“Kids were told to be scared of the bogey-man, when they should be afraid of the wolf in grandma’s clothes.” Ida senses wolves from across the street, stinking like rotting garbage and fuelling her uncontrollable anger and ‘supposed’ vigilante behaviour. So when her Grandfather relocates them to her dead Mother’s childhood home, in a sleepy, rural village, Ida figures it can’t be worse than London. Nothing ever happened out in the sticks. Turns out, she was wrong. Plunged into a dark and … [Read more...] about Who is Ida Thorne? by Gem Solity
Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Fantasies, dreams and reality swirl together in this time when humankind and our beautiful blue planet face terrible social and environmental crises. And just at this moment we see a significant movement to empower women. We are already seeing the benefits for families, communities and even nations. For this author it was a siren call to build a story where women were central to preserving the future. And so the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy was born to explore the possibilities. What if our Earth … [Read more...] about Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
About Roger B. Burt: I'm supposed to tell you about me. The problem is I'm still trying to figure out who I am even as I move into advanced years. I'll try. One essential part of my life has been to explore the "what if". I don't believe much of anything is to be taken for granted. Early in life I thought I would go into nuclear physics because all this strange stuff was being discovered. But I ended up getting a doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
About Lily Iona MacKenzie: About me? A Canadian by birth, a high school dropout, and a mother at 17, in my early years, I supported myself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company, as a long-distance operator for the former Alberta Government Telephones, and as a secretary (Bechtel Corp sponsored me into the States). I also was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman (I was the first woman to work … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett
The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett A time tunnel from the future, a castle seeking paranormal powers, an assignment in foreign parts. Three separate adventures take us further into the world of Princelings Fred and George. We meet Lord Mariusz finding both opportunity and trouble when he steps back in time; Humphrey, the refugee from the Lost City, seeking somewhere he can call home, and Victor, the ambitious young barkeeper, setting out on his business career, with two, … [Read more...] about The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett
Interview with Author – Isabella Ides
About Isabella Ides: I am a poet and playwright, recently turned novelist with the publication of my debut epic, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy. I love what happens in my creative process when I exchange a theater audience for a reader, how new worlds open up. The reader is my Alice. I lead her to the rabbit hole. Trip her. Then I run like an evasive rabbit in unexpected directions. The tricky part is how to keep the reader coming toward me as I’m moving quickly away. I wait … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Isabella Ides
The Catalain Book of Secrets by Jessica Lourey
"The Catalain Book of Secrets opens with a bang and keeps on firing off the unexpected. Think Charles deLint or Alice Hoffman...spell-binding." ―Midwest Book Review Faith Falls is a snug little Minnesota town constructed over a mystery, a place where the most impressive building is a gorgeous Queen Anne with turrets, cantilevered gables, and a wraparound porch. In a concealed room beneath the twisting stairs of the Queen Anne lies the Catalain Book of Secrets, the repository of the wisdom the … [Read more...] about The Catalain Book of Secrets by Jessica Lourey
Interview with Author – M. K. Sawyer
About M. K. Sawyer: I'm a YA/NA paranormal fantasy author from Salt Lake City, Utah. I have a Bachelor's degree in English creative writing from Weber State University, and I started writing my first novel in college. My debut novel, The Goblin's Daughter (the book I started way back in college) will be released on Amazon on June 30th, 2018! When I'm not writing, I love to make art, explore the mountains near my home, hula hoop, and snuggle with my cat, aka writing … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – M. K. Sawyer
Interview with Author – Brian Kindall
About Brian Kindall: Brian Kindall writes books – some for kids, some for grown-ups – brimming with the absurdity, beauty, and mystery of life. He crafts his stories to join the finest qualities of literature with large doses of adventure, peopling them with one-of-a-kind characters you won’t soon forget. He is a master at playing humor against pathos, and fairytales against reality, all for the sake of a good (and sometimes quirky) read. He loves mountain climbing and free-diving and his wife … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Brian Kindall
Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power by Roger B. Burt
Gaia's Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power by Roger B. Burt Earth is entering a frightening and challenging era. Through fiction, Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called-Women in Power explores the future as it might be. We cannot know where the empowerment of women may lead us. But the prospects of our future with their empowerment are intriguing to explore. And so our fictional adventure begins. Our earth mother, Gaia, foresaw a definitive epoch when the survival of humankind and her beautiful … [Read more...] about Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power by Roger B. Burt
