kelly St Clare: When Kelly St Clare is not reading or writing, she is dreaming up a story in her head; the cause of many headaches for her friends and family, who have struggled to encourage her participation in normal activities - such as everyday life. Books have always been magical and mysterious to her. One day she decided to start unravelling this mystery and began writing. Her aim: To write stories she would want to read. A New Zealander in origin, Kelly currently resides in … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kelly St Clare
Healing The Dead by D. F. Bailey
“You start reading Healing the Dead with a gasp and never get a proper chance to exhale.” — Globe and Mail A child is shot in a game of Mob When David captures the accidental shooting death of his best friend on film, the Sykes family is torn apart by guilt, isolation and a terrible inability to love. Who to blame? Who can save them? Their world is thrown into chaos Children of ambitious parents, Jayne, Rose and David Sykes struggle to assert their individual identities in a … [Read more...] about Healing The Dead by D. F. Bailey
The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago by John Rachel
Poor Billy Green! When he was just turning four, his father tried to throw him in the trash. He was a smart kid but that just seemed to create enemies. His mom did everything to protect him. But this was Detroit, armpit of the wasteland! Catholic school didn’t help much, except the time he got his first kiss from an atheist nun. Home life was dismal. Was his father capable of anything but drinking beer and farting? And what was with that neighbor who made puppets and tried to molest Billy? … [Read more...] about The Man Who Loved Too Much – Book 1: Archipelago by John Rachel
Interview with Author – Robin Murarka
About Robin Murarka: Robin Murarka was born in Canada in 1980 and now resides in Sydney, Australia. After a successful career as a self-employed entrepreneur, Robin dedicated himself to his passion of storytelling in 2009. Robin's interest in history, psychology and science heavily influences his writing style. His storytelling is elegantly simple, allowing complex and uncompromisingly realistic characters and themes to be universally enjoyed. 'Akin' is Robin's debut novel, published and … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Robin Murarka
The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta
Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, Mary Doria Russell and Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Winter Boy" explores important political and social issues within a dynamic, character-driven otherworld, wrapped up in masterful storytelling. A cloistered society of widows, the Alleshi, has forged peace by mentoring young men who will one day become leaders of the land, using time-honored methods that include dialog, reason, and sexual intimacy. However, unknown to all but a hidden few, the peace is fracturing … [Read more...] about The Winter Boy by Sally Wiener Grotta
True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough
"Someday, she'll be my girl." At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote. They know this girl is special, and each boy secretly vows to win her heart. As these four unconventional teenagers grow up together on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late 1970s, they are bound to each other by relationships as volatile as they are complex. Which boy will end up breaking Jeana's … [Read more...] about True Blue Forever by Joyce Scarbrough
Interview with Author – Rick Trout
About Rick Trout: Rick Trout was born and raised in New York City next to Central Park. He spent many an hour roaming its circuitous paths, unaware of the secrets it contained. After living and working in a number of places around the world (from India to the Netherlands), he now teaches and writes in the hills of West Virginia but still lives in Central Park vicariously through his many colorful characters. What inspires you to write? I want to entertain in the best possible way yet, at … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Rick Trout
Interview with Author – Dale Furse
About Dale Furse: Dale has enjoyed many creative pursuits including playing guitar and singing in a band, acting and directing in theatre, writing novels, short stories, plays, songs and poems. Although her reading tastes are varied, her writing tends to be the highly imaginative, interweaving of Science Fiction and Fantasy where she forges tales that also take on an Action Adventure feel. After over thirty years of writing, she still loves her journeys to unknown places, meeting unheard-of … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Dale Furse
Interview with Author – J. B. Cantwell
About J. B. Cantwell: When she was twelve, J. B. Cantwell flew across the field, bareback on the crazy mare who loved to run. She pushed her faster, faster, not caring if she might fall to the hard ground below. The joy came from the challenge of staying on, the pride of knowing that she had the skill and the heart and the courage to grip hard and ride. Life is like that crazy mare. You never know if she'll step right or left, or stay quietly still and give you a moment to breathe. Everyone … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J. B. Cantwell
Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead by Scott R. Larson
In the summer of 1971, Dallas Green and Lonnie McKay made a spur-of-the-moment decision to leave their hot, dusty farming town and head south to Mexico in Lonnie's 1965 Chevy. They told each other they were going down there to find a friend who had disappeared a few years before, but the truth was that what they were really looking for was an escape from work, the draft, the war, and the prospect of having to finally grow up. Scott R. Larson has drawn on his own memories of growing up in the San … [Read more...] about Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead by Scott R. Larson
