Mary MacDougall & Me By Richard Audry

Mary MacDougall & Me By Richard Audry

I first tried my hand at writing novels back in the late ’80s, with an epic fantasy of 120k words that never sold. Next, I tackled a mystery. And not just any mystery, but a historical mystery. It wasn’t enough to confront the challenges of plotting a whodunit for the very first time. I had to add on the layers and complexities of a historical period I had not lived through and had not exactly studied deeply. But I was game for giving it my best shot. I knew I would have to do research—and I did plenty, in a nearby university library. No Google in those days; not even an Internet.

Read More

How Themes Add impact to a Novel by Evelyn Puerto

 

How Themes Add impact to a Novel by Evelyn Puerto

 

Squeals of glee mixed with a deeper laughter came from the stairs. My four-year-old grandson was playing one of his favorite games with his dad: sliding down the stairs.

 

He’d want to play that game for hours, chuckling when they ended up in a heap at the bottom, racing back to the top for another go. Read More

Chats with God in Underwear by Eduardo Chapunoff (Book Review #699)

Chats with God is a fictional book written about God deciding to walk on earth as a person and conducting dialogue with various religions. God finds a friend named John and only reveals himself to him in order to interact with humans and to understand them better.

Read More

FORGET NORMS – “A Provocative Reasoning” by Neville Diony (Book Review #698)

Forget norms is a self-help book about personal growth and creating new thoughts. The work also touches on social, environmental issues such as being a good Samaritan and assisting citizens in need. The effects of being a people’s pleaser and the ways humans react towards the social impact of the norm are also the prominent conversation of the book.

Read More

What goes down- the end of an eating disorder by Callie Bowld (Book Review #697)

What goes down is a self-help nutrition and story style natured book written about a woman who’s been struggling with bring eating, bulimia and other forms of eating disorders. She describes her struggles with food from the beginning.

Read More

Never stop dancing by John Robinette and Robert Jacoby (Book Review #696)

Never stop dancing is a Memoir. The book is written about grief, friendships and love. The loss of John’s wife is the prominent and most impactful part of the content. The loss truly moves his home and world, and as he grieves over the absence of his wife, he raises two young boys. Robert, who is John’s friend, interviews him for the first year, and the book becomes a back and forth dialogue of memories retold by him.

 

Read More

A collaboration of authors by Dennis Scheel

A collaboration of authors by Dennis Scheel

 

            In the world of writing, we always start with an idea, which turns into a script filled by our hard work, hundreds of hours, if you can settle for only that spent writing, editing or reworking it, making it the best it can be. It’s a very private endeavor, at first at least. Another idea is at some point after you start writing, you might get lucky to be a part of a collaboration of authors, mostly prevalent in short stories that fill a novel or to write a novel-length story. One well-known example of this is Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, two authors only. Starting at this can be a tricky feat. Read More

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades by S.M. Stevens (Book Review #693)

Horseshoes and hand grenades is a story about two women who happen to experience abuse. Astrid happens to experience this from work and is severely affected by it. For Shelby things are different. She is scarred from a very young age. This matter influences her in so many ways. Her relationships are most often disrupted, her behavior is not stable, and she often feels sad.

Read More

S.M. Stevens, author of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

 

S.M. Stevens, author of Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

 

 

Why I Wrote a “#MeToo Novel”

 

Almost every time I am interviewed about my new novel Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, the interviewer asks why I wanted to write about sexual abuse and workplace harassment. Some ask with a tone that suggests I must like gory movies and watching train wrecks too. (For the record, I do not.) Others ask with a knowing nod, sure that the answer will be the #MeToo movement.

Read More

Review Tales

Trusted Reviews and Author Features Since 2016

Skip to content ↓