The Year of the Monster explores American culture as commodity and comorbidity. From black holes and animal extinctions to death row trauma porn and the redacted scripts of Hollywood abuses: these sixteen stories subvert traditional notions of justice, challenge vulnerable characters to survive in transgressive spaces. Mixing traditional prose with screenplay and script-hybrid, and certainly not without hope, The Year of the Monster encourages close examination of how American media and our … [Read more...] about The Year of the Monster by Tara Stillions Whitehead
Interview with Author – Tara Stillions Whitehead
About Tara Stillions Whitehead: Tara Stillions Whitehead is a writer and filmmaker from Southern California working and teaching in Pennsylvania. Her writing has appeared in several dozen journals and magazines, including Hobart, trampset, Fairy Tale Review, Cream City Review, and The Rupture. Her story, "Seven Bodied I Didn't Leave Behind" was included in Wigleaf's Top 50 in 2021 and her story, "Flashover," was included in Wigleaf's Top 50 in 2022. Her … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Tara Stillions Whitehead
The Alice ’65 by Kyle Michel Sullivan
Adam Verlain loves his careful, cloistered world of rare and antiquarian books. But when an American celebrity offers her very valuable 1865 copy of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to his university, he has to be forced to travel from London to Los Angeles to close the deal. Then after a disastrous flight, he is taken aback when the actress refuses to give up the novel unless he escorts her to her latest film premier for reasons that seem...well, rather odd. Subjected to a radical Hollywood … [Read more...] about The Alice ’65 by Kyle Michel Sullivan
Dreams by Rebecca Forster
Dreams by Rebecca Forster At the peak of her Hollywood career, actress Sass Brandt has everything she could want until a haunting novel about an Irishwoman torn between husband and secret lover touches her heart. She vows to find the man behind the story and bring it to the screen. But Shay Collier is holed up in a cabin in the Alaska wilderness trying to forget the book he wrote and the betrayal that shattered his heart. When beautiful, reckless Sass appears she arouses desires in him that … [Read more...] about Dreams by Rebecca Forster
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
Interview with Author – Barbara Eppich Struna
About Barbara Eppich Struna: Internationally best-selling author Barbara Eppich Struna is fascinated by history and writes a blog about the unique facts and myths of Cape Cod. Her published books are The Old Cape House and The Old Cape Teapot; her third novel in the Old Cape Series is The Old Cape Hollywood Secret. Besides being a storyteller at heart, she is currently president of Cape Cod Writers Center, a Member in Letters of the National League of American Pen Women, International Thriller … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Barbara Eppich Struna
Chase The Rabbit: Gretch Bayonne Action Adventure Series Book #1 by Steven M. Thomas
From the barrooms of New York City, to the movie studios of Hollywood, Steven M. Thomas has crafted a tale of intrigue that captures the early 1930’s as freelance writer Gretch “Bay” Bayonne attempts to unravel the mystery of why a dedicated family man would abandon his life for no apparent reason. Along the way he encounters movies stars, Nazis, and newspaper tycoons, and barters a banana for a mysterious gold key stolen by a runaway monkey on a walkway atop the magnificent dirigible Graf … [Read more...] about Chase The Rabbit: Gretch Bayonne Action Adventure Series Book #1 by Steven M. Thomas
Interview with Author – Steven M. Thomas
About Steven M. Thomas: Steven M. Thomas attended Webster College and graduated from Lindenwood College with a BA in Journalism. He played drums in various local bands and was in the thick of things during the punk rock/new wave explosion of the late seventies. Steven wrote articles for various publications as well as songs and lyrics. He is the author of the acclaimed autobiography "I WAS A DRUMMER SHE WAS A DANCER" and the follow up called "Drummer Dancer-The Lyrics." His latest book is … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Steven M. Thomas
All That Glitters by Michael Murphy
In Michael Murphy’s rollicking new Jake & Laura mystery, the hard-boiled writer and the aspiring movie star head for sun-drenched Los Angeles during Hollywood’s Golden Age, where a cold-blooded murderer lurks behind the scenes. Targeted Age Group:: 20+ What Inspired You to Write Your Book? This book and series was inspired by The Thin Man movies staring William Powell and Myrna Loy. In addition to a hard boiled mystery, I loved the wit, sophistication and romance of the husband and … [Read more...] about All That Glitters by Michael Murphy
Interview with Author – Maggie Marr
About Maggie Marr: Maggie Marr is an attorney and the author of H-O-T contemporary romance and women's fiction. Her books contain alpha bad-boy heroes and feisty heroines. She got her start in Hollywood pushing the mail cart at ICM where she became a motion picture literary agent. She is the author of the best-selling Hollywood Girls Club Series, the Glamour Series, the Eligible Billionaires Series and the Powder Springs Series. Maggie loves all things 'pop' culture. She has been featured on … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Maggie Marr
My Own Private Hollywood by Amelia Allen
My Own Private Hollywood is a YA romantic comedy about the unorthodox adventures of a young woman named Mona Benjamin: Mona is your average girl—until she meets the runaway celebrity heartthrob Dmitri Dante. Now she can be not-so-average, the girlfriend of the most beautiful man on earth, and live happily ever after, right? Well, there's just one thing: She hates him. Targeted Age Group:: Teens What Inspired You to Write Your Book? I moved to Fort Collins, CO at the tender age of 15, … [Read more...] about My Own Private Hollywood by Amelia Allen
The Rental by M.J. Moore
Cole Jensen is a hack who makes good money writing bad books about women - until another hack comes along and usurps him, and he finds himself bankrupt and homeless. He is taken in and given a job by Constance Morrell, an icily beautiful woman who feels she owes him a favour. Now home is a pool house at the bottom of the garden of a mansion in the Hollywood hills. There are many perks to his new living situation, but there are also drawbacks, not the least of which is being expected to … [Read more...] about The Rental by M.J. Moore
