The Belief in Angels by J. Dylan Yates introduces us to Jules who grew up in her hippie parents' household just off the coast of Boston on a small island. She has a fantastic sense of humor and imagination that she uses to keep her...

Jodie Renner has done fiction writers a huge favor by compiling her blogs into Fire Up Your Fiction: An Editor’s Guide to Writing Compelling Stories. She covers subjects that can get a story moving and not only draw the reader in, but hold their attention...

Stu the hippo is excited for his birthday party and he’s even more excited to see all of his friends there, having fun. But when a storm rolls in and the lights go out, he realizes that his friends are nowhere to be seen, at...

Finding Arun by Marisha Pink is a beautifully written story that will take readers along with Aaron Rutherford and his journey of self-discovery. When Aaron loses his mother, he discovers a secret from her past which takes him on an incredible journey of discovering his...

With The Clock Strikes Midnight, Joan Curtis has written a true page-turner. The plot follows a successful business woman named Janie as she takes a journey back over her life. The diagnosis of terminal cancer (given on the opening page, so no plot spoiler there)...

Eighth Circle by Theodore Jerome Cohen is the fifth novel by this author featuring the inimitable Detective-Inspector Lou Martelli, and it is every bit as captivating as its predecessors in the series. Sprinkled with numerous documented factoids, Eighth Circle will take you on a fascinating...

Lady Justice and the Pharaoh’s Curse by Robert Thornhill offers another excellent entry to the Lady Justice series of comedic mysteries. Walt, Ox and the whole gang are back to help resolve a growing number of unusual murders, with an apparent connection to a theft...

Even though I can read my way through many obscure and complex subjects such as mathematics and philosophy written by philosophers, I seem incapable of reading more than the first few pages of an insurance policy. The writing seems designed to so dull the mind...

In Mira's Diary: Bombs Over London by Marissa Moss, Mira has a gift. Actually, her mother has the same gift. They are both time travelers. Mira hasn't seen her mother in a long time as her mother has been traveling through time, trying to fix...

Losing Him, Gaining You: Divorce as Opportunity by Corbin Lewars is a book that is helpful to those who are going through the process of a divorce. No one wants to end a marriage, but this book comes in handy to those who are going...

Full Circle by Theodore Jerome Cohen is the poignant story of one man's 50-year journey from the beginning of his music lessons as a child, to his triumphant debut as a concert soloist, following a fascinating lifetime of intriguing diversions. Loosely based on the author's...

Wow! That is what I thought after I finished reading Soul Skin: A Spirited Shaman's Journey, the luminescent novel by author Jan Porter. Following our protagonist, Navi, as she navigates a midlife crisis, this book has something for every person to connect to. Navi feels...

I must confess that I love mysteries, and I’m always looking for new books in this genre. Unfortunately, I’ve been getting a little bit burned out on my favorite books lately. So many of them seem the same, and I often guess the bad guy...

Siblings Taylor and Alan are your typical kids for the most part. They do the same things as most kids their age except for one thing; they have been swept away on strange adventures. Today their only focus is to attend the opening of the...

Love in Real Life by Leah Cole is a book of love, of relationships. It isn’t a love story; it’s the real life stories of real people, people who have travelled the long journey of love and have their own tales to tell and their...

Lady Justice on the Dark Side by Robert Thornhill is a somewhat bittersweet chapter in the life of Walt Williams, Thornhill’s senior citizen founder of the City Retiree Action Patrol, or C.R.A.P. After five action-filled years as a Kansas City police officer, Walt decides it’s...

Not in the Pink by Tina Martel is the most stunning and unusual memoir I have ever seen or read. Why do I say “seen”? Because when you read Not in the Pink, you actually SEE Tina Martel’s journey from her discovery of breast cancer,...

Long before the beginning of the world, there was the Light and all was good, but there was also the darkness who wanted the adoration that the Light received, and he schemed to get that adoration. The Light knew all and was able to see...

I absolutely loved Conflicting Webs by Darlene Quinn. Conflicting Webs, which happens to be a stand-alone story, is the fifth addition to Quinn’s Web series. The Web series contains four other books. This is the first book I have read in the Web series so...

Requiem for Sherlock Holmes by Paul Stuart Hayes includes five new Sherlock Holmes cases. Holmes has died and Watson has decided to write up a small number of cases that for one reason or another had never been published. The first, Sherlock Holmes and...