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Book Review: ‘The Blackwell Family Secret: The Guardians of Sin’ by Jonathan L. Ferrara
Ferrara is a talented writer, his prose smooth and his dialogue witty. The pace was excellent and the story kept moving forward with increasing tension until the very satisfying ending that left me hungry for book 2.
Read More »Interview with Mike Hartner, author of ‘I, James’
The closest thing I have to a schedule is to write after everyone else is sleeping.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Suspicion’ a Young Adult Fiction by Alexandra Monir
The secrets of Rockford manor are very delicate and Imogen is cautious about creating any further concerns. There is something very strange about the deaths of her parents and that of her cousin, something that someone is willing to kill to keep secret.
Read More »Interview with Greg Byrne, author of ‘Nine Planets’
I rarely get a chance to tell a famous person he’s wrong, but here we go. Mr Orwell, you’re wrong.
Read More »Interview with Madeline Wynn, Author of ‘Daughter of the Fallen’
To know that something I wrote holds meaning for someone else makes all of the suffering worth it.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Found, Near Water’ – A Suspenseful Mystery by Katherine Hayton
Whenever it comes to missing and exploited children there is always that painful feeling, for there is an innocence lost when a child disappears. The edginess of Found, Near Water begins right from the beginning and the missing are threaded together into a strange and eerie nightmare of questions and answers.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Stolen, Heart of Dread’ A YA Fantasy by Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston.
If you enjoy fantasy and danger, threaded with mystery and adventure you will love the characters in this tale. The second of a series it still reads well on its own, and you will find that Wes and his erstwhile friends are a mix of fear and courage. It is when they are all together the courage becomes fierce, and when one of their friends comes into trouble, you see what makes them who they are.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Forsaken: Ev and Ell’ by C. Ryan Bymaster
Bymaster has taken the fight between good and evil in an alternate direction. While there is that competition between his characters, after much time together they begin to interact in more direct ways with humor, with mocking and sometimes with friendship.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Fall on Your Knees
Herod recruited him personally, and he knew the rewards would be great if he brought back this Jewish child the three kings from the east were claiming would be the Messiah.
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