Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, then the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, then a famous artist in New York, and finally America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill, in Paris. This novel about her life is an … [Read more...] about Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Interview with Author – Thomas Duffy
About Thomas Duffy: Thomas Duffy is a New York based writer who has authored several fiction novels, including 2016's 9/11 themed To Never Know. He finds stories of day-to-day challenges fascinating and intriguing. Duffy has written about different topics such as working in retail, romance, and existentialism. The Separation is his sixth novel and his first foray into science fiction. Duffy also has an interest in film criticism and has interviewed several celebrities from the silver … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Thomas Duffy
Interview with Author – Michael De Sapio
About Michael De Sapio: Michael De Sapio is a writer and musician from Alexandria, Virginia. His articles on music, religion, and cultural history have been featured in such publications as Fanfare, Touchstone, and The Twilight Zone Museum. "The Incredible Life of Joey Coletta" is his first screenplay. What inspires you to write? The compulsion to express an aesthetic or moral idea. Tell us about your writing process. My writing process is a bit unconventional. I rarely if … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michael De Sapio
Mendacium – Book 1: Project Morpheus by C.L. Aguilar
In a world where fathers are not only absent, but often ridiculed, it is refreshing to find a man who will stand up, despite his failures, to protect and save his children. Such is the case with John Randall, a broken man trying to put the pieces of his shattered family back together. With John’s marriage torn apart by his own self-indulgence, his teenage son, Matthew, is left to find refuge in the online world of fantasy - his mind becoming so entangled in the duality between what is real and … [Read more...] about Mendacium – Book 1: Project Morpheus by C.L. Aguilar
The Bellringer by William Timothy Murray
The Bellringer by William Timothy Murray For centuries, the Great Bell was silent... It remained undisturbed, nearly forgotten by history, hidden away in the ruins of an abandoned fortress. The enchantments within its iron slumbered, its secrets protected by silence. Until someone discovered how to ring the Bell, other secrets would remain safe. One day, while running an errand, a young store clerk took a wrong turn, then another, until he found himself deep within the old fortress … [Read more...] about The Bellringer by William Timothy Murray
Monarchs and Mendicants by Dan Groat
Monarchs and Mendicants by Dan Groat Beware of a man who has nothing to lose. A Navy Seal returns to St. Louis from Afghanistan suffering from PTSD and loses everything. Homeless, he wants only to find work and be left alone, but he is drawn into a group of street people who are being hunted by a serial killer and used by the local mob boss. To save himself, he must fight his way from tragedy to triumph and lead his “friends” on a journey from despair to hope. You will be reminded why no … [Read more...] about Monarchs and Mendicants by Dan Groat
Genna’s Fight by Sheldon D. Newton
She Will Have To Fight To Survive!!!!! After enduring years of so much abuse, beatings, scorn and neglect that began from her child-hood and followed her into adult-hood, pushing her to the verge of suicide on more than one occasion, can Genna re-discover her true self, rise above her horrid past and regain all that she has lost, including her son? Grab your copy and find out in GENNA'S FIGHT. (A Novel) Targeted Age Group:: Adults and Teens What Inspired You to Write Your Book? I wanted … [Read more...] about Genna’s Fight by Sheldon D. Newton
Interview with Author – Bailey Ordiway
About Bailey Ordiway: Dropping out of high school at 16 and getting his GED and attending college at 17, Bailey has always had an avid interest in writing from a young age, writing many stories for papers and school magazines. He grew up mainly around Michigan, eventually settling in the Upper Peninsula. He began writing his first novel "Blackout" right after dropping out of high school and continued writing it while attending college. It was released at the end of his first semester, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Bailey Ordiway
Another Tribe by Simon Rumney
Another Tribe by Simon Rumney Julii, a beautiful, insecure and victimized Tennessee Indian is caught up in the white man's world after saving the life of a Confederate captain wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Overcoming great disadvantage, cruel prejudice and bitter persecution, Julii harnesses her intrinsic genius to become the Confederate States’ most aggressive blockade-runner. Using conspiracy, manipulation and bribery to punish those who wronged her, Julii sets off a chain of events … [Read more...] about Another Tribe by Simon Rumney
A Rebel Among Us by J.D.R. Hawkins
After David Summers enlists with the Confederate cavalry, his delusion of chivalry is soon crushed when he witnesses the horrors of battle. Shot by a Union picket, he winds up at a stranger’s farm. Four girls compassionately nurse him back to health. David learns his comrades have deserted him in Pennsylvania following the Battle of Gettysburg, but his dilemma becomes much worse. He falls in love with the older sister, Anna, who entices him with a proposition. To his dismay, he must make a … [Read more...] about A Rebel Among Us by J.D.R. Hawkins
Seventeen Shades of Love by Olga Toprover
This book is a collection of romantic, sentimental short stories. "SEVENTEEN SHADES OF LOVE": After her divorce Julia was able to take everything under control and to move on. She became successful and happy. There is no place for romance in her life. But is it possible to live without love? "HOW TO BECOME A STAR": People often ask Maddy how to become a star. She doesn’t know, she can only tell the story of her own. It begins with her happy marriage... "A HAPPY ENDING IN A BIG CITY": She … [Read more...] about Seventeen Shades of Love by Olga Toprover
Love and Void by Olga Toprover
Dasha is a woman who stops aging at 25 because of a curse hanging over her family. This is just a side effect of witchcraft, the aim of which was to force Dasha and all women in her family to suffer from love and from never being loved in return. "They will live with that unrequited love, which would be a torture. It will turn into their pain, obsession and sickness. Time will not heal them. Minutes and years would stretch to lengthen their sadness. There will no escape from love. Exhausted by … [Read more...] about Love and Void by Olga Toprover
