About Pat Clark: Pat Clark is a teacher who lives in Wisconsin with her husband, three children, small dog, and large cat. She began teaching in the '80s, which is evident if you read DEATH STALKS THE PRINCIPAL. Pat used to have horses, and she misses having them around every single day. Nobody loves you like your horse, and nobody can put you in your place like a horse can. What inspires you to write? I've always liked reading mysteries, and one day a story just popped into my head. What … [Read more...]
Bargain Book: Forbidden Acts by Skylar Nightingale
Life seems perfect for twenty-three-year-old Lucinda Pierce. She lands her dream job as a teacher, purchases a new home, and in walks a beautiful guy who sets her heart aflame, Fabian Mills. Unfortunately, he’s her seventeen-year-old student, who turns eighteen by the middle of the school year. She feels an inexplicable connection when looking into his eyes, which tears her up inside. In attempts to repel the spark, she avoids eye contact with him. However, his presence alone causes her to … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Lindsay Detwiler
About Lindsay Detwiler: I am a high school English teacher, an author, and a fan of anything pink and/or glittery. I am the English teacher cliché ; I love cats, reading, Shakespeare, and Poe. Publishing a novel has always been one of the top items on my “bucket list.” I started writing Voice of Innocence while still in college. Recently deciding that I should follow the advice I give to my students, I realized it was time to share my writing with others. Voice of Innocence was published in … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Jim Snowden
About Jim Snowden: Jim Snowden was born in Santa Monica, CA in 1971. As a kid he moved around a lot, spending time in New Jersey, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and small towns in Utah and Washington State before graduating high school. He started out as a physics major at Lawrence University, but quickly discovered that his passions lay with the arts, so he switched to drama. He sold his first short story to Pulphouse magazine in 1992. He's since written two novels, Dismantle the Sun and … [Read more...]
The Heart Teaches Best by M.J. Schiller
He’s the cop. Cooper Sullivan is the cop in charge of investigating a murder outside of a Los Angeles night club. The famous romance author, Sydney Essex, has been found strangled in the parking lot. When the young officer returns to the scene of the crime the night after the murder, he gets involved in a fight in order to protect a woman, who he realizes afterward, is the victim’s sister. Soon he finds himself torn by his attraction to the irresistible blond teacher, and his need to maintain a … [Read more...]
Upon A Midnight Clear by M.J. Schiller
Dylan Fisher is an EMT and part-time Santa Claus at a mall in Denver, Colorado. He has logged plenty of time with children sitting on his lap asking for anything from the latest electronic gadget to a week’s worth of homework passes, but he never heard anyone ask for what little Delaney Kelly asked for on one snowy night in December. A dad! When Dylan’s eyes search the crowd for Delaney’s mother and land on Keira Kelly, the paramedic almost finds himself in need of a little CPR. She is … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Alexander Davidson @_AlexanderJohn
Author Bio: I am an author, secondary educator, and certified reading specialist with a BA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) and an MAT in Literacy Education from Madonna University (Livonia, MI). I have been a member of the National Council of Teachers of English since 2011 and have presented at the National Conference for Peer Tutoring in Writing (2009) and the Michigan Reading Association Annual Conference (2014). While teaching reading and writing to middle school and high … [Read more...]
Bluestone Homecoming by MJ Fredrick @MJFredrick
War correspondent Leo Ericson returns to his hometown of Bluestone Lake, Minnesota, when his parents notify him his young son is having trouble fitting in at school. Leo doesn’t know how to be a single parent since the death of his wife, and he certainly has no desire to return to Bluestone. But he needs a place for his son, a place where he’ll be with family, while Leo does his job. He’ll stay long enough to get Max settled, then go back to work. School counselor Trinity Madison watches Leo … [Read more...]
Death Dangles a Participle by E.E. Kennedy @eekmystery
Winter can be harsh in the North Country. When the reckless teenaged Rousseau brothers, J.T. and Dustin, attempt to cross a frozen Lake Champlain in their ancient VW, what they find plunges them into hot water, not cold. Their guilt in a brutal murder is obvious to everyone except English teacher Amelia Prentice Dickensen, freshly returned from her honeymoon with new husband Gil, who is determined to find the clue that will prove them innocent: a single bullet. Despite … [Read more...]
