I love getting random emails from authors asking me to review a book, especially when the book is something I probably wouldn’t have normally picked up or even known about. Stretching the mind is a good thing! Ed Brodow contacted me about reading and reviewing Fixer which is fiction but loosely based on his Grandfather’s […]
I like to read books by first time authors and especially when that author is a sorority sister! It just seems like there is something special reading a book by someone that has a connection to you in one way or another. Ellen Cardona wrote Brownie Fix to help deal with the postpartum depression she […]
Author Darcie Chan is an attorney and lives in northern Westchester County, New York, with her husband and son. In her spare time, Darcie enjoys reading, writing fiction, gardening, playing piano, and cooking. The Mill River Recluse is her first novel and I believe it is only available as an e-book. Synopsis: Disfigured by the […]
Heads You Lose is a joint collaboration between Lisa Lutz (known for The Spellman Files series) and David Hayward (He writes poetry and has a editing/writing company). The authors each write a chapter and then hand it off to the other. In between the chapters there are comments about what is written and David’s foray […]
Kate White is best known as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and several bestselling career bibles including Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead…but Gutsy Girls Do and 9 Secrets of Women who Get Everything They Want. Then in 2002 she decided to try her hand at mystery novels and scored a hit with If Looks […]
Kristin Elizabeth Marshall, a graduate of Boston University with a degree in Psychology, has burst into the literary world with her first book. From the back of the book: Set in the historic and familiar context of what is arguably the most iconic American Family, The Eternal Waltz of Jacqueline Kennedy portrays through elegant, lyrical […]
John Howard Reid is a prize winning author and writing contests judge. He has also worked as a publisher, editor, critic and bookseller. As a fiction writer, Reid first achieved fame in England and Australia for a series of detective novels, all featuring a Miami police sergeant named Merryll Manning, who made his debut in […]
Teryl Cartwright is a relatively new author having written one other romance novel and two plays along with news articles and childrens curriculum.  Teryl states on her website that it is important for her to write about what she knows—relationships, family and faith. This way even though the story and characters were fictional, many of the emotions and thoughts […]
Joyce Magnin Moccero is the author of Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise which is the second in a series about Bright’s Pond which is somewhere in the Pennsylvania area since Charlotte moves to Paradise from a suburb of Pittsburg. But you don’t have to read the first to appreciate the second novel. Charlotte’s husband has recently died […]
On Tuesday, I took the day off from work and attended a luncheon to hear the author Dixie Cash speak at the Woman’s Club of Fort Worth. Now Dixie Cash is not one person, it is 2 sisters, Pam & Jeffrey, that write this series of humerous books set in West Texas. By no coincidence […]