Category: Literary

Top Ten List & #Giveaway – A Beggar’s Bargain by Jan Sikes

    A BEGGAR’S BARGAIN   The Bargainer Series, Book One   by   Jan Sikes   Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Publisher: Fresh Ink Group Date of Publication: March 12, 2024 Number of Pages: 324 pages     Scroll down for Giveaway!         A shocking proposal that changes everything Desperate to […]

Excerpt – Perestroika by Joao Cerqueira

    Synopsis   Perestroika overthrows communist regimes in Europe. In the People’s Republic of Slavia, the former leaders are trying to survive the new times while their victims seek revenge. Former President Alfred Ionescu is placed in an asylum he himself built. Zut Zdanov, the head of culture, is confronted with his child abuse. […]

Guest Review, Excerpt & #Giveaway – HER: The Flame Tree by Khanh Ha

            Synopsis   If the fate of unrequited love survives fifty-one years, nine months, and four days in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, it leads the way for HER: The Flame Tree, a spare, remorseless love triptych that sweeps through the rich panorama of two generations of colonial […]

Guest Post – As Far As You Can Go by Alle C. Hall #literaryfiction #comingofage #fiction

      Synopsis   Nominated for The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award, Alle C. Hall’s debut literary novel, As Far As You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back, is a-girl-and-her-backpack story with a #MeToo influence: Carlie is not merely traveling. A child sexual abuse survivor, as a teen, she steals ten thousand dollars from […]

Review – Paper Targets by Steve S. Saroff #literary #fiction

    Synopsis   Art, math, obsession, and greed. An artist who confesses to murders through her drawings and a marginalized drifter involved in computer crime have their paths collide in Montana while both are struggling to make amends for past failures in love. Part Montana wilderness, part techno, and part misdirected love, Paper Targets […]