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Letter from an Author in A Post-Pandemic World

May 30, 2020 News Editor 0

by Anita Daher The global pandemic created by Covid-19 has made things tough for almost everyone. While, on the surface, authors are doing fine — because what do people have to do during lockdowns other than sit home and read? — the pandemic has created some unique challenges for authors, too. So many authors have temporarily waived fees for virtual presentations during these pandemic times. So many authors and publishers have offered excerpts from books, […]

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Poetry: I Asked the Wind by Valerie Nifora

May 28, 2020 admin 0

  I hope in reading the poetry, people realize that wherever they are in their journey in love, they are not alone.” — Valerie Nifora As COVID-19 continues to highlight isolation and loneliness, I Asked the Wind: A Collection of Romantic Poetry, by Valerie Nifora provides an alternative, allowing readers to take a journey through romantic memories to find solace. I Asked the Wind: A Collection of Romantic Poetry beautifully captures the whirlwind highs and […]

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Non-Fiction: Dreamworld: The Diary of an Unconscious Mind by Z.B.

May 28, 2020 admin 0

Dreamworld: The Diary of an Unconscious Mind is a creative take on dream study that chronicles the adventures of one subject over the course of four years.  Everyone dreams. Everyone experiences nightly excitements or unwanted terrors. But few write them down, and many of those memories are lost. Dreamworld’s subject has instead developed a habit over the past ten years: a habit to explore each and every dream and to tell the world of her […]

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Fiction: How the Deer Moon Hungers by Susan Wingate

May 28, 2020 admin 0

  Writing How the Deer Moon Hungers was a labor of love and is a great coming of age story that I hope readers will enjoy from the first page to the last.” — Susan Wingate How the Deer Moon Hungers is a coming of age novel in which the hidden horrors of juvenile detention facilities are exposed through the journey of Mackenzie Fraser. Mackenzie knows that her parents aren’t getting back together. Despite her […]

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The Impact of Stephen King

May 27, 2020 News Editor 0

New Yorker archive editor Erin Overbey reminds us of that time 20 years ago when novelist Stephen King was hit by a car while walking. It was an accident that nearly took the author’s life as well as his ability to write. In a beautiful New Yorker essay, the author recounts his the nightmare of the accident and his slow recovery. After the accident, when King comes to at the side of the road, the […]

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Non-Fiction: Highway 101: the History of the El Camino Real by Stephen H. Provost

May 20, 2020 admin 0

Highway historian Stephen H. Provost takes a fun-filled look at the history and attractions of one of California’s great highways in Highway 101: The Story of El Camino Real. The book tells the picturesque story of this great highway and the restaurants, motels, gas stations and tourist stops that made the road memorable to generations of travelers, illustrated with 200 historic photographs of the life and times of the great highway. Now the highway has […]

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Stephen King-Joe Hill Novella Goes Full Throttle to HBO

May 20, 2020 News Editor 0

Throttle, the 2012 novella by father-and-son writing team of Stephen King and Joe Jill, has been optioned by HBO. From Deadline Hollywood: HBO Max is in the early development stage of a feature adaptation for the Throttle novella, which was co-written by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, who is the NYT bestselling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather. Leigh Dana Jackson, a co-executive producer on the Netflix series Raising Dion, will write […]

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SF/F: Rise Of The Snow Queen Book Two: The War Of The Witches by G.W. Mullins

May 18, 2020 admin 0

Author, G.W. Mullins, follows up his debut adult dark fantasy Rise Of The Snow Queen Book One: The Polar Bear King, with the second book in a four-part series. What begins as a simple bittersweet tale about a man turned into a polar bear, grandly unfolds into a rich, mythical adventure in the bestselling Rise Of The Snow Queen series. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, author G.W. Mullins expands on the story, creating […]

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This Just In: A Dragonfly’s Wing by Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato

May 18, 2020 admin 0

What happens when you mix Britain’s new prime minister and her secret past; a writer whose new book seems all too real; his former roommate, now a French cultural attaché; and a young homeless man who needs to escape from his mother and her abusive boyfriend? Prepare for intrigue as all of their paths converge. Set in London, Paris, and Vienna, this is the new novel by the bestselling author of My Memory Told Me […]

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Short Film: Woman at the Door

May 11, 2020 News Editor 0

The last few months have brought great change for all of us, with more still to come. A new short film from Michael Karl Richards looks at that fear in Woman at the Door, six minutes that bring us a brief view from inside the pandemic and some of the beauty that might be happening there. Is he having profound insight or is he losing his mind? And is there a difference when you’re all […]