Olivia Merton has only ever known Earth after the shift. For fifteen years there has been no sunshine, little rain…and resources are scarce. A recurring dream provides an escape from her troubled family life and monochrome reality in a journey to a vividly coloured landscape, populated by four distinctive societies. This world is Verntropa.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: Shira Behore
Shira Behore is a young adult mystery and fantasy author from Central Florida. She first began stitching together worlds and characters at the age of eight and has been writing stories ever since.
Read moreA Review of My Brother's Spare
Valeria's secret investigation to find her mother's murderer leads her to Alias Black, the most infamous hitman in the kingdom. As the unlikely pair slowly crack the case, they unravel a truth they never could have imagined—not even in their darkest nightmares.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: Shannon Price
Shannon Price believes in good bread, good wine, and good books. She lives in California where she dreams of one day living in a house by the sea.
Read moreA Review of The Endless Skies
High above the sea, floats the pristine city of the Heliana. Home to winged-lion shapeshifters—the Leonodai—and protected from the world of humans by an elite group of warriors, the Heliana has only known peace. After years of brutal training, seventeen-year-old Rowan is ready to prove her loyalty to the city and her people to become one of the Leonodai warriors. But before Rowan can take the oath, a deadly disease strikes the city’s children. Soon the warriors—including two of Rowan’s closest friends—are sent on a dangerous mission to find a fabled panacea deep within enemy lands.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: Tori Bovalino
Tori Bovalino grew up near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and never knew she wanted to live abroad until she was already in London. She's awful at picking favorites, but her consistent go-to books are Pride and Prejudice, Fire, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. She's enamored with books that make her cry.
Read moreA Review of The Devil Makes Three
When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he’ll stop at nothing to stay free. He’ll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he’ll murder in the stacks, and he’ll bleed into every inch of Tess’s life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn’t seem so bad after all.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: Mickey George
Mickey George is a writer and illustrator, whose debut graphic novel, The Heart Hunter will be out from Legendary Comics in August 2021.
Read moreA Review of The Heart Hunter
On the cursed island of Envecor, everyone is doomed to wear their heart outside their bodies, and are immortal—unable to die, to change, to have children— until they find their soul mate. Paired soul mates are then turned mortal, freed from the curse, and able to leave. But all fairy tales have a dark side: those who don’t want to lose their immortality pay “Heart Hunters” to find their soul mates and kill them so they may remain immortal. Psyche, a Heart Hunter, is hired by the king to kill his soulmate. As she sets out on her quest, she begins her own journey of mending her broken heart and learning to trust again.
Read moreWhy I'm Not Writing This Week 7/30
If you’re not familiar with this series, just know that the only thing writers love more than writing is avoiding writing. And I am definitely no exception. Today, I’ll list five things that distracted me from my writing this week.
Read more5 Great Subscription Boxes For Writers
I have a confession to make… I’m obsessed with subscription boxes. There’s nothing like getting a special surprise every month or two with goodies that are perfect for you. Here are 5 great subscription boxes curated just for writers!
Read moreWriter Spotlight: B.C. Lienesch
B. C. Lienesch is a former freelance writer and featured columnist and editor for GuysNation.com but has done everything from owning a bakery to selling fireworks out of a pair of shipping containers.
Read moreAn Interview With Bryan Lienesch
The Woodsman focuses on a man named Jackson Clay. Haunted by tragedy in his past, he’s now something of a recluse, living alone in the Virginia woods. That past, though, has been driving him to do one thing: saving those who are missing and the authorities can’t find.
Read moreBook Spotlight: Legion of Pneumos by H.B. Reneau
In this epic, action-packed sequel to the hit YA Fantasy Chaos Looming, Loren stands upon the edge of a knife, with paths diverging to order or chaos. Time will tell what fate has in store.
Read moreA Review of Haven Enduring
After losing the one person she could always depend on, Keira Altman has fled the Capital and its deadly dance of political intrigue. She finds herself instead amidst the perilous jungles of the Southern Shield. Looking for respite and peace from the guilt that haunts her, Keira instead finds a world still on the verge of chaos. Try as she might to avoid the coming onslaught, her fate remains tied in service to Pneumos, a calling she can never truly escape.
Read moreWhy I'm Not Writing This Week 7/9
If you’re not familiar with this series, just know that the only thing writers love more than writing is avoiding writing. And I am definitely no exception. Today, I’ll list five things that distracted me from my writing this week.
Read more5 Best Podcasts For Writers
If you’re an aspiring author, you need to stay up to date on the latest publishing news and trends. But if you’re like me and spend your day chasing your children/animals, working your day job, and keeping up with your sanity, in your free time you want to actually work on your book instead of researching publishing updates. Podcasts are a great way to listen to news and interviews while doing your other daily work. Here are five great podcasts for aspiring published writers.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: Antoine Bandele
Antoine Bandele is an Amazon bestselling author in dark fantasy, sword & sorcery, African American fantasy, and African literature.
Read moreA Review of The Gatekeeper's Staff
Fourteen-year-old TJ grew up normal in a secret community of gifted diviners in the heart of modern-day Los Angeles. His powerful sister was ordained to lead his people into a new age of prosperity, but her mysterious death in Nigeria threatens to destroy the very foundations of TJ's world. Desperate to pick up where his sister left off and uncover the secrets behind her questionable death, TJ commits himself to unlocking the magical heritage that has always eluded him. So he enrolls in Camp Olosa-a remedial magic school for the divinely less-than-gifted in the humid swamps of New Orleans.
Read moreWriter Spotlight: T.C. Anderson
T.C. ANDERSON is a multimedia artist based in Houston, Texas. Her collaborative video work has been shown in several Houston-area art galleries, and her self-portrait photography has been exhibited online, locally, and internationally in Singapore and Bangalore.
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