Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Hero Worship Author: Phoenix Emrys Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 224 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: In 1975 Douglas “King” Fisher is a teenage crusader who, with the help of his three friends, keeps the environs of Warden High bully-free. On the last day of school he is about to leave, thinking his job... Continue Reading →
Title: Hero Worship Author: Phoenix Emrys Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 224 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: In 1975 Douglas “King” Fisher is a teenage crusader who, with the help of his three friends, keeps the environs of Warden High bully-free. On the last day of school he is about to leave, thinking his job... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell the Bees I’m Sorry Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Physics Grad Student Marcus Fitzhughes agrees to leave New York City with his roommate, Andy, to visit Andy’s uncles in Vermont. Marcus wants to escape the city and his ex-boyfriend, Dan, who hasn’t taken their... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell the Bees I’m Sorry Author: Felicitas Ivey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 70 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Physics Grad Student Marcus Fitzhughes agrees to leave New York City with his roommate, Andy, to visit Andy’s uncles in Vermont. Marcus wants to escape the city and his ex-boyfriend, Dan, who hasn’t taken their... Continue Reading →
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with... Continue Reading →
“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.” – Loretta Young Title: All Kinds of Tied Down Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with... Continue Reading →
What is the purpose of fiction, specifically romantic fiction? Escapism? The big “happily ever after”? Finding the dream? The big awwwwww moment? For me, fiction is a journey outside myself that leaves me more enriched than it found me. Sometimes, that happens, sometimes not, but as Donald Maass reminds us in Writing the Breakout Novel,... Continue Reading →
What is the purpose of fiction, specifically romantic fiction? Escapism? The big “happily ever after”? Finding the dream? The big awwwwww moment? For me, fiction is a journey outside myself that leaves me more enriched than it found me. Sometimes, that happens, sometimes not, but as Donald Maass reminds us in Writing the Breakout Novel,... Continue Reading →
Blood & Thunder (Thirds Series, Bk #2) by Charlie Cochet Blurb: When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta, and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of... Continue Reading →
Blood & Thunder (Thirds Series, Bk #2) by Charlie Cochet Blurb: When a series of bombs go off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta, and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of... Continue Reading →
Title: Impractical Magic Author: M.J. O’Shea Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 206 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Physics teacher Fenton Keene is looking forward to a summer of doing nothing but hanging out with friends and maybe getting into a little trouble. With his best friend out of town, trouble seems like the best option... Continue Reading →
Title: Impractical Magic Author: M.J. O’Shea Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 206 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Physics teacher Fenton Keene is looking forward to a summer of doing nothing but hanging out with friends and maybe getting into a little trouble. With his best friend out of town, trouble seems like the best option... Continue Reading →
“He felt like he’d stepped into a storybook and found his happily ever after.” – J.P. Barnaby Title: A Heart for Robbie Author: J.P. Barnaby Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Celebrated Young Adult author Julian Holmes pits the heroic characters in his Black Heart series against all different kinds... Continue Reading →
“He felt like he’d stepped into a storybook and found his happily ever after.” – J.P. Barnaby Title: A Heart for Robbie Author: J.P. Barnaby Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Celebrated Young Adult author Julian Holmes pits the heroic characters in his Black Heart series against all different kinds... Continue Reading →
Title: Coming Home (Rock Bay: Book One) Author: M.J. O’Shea Narrator:: Tom Vilot Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours, 37 Minutes Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tallis Carrington ruled Rock Bay with his gang of jocks and an iron fist-until a scandal destroyed his family's name. Ten years later Tallis is dead broke, newly homeless,... Continue Reading →
Title: Coming Home (Rock Bay: Book One) Author: M.J. O’Shea Narrator:: Tom Vilot Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 Hours, 37 Minutes Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Tallis Carrington ruled Rock Bay with his gang of jocks and an iron fist-until a scandal destroyed his family's name. Ten years later Tallis is dead broke, newly homeless,... Continue Reading →
“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.” - Brian L. Weiss Title: Testament to Love (2nd Edition) Author: Ariel Tachna Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 80 Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Another mission to rescue yet another lost soul—Emmanuel isn’t sure how much more of the same old routine he can withstand. Get... Continue Reading →
“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.” - Brian L. Weiss Title: Testament to Love (2nd Edition) Author: Ariel Tachna Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 80 Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Another mission to rescue yet another lost soul—Emmanuel isn’t sure how much more of the same old routine he can withstand. Get... Continue Reading →
“Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I’ve got your back. And your front. And your sides. I’ve got all of you and I’m not letting go.” – Maya Banks Title: Hell & High Water (THIRDS: Book One) Author: Charlie Cochet Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 296 Pages Rating: 4.5... Continue Reading →
“Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I’ve got your back. And your front. And your sides. I’ve got all of you and I’m not letting go.” – Maya Banks Title: Hell & High Water (THIRDS: Book One) Author: Charlie Cochet Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 296 Pages Rating: 4.5... Continue Reading →
As we finish up our holiday weekend, it’s interesting to take a look back at one of our country’s biggest 4th of July celebrations, the Bicentennial in 1976. My novel EASY RYDER takes place over that weekend, back in a time when a lot of changes were happening in the world, but a lot slower... Continue Reading →
Title: Going Up! Author: Amy Lane Narrator:: Paul Woodson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 Hours, 39 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Every dreary day, Zach Driscoll takes the elevator from the penthouse apartment of his father's building to his coldly charmed life where being a union lawyer instead of a corporate lawyer is an... Continue Reading →
Title: Going Up! Author: Amy Lane Narrator:: Paul Woodson Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 2 Hours, 39 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Every dreary day, Zach Driscoll takes the elevator from the penthouse apartment of his father's building to his coldly charmed life where being a union lawyer instead of a corporate lawyer is an... Continue Reading →
Title: Country Strong Author: Caitlin Ricci Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 112 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: With only three months left on a lease-to-own agreement on a quarter horse Wyatt’s worked hard to own, a thunderstorm spooks General and he throws Wyatt, changing both their lives forever. Luckily, Kellen, a friend of the stable... Continue Reading →
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