Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Blue Moon II: This Is Reality Author: A.E. Via Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 194 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pierce aka Strategic Intelligence Specialist, Backhander is back to flush out some of the DEA’s most notorious criminals, and he has one helluva’ team backing him up. The country’s most decorated Navy Seals…the Beastmasters. Pierce... Continue Reading →
Title: Krampusz Author: Lou Harper Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 31 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Freshly out of college, shy and introverted Brian Preston travels from LA to Budapest to teach English, ready to embrace life and spread his wings. It’s early December, and the air is heavy with the scent of roasting chestnuts.... Continue Reading →
Title: Time for Destiny Author: Michelle Rae Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 196 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: When Daniel Wilson, oldest of five children in a troubled family, joined the military, he expected to see combat in Iraq. But it comes as quite a shock when a Rupee minted a century and a half... Continue Reading →
Today, The Novel Approach welcomes Dreamspinner Press author Lissa Kasey, who also writes Young Adult fiction for Harmony Ink Press under the pen name Sam Kadence. By way of introducing Lissa's work to you, I asked her if she'd share an excerpt from her paranormal/fantasy Dominion Series. She's selected an excerpt from Book One, Inheritance,... Continue Reading →
Today, The Novel Approach welcomes Dreamspinner Press author Lissa Kasey, who also writes Young Adult fiction for Harmony Ink Press under the pen name Sam Kadence. By way of introducing Lissa's work to you, I asked her if she'd share an excerpt from her paranormal/fantasy Dominion Series. She's selected an excerpt from Book One, Inheritance,... Continue Reading →
How to Protect Women from Harassment at Gaming Events: Exclude Women? Hi, and welcome to the Player vs. Player blog tour! As I’ve established a few times, I’m a lifelong gamer, and a lifelong feminist. And a large part of my inspiration to write PvP derived from the confluence of those two interests, when the... Continue Reading →
Title: Cold Feet Author: Jay Northcote Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 107 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Best friends snowed in together. When the heat rises, will they get cold feet? Getting snowed in at a remote cottage in Wales with someone he’d fancied for ages isn’t exactly how Sam expected to spend Christmas. His feelings... Continue Reading →
Title: Player vs Player Author: Amelia C. Gormley Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back. Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color,... Continue Reading →
Title: Spinning Gold Author: C. Margery Kempe Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing Pages/Word Count: 23 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: How long would it be before the prince discovered Freawine couldn't really spin straw into gold-or that this "peasant girl" was really a boy? Review: C. Margery Kempe fractures the fairy tale classic “Rumpelstiltskin” in her short... Continue Reading →
Hello, and welcome to the mini blog tour for There Will Be Phlogiston (released: 8th December), a free novella set in the Prosperityverse. Many thanks to Lisa at The Novel Approach for hosting me today! To celebrate the release of Phlogiston, I’m also doing a little giveaway of any book from my backlist, which you... Continue Reading →
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
Why do fairy tales eternally return? We never seem to get tired of them. While most people know the Disney versions best, surprisingly few have read the Grimm versions upon which they were based, which can be very grim indeed. Those in turn were based upon oral retellings of stories by German and Alsatian women,... Continue Reading →
Title: Hummingbird House Author: Kenzie Cade Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 57 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: To honor his grandmother's final request, Trenton Appleton drops everything to visit the family’s ancestral home: Hummingbird House, where he experienced his first kiss and first heartbreak with Callum Eason. Eight years ago, confused by his attraction to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Virgin Miracle Author: Rob Rosen Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 22 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Two strangers on a plane, one heading to Paris, the other Barcelona, both trying to get to their families in time for the holidays. It’s Christmas Eve, and all they have in common is a connection through... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Title: A Chaotic Range Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Most of the time ranch hand David rescues stray cattle, but this time he and his fellow cowboys Wally and Haven save a stranded motorist. David is surprised to find his former high school classmate nearly frozen... Continue Reading →
Title: Wait for Me Author: T.S. Morgan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 21 Pages Rating: 2 Star Blurb: To fulfill his grandfather’s final request, TJ Barclay travels to Scotland over Christmas to bury his ashes next to his lost love, so they can be together at last. While there, he meets Jamie, the orphaned grandson... Continue Reading →
The most common question I get, as a writer, is “where do you get your ideas?” I suppose that many writers would say the same thing. In the case of my Christmas story Matches, the inspiration came from two places—the wonderful, yet often poignant, fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the plight of the... Continue Reading →
The Flower Courting Ritual When I wrote The Fifth Son, I wanted to include a courting ritual, but I had no idea what shape that would take. I wanted something different from our traditional exchange of rings. Something different meant Googling... for hours, because it's so easy to sink into the quick sand that's Google.... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
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