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Posted on February 6, 2020 by Jeyran Main
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
Posted on February 3, 2020 by Jeyran Main
Posted on February 2, 2020 by Jeyran Main
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.
Posted on February 1, 2020 by Jeyran Main
Posted on January 31, 2020 by Jeyran Main
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.
Posted on January 30, 2020 by Jeyran Main
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
Posted on January 29, 2020 by Jeyran Main
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.
Posted on January 28, 2020 by Jeyran Main

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.
Posted on January 25, 2020 by Jeyran Main
Bad love strikes is a science fiction, time travel story revolving around a group of kids who happen to find a time machine while they wander around a tunnel leading them to the “White hold project.” This machine was made by Einstein in secret in case Hitler managed to get his hands on certain bombs that destroyed humanity. As the kids learn how to use the time machine, they travel back in time to the 1940s, in order to save the Jews and gypsies from the Holocaust.
