Category: fiction

Excerpt – #AuthorLife by Joe Zagets

  Synopsis Don’t miss this hilariously dark satire by internationally bestselling author Zoje Stage (Baby Teeth)–written under the pseudonym Joe Zagets! Writing novels wasn’t supposed to be a blood sport. After selling his first thriller novel for six figures, Mackenzie “Mack” Lane quit his job as a journalist to become a full-time author. But now, […]

Review & Excerpt – Looks Perfect by Jessica Siskin

  Synopsis What comes between a fashion icon’s perfect image and her genuine self? The perfect stranger—in a sharp and witty novel about identity, performance, and what it takes to make a true connection. One million people follow Stella Lerner’s every move. And now the buzzy fashion designer is fulfilling her lifelong dream and taking […]

Interview with Cynthia Johnstone, author of Nomad

  Synopsis For readers of Barbara Kingsolver and Mary Lawson, a literary novel, set in the desert wilderness of modern-day Arizona, that offers quiet beauty, emotional depth, and an exploration of loss, healing, and the wild places that change us. After the sudden death of her brother, Corey retreats to a remote ranch in Sedona, […]

Excerpt – Self Portraits by P.J. Blumenthal

  Synopsis Of these stories, portraits “of many selves,” the author writes: “In Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, sometimes you see the mountain, sometimes you don’t, depending on where you are standing. Like mountains, these self portraits too may be visible or invisible—or sometimes positioned at the edge of the picture. And, like mountains, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Birds Beyond Reach by Dwayne Ulliac

  Synopsis Peter thought his life would look different at thirty-two. Instead, he’s stuck bartending in Thunder Bay, drinking too much, and watching his ambitions slip away. But when an opportunity to relocate to Ottawa arises, Peter sees a chance to reinvent himself. He meets like-minded Ruby one night in a pub, and before long […]

New Release & Excerpt – Red Seal by Rosa Kwon Easton

  Synopsis A Korean mother and son navigate wars, displacement, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga by the author of White Mulberry. In 1943 Japan, the Pacific War rages on. Miyoung, a Korean-born single mother and nurse, defies an order to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army and instead flees […]

Review – Narcissi by Babette Fraser Hale

Narcissi: A Novel By Babette Fraser Hale   Women’s Fiction / Texas Fiction Publisher: Winedale Publishing Publication Date: October 15, 2026   Synopsis Ten women fall for Cole Burnett, a traveling Texas writer. He is the kind of man whose need for freedom should send lovers running in the opposite direction. But he has a […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tristan 4 America by Bruce Overby

  Synopsis One man. Zero chance of winning. Nothing left to lose.   After the pandemic costs him his career—and his sense of purpose—Tristan Heller makes an unthinkable decision: he runs for president of the United States. Not to win, but to say what no one else will. Backed by a scrappy crew of Silicon […]

Review – Evie Walters Takes the Wheel by Kathleen Fox

    Synopsis In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender―and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives an anonymous […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Nurse at Baker Hospital by Jocelyn Cullity

  Synopsis A new nurse at America’s famous cancer-cure hospital becomes caught in one of the Ozarks’ greatest scams in this mystery based on a true story set in 1939. After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, […]