Featuring an interview with Martin Dukes, author of YA fantasy A Moment in Time Alex Trueman has just turned fifteen. He's a typical teenager, a bit spotty, a bit nerdy and he's not exactly popular at school, not being one of the 'cool' kids. His tendency to day-dream doesn't exactly help him to be cool. … Continue reading Interview+Giveaway: A Moment in Time by Martin Dukes
Excerpt+Giveaway: Can’t Think Straight by Isabel Scheck
Featuring Can't Think Straight by Isabel Scheck, a book of LGTBQ poetry A collection of 35 poems in which a poet thinks about women a little too much... (Sapphic poetry) Excerpt from Can't Think Straight Poem no. 2: Love Is… I am in love with love. Love is blonde hair and green eyes. Love is … Continue reading Excerpt+Giveaway: Can’t Think Straight by Isabel Scheck
Excerpt+Giveaway: Polish Dragon P. I. by Steve Zimcosky
Featurning Polish Dragon P. I. (The Good Book) by Steve Zimcosky, a mystery A bible mysteriously disappears from a Russian businessman’s home and it is said to have a secret hidden inside that would cause embarrassment to the Russian Orthodox Church. The Polish Dragon P. I. is called in, along with his new partner, to … Continue reading Excerpt+Giveaway: Polish Dragon P. I. by Steve Zimcosky
Review+Giveaway: Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi
Review of Middle grade fantasy Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi There's nothing magical about wizard school . . . at least, not for Cara Moone. Most wizard kids spend their days practicing spells and wielding wands, but Cara? She’s on the fast track to becoming a MOP (a.k.a. Magical Occurrence Purger). You see, when … Continue reading Review+Giveaway: Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi
Review+Giveaway: Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs
My review of cozy mystery Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs It’s the week before Christmas as tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton, cater a fancy Victorian Christmas party for Miss Drucilla Heyward, one of Charleston’s wealthy doyennes. But smack dab in the middle of the Fa-la-la’s, Miss Drucilla is murdered, her … Continue reading Review+Giveaway: Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs
Guest Post+Giveaway: Ashes of Aldyr by Russell Archey
Guest Post from Russell Archey, author of dark fantasy Ashes of Aldyr The world of Alda is broken, destroyed by an event the survivors call "The Rupture." The aldyrs, magical trees connected to the soul of the world and once grew in breathtaking groves, are dead. Elf-kind, who shared a close bond with these trees, … Continue reading Guest Post+Giveaway: Ashes of Aldyr by Russell Archey
Interview+Giveaway: Yesterday’s Gone by Kelly Pawlik
Interview with Kelly Pawlik, author of YA scifi/horror Yesterday's Gone Book one of the Olympic Vista Chronicles novella series follows Darius and Adelaide as they explore a house rumoured to be haunted. What they find is so much worse.An eager new kid, a deadpan music-lover, a fast-talking troublemaker, an anxious bookworm and a girl torn between … Continue reading Interview+Giveaway: Yesterday’s Gone by Kelly Pawlik
Excerpt+Giveaway: Summer Storms by Thomas Grant Bruso
Featuring YA LGTB romance Summer Storms by Thomas Grant Bruso Sixteen-year-old Earl Layman is going stir-crazy. Secluded with the flu inside the four walls of his home and only the escape of his video games to help him through, Earl is struggling to keep his sanity. That is until he notices the boy next door, … Continue reading Excerpt+Giveaway: Summer Storms by Thomas Grant Bruso
Excerpt+Giveaway: A Dead End Job by Justin Alcala
Featuring urban fantasy A Dead End Job by Justin Alcala Fans of Terry Pratchett and Shane Kuhn's THE INTERN'S HANDBOOK will love this noir supernatural thriller. Death needs a vacation. Badly. But there's a catch: There are people who cheat the system, always falling through the cracks and not dying like they're supposed to. Who's … Continue reading Excerpt+Giveaway: A Dead End Job by Justin Alcala
Review: Honour’s Rest by Judith Crow
“So, it’s – what – like magic?” No, according to Pen’s uncle, the Rite is not magic at all. But, if it’s not magic, then how could Pen push the school bully into a pond while he was really studying alone in the library? When Pen’s family realise he has the Rite, he is sent to … Continue reading Review: Honour’s Rest by Judith Crow