In Last Job: File 3454 by co-authors Zachary Berue and Buck Bloom, two Hunters of the supernatural embark on what they hope is one final mission. Soon, they are caught in a paranormal plane where they face alien spaceships, haunting tarantulas, un-dead cows, omnipotent bees, massive sandworms, night...
Colin Curtis’s debut science fiction novel, The 9th Colony: Hornet’s Nest, is sure to captivate readers. In the newly released audiobook format, the story’s cutthroat action and tender romance are brought to life by stunning sound effects and a talented cast of voice actors. This wild sci-fi a...
Reunion by the Lake
There’s a point early on in James Gilbert’s Reunion by the Lake when Grace, entering the twilight of her life as she and her husband Richard confront his terminal illness, loses her grip of a glass in the kitchen, and it breaks in the sink into long sharp slivers. The......
Hong Kong Redux opens in the midst of a deadly international conspiracy. President Xi Jinping stares down a red folder with a large white star — it contains a plan that has been in the works for decades. “With this operation, we will take a big step forward to ensure......
Soul Flowers
With the new year comes a new sense of hope. I can think of no better time to embrace the beauty of poetry, especially in works such as Cynthia Schumacher’s seventh collection, Soul Flowers. In this timeless collection, Schumacher explores with gifted verse those universal human emotions and exper...
Moscow Nights Return
Readers of spy fiction may have wondered if the genre would melt away after the Cold War, but it turns out the secret world of espionage is timeless. All a good spy novel needs are a brave hero (or heroine) and some international skullduggery. With Moscow Nights Return, Book 1......
Mind-Body, Birth
At a recent gathering of my book club, the conversation turned to our pregnancy and delivery stories. This was prompted by the difficult delivery that the host’s daughter-in-law had just been through. Some stories were truly “scary” and even horrifying, while others were not quite as bad — b...
The Blue in Your Eyes
“Dreams are a cryptic maze, but the emotions they stir up are real.” The first time I spoke with author Humberto “Bear” Garcez, he was telling me about his new book based on very detailed recollections of one of his own dreams. That book is the recently released The Blue......
Punch Line
If in another life author Richard A. Danzig decided to become a standup comic, well, he could probably do a lot worse, given his spot-on talent for writing funny monologues for his comedian character Verne Slater in the recently released legal thriller, Punch Line. Despite what the book’s title mi...
