Category: fiction

Excerpt – Virtue by John Moot @JohnMoot1 #parenting #relationships #midlifecrisis

    Synopsis   This is a story about reclaiming your life.   “Not that anyone stole mine. I just lost who I’d wanted to be.” — From Virtue   Virtue explores the vulnerability and randomness of human existence through the lives of Tom and Hannah Holder, each of whom are grappling with midlife crises. Scarred […]

Excerpt – Gaijin by Sarah Z. Sleeper @SarahZSleeper #newrelease #literaryfiction

    Synopsis   The Japanese word gaijin means “unwelcome foreigner.” It’s not profanity but is sometimes a slur directed at non-Japanese people in Japan. My novel is called Gaijin… Lucy is a budding journalist at Northwestern University and she’s obsessed with an exotic new student, Owen Ota, who becomes her lover and her sensei. When he disappears […]

Review & #Excerpt – January River by Bernard Jan @BernardJanWorld #JanuaryRiver

    Synopsis   Five friends. One dog. One river carrying a secret. When one of their friends goes missing, everything comes crashing down for the small group of childhood friends in the small town of Greenfield. Ethan takes it hard. Then he loses his dog, his only consolation. Hoping to start anew, Ethan leaves […]

Excerpt – Soothsayer by Katheryn Amurra #historical #fiction

  Synopsis   Aurelia has always valued love and happiness over titles and power. Though her kind-hearted father has allowed her to turn away suitor after suitor in pursuit of a love she cannot yet define, when he dies her choices die with him. Knowing that marrying the elderly governor of a neighboring province can […]