Nov 22, 2023
Books That Make You Join With Aliens to Face a Common Threat
How about genre-bending today?
Beth Freely, award-winning author and BookFest Bellwether, is also a businesswoman and publishing industry professional. Raised in upstate New York and a temporary ex-pat in Great Britain, today she’s settled and writing...
Nov 16, 2023
Books That Make You Mix Historical Cultures, Artifacts and, indeed, Aliens
KG Maw is back with us to discuss his book The Lazarus Project, the latest in his rich and stimulating “KV 66” series. Certainly a lot has happened since his previous visit, in both his fictional world and the real one.
Ancient Egypt,...
Nov 8, 2023
Books That Make You Tuck In With a Great Mystery
We all love a book that makes you want to pour a cup of joe and cozy up by the crackling fireplace. And that’s what Donalee Moulton delivers in her debut novel, Hung Out to Die.
The mystery follows Riel, a California-born transplant to Nova Scotia, where he is CEO...
Oct 25, 2023
Books That Make You Think About Your Own Humanness as a Writer
As with any art, writing is both a natural talent and a developed skill. Many folks erroneously believe it’s all natural, or that storytelling is so ingrained in us that anyone can do it well. So far as we know, no other creature writes. Using the...
Oct 18, 2023
Books That Make You Enter A Dark, Political Fantasy Realm
We all love villains we can relish hating, and new realms we can escape into. Mix all this with a dark fantasy world, and political satire, and you might just get The Amber Menhir, the first book in “The Shadows of the Monolith” series.
Debut author...