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Excerpt+Giveaway: The Infant Spirits by Janice Tremayne

Featuring The Infant Spirits, Book 4 in the Haunting Clarisse horror series by Janice Tremayne

When a poltergeist takes root in a hospital, can a determined ghost chaser undo a devilish long-lasting curse?

Clarisse Garcia has always fought evil. A driven spirit hunter, she demolishes demonic threats before they can corrupt the innocent. But even this hardened woman is stunned when she enters an eerie Tasmanian maternity ward filled with the anguished cries of babies’ souls.

Unde...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Shattered by C. Lee McKenzie

Featuring contemporary YA Shattered, A Story of Betrayal and Courage by C. Lee McKenzie

Courage put Libby Brown into the final selection for the Olympics, but betrayal crushed her spine and her chance at the Gold. Now she has two choices, use her courage to put her life back together, or remain shattered forever.

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Excerpt from Shattered

I knew hearts didn’t stop beating until you died, yet I was certa...

Interview+Giveaway: A Moment in Time by Martin Dukes

Featuring an interview with Martin Dukes, author of YA fantasy A Moment in Time

Alex Trueman has just turned fifteen. He’s a typical teenager, a bit spotty, a bit nerdy and he’s not exactly popular at school, not being one of the ‘cool’ kids. His tendency to day-dream doesn’t exactly help him to be cool. either! But being cool isn’t as good as the talent Alex discovers he has – stopping time.

Yes that’s right. Stopping time!

Well, for everyone except Alex, that is, who finds tha...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Can’t Think Straight by Isabel Scheck

Featuring Can’t Think Straight by Isabel Scheck, a book of LGTBQ poetry

A collection of 35 poems in which a poet thinks about women a little too much… (Sapphic poetry)

Excerpt from Can’t Think Straight

Poem no. 2: Love Is…

I am in love with love.

Love is blonde hair and green eyes.

Love is infectious laughter and soft smiles, Love is cuddling while watching a movie.

I am in love with love.

Love is caring and loyal.

Love is pretty and tells me she loves me.

L...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Polish Dragon P. I. by Steve Zimcosky

Featurning Polish Dragon P. I. (The Good Book) by Steve Zimcosky, a mystery

A bible mysteriously disappears from a Russian businessman’s home and it is said to have a secret hidden inside that would cause embarrassment to the Russian Orthodox Church. The Polish Dragon P. I. is called in, along with his new partner, to help find the bible. The problem is the bible is not supposed to exist and there is a secret organization, sworn to protect the church, also looking for the bible. They ...

Review+Giveaway: Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi

Review of Middle grade fantasy Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi

There’s nothing magical about wizard school

. . . at least, not for Cara Moone.

Most wizard kids spend their days practicing spells and wielding wands, but Cara? She’s on the fast track to becoming a MOP (a.k.a. Magical Occurrence Purger). You see, when a real wizard casts a spell, it leaves behind a residue called spell dust—which, if not disposed of properly, can cause absolute chaos in the nonmagical world. It’s ...

Review+Giveaway: Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs

My review of cozy mystery Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs

It’s the week before Christmas as tea maven Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton, cater a fancy Victorian Christmas party for Miss Drucilla Heyward, one of Charleston’s wealthy doyennes. But smack dab in the middle of the Fa-la-la’s, Miss Drucilla is murdered, her gold rings stolen off her fingers, and a genuine Renoir snatched off the wall.

The police come screaming in while Theodosia peers speculatively ...

Guest Post+Giveaway: Ashes of Aldyr by Russell Archey

Guest Post from Russell Archey, author of dark fantasy Ashes of Aldyr

The world of Alda is broken, destroyed by an event the survivors call “The Rupture.” The aldyrs, magical trees connected to the soul of the world and once grew in breathtaking groves, are dead. Elf-kind, who shared a close bond with these trees, are dying off due to shortened life-spans as a result. The dwarves have retreated into their mountain homes. Humans gather in crumbling settlements. Sinister, god-like being...

Interview+Giveaway: Yesterday’s Gone by Kelly Pawlik

Interview with Kelly Pawlik, author of YA scifi/horror Yesterday’s Gone

Book one of the Olympic Vista Chronicles  novella series follows Darius and Adelaide as they explore a house rumoured to be haunted. What they find is so much worse.

An eager new kid, a deadpan music-lover, a fast-talking troublemaker, an anxious bookworm and a girl torn between popularity and adventure. Follow this group of friends as they delve into the mysteries of their small town while juggling the trials and ...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Summer Storms by Thomas Grant Bruso

Featuring YA LGTB romance Summer Storms by Thomas Grant Bruso

Sixteen-year-old Earl Layman is going stir-crazy. Secluded with the flu inside the four walls of his home and only the escape of his video games to help him through, Earl is struggling to keep his sanity.

That is until he notices the boy next door, seventeen-year-old Rex Chambers, raking leaves in the adjacent yard.

Earl’s summer is about to change. Before another torrential rainstorm hits the small upstate New York t...