A young man discovers a chilling secret hidden within the grounds of the seminary he attends in the eerie paranormal short story, A Ghost for the Holy by Robert E. Kearns. Since he was eleven, Fergal Kane knew he wanted to serve humanity as a...

Meet Fred the friendly snake who had lost his head half by accident after being squished in two by ambulance wheels. The doctors sewed him together using a special thread. Fred could squirm and slither now that he was mended and he could play with...

Dog is a stray. He doesn’t have any other name. Just Dog. No one has owned him, so he was never given a name. He lives off food from the dumpster next to a local diner. And he sleeps on a discarded duvet in an...

Comfort in the Wings: A Novel Inspired by Love That Will Not Die by Jennifer Collins is a contemporary women's novel. It follows a protagonist named Larissa Whitcomb who, following a series of devastating losses, is absolutely shattered. A mother whose transient son Eric is...

What makes a successful memoir, one that others outside your immediate family might want to read? In my experience as a memoir writing coach, it takes the courage to bare your soul, tell the truth, and, above all, have a story to share to which...

Shadow of the Moon is a historical fiction drama by Edward McSweegan. It's the year 1878. After returning from Colorado Springs, having lost a friend to an ambush, Nolan Carter is back in Pueblo, Colorado, when he comes across Professor Mitchell of the Vassar Astronomy...

Living at the Edge of the World: Winter by S. J. Barratt is a children’s action/adventure story that follows twelve-year-old twins, Tabitha and Timothy, from London to the remote Shetland island of Papala in Scotland with a population of thirty people. Their parents go on...

Half Tzanatzi, Rom was not well accepted. He was a traveling merchant, peddling his dyes and spices. He traveled according to the seasons. This time he would travel through the Gardeth Forest, he'd been warned not to. People had been disappearing, later their bodies would...

"The Lost Treasure of the Fourth Reich" by Barrett J Clisby describes itself as ‘an historically based suspense novel’. But what exactly does that mean? It means the author has used historical events as a base from which to weave a fictional, highly imaginative and...

"World Beyond the Maelstrom Gate" features a group of multicultural college students. They are brought together when Daniel, an aspiring astronomer in his sophomore year, discovers an error in the calculated path of a small meteor. Daniel and his roommates determine the meteor landed near...

Alex likes to keep her distance from people and Paulette Rae makes that clear at every turn in Alexandra the Great. She has a relationship of convenience with Simon and calls Daniel her only real friend, aside from her furry best pal Max. Then one...

For the Archives: Chronicles of the Everyday is a nonfiction book by Jessica Dofflemyer about her everyday life. It is a compilation of postings from her blog, detailing events of a particular day or just giving details of certain events and her feelings about them....

Lenita Sheridan’s Guardian of the Gauntlet is an amazing story of adventure, courage, and faith. Princess Camari is very different from her more sophisticated older sister, Mila. Camari loves her sister dearly, but secretly envies her daintiness and breath-taking beauty. Although the girls are best...

Out from the Underworld by Heather Siegel is a memoir detailing her early years living with an irresponsible father, after the disappearance of an idolized mother. She and two siblings, Jaz and Greg, live alternately with their father in the basement of his parents’ home,...

Ollie the Orca (Bubba and Buddies TM), written by Laura Maw and with artwork by Mike Motz, is the story of a dolphin called Bubba who is casually swimming around when he hears a strange noise and goes to investigate. He comes across Ollie the...

Sharky Marky and the Big Race by Lance Olsen is a really cute children's picture book that pits Sharky Marky in a race against his friends and other animals in the water kingdom. The reader has to help Sharky Marky count down to give him...

Sharky Marky and the Scavenger Hunt: An Alphabetic Adventure by Lance Olsen is a very educational book for kids and adults. Sharky Marky and his ocean dwelling friends are on an underwater alphabet scavenger hunt. I first want to say that if you read this...

A beautiful story, Gifts of the Crysnix by Lisa G. Shore reiterates the magic and power of fairies and how we all can ask fairies to help us achieve what we want in our lives. Marsuveus belongs to a parallel universe, the Crystal Kingdom which...

Wipeout the Wave is a children’s picture book written by Billy Baldwin and illustrated by Liesl Bell. When a wave named Wipeout knocks Cindy off her surfboard due to his unpredictable zigs and zags, the young wave is admonished by the other waves and exiled...

Sophia Freeman and the Mysterious Fountain is a fantasy/adventure book for children by T.X. Troan. Sophia is a lonely young girl, whose mother has passed away and whose father is too wrapped up in his business affairs to spend any time with her. Materially, Sophia...