As promised by the title, A Frugal Life: Learning How to Spend Less and Enjoy Life More by Rhiana Jones is a book on lifestyle that shows readers how to find the best deals in order to spend less money but still enjoy all the...

Shifter is a story of transformations that reach beyond those which change the physical form and into the soul. Rowena Portch unravels a tale that starts with the casting out and shaming of Zebastian by his father, who accuses him of being a monster and...

The Wisdom of Folktales: Lessons on How to Live Happily Ever After by Steven Gregory is a mix of educational book and fairy tale collection. In between chapters about how fairy tales can be applied to our everyday lives and lessons we can learn from...

Antics of Lady A Playful Basset Hound by Brigitte Pace is a playful narration of the story of the basset hound, Lady. Lady loves to play and she loves adventures. The story is narrated in a poetry form, using rhyming words. With her imagination and...

Getting Down to Brass Tacks: My Adventures In The World Of Jazz, Rio, and Beyond by Amy H. Duncan is a book that takes us on Amy’s journey. In the 1950s, she was given an LP of a blind pianist who played jazz, one Alex...

Mommy’s A Mole is the story of a sister-in-law, Joan Webster, gone missing and the efforts of author Eve Carson to find out exactly what happened to her beloved in-law. On that Thanksgiving weekend in 1981, Joan was, like millions of Americans that weekend, traveling....

Strange Life by Eleanor Lerman is a collection of poems that speaks to readers on many levels. They are direct and honest and they take us through a journey of myriad emotions that dominate life and living in general. The simplicity and symmetry in her...

Portraits of an Artist is a historical novel focused on three eventful years in the life of American portrait painter John Singer Sargent, years which defined his whole career and future life course. Around 1882, Sargent produced some of his most famous works and the...

Gil Roscoe’s After the Predays is a compelling work of fiction about life after a cataclysmic disaster. Thaddeus (Thad) Lowell, a philosophy professor, is the only living person in the LA basin and in the entire world as far as he knows. The virus was...

Lyn Fairchild Hawks' book How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought is the story of a teenage girl (almost 16) who loves Michael Jackson and has nothing else that is stable in her life - everything changes all the time because her...

Super Cowboy Rides by Daris Howard tells the tale of a boy named Tommy. Life growing up on a farm was far from boring as Howard portrays. Tommy has many brothers and sisters and he is no stranger to hard work at such a young...

The Angel Effect: A Walk Between Raindrops by Ray Duarte is a collection of life's experiences taken from the author's real life situations. His love and faith in God, belief in Angels and his experiences shared in the book give it a surreal feeling. Very...

Balancer by Patrick Wong starts off fast and exciting and doesn’t let up. Two best friends, Nicole and Amy, are on a camping trip that also doubles as the backdrop for their latest YouTube video while also serving as an excuse for Amy to ‘accidentally’...

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...

Freeways to Flip Flops: A Family’s Year of Gutsy Living on A Tropical Island written by author Sonia Marsh is the true tale of her family’s adventure. Duke Marsh was a very successful lawyer in Orange County, CA. He, his wife Sonia, and their three...

I Probably Shouldn't Poison My Mother by Randi Tyler is a true to life collection of short stories. It is told from a child's perspective of how she perceived her childhood growing up in a lower-middle class family in Schenectady, NY. The collection of stories...

In K.B. Shaw’s Neworld Papers Series 1: The Historian's Tale, Fallon is a boy without a family but with an extraordinary talent that the Movement wants. In a few weeks, when Fallon comes of age, he will be a free man, but that was halted...

Not So Long Ago, Not So Far Away is a coming of age story written by Trisha Slay. It takes place throughout the summer of 1977 in small-town America. Erika is fifteen and a freshman in high school. Her best friend is Cassie, a beauty...

Alzheimer’s: Dutiful Daughter (A Liz Roberts Mystery) by Don Canaan and Shawn Graves is a fast-paced 23-chapter mystery/sleuth fiction story about Laura, an accountant, who is the caregiver for her parents. Laura has endured a lifetime with an unloving schizophrenic mother and a controlling father...

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...