My Life ... Don't Try This At Home by Scott Flynn is a biographical set of stories that tell a number of tales about the author. Scott is a diligent child, except when faced with the Grand Canyon, a car enthusiast, entrepreneur, popular with the...

If you’re a writer needing stimulation, pick up a copy of Once Upon a Pancake: Stories We Write Together by Rick Benger and feel those creative juices starting to flow. Oh wait! That subtitle says “Stories We Write Together.” Well, if you teach creative writing...

The King Of All Liars is a work of humorous fiction by author Teni Abegunde. Detailing true and not so true anecdotes from the author’s life, this book is billed as the first ‘sit-down’ comedy, in the opposite sense to 'stand-up.' The approach is simple...

Meet the Pops: Flag Day Every Day is a children’s story by Belinda Barbieri. Lolly Pop lives on a special farm with Cherry, his wife, a son named Soda, and daughter, Coco. The Pops grow candy corn, lollipop trees, raise strawberry and chocolate milking cows,...

I like Waking Up in Vegas. I like the way it is told. I give a lot of credit to Gabrielle Dorian for the imaginative beginning. It is a text message from a drunk mother, on vacation in Las Vegas, to her son back in...

Somebody to Love by Aurelia Fray is the story of Rachel and Henry. Rachel has a successful career, but an equally unsuccessful love life. She doesn’t have a perfect body, lacks confidence and is surrounded by people who never really appreciate her. Her cousin suggests...

Haris Orkin has produced a rip-roaring tale of derring-do by a highly unlikely and slightly eccentric character. You Only Live Once jumps from the pages with sharp, witty writing in an intelligent parody. It is almost like Ian Fleming might have re-crafted Cervantes' Don Quixote...

I have to be honest here: the opening line of Converted, The Meantime Stories (No. 2) by Svingen and Pedersen immediately startled and intrigued me. I mean, what would be your reaction to reading “In the meantime…Draghan, the esteemed warlord and feared field general, fakes...

Fated is the fourth book in The Meantime Series written by Vegard Svingen and Øyvind Skogly Pedersen. Bjorn Gustafson’s final moments of life after his car collides with a moose in Canada are filled with a multitude of memories, regrets and treasured moments with his...

A middle-aged woman decides she has had enough of her car lot business and makes a crazy and desperate pact with her husband to get her dream vacation in the comedic novel, Cars, Coffee, and a Slightly Used Casket (Julia Karr 2) by K.C. Hilton....