The Bees, the Bag, and the Artist by K.C. Morcom is an engaging story about the life-changing impact of kindness and perseverance. Beautiful color paintings on every page illustrate the recent chapter in the lives of two artists. Ron, an older man, after 5 years...

The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes to Spark Creativity by Nancy Hillis delves into helping artists through the common frustrations and road blocks that hinder their inner creativity. It is a map that guides the struggling, the uninspired, and the lost with unique exercises, quotes, video...

The Artist's Drawing Book: Learn How to Draw, Sketch, Shade, and More with Easy Lessons and Practice Pages by Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher is filled with numerous art lessons for beginner artists. A self-motivated individual will likely find this an appealing way to learn...

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero, the master magician, intones: “We are of such stuff as dreams are made of.” This could be a summation of The Storm Behind Me: A Book of Poems and Pictures by Rory Piontkowski and Sheri Wiseman. It is a compilation...

You Are the Artist of Your Life: 50 Keys to Happiness, Self-Acceptance & Personal Transformation by Adria Firestone is, as the title suggests, an uplifting and useful guide that will help readers to bring about transformation in their lives. The book will help one connect...

The Swing: A Muse's Memoir about Keeping the Artist Alive by Susan Dennis is a carefully crafted and incredibly well-written memoir that spans the twenty-four-year marriage of a photographer and his muse. With Detroit's 1980s dangerous gang wars in the background, this memoir paints...

Her grandmother's death causes Jackie and her mother Faith to move back home after being away for six years. Having completed her degree, Faith decides to reacquaint herself with the place she once called home and see some old friends, while working at her aunt's...

Is there really a monster lurking in the waters of Riverdale Lake? Sheriff Williker to the rescue. In The Adventures of Sheriff Williker: The Case of the Riverdale Lake Monster by Kim Hansen, the reason there may not be a Riverdale Fall Festival next year...

The Pious Insurrection: The Reaping by Dexter Morgenstern is a fast paced fantasy novel of high adventure that begins at the monks' temple on the island of Regnarov. The story opens with a rainstorm. The fearsome reptile creatures with human heads, the nagas, attack and...

The Traveling Man by Michael P. King is an exhilarating ride into the world of con artists. We are taken on two different cons. The first is where we meet the titular traveling man, his wife, and Buddy, an associate, working a real estate con....

The Age of Amy: The Thumper Amendment by Bruce Edwards is a sometimes tongue-in-cheek story about teenagers getting the right to vote and how that might impact on future elections. Teenager Amy started her political activism as a companion to Alan, a hippie individual who...

I really liked The Man of Nightstone by Devon Drake. It is very rewarding to find a story that’s even a little different than the other tales in its genre. The Man of Nightstone is both science-fiction and fantasy. I have seen the two genres...

The Rigel Affair Sequel is L M Hedrick’s follow-up to the excellent romance novel The Rigel Affair. The book continues the story of Charlie Kincaid and Mattie Blanc whose love affair becomes strained after the end of the war when Charlie’s work keeps him from...

"The Strength in Knowing" by Alan Appt is an innovative and inspirational self-realization/help book which is based on his hindsight into his own personal life experiences. This refreshingly new take on all of the things that we allow to emotionally and intellectually plague us shows...

I really enjoyed The Korpes File by J.I. Rogers. I just like a book where a likable outcast takes on a tired socioeconomic system and I have to say, for me, a guy like Tech Nash X. Korpes is as likable a character as they...

The Korpes Agenda by J. I. Rogers is the second book in the Korpes File Series. This is the story of Nash Korpes, a Master-Tech who barely got out of the Korlune Military Research and Development with his limbs and soul intact. When he got...

The Unfocused Man: The Comet Kid Chronicles #2 is a fantasy/science fiction novel written by Tom Hoffman. After their adventures on the planet Ardenia, eleven-year-old Max and his big sister, Grace, were having some problems adjusting to life in their home surrounded by cornfields. Even...

The Road Behind Me: The Lie of Hannah is a non-fiction memoir written by RjCook. He was born in the early 1950s, part of the baby boomer generation, and was raised in Passaic, New Jersey. While Cook had five other siblings, they were quite a...

The Bird Caper by Victoria E. Pannell and Thorir Sigfusson is a middle-grade reader for 4th to 6th graders who love a good whodunit with a bit of mischief and a lot of heart. The story centers around ten-year-old Brandon, whose world is turned upside...

The Adjacent Possible: Evolve Your Art from Blank Canvas to Prolific Artist is a fascinating presentation on the science of artistic creativity by the psychiatrist and abstract artist Nancy Leigh Hillis, M.D. It is written with the stated purpose to “guide, nudge, and inspire” the...