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Abigail Manning writes fairytale and nursery rhyme retellings set in many realms: the Emerald Realm, the Ruby Realm, etc. In this story, she weaves a tale out of not only fairy tales but Halloween, including monster archetypes. Welcome to The Shadow Realm. The full title is The Shadow Realm: A […]
Potion is the first in a set of planned novels by Dorlana Vann in the Witchy Fairy Tale series. The narrative was assembled from a Kindle Vella offering into a novel for consumers who binge watch an entire series rather than week by week (raises hand). Melrose is a loner […]
The third entry in the Proxima series, Proxima: War for Peace, picks up eighteen years later than the end of the second novel. In the first two novels, humans discovered the evil Othauls when landing on a distant planet, Hyera (or Proxima b), inhabited by a race called Proximinians. The […]
I have five Kingdom queens who rule equally in my series of Kingdom Fantasy (portraits below). All pay tribute to their namesake and honor their title as fairytale queens. Yet even these queens have shortcomings. The residents of Kingdom, though ruled by all five, see the queens as we see […]
Havok publishes an anthology two times a year with a variety of genres (fantasy, science fiction, thriller, comedy, mystery) and theme (vice and virtue). Anthology series are hard to review unless a system is in place. For Vice and Virtue, I returned to my system where I rate each offering […]
If you’ve come across this page, a warning. I plan on revealing secrets about my novel, Will Be Done. Be ye forewarned that spoilers a-plenty are ahead. If you’d rather not know some fun facts about the novel, stop reading now. The cover of Will Be Done depicts various elements […]
The Emerald Realm Series continues with Bearly Free by Abigail Manning. A minor character in the first novel of the series, Aurelia Lockly takes center stage in this novel about a young woman whose parents arrange her marriage without informing her of her upcoming nuptials until the day she meets […]
In Haven, author Ashley Nicole establishes a future that could well have been our own. The Mors Certa Virus, or MCV20, has infected a large segment of the population of Earth. This disease is so dangerous that those without the virus, called the Pure, have erected walls around cities, keeping […]
The Phantom Menace. Halloween 4. Alien: Resurrection. Jaws 4: The Revenge. Why do we make fourths in a series? As the titles above prove, they rarely measure up to the first, or the first three. Is the fourth in a series cursed? Money is behind a lot of fourths in […]
A husband demands his wife uses a special meat to cook their dinners, but what animal does it come from? A couple go on an illegal night safari to view unique creatures. A bizarre candy shop offers sweet-yet-morbid-themed delicacies to the general public…just don’t visit it after dark. A woman […]