About Michael Kenneth Smith: MICHAEL KENNETH SMITH is a former mechanical engineer and retired business owner who has always had a knack for telling stories. An avid Civil War buff and meticulous researcher, he is the author of several works of historical fiction, including The Thin Gray Line, book three of a Civil War trilogy. What inspires you to write? The concept that somebody can write a story that captivates and/or educates a reader is inspiring. In addition, as an author, reducing to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michael Kenneth Smith
Interview with Author – Michael K. Smith
About Michael K. Smith: MICHAEL K. SMITH is the award-winning author of The Postwoman, a novel based on the true story of World War II resistance fighter Andrée De Jongh, as well as two previous Civil War novels, Scarred and Home Again. Before finding his calling as historiographer, he trained as a mechanical engineer and built a highly successful auto parts business, which he sold in 2000. Upon retiring, he took up fishing, golfing, cooking, and playing bridge. He also took on editing a local … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Michael K. Smith
Wicked Love: A Weeping Willow Novel by Sandra Madera
Now that Nalin has returned to the Realm of Magic, the Elves hope that the end of the war is near, and the Ljósálfar can finally defeat the Dökkálfar after driving them underground. However, it becomes clear that Nalin is not himself, and he knows it. He can’t remember a large portion of his life, and his parents have been killed. Everyone around him is just as oblivious to the time that has been robbed from them. Everyone except for the one that calls himself Avery. Nalin senses dark magic … [Read more...] about Wicked Love: A Weeping Willow Novel by Sandra Madera
Jo Joe by Sally Wiener Grotta
As a child, Judith Ormand was the only Black — and the only Jew — in a small insular Pennsylvania mountain village where she was raised by her white Christian grandparents. Now, she must reluctantly break her vow to never return to the town she learned to hate. During her one week visit, she buries and mourns her beloved grandmother, is forced to deal with the white boy who cruelly broke her heart, and is menaced by an old enemy. But with her traumatic discovery of a long buried secret, Judith … [Read more...] about Jo Joe by Sally Wiener Grotta
