Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Brigham: As the author, I’ve spent the last few months with Stephen and Russ. I thought rather than having me interview them, I’d have Allison Hickman, one of my exceptional pre-readers, ask them some questions. We’re in the living room of the apartment Russ and Stephen share. It’s an open, airy loft in downtown Atlanta.... Continue Reading →
Title: General Misconduct (Conduct Unbecoming: Book Two) Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 219 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: A chance encounter, a chance at love…and one heartbreaking choice. Ensign Aiden Lange is taking a hike—and it’s not for the pleasure of seeing Okinawa’s Hiji Falls. It’s in the hope that claiming he... Continue Reading →
Title: General Misconduct (Conduct Unbecoming: Book Two) Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 219 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: A chance encounter, a chance at love…and one heartbreaking choice. Ensign Aiden Lange is taking a hike—and it’s not for the pleasure of seeing Okinawa’s Hiji Falls. It’s in the hope that claiming he... Continue Reading →
Title: Hidden Identity Author: Adam Carpenter Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 188 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Jimmy McSwain is hired to find missing heir Harris Rothschild, he finds that identities can be altered and lives can be changed--or taken with the simple pull of the trigger. Jimmy McSwain is a New York City... Continue Reading →
Title: Hidden Identity Author: Adam Carpenter Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 188 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Jimmy McSwain is hired to find missing heir Harris Rothschild, he finds that identities can be altered and lives can be changed--or taken with the simple pull of the trigger. Jimmy McSwain is a New York City... Continue Reading →
If you were going to make a ‘mix-tape’ of your life’s soundtrack, I wonder what would feature. Hold me now, 100% Pure Love, I Touch Myself… These are just some of the songs that form the backdrop of Doing Valentine, the story of two DJs falling inexorably, inevitably in love, one New Year’s Eve. Setting... Continue Reading →
Title: Men in Uniform Author: Anthology Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: There's just something about a man in uniform, no matter what kind of uniform it happens to be. In "Best Laid Plans" by M. Durango, Craig gets a blast from the past when his new delivery man turns... Continue Reading →
Title: Men in Uniform Author: Anthology Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: There's just something about a man in uniform, no matter what kind of uniform it happens to be. In "Best Laid Plans" by M. Durango, Craig gets a blast from the past when his new delivery man turns... Continue Reading →
“That sound—you feel it before you hear it, a kind of low vibration in your bones.” – Harper Fox Title: Once Upon a Haunted Moor (Tyack and Frayne: Book One) Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 80 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in... Continue Reading →
“That sound—you feel it before you hear it, a kind of low vibration in your bones.” – Harper Fox Title: Once Upon a Haunted Moor (Tyack and Frayne: Book One) Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 80 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in... 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: 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 →
Hello all. This is Lynn, and I'm coming to you as a featured blogger for The Coastal Magic Convention. This PNR/UF con is happening in February in Daytona Beach. My featured author for this month is Vaughn R. Demont. I had the pleasure of reading his novel House of Stone a while ago and absolutely... Continue Reading →
Hello all. This is Lynn, and I'm coming to you as a featured blogger for The Coastal Magic Convention. This PNR/UF con is happening in February in Daytona Beach. My featured author for this month is Vaughn R. Demont. I had the pleasure of reading his novel House of Stone a while ago and absolutely... 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 →
Title: Anywhere Tequila Flows (Rags to Riches #4) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Two men convinced they’ll never find love discover it in the least likely of places. Sidney Richardson has watched his two best friends fall in love, leaving him to wonder if he’ll ever find the... Continue Reading →
Title: Anywhere Tequila Flows (Rags to Riches #4) Author: T.A. Chase Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Two men convinced they’ll never find love discover it in the least likely of places. Sidney Richardson has watched his two best friends fall in love, leaving him to wonder if he’ll ever find the... 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 →
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