What I’m Reading Now: Wicked By Gregory Maguire

 
I’m sure that everyone is familiar with this book by now. Maguire takes on the daunting task of filling in the details that The Wizard of Oz left out: Where did the Wicked Witch of the West come from? What was her life like? Was she born green? Or, more importantly, was she born evil?
Maguire [...]

Sandy Lender Tells Us About Joy

 
I am pleased to be featuring an article by the multi-talented Sandy Lender, author of the incredible high fantasy novel Choices Meant for Gods.
 
I met Sandy about a year ago and now it’s hard not to picture having her in my life. Not only is she an immensely talented writer, she is also an [...]

Blood Red by Heather Graham

Blood Red
Heather Graham
Mira Books
July 2007
Genre: Paranormal/Romance
  
Lauren Crow is not having a good time.
 
After accompanying her friends Heidi and Deanna on a trip to New Orleans to celebrate Heidi’s upcoming wedding, she receives bad news: her life is in danger.
 
The giver of this news is Susan, a fortune teller in Jackson Square. She stares [...]

The God Interviews by Natalie d’Arbeloff

Have you ever stopped to wonder who God truly is?
 
 
Is he a man or a woman? Is he black or white? Maybe she’s purple or yellow? Would he be wise? Would she be menacing? What if we could sit down with God and ask those questions we all have burning a fire inside of [...]

Sandy Lender Stops by The Book Pedler!

Have I got a treat for all of you today!

Many of you will remember the review I wrote for Choices Meant for Gods by Sandy Lender. If you don’t remember the review, you can always read it by clicking right here:
http://thebookpedler.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/choices-meant-for-gods-by-sandy-lender/

The review doesn’t even come close to telling you how amazing this novel [...]

Let Us Play by Karen Magill

 
 
Here’s what I want you to do:
 
 
 
Go to your CD collection and pick a CD. I want it to be good and loud, a rock ‘n roll CD with beat, with a pulse, with life. Maybe some Aerosmith. What? No Aerosmith? Okay, how about The Rolling Stones? What? No Rolling Stones? You have to [...]

Blood Calls by Caridad Pineiro

Diego Rivera is no stranger to loneliness.
 
Alive for thousands of years, he has denied himself the one thing he has always craved most: the love of a woman. After his wife’s betrayal, and his vampire lover’s demise, he knows that there is no love for him in the world. There is only pain; darkness. [...]

Choices Meant for Gods by Sandy Lender

 
What would you do to save something you loved? What would you do if you were threatened? Would you cower? Or would you fight with everything you had, every ounce of strength and magic you possessed? Some of us aren’t even given that choice.
 
When Jamieson Drake, evil sorcerer, attacks the settlement of Treown, Amanda [...]

The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost

The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost  

By: Dorothy Thompson, Heidi AW Kaminski and Pamela Ryan-Lawniczak 

Mardis Gras Publishing, 2006 

Web Site: http://www.milliondollarghost.homestead.com/ 

Blog: http://thesearchforthemilliondollarghost.blogspot.com/ 

Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOklaNgirZI 

Loneliness can drive a person to do lots of things. But it can also bring old memories to the surface. One of those you’ve loved, those you yearned for and [...]

The Rock of Realm by Lea Schizas

The Rock of Realm
By Lea Schizas
Star Publish Books, 2005
http://leaschizaseditor.tripod.com 
Life is exceedingly normal for fourteen year old Alex Stone. She has to clean up her dogs mess, get a ride to school from old Ms. Harris who shouldn’t be allowed on the road and babysit Ms. Harris’ grandchildren after school against her will. Life could [...]