Review of Idriel’s Children

Idriel’s Children by Hayley Reese Chow is the second in a series of novels set in the fantasy world of Okarria. I don’t remember the events that led to picking up the first in the series, Odriel’s Heirs, but I was glad that I had. A richly visualized fantasy world, […]

Review of Secrets in the Mist

Secrets in the Mist, the first novel in the Skyworld series, is part adventure, part mystery, and all steampunk—a fascinating genre. Award-winning author Morgan L. Busse’s latest combines lighter-than-air transports with class inequalities and a strong undercurrent of Christianity into an unforgettable novel. Young Cass lives on the streets and […]

Review Fairest and the Frog

C. Rae D’Arc’s first entry in her Dreaming Princesses, Dreaming Beauty, focused entirely on Emer, a combination Sleeping Beauty and one of the Twelve Dancing Princesses characters. With her newfound ability to control plants, Emer has recently awakened in her kingdom Somnus and found it in ruins. The awakened princess […]

Review of Elatsoe

The winner of a Time Magazine award, Elatsoe (Ellie) Bride is a descendent of the Lipan tribe of the United States. But this isn’t the United States you know and love. This is a United States with magic, with ghosts, and with vampires all living together. When Ellie’s cousin Trevor […]

The Three Doorways

A pivotal point in my novel “Deliver Us” involves the characters traveling to other worlds. Three doorways are opened up to allow the characters to travel to a gothic horror, a proper-manners romance, and a dystopian scifi world. Illustrator Dan Johnson has captured this moment perfectly. I’m proud to present […]

Deliver Us – Delivered

Today is the launch of my fourth book and third novel-length book, Deliver Us. You can order it here I have two pages of acknowledgements and all contributed greatly to this work of fiction. I remember coming up with the idea while writing my first novel. And I also remember […]

The Shadow Oaks Series

My Shadow Oaks series are five YA character-driven novels of adventure in a mysterious fictional town in Indiana. When sixteen-year-old Brian Rees visits the hidden neighborhood of his deceased mother, a town that forbids modern technology, he underestimates just what lies in store. Each novel is a self-contained story detailing […]

The Legend of the Storm Sneezer Review

Kristiana Sfirlea’s debut novel The Stormwatch Diaries: Legend of the Storm Sneezer is a middle grade fantasy adventure of angels and legends; epic wars and budding friendships; and umbrellas and tutus. Rose Skylar is a young angel who will grow up to the prominent position of Dame Commander of Pandrum, […]