By C. V. Hunt on May 19, 2012
Nostalgic for the Inquisition and plague, Satan feels neglected by the modern world that no longer cares about heresy or blames him for disease and death. He plans to create a new genesis, a place where people will love him. For that, his son needs just the right soul.
Posted in C.V. Hunt, Horror/Supernatural | Tagged a satan carol, alan s. kessler, c.v. hunt, damnation, god's absence, hell, satan fiction, soul |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 16, 2012
Jon Marshall is a Brisbane dermatologist who lasers bananas as well as he does skin and has a penchant for making even simple situations more complicated. From Ash–his running buddy–to Katie–his coffee friend–to Lily–his daughter known affectionately as the Bean–Jon tries to keep the women in his life in neat compartments but ultimately finds that poetry readings, errant cats, and the Lemonheads all make life what it is–messy and blurry and vibrant.
Posted in Literary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged contemporary fiction, contemporary humor, exciting press, nick earls, parenthood fiction, perfect skin |
By Jaime Hypes on May 15, 2012
Richard Fornek wakes up in a hospital after a car accident a completely different person. Literally. His mind is still his own, but he is in the body of Daniel Curtis, who was hospitalized after his wife attacked him. Richard is in a different city (actually an entirely different state), has a different wife, different friends, a different family, and a different body and life.
Posted in Fiction, Jaime Hypes, Mystery/Suspense, Reviews | Tagged Fiction, Fractured Persona, Harry James Krebs, jaime hypes, mystery, suspense |
By Bob Cherny on May 13, 2012
Amber finds a genie named Jasper standing in front of her fireplace having just extricated himself from the samovar on her mantle. Think about that for a second. The book is full of stuff like that. Things go downhill from there in a hurry. Many of the world’s best comedians say that comedy is the hardest art form. Lauren Sweet has made it look easy. The book is funny throughout. She makes some of the jokes pay multiple times without their seeming tired. I laughed on almost every page. Some of the jokes work on multiple levels and pay on all of them.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged aladdin's samavar, genie adventure, genie fiction, lauren sweet |
By C. V. Hunt on May 11, 2012
Richard Farnsworth presents us with a collection of short stories in Outside The Wire. Two of these are just snippets of larger stories, Succumbing To Gravity (everyone who knows me, knows I will force you to read this book), and Gift Of The Bouda. Both of which show how well Farnsworth can write the internal struggle.
Posted in Anthology, C.V. Hunt, Horror/Supernatural | Tagged c.v. hunt, horror anthology, horror short story, outside the wire, richard farnsworth |
By Bob Cherny on May 9, 2012
THE 5 MOONS OF TIIANA is a kick-butt story and rollicking adventure.
Captain Rez Cantor is a diplomacy officer in the Imperial Army, and personal attaché to Princess Leanna, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Emperor, and sole heir to the Melelan throne.
Posted in Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged 5 moons of tiiana, paul t. harry |
By Jaime Hypes on May 8, 2012
Elih, Turkey has established its own set of laws that seek to control and dominate the population, in the name of Islamic law. This does, of course, effect women’s lives most of all, as the regime of the RTK (the ‘Morality Police’) targets women in an attempt to keep them docile and subservient.
Posted in Experimental/Narrative, Fiction, Literary | Tagged contemporary thriller, jaime hypes, magical realism, Muslim superhero, Pavarti K. Tyler, Shadow on the Wall: Book One of the Sandstorm Chronicles, violence against women |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 7, 2012
I really really wanted to like this book, and I was totally enthralled by the first half of it. I love a good mystery where the lead character is not a police investigator or FBI detective. Here, we have Elle Bramasol who is a true crime writer who is elicited by a big Hollywood director named Eliot Kingman to write his story after he ends up in prison for the murder of one of his researchers.
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, Mystery/Suspense, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged b.e. scully, modern day vampire, vampire diary, vampire fiction, vampire true crime, verland, verland: the transformation |
By Bob Cherny on May 5, 2012
This is a light, loving reminiscence of a career working within one of the most public of public companies in the world. It is the chronicle of a man who touched millions of lives and whose influence is easy to understate standing as he did in the shadows of people who saw themselves as larger than life.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Robert H. Cherny | Tagged disney, disney book, disney memoir, in service to the mouse, jack lindquist, melinda j. combs, mickey mouse, walt disney |
