The Legend of the Storm Sneezer: The Stormwatch Diaries #1 is the debut novel of Kristiana Sfirlea. Kristiana took pity on me, a struggling writer trying to navigate Twitter, and allowed me to read an early draft of this story. I thought her her pitch sounded “interesting.” I was wrong—her […]
The Independent wrote an article on October 18, 2018 entitled “Five Reasons To Stop Reading Fairytales to your children Now!” which is not only misleading but dangerous. I’m going to deconstruct their entire article with logic and then give you eight rebuttals in support of reading these stories to your […]
Brina Williamson’s The Pale Rose is a cozy mystery set in the 1940s in the spirit of the Thin Man movie series. One can almost visualize Myrna Loy playing housewife Amelia Humble, wife of detective Charles E. Humble. Amelia and Charles have the witty repartee that was so delightfully represented […]
I’ve read that in the times of Dickens, many books were written as serials and later published together as a book. One of the most famous of these is A Christmas Carol with each chapter entitled as a stave. I’m saddened that this type of publishing has gone the way […]
Marion Mavis’ The Supremacy Witch kicks off a series of fantasy novels in which witches travel around a fantasy world of non-witches called Nomystics. Light and dark witches exist in covens with the light witches ruling the people in the beginning. The witches are organized in covens and our main […]
Lisa Caskey’s second novel, The Mutated, is the second of The Farmed Series trilogy. A dystopian sci-fi novel set after a massive war called The Conflict has destroyed most of earth, the heroine Winnifred (Winnie) Kimball finds herself fleeing The Council in San Francisco on her way to a safe […]
The Relic Spell, (subtitled: Book 1 of The Phyrian War Chronicles) a novel by Jimena Novaro, is an urban fantasy which combines the high fantasy mysticism of magic casting with the horror adventure of monster-hunting. The start of series, Relic also works as a standalone novel. Set in the fictional […]
Meatloaf and Mistletoe, a novel set in the fictional town of Bells Pass, Michigan, is a romantic novel of lifelong friends who, try as they might to avoid it, are starting to have feelings for each other. The story is told from the perspective of both Susannah Ivy Lancombe and […]
Here’s a behind-the-scenes blog on my second novel, On Earth, As It Is. If you haven’t read it yet, be forewarned that this posting assumes you did. In other words, major spoilers ahead. People often ask me about my names. I’ve been fascinated with how much of a role names […]
Megan Tennant’s (@_Megan_Tennant on Twitter) Indiecember is one of the best ideas floating out on the Internet for bibliophiles near and far. I found her Bingo Board-inspired game last year and entered my book Kingdom Come. I decided to join in the reading frenzy and despite December being one of […]