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
Carrie: An American Classic by David Culp
Carrie Larsen left a small town in Ohio a week after graduating college in 1963 to explore the counterculture in the Great American West. Four years later, tired, she came back to her parents’ house. Perhaps for a week? Perhaps for years? Carrie became the town Veterinarian on Main Street. She balances her enthusiasm for sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll with a search for social justice, compassion, and a love for playing J.S. Bach on her mother’s concert grand piano. Carrie loves her parents, … [Read more...] about Carrie: An American Classic by David Culp
Interview with Author – Libby Sternberg
About Libby Sternberg: LIBBY STERNBERG is an Edgar Award finalist, a Launchpad Prose Top 50 finalist, and a BookLife quarter finalist twice, including once for DAISY. She writes historical fiction, contemporary women’s fiction, young adult mysteries, and more, releasing her humorous works under the name Libby Malin, and her romantic comedy Fire Me was bought for film. Her novel Sloane Hall, a retelling of Jane Eyre, was one of only 14 books highlighted in the Huffington Post on the 200th … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Libby Sternberg
Featured Free Book: Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation by Alice McVeigh
Featured Free Book: Book is free from 07/18/2022 until 07/22/2022 If the dates are the same, book is free one day only. About the Book “McVeigh’s plotting and prose are pitch-perfect” (Publishers Weekly) Harriet is an intriguing and original 'take' on Jane Austen's immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Prize quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh. Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as … [Read more...] about Featured Free Book: Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation by Alice McVeigh
Letting the House Go by Robert Crooke
Letting the House Go—a story of love, memory and acceptance—is an intense and relevant new work of literary fiction. Richard Morris learns that his former wife, Irene, has entered a Long Island hospice and wishes to see him before she dies. Surprisingly, she has named him her executor. For two weeks he embraces his duties, visits Irene’s bedside, and seeks reconciliation with their angry son, Henry. As Irene’s death approaches, family and friends gather to support her. Richard feels drawn ever … [Read more...] about Letting the House Go by Robert Crooke
Amnesia of June Bugs by Jackson Bliss
AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS redefines what a novel can be. Hurricane Sandy has just smashed into the Eastern Seaboard, trapping four passengers on the C train: a Chinese American graffiti artist grieving his father’s death, a mixed-race graphic designer struggling to become a mom, a Moroccan French translator escaping his heartache in Paris, and an Indian American traveler leaving Chicago to regain control of her life. Amnesia of June Bugs is an ambitious, infatuated, and furious book about the time we … [Read more...] about Amnesia of June Bugs by Jackson Bliss
Ten Threads by Richard R Becker
Ten Threads by Richard R Becker Ten Threads is a brisk 125-page, 10-story companion to the bestselling, award-winning collection 50 States. Published as a Kindle exclusive, it can be read as a stand-alone anthology or as a continuation of stories found in 50 States. Specifically, this collection features stories set in Idaho, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Utah, Pennsylvania, California, Vermont, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky. • An Idaho farmer who earns a second chance at life finds that the past … [Read more...] about Ten Threads by Richard R Becker
Whelm by Aimee Meheden-Friesen
There was nothing wrong with her life; it's just that there was nothing right with it either. Now that Audra Filigree has left her privileged little world behind, there's no going back. With no plan or sense of self-preservation, random encounters guide her attempts to reclaim her life as she tries to stand up to her tyrant of a father and fight the anxiety of the unknown in her internal battle against the unrealised depression that has been consuming her for so long. … [Read more...] about Whelm by Aimee Meheden-Friesen
FEATURED BOOK: Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Imagine you are 18 and fall in love with a handsome, wealthy young man. Your romantic dreams have come true - except his family hates you! Montreal, 1951. Rebecca Wiseman, 18, a bright college student, lives with her working-class parents. At a local dance, she meets a handsome young man but has little hope of seeing him again. When Sol Gottesman asks her on a date, her joy mingles with disbelief when she learns he is the son of a wealthy businessman. Sol takes her in his family's chauffeured … [Read more...] about FEATURED BOOK: Echo from Mount Royal by Dave Riese
Interview with Author – Jori Aguilar Sams
About Jori Aguilar Sams: Hello! I'm Jori. I'm the face behind Writeious Books. Over the past twenty years, I’ve lived in five countries. This has given me palette full of color, and offered me plenty of material to write about. I've been a freelance journalist for years, too, where I've penned over 1500 pieces for Yahoo alone. I've even received honors for my work. In university, I studied medicine but it left me feeling empty-handed, so instead of reading medical … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Jori Aguilar Sams
A Span of Moments by Robert Beech
A Span of Moments by Robert Beech A profound story of coming home to an old Florida island and struggling to save its way of life and native beauty: Midsummer 1994,a disillusioned Jake Crawford quits a prominent scientific career and retreats to the island home of his youth, longing for its old Florida way of life. Within hours of his arrival, he becomes entangled in a deadly series of events involving a billionaire real estate developer and a reclusive bridgetender with a long-hidden past. … [Read more...] about A Span of Moments by Robert Beech
50 States by Richard R. Becker
50 States by Richard R. Becker An Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area. These and 46 more shorts make up an anthology that will surprise … [Read more...] about 50 States by Richard R. Becker
