independent authors

Ghost Star by Roger Eschbacher cover

Ghost Star is a rollicking good space opera for young readers. Anyone from reading age to mid-teens will enjoy it. Plot Nolo Bray, a member of the Ruam race from the planet Tac, is the most elusive smuggler the galaxy. The book opens as his ship, the Ghost Star is finally caught and boarded by […]

Book launch: The Search for Starlight by Elyse Salpeter

My author friend Elyse Salpeter has just released the fifth volume in her Kelsey Porter mystery series that combines Buddhist spirituality with vigilante justice. With The Search for Starlight, Elyse Salpeter culminates the journey of a young woman who has come full circle in her quest to find the murderers of her parents. She just needed […]

Torn Roots cover

It’s here! The new cover for the new, revised and expanded Torn Roots. Once again, David C. Cassidy has hit it out of the ballpark. This is based on a photograph taken in Maui, the setting of Torn Roots. Pre-order now on Amazon. Torn Roots is based on a book previously published in an Amazon […]

Wildfire cover

Book 1 in the new Tara Rezeck Mystery Series is now available for pre-order on Amazon at a special low price. If you order the book before its launch day on March 22, you’ll be able to get it for just 99 cents. Pre-order here. What it’s about Wildfires swept across California wine country in […]

Independent novel review: The Jossing Affair

By J.L. Oakley This is an amazingly good book. The Jossing Affair reminds me of Dr. Zhivago: it’s a story that helps us understand a world-changing, vicious conflict through a close focus on a few people caught in it. At its heart, it’s actually a realistic love story. Janet Oakley is an author I admire. […]