Category: Fantasy

Excerpt – M: The Mystical Odyssey of Harriet E. Wilson by Alison Clarke

  Synopsis Award-winning poet and novelist Alison Clarke reimagines the legacy of Harriet E. Wilson—the first Black woman to publish a novel in America (1859)—as a breathtaking journey across galaxies, myth, and time in her latest work, M: The Mystical Odyssey of Harriet E. Wilson. Blending historical fiction, fantasy, and Afrofuturist mythology, Clarke’s novel follows […]

Excerpt – Beneath Beauford Grove by E. Denise Billups

  Synopsis The curse flows through her veins, but so does the cure. Dr. Evangeline Beauford thought blood held no secrets from her. As one of Boston’s leading hematologists, she’s dedicated her career to studying blood’s mysteries—until a posthumous letter from her estranged sister draws her back to Beauford Grove after eighteen years away. The family’s olive plantation shouldn’t […]

Review – The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu

  Synopsis When Death comes to claim Nella May Carter, she catches His interest with her capacity to find beauty and love even amidst the hell of slavery. So Death – bored, disgusted by humanity, and believing the Earth would be greatly improved should humans no longer exist – lures Nella into a Faustian bargain: […]

Review & New Release – Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

  Synopsis With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders are better than what she left behind. Because in Quartz Creek, there’s a […]

Excerpt – The Explorers by Jim Bates

  Synopsis Jagen and Ank have been sent to Earth from their home planet, Rykos, on a fact-finding mission. Emperor General Xenon is a megalomaniac who wants the two young explorers to tell him if the planet is suitable to invade, conquer, and add to his collection. This is their first mission, and Jagen and […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – One Foot in the Ether by Kayleigh Kavanagh

    Synopsis Demdike and Chattox, famed witches of Pendle Forest, might be dead, but they’re not gone. Bound to their bloodline, they’ve spent the past two and a half centuries watching over their descendants, waiting for when they’ll be needed. When 14 year old Yana comes into her psychic abilities and inherits the ‘eyes […]

New Release – Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby

  Synopsis Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alys’s task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted in eighteenth-century London and modeled after real-life sex workers to entice male medical students to study female anatomy, these eerie wax figures, known as slashed beauties, carry unsavory lore. Legend […]

Review & Giveaway – To Condemn a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

  TO CONDEMN A WITCH By LISA A. TRAUGOTT   Historical Fantasy Publisher: Rose Castle Media Pages: 399 Publication Date: August 11, 2025     Synopsis A stolen scroll. A cursed bloodline. A prophecy that binds three witches across life and death… Scotland, 1729. When clairvoyant healer Fiona MacLeod discovers an enchanted scroll, she awakens […]

Interview with author E.L. Deards, Author of The Lavender Blade

  Synopsis Colton and Lucian, a young pair of exorcist con artists, use sleight of hand and their natural charm to scam the nation’s wealthiest…until one of them becomes possessed for real. Colton has to act quickly to learn the real tricks of his trade and exorcise the demon before Lucian’s soul is snuffed out […]

Excerpt – The Gallantiers by Jim Bates

  Synopsis In the 27th century, ten-year-olds Sammy and Cal work digging tunnels beneath the streets of the underground city of Pierpoint. When two huge rats attack them, Sammy is wounded, but their boss refuses to give him any time off to heal. With a bleak future ahead of them and Sammy’s infected wounds getting […]