Imagine you are named as the sole beneficiary in a loved one’s will! At the reading of this will, you are bequeathed a family heirloom worth a fortune, but this heirloom is not directly identified. In the interest of complete privacy, the will contains cryptic instructions, for you alone, which point to the heirloom’s identity and whereabouts. What’s more, the will declares that you are already privy to this knowledge — but you’re not! You haven’t a clue and you’ve never heard mention nor seen … [Read more...] about The Strange World of Victor Gilpin by Jeff Broley
Interview with Author – Alison McBain
About Alison McBain: Alison McBain is a Pushcart Prize-nominated author with over two hundred short stories, poems, and articles published worldwide. Her books have been honored with gold in the Literary Classics International Book Awards, as well as being finalists in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards and IAN Book of the Year. Her forthcoming novel, The New Empire, won gold in the When Words Count Pitch Week contest and will be published in October 2022. When not writing, Ms. McBain is the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Alison McBain
Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh
“She possesses an uncommon union of symmetry, brilliancy, and grace. One is apt to expect that an impudent address will naturally attend an impudent mind – but her countenance is absolutely sweet. I am sorry it is so, for what is this but deceit?“ (from Jane Austen’s Lady Susan) Sixteen-year-old Susan Smithson – pretty but poor, clever but capricious – has just been expelled from a school for young ladies in London. At the mansion of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she attracts … [Read more...] about Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel by Alice McVeigh
Interview with Author – Alma Alexander
About Alma Alexander: Alma Alexander's life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has lived and worked in seven countries on four continents (and in cyberspace!), has climbed mountains, dived in coral reefs, flown small planes, swum with dolphins, touched two-thousand-year-old tiles in a gate out of Babylon. She is a novelist, anthologist and short story writer who currently shares her life between the … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Alma Alexander
WINGS OF THE WIND by Randall Ritter
Murderous rage, bigotry and rape; topics not commonly discussed around the supper table of Pastor Sam and Martha Belle Jobe, with their brood of five, in the segregated, Deep South of Louisiana of the 1960's. However, events centered around their middle child, 12-year-old, Rance, will cascade all those issues and then some, upon their family. Over the course of 4 turbulent years, Rance will meet tragedy, treachery, trials and true-love, head-on, as he seeks to discover truths about himself, his … [Read more...] about WINGS OF THE WIND by Randall Ritter
Interview with Author – Dan Lawton
About Dan Lawton: Dan Lawton is an award-winning literary suspense, mystery, and thriller author from New Hampshire. He is an active member of the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Organization. His fifth novel, The Green House--a Bronze Medalist in the Adult Fiction E-Book category for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards), a finalist in the Fiction category for the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a finalist in the Mystery category for the 2020 Book … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Dan Lawton
Interview with Author – Lynne Fisher
About Lynne Fisher: Lynne was born in Durham City in 1962. After moving to the Scottish Borders in 1998 she rekindled her love of art, becoming an artist, tutor and illustrator, before going on to study with the Open University as a mature student. Here, she gained a first class honours degree in the Humanities, with Literature and Art History, before going on to do a diploma in creative writing. Literary fiction is her writing style. On Turtle Beach is her debut novel, inspired by a … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lynne Fisher
The Real Happiness by Sameem ul Islam
So in this world where faith is a myth, love means sex and God is lost, a person with entirely different assumptions was forced to into a mismanaged crowd to live for four years. Within the bunch of beings, he found people with almost similar journey. Faith was his journey and every journey has companions, like passion, believes, doubts, regrets, demons and god. But this time he found some other mates too. A lost faith in relationships (other mate) A lost faith in God (hazel) A lost faith in … [Read more...] about The Real Happiness by Sameem ul Islam
Interview with Author – DJ Swykert
About DJ Swykert: DJ Swykert is a fiction writer and former 911 operator and accident investigator. His work has appeared in The Tampa Review, Detroit News, Underground Book Reviews, Big Al and Pals, Crime Book Junkie, Coe Review, Monarch Review, the Newer York, Lunch Ticket, Gravel, Harpoon Review, Zodiac Review, Sand Canyon Review, Barbaric Yawp and Bull. His books include Children of the Enemy, Maggie Elizabeth Harrington, Alpha Wolves, Sweat Street, Three-fingered Jack Davis, The Pool Boy’s … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – DJ Swykert
Interview with Author – J.M. Denholme
About J.M. Denholme: I grew up in the Midwest region of the U.S of A., but my DRD4-7R prompted me to go out into the world in my twenties and I’ve never looked back. My travels have taken me far and wide, and I can attest to the fact that “the grass is only as green as you make it.” I don’t believe in traveling the same path twice, or that muscle car production ceased circa 1972. My first love was a ’70 Chevelle SS 454, and I’m always on the lookout for an Ella. I have several manuscripts, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – J.M. Denholme
Interview with Author – Anthony Caplan
About Anthony Caplan: Anthony Caplan is an independent writer, teacher and homesteader in northern New England. He has worked at various times as a shrimp fisherman, environmental activist, journalist, taxi-driver, builder, window-washer, and telemarketer, (the last for only a month, but one week he did win a four tape set of the greatest hits of George Jones for selling the most copies of Time-Life’s The Loggers.) Currently, Caplan is working on restoring a 150-year-old farmstead where he … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Anthony Caplan
Featured PermaFree eBook: Henrietta: Book #1 in the House of Donato Series by Patricia M Jackson
About the Book Is anyone ever really free of their past? Is it truly possible to start over fresh? Etta was certainly going to try. After her turbulent undergraduate years, she was getting a fresh start in Marquette and finishing her dream. She’d pour everything she had into a healthy mind, body and spirit and work to become the best writer she could. What a dream spot to do it, along the shores of Lake Superior. Tom was forging a new vision for his life after a career-ending injury as … [Read more...] about Featured PermaFree eBook: Henrietta: Book #1 in the House of Donato Series by Patricia M Jackson
