For Valentines Day, Written Words presents an excerpt from the opening of Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s award-winning Love Comes Later. This novel won Best Indie Book, Romance, 2013; was a Finalist in the Romance Festival New Talent Award in 2012 Best Novel; and a Finalist in the 2013 eFestival of Words. They returned from the […]
Unlike most independent authors, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, known on Twitter as @Moha_Doha, eschews genre writing. Her novels include elements of romance, but they do not follow the conventional girl-meets-boy story. An Unlikely Goddess is mainstream literature, and you can even look at it as part of the stream of books about the Indian immigrant experience, along […]
Now this is a striking cover! Book 3 in Chris Ward’s Tube Riders trilogy launches this month, only a couple of months after Ward released the second volume, Exile. The Tube Riders trilogy is an original idea, set in a decidedly dystopian futuristic, dictatorial society. In Mega Britain’s inner cities, gangs of youths seek […]
Photo: Satiray in Flickr. Creative Commons License While I post book reviews regularly on this blog, I decided years ago not to publish a negative review of a book by an independent author. I also promised never to publish a positive review unless I really meant it. My reviews are candid, and while I hope […]
Am I ready to kill? A cloud of swirling mist sighed out between Kuneprius’ lips, rising into the night to smear the glow of the winter moon. He watched it dissipate, then exhaled another long plume, blowing it out the way he’d seen the Brothers do when they smoked their pipes filled with sweetweed. Instead […]
Book 2 in Chris Ward’s original and excellent Tube Riders trilogy has just launched.Earlier this year, I gave five stars to Ward’s stand-alone novel, Head of Words. It’s a deep and dark psychological story that shows Ward’s talent and professionalism as a writer.Now, I’m telling everyone I can to pay attention to this original writer’s […]
David Vinjamuri, fellow member of Best-Selling Reads and a columnist with Forbes magazine, has released his second novel, Binder. What’s it about? In the mountains of West Virginia, hooded men ambush and beat a group of environmental protestors. An Army colonel’s daughter goes missing, and ex-operator Michael Herne travels to West Virginia to find her. […]