The New Girl by Zelmer Wilson follows Billie Carver, who moves from New Orleans to Boston to live with her father’s family and adjust to a new social environment. She leans on her older half-brother, Truman, as she tries to wade through unfamiliar social circles...

The urge to move west for a fresh start is woven deeply into American history, and in The Road West by Larry K. Collins, we follow one such journey that brings out our innate pioneering spirit. While this is a work of fiction, it’s based...

Tartan and Thyme by Zoe Tasia is book 3 in The Shrouded Isle series. Becca Shaw is loving her life on a magical island, but it also scares her. She’s happy with Greg, and she’s steadily making friends while her daughters grow up. But things...

The Ties That Made Us by Laura Carpenter is about a romance that survives malicious gossip, the paparazzi, and their misinterpretation of events, turning these into something sinister just to sell stories. The main character, Cillian Devlin, has to earn the trust and love of...

Herb Guggenheim’s The Nothingness Imperative is an unconventional work of speculative fiction that blends science, memory, and existential humor. At its heart is Skip Gershwin, a weary adjunct professor whose life is as cluttered and frayed as the canvas shopping bags he hauls to class....

The possibilities opened up by Artificial Intelligence are limitless, but what have we created and where will it lead us? Salvatore Cataudella explores this in a highly original and at times extraordinary manner with The Noema Cycle: Five Reflections From The Edge Of Awareness. He...

The Standing Stone on the Moor is the fourth book by Allie Cresswell in the acclaimed Talbot Saga, and while the series is not published in chronological order, my best effort in the lead-up begins with The House in the Hollow, where Jocelyn Talbot rejects...

“You cannot teach what you do not know. You cannot know what you never learned.” Time and experience can be the best teachers, but it takes a willingness to learn. The Two Olive Martini, a novel by Lance T. Weil, is a perfect example of...

Salvatore Cataudella’s The Noema Field: Explorations in Consciousness is a magnificent prose poem narrative. The author uses computer-savvy technical language imaginatively to offer hope that the dilemma of the AI world we are entering can eventually solve the challenge of creating AI systems that have...

The Taking of the Hike by Timothy J Moriarty is a quirky, clever comedy. Lyle Speckman wakes up in a strange woman’s bedroom wearing nothing but his boxer shorts and with no memory of how he got there. From that bizarre beginning, Lyle’s misadventures spiral...