Bella and Mandy and the Case of the Vanishing Snacks by Jeff Evans A giggle-filled rhyming mystery starring two lovable pup detectives on a snack-time case! When Bella wakes up to find her treat bowl mysteriously empty, there’s only one thing to do—grab her detective hat, call her best friend Mandy, and start sniffing for clues! With cookie crumbs, a trail of green slime, and a few silly suspects (we're looking at you, raccoon), this delightful picture book follows two furry sleuths as they … [Read more...] about FEATURED: Bella and Mandy and the Case of the Vanishing Snacks by Jeff Evans
That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco
That's How It Was by Hazel Pacheco Get ready to be transported to a simpler time and place, where the rolling fields of a farm hold untold possibilities. Sarah never imagined that a question to her grandmother would lead her on a quest. But when her grandma reveals the existence of a long-lost book written by her father about his adventures on the farm as a child, Sarah decides to find it. As she reads through the pages, she experiences his childhood through his own words and discovers the … [Read more...] about That’s How It Was by Hazel Pacheco
FEATURED BOOK: Nascent Witch by Melissa Bobe
Sela Glaser is hurrying to one of her many temp jobs when she nearly runs over a talking cat named Sable. He reveals that Sela is a soon-to-be witch and he’s going to be her familiar. For a twenty-seven-year-old failed artist with heaps of student debt and no career prospects, this is pretty ground-breaking news. As Sable prepares Sela for her Nascent Eve, a witch’s ritual initiation, she finds herself dreaming of witches she’s never met before. Then, Sela meets what very well might be the man … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Nascent Witch by Melissa Bobe
Interview with Author – Terence Victor Barnes
About Terence Victor Barnes: I really enjoyed my childhood, even school! I was given so much freedom to do as I wanted. I was never a child that liked to be stuck indoors, that's probably why I didn't do well academically. I would always be outside, playing football and tennis on local parks, fishing and unlike the normal cliché/fashionable thing to say, I wasn't rubbish at all sports, I was good!!! I was, and to some degree still am, a shy person. This introvert persona changed … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Terence Victor Barnes
Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons
Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse. Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession. Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually … [Read more...] about Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons
…Before You Leap by Les Lynam
A teenaged time-traveler from the 23rd Century visits 1995 to study high school life in the late 20th Century. Things become complicated when one of the students in the study is a great-great-great-great-great Grandparent. Targeted Age Group:: 16+ What Inspired You to Write Your Book? I've always been fascinated by time-travel, watching any TV, movie, or reading any book on the subject. I decided it was time to put my spin on the genre. … [Read more...] about …Before You Leap by Les Lynam
Interview with Author – Paul James
About Paul James: Paul James is an engineer with a life-long interest in books and writing. Originally from England, he's lived with his family near Toronto, Canada, for many years and where he walks, runs and takes wildlife photos whenever the weather will let him. In his writing, he likes to capture the humorous side of life even when sometimes the world doesn't seem to warrant it. What inspires you to write? Mainly to have the stories in my head go out to the world. And not … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Paul James
The KEYS to My Diary by Ann Omasta
Get ready to be enchanted by the personal diary of Fern Burns. (Yes, she knows her name is ridiculous. If you met her flighty mother, you would understand.) Fern is 42-years-old, lives in the beautiful, tropical Florida Keys and is not your typical Contemporary Romance heroine. In this journal, Fern shares the wacky, entertaining stories of her life for the year. From the love-hate relationship she develops with the book “The Secret” to having to deal with cursing parrots and a road filled … [Read more...] about The KEYS to My Diary by Ann Omasta
The Point of Escape: A 4-Hour Novel by J. F. Hussey
Like so many men, Jerrod Beams is a cog. A well-paid and fairly contented cog, to be sure, but a cog nonetheless. He lives the nightmare life of the blandly comfortable, where his quiet desperation is silent even to his own ears. Every day, he commutes from his nice house to his good job and knocks off another of the 14,000 workdays of a federal career. Two mindless hours on the road every day, unrelieved by nine mindless intervening hours in his cubicle. It isn’t painful, this life as an … [Read more...] about The Point of Escape: A 4-Hour Novel by J. F. Hussey
