mobile-app-adult-fiction-general

Go on “Carnevale” with This Debut Literary Mystery

Peter Fortunato’s debut novel starts with a craps game and a red and white snake in a mayonnaise jar. But it moves on quickly to art, love, amphibians, the beautiful Gracie Laporta, the bewildering Leo Declare, Renaissance painters, philosophers, Tarot cards, a Ouija board, dreams, voyeurism and Debussy's "Prelude to…

Sherri DaleyNovember 1, 2019

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Woman Jolted Out of Privileged Life to Rediscover Herself in Smart, Satirical Romp

Saks Fifth Avenue, Prada, Jil Sander, Chanel, Bloomingdale’s, Burberry. The luxury retail space at its finest. Author Toni Glickman should know. She spent what she remembers as “20 years in the cashmere and silk-studded front lines in the luxury space of this piranha-infested industry.” And she remembers it well. So…

Sherri DaleyOctober 25, 2022

Book Club Network Fiction

A Southern-Fried Ghost Story Painted in “Charleston Green”

Charleston Green — the color of the South’s rebellion against the black paint provided for reconstruction, the hue was altered to a dark green tinge with dabs of yellow and blue. This is the backdrop for the stalwart citizens of Charleston, South Carolina. In her novel, Charleston Green (Bublish) author…

K.L. RomoJune 25, 2020

Fiction Recommended

Diverse Lives of Circus Performers Blur the Lines of Reality & Fiction

You’ve heard the old expression that the clown is smiling on the outside but crying on the inside? Step right up and enter a world of illusion and grandeur, where the lines between reality and fiction blur. In his debut novel Circus Home: A Novel of Life, Love and New…

Katie BloomerJanuary 26, 2023

Fiction

‘Bashert’ Author Herb Freed Answers the Deeper Questions of Life

Herb Freed, director, producer, spiritual leader, and author of Bashert, talks about past interviews with various talk shows, and the deeper questions he didn't expect to be asked. How did he answer them and what came to mind? Read on for more! Bashert: A Novel (Bellrock Press) was released on Valentine’s…

Herb FreedApril 6, 2017

Fiction

Haruki Murakami’s Literary Collection “First Person Singular” Has Readers in Awe

“Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” — The Wall Street Journal —∞— "An essential addition to any Murakami fan’s library." — Kirkus —∞— Haruki Murakami tells the story of a young…

Jim AlkonApril 6, 2021

Fiction

Historical Fiction “Norvel” Relays Boxer’s Noble Battles In and Outside the Ring

For all the accomplishments of Norvel Lee in his community, in the boxing ring, and on the world stage, one simple story in Kenneth F. Conklin’s Norvel shows the true measure of the man. A day after Martin Luther King’s assassination, in his Washington, DC, neighborhood, Norvel sees a group…

Jim AlkonApril 16, 2021

Fiction

A Professor of Immortality You’ll Care Deeply About

By page three of Eileen Pollack’s The Professor of Immortality (Delphinium Books), we have already learned that our protagonist, a 54-year-old professor of a questionable line of study at a local college, is a grieving widow of eight years, her adult son has been missing for seven months, and a…

Sherri DaleyOctober 15, 2019

Fiction

Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

It is bold work to invite us into the world of children who are eligible for special education—and their long suffering parents. Maxine Rosaler does this in her novel, Queen for a Day, through her main character, Mimi Slavitt and her young son, Danny. We, the audience, are alongside Mimi…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 7, 2018

Fiction Romance

K’s Collection of Short Stories Proves Love Is a Revolution

The first three short stories in Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories (FriesenPress), bounce wildly from Jerusalem to a present-day Canadian shopping mall to a dystopian future. “Radius” depicts the inner thoughts of a Palestinian en route to a suicide bombing. “Calamity Jane” is largely a teenage angst-laden conversation between…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 23, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction Fiction - Featured

Billion-Dollar Windfall May Not Solve One Couple’s Many Problems in This Wildly Funny Adventure

Perhaps, as one of the characters in Jimmy Clifton’s Powerballs suggests. Although, I know a lot of people who would like to give it a try. Becoming a billionaire. It’s the defining event in this well-written, tightly scripted, fun-drenched and suspenseful novel. Henry and Rose Ball have drifted apart in…

Jim AlkonDecember 27, 2021

Fiction Recommended

Humorous, Poetic & Allegorical Tale Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno

Cinema and live theater exist in two very different, albeit parallel, universes. They both contain storytelling and scenery, propelled along by the actions and words of characters and — preferably — a good director. That’s where the similarities end. Cinema contains immutable performances that may be replayed again and again…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 10, 2023

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Adriana Trigiani’s Dazzling Novel Portrays a Family’s Enduring Legacy in the Tuscan Hills

You may be dreaming in Italian and wishing you were a member of the Cabrelli Family before you finish reading The Good Left Undone (Dutton) by deservedly popular author, director and podcaster Adriana Trigiani. Whether you have been a fan since her first novel, The Big Stone Gap, was published…

Linda HitchcockApril 26, 2022

Fiction

Sondra Helene: Emotional Baggage Behind Perfect Lives

Initially, the trappings of her opulent lifestyle smother Samantha Freeman, but no one sees her angst. Even the most intimate characters in Sondra Helene’s debut novel reveal only pieces of themselves to one another in this deeply personal story. The title of her novel, Appearances (She Writes Press), epitomizes an…

Mary Ann RyanApril 9, 2019

Fiction Recommended

Coming-of-Age Novel Exposes Harsh Reality of Eugenics Movement

“American eugenics is often misunderstood and forgotten, yet it impacts the heritage of so many of us. These women’s voices went unheard for enough years.” On a stormy winter day in 1928, representatives of the Pennsylvania Children’s Aid Society come to collect the four Wilson children, who are living alone…

Megan BeauregardApril 29, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Lyrical Tale of Love and Redemption Paints Portrait of Pacific Northwest

Leaning On Air is Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s second novel, an exquisitely nuanced love story told with gorgeous prose and salt-of-the-earth characters as well-meaning and reassuringly imperfect as the people you know. Equally gorgeous is the story’s setting on a remote family farm in the Palouse, a gently hilled region of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 7, 2024

Go on “Carnevale” with This Debut Literary Mystery

Woman Jolted Out of Privileged Life to Rediscover Herself in Smart, Satirical Romp

A Southern-Fried Ghost Story Painted in “Charleston Green”

Diverse Lives of Circus Performers Blur the Lines of Reality & Fiction

‘Bashert’ Author Herb Freed Answers the Deeper Questions of Life

Haruki Murakami’s Literary Collection “First Person Singular” Has Readers in Awe

Historical Fiction “Norvel” Relays Boxer’s Noble Battles In and Outside the Ring

A Professor of Immortality You’ll Care Deeply About

Interview with Maxine Rosaler, Author of “Queen for a Day”

K’s Collection of Short Stories Proves Love Is a Revolution

Billion-Dollar Windfall May Not Solve One Couple’s Many Problems in This Wildly Funny Adventure

Humorous, Poetic & Allegorical Tale Reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno

Adriana Trigiani’s Dazzling Novel Portrays a Family’s Enduring Legacy in the Tuscan Hills

Sondra Helene: Emotional Baggage Behind Perfect Lives

Coming-of-Age Novel Exposes Harsh Reality of Eugenics Movement

Lyrical Tale of Love and Redemption Paints Portrait of Pacific Northwest

About Us

Book Promotion

Discover Books

Fill Out The Form and Receive A Free Book Marketing Consultation