What if you could go back in time and correct your mistakes? Would you? What would the price be? In Velvet Rain, David C. Cassidy answers that question imaginatively, realistically and fearlessly. The answer, though, is difficult and terrifying. As a skilled writer, Cassidy brings the answer out through the story. He begins with fictitious […]
How do you follow up a magnum opus? With the best story you can tell, exploring new literary grounds.Money Land is the sequel to RS Guthrie’s Blood Land, which was originally titled Dark Prairies. Guthrie himself called it his magnum opus, and any reader can see that the author had poured his heart, soul and […]
Merry Christmas, readers! Best of the season to you all. And happy Kwanzaa, best of the Zarathosht Diso, as well as belated happy Yule, Bodhi Day and Hannukah. Those who’ve ready this blog know my inclusive attitude toward holiday greetings: we should all celebrate all of them. (More holidays, more food, more festivities — […]
Independent book review: American Goddesses By Gary Henry Gary Henry’s American Goddesses is a book that’s a lot of fun to read, and you can tell the author had a lot of fun writing it. The premise of American Goddesses is this: what would happen to a marriage if the wife suddenly developed super-powers? One […]
With six books, dozens of short stories and two blogs, the writing team of Wodke Hawkinson is widely recognized as a force in the independent author community. Wodke Hawkinson is actually the writing team of Karen Wodke and PJ Hawkinson, two lifelong writers who, after each publishing a book on her own, teamed up to […]
The Funny Adventures of Little Nani By Cinta Garcia de la Rosa Cinta Garcia de la Rosa remembers what it means to be a child. Her book, The Funny Adventures of Little Nani, proves this not only through entertaining and hilariously preposterous stories, but by engaging children in the creative process of her book. Little […]
As soon as I started reading Seb Kirby’s Double Bind, I thought: “Yes! Here is a writer who knows how to waste no time, nor words in getting to the action.” Double Bind grabs you immediately and whips you along. Seb’s style seems to blend genres seamlessly. I wondered, “How does he do that so […]