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 [...]

Real Women Wear Red by Kathy Holmes

Real Women Wear Red
Kathy Holmes
Lulu Books
2007
  
www.kathyholmes.net
  
Kate “Cyn” Francis is in a frump.
  
Unlucky at love, Cyn wonders if her second chance at love will ever come along. At forty five, it’s been years since she’s had a man in her bed and love in her heart. Her ex, a big fake, turned out to [...]

MIKE by L. Diane Wolfe

Have you ever wanted something so badly you could taste it? Have you ever wished you could travel back in time and erase past mistakes so that you could start fresh? Have you ever regretted something you have done?  

Mike Taylor is a troubled young man.  

Though you wouldn’t know this to look at him. Hard working [...]

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 [...]

Imagine This by Sade Adeniran

Imagine This
Sade Adeniran
www.imaginethisthenovel.com     
Imagine this: being taken away from all that you cherish, all that you love and being thrust into a landscape that is frightening, bizarre and so incredibly different from all that you know.  

This is exactly what happens to nine year old Lola Ogunwole. Born in London to Nigerian parents, her world is [...]

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 [...]

The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincon Child

Things are jumping at the New York Museum of Natural History.
 
When a mysterious package arrives addressed simply to The Rocks and Minerals Curator, it sets off a chain reaction of events so stunning that no one could have predicted it. The package is leaking a small amount of brown powder that looks strangely like [...]

A Collection of Love, Pleasure and Pain by Corlis

 
 
Everyone wants love.
 
People crave love, desire love, need love. Some obsess over it; some dream of it. Some are even consumed by it. There are all kids of love in the world and with love, there is always pleasure.
 
But pleasure can bring you something else. Something darker that speaks to you in the [...]

In Search of Adam by Caroline Smailes

When she is seven years old, Jude finds her mother dead from an overdose.  A bottle of pills lay scattered on the bedside table and there is a note. Jude approaches her mother carefully, slowly. The note says: Jude, I have gone in search of Adam I love you baby. 

Jude doesn’t understand. She climbs into [...]