The Casting Meeting: A Daydream by Sybil Le Pyrmont

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Remember the good olden days of adolescence? You were alone in your room, headphones on. The Wild Boys blared at tinnitus-inducing volumes. Your mic was a Dr Pepper can (with those few leftover drops that invariably landed in your eye), your audience a mirror framed with yellowed clippings of A-Ha and Andrew McCarthy. Yes, yes, I know, we’re talking a very distant adolescence here. Anyway, that mirror showed you where you knew deep down you belonged: on a glamorously lit stage – aka the high school gym at prom – flooring the Heathers who ignored you all your life and dazzling the handsome-oblivious-misunderstood jock you’ve been secretly worshipping since fifth grade. Oh, and let’s not forget the talent scout from Sony Music who just happens to drop by your small-town prom with a multi-million-dollar contract in his pocket.

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South America and Iron Spires over the White CitY by Joseph Rollins

My favorite question at book readings is why I chose Colombia for the setting of my Victorian-era steampunk novel. After opening in London, the main characters travel to New Grenada, the colonial name for the northwest corner of South America. The story progresses from Cartagena on the Caribbean coast, through the rain forests to the abandoned Spanish capital of Bogota. The novel’s climax takes place in Popayán, a mountain town far to the southwest.

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On the Origin of Ideas by Richard Cunliffe

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Among the many questions asked of authors, one of the most frequent must be: “Where do you get your ideas from?”

My answer often proves a surprise.

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The Promise by Connie Rife (Book Review #866)

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The promise is a beautiful memoir written about a young girl named Connie. The memoir is set in the late 1960s, Pennsylvania. Connie is raised in a children’s home as her mother is mentally unstable to care for her. As she runs away from the house to find her alcoholic father, she still struggles to find peace with the matter. The story is a coming-of-age notion of a young girl’s friendship with God and how she turns to him for help at just 11 years of age.

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Soaring Through Silent Skies by Brian Ehlers (Book Review #865)

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Soaring through silent skies is a biography. It tells the story of a trailblazer who succeeds in becoming a successful athlete and coach in a world where against the odds, Brian is deaf.

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The Good Witch of the South by T. C. Bartlett (Book REVIEW #821)

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The good witch of the South is a young adult fantasy story. The tale takes you on a journey to the Ozarian adventure in the land of Oz. A sixteen-year-old girl named Samantha Goodwitch, who is the daughter of Glinda, the good witch of the South, decides to adventure into the wild looking for dragons and an army rumored to be growing to overthrow the Great Head of Oz.

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UNHINGED by Brendon Luke (Book Review #862)

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Unhinged is a self-help, self-dedicated book on helping the reader judge and hopefully learn that there will be a time when you reach a certain point and find that saving grace from within. It is some sort of a spiritual power created by yourself; whether it’s right or wrong is your choice, but it’s all about the courage to trust yourself. The message is clear, and that is to let people know it’s okay to mess up. It’s okay to fail because you get to learn from it and move on.

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The way out by Armond Boudreaux (Book Review #861)

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The way out is a sci-fi thriller and tells the story of two women who discover how governments around the world are secretly using the “medical miracle” of the artificial human womb to monitor and stamp out genetic aberrations.

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The Last Angel Warrior John W. Wells III (Book Review #860)

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The last angel warriors is a young adult science fiction and fantasy story about Kalib. Everything is good and expected for this 16-year-old until someone comes into his town called Hainesville.

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