The tides of politics are ever changing and this is not so different throughout the centuries. After the Elizabethan era, the Stuart kings represented a time of great unease. Those who frequented the Royal Court were always on their guard as to what they said...

“Writing books for children is a marathon, not a sprint.” So claims children’s author, Simon Rose. With quite a few children’s books published and in circulation, the author knows the amount of time and effort that goes into writing a book. And the work never...

It’s not easy making a living as a writer. Gone are the days when book royalties alone would constitute a substantial income. Unless you’re one of those writers who can instantly make it to the top as a best seller and keep your books on...

The famous bard, Shakespeare, knew how to make a candid point in very few words. “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, sums up the need to be short and to the point, or, quite frankly,...

The Time Traveler’s Guide: Writing Time Travel Stories and Historical Fiction serves as a go-to reference when writing both historical fiction books and novels that include elements of time travel. The book begins by asking the question: What is time travel? The concept of time...

Aloysius Wachter was a simple twenty-something who was encouraged by his mother to set aside his aspirations as a hacker and wannabe graphic novelist to get a real job. As a high school dropout living in Chicago, his choices were limited, until his cousin came...

The Children's Writer's Guide 2 by Simon Rose is a writing/publishing book and is part of a series. It is a succinct and short guide. Simon Rose writes about writing while being a well-established and recognized author, which means that his advice and remarks are...

The Chosen Man by JG Harlond is an historical novel set in 17th century Europe during the period known as “Tulip Mania”. Tulip bulbs in the Netherlands were fetching incredibly high prices at the time, making many people extremely rich. The story of Ludovico de...

To Anna, love was total ownership and worship. It was beautiful until it wasn’t. Anna and Ambrosia (Rose) were cousins, best friends, and soul sisters. After losing her sister and mother as a little girl, Rose filled that void for Anna. But then Rose got...

The Sleeper List: A Spy Novel by Patrick Oster is a work of fiction in the thriller, suspense, and espionage subgenres. It is intended for the general adult reading audience owing to some moderate sexual references and the occasional use of explicit language. In this...

Tudor Alexander’s The Last Patient is a beautifully written story set against the backdrop of the historical upheaval of post-war Eastern Europe. The novel combines historical fiction with personal conflict, exploring a family’s struggles under communist oppression. The novel begins with the story of Kostea,...

The Montague Portrait by Matt Drabble is a horror fiction revolving around an ominous painting of Hugo Montague and his wife Eleanor, a masterpiece by Benedict Worthington in 1923. Driven by his degenerating mental stability and his cruel nature, Hugo accused his young wife of...

Tess and her brother Toby had more than once viewed their mother wipe cobwebs and dust off of a little trunk in the basement. They even witnessed her once or twice peering in on the items. They themselves had never seen what was inside this...

Portraits Of The Eerie by Mathilde Musset is a charming poetry collection that sings of the nightmarish monsters we feared when we were little. From its cute, yet morbid illustrations, to its fun rhymes, the book is a retelling of the bedtime stories that our...

No one can be prepared for losing a loved one, especially your child. A Portrait of Grief: Hope and Healing after the Loss of a Child by Cheryl Christopher takes you down the path of when the unthinkable happens. She speaks from her personal experience...

It's All About the Face: Quilted Fabric Portraits by Phyllis Cullen and Cindy Richard is a handy manual that gives the step-by-step process of introducing art students to portraiture, which is a difficult topic, and showing the representation of the human face and figure. Everyone...

"Animal Portraits with the Digital Photography of John Crippen" is a guide for photographers who have made, or are considering making, the transition from a point and shoot or a "prosumer" DSLR camera to a full-fledged DSLR. The first part of the book is a...

When I picked up this novel, I was looking for a fun read, but little did I know it would turn out to be this hilarious. In A Portrait of the Entrepreneur as a Young Man by Bob Epstein, young entrepreneur Tad Avaris does anything...

Murder for the Time Being by Joanie Bruce is a fictional mystery suspense novel with a bit of romance that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who enjoy clean reads with no explicit language, sexual situations, or graphic violence....

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” is one of the revolutionary messages of Jesus, one on which hope for humanity should hang. The problem is that few people actually understand Jesus’ paradigm of the fullness of life...