Hues of Hope is the latest volume of poetry by Balroop Singh, a work inspiring in both its diversity and sentiments. Let’s face it—the last couple of years aren’t likely to be called “the good old days.” When we tell…
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Heir of Ashes by Jina Bazzar
Roxanne Fosch is on the run, and she can’t afford to be caught. If she is, she’ll likely never see the sun again. Trapped for years in a paranormal science facility, she’s been experimented on with less compassion than sophomore…
Against All Odds by Jacqui Murray
Driven from their ancestral home, Xhosa’s people have been wanderers for far too long. But now, coming down from the Pyrenees mountains into what will become the Spanish plains, her people are filled with hope. Finally, they have found a…
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Liars and Thieves by D. Wallace Peach
Goblins, elves, and changelings—they’d lived together for ages in an uneasy peace, in a world where only a Veil separated them from their gods. They’d successfully shared their world, but it was unclear if they could continue to share its…
The Quest for Home by Jacqui Murray
Jacqui Murray has released another book in her prehistoric man series: The Quest for Home. With this volume she’s managed an extremely difficult trick—a sequel that picks up where the last book left off, and yet a reader who’s new…
Tagged with: historical fiction, Jacqui Murray, man vs. nature, prehistoric man, The Quest for Home
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While the Bombs Fell by Robbie Cheadle and Elsie Hancy Eaton
There’s a saying about real life: it’s very poorly organized. In fiction, we can have our make-believe people say all the right things in all the right places, craft our villains into anything from being totally evil to fatally misunderstood,…
Tagged with: memoir, Robbie Cheadle, While the Bombs Fell, World War II
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Moments We Love, Poetry by Balroop Singh
Balroop Singh has released a new poetry collection, and that’s an event that’s worth the attention of contemporary poetry lovers. Ms. Singh has a unique style, one I can appreciate as a short story writer. Her work is generally free…
My Maine: Haiku through the Seasons by Bette A. Stevens
Bette A. Sevens is a real Renaissance woman when it comes to writing–she does it all. Children’s fiction and nonfiction with her charming story of Matilda the Monarch butterfly as well as her Tanagram puzzle book, historical fiction with Pure…
Seeds of Change by Willow Thomson
Willow Thomson is a writer pal of mine, and I’m excited to introduce you to her work here. As veterans of the same online forums, we’ve offered advice to each other as writers and publishers. And the result of all…
Tagged with: seeds of change, soft sci-fi, soft science fiction, willow thomson
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Survival of the Fittest by Jacqui Murray
Five tribes. One leader. A treacherous journey across three continents in search of a new home. *** That’s a great tagline. And I enjoyed the book, too. It starts like this: Xhosa is a female, a would-be budding leader of…
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Cathleen Townsend 