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Interview+Giveaway: Can Machines Bring Peace? by Floor Kist

Interview with Floor Kist, author of science fiction Can Machines Bring Peace?

Can a machine bring peace? Or are humans built for war?

450 years after Earth was bombed back to the Stone Age, a young diplomat searches for lost human settlements. Kazimir Sakhalinsk narrowly escapes an exploration mission gone wrong and searches for ways to make future missions safer for his people. A festival introduces him to the Marvelous Thinking Machine.

A machine Kazimir believes can change e...

Review+Giveaway: Sophie Washington Lemonade Day by Tonya Duncan Ellis

Review of middle grade Sophie Washington: Lemonade Day by Tonya Duncan Ellis

When Life Gives You Lemons…Make Lemonade

Sixth-grader Sophie Washington and friends learn lessons about entrepreneurship and team work when they sign up for a city-wide, Lemonade Day event. Sophie wants to buy her mother something special for her birthday, but she’s short on cash. Her bestie, Chloe, comes up with the perfect solution. Build their own lemonade stand to raise money at Lemonade Day! The girls...

Interview+Giveaway: If the Light Escapes by Brenda Marie Smith

Interview with Brenda Marie Smith, author of scifi If the Light Escapes

A standalone sequel to IF DARKNESS TAKES US

A solar electromagnetic pulse fried the U.S. grid fourteen months ago. Everything’s gone: power, cars, running water, communications, all governing control and help—gone. Now northern lights have started in Texas—3,000 miles farther south than where they belong. The universe won’t stop screwing with eighteen-year-old Keno Simms.

All that’s left for Keno, his family...

Review+Giveaway: In Daylight and Darkness by Dana Ardis

Review of romantic fantasy In Daylight and Darkness by Dana Ardis

Lots of kids have imaginary friends, but Kate had an entire imaginary world to visit when she was a girl. When she keeps insisting that her friends are real, she ends up in an institution, where she is forced to put that part of her life behind her. Shortly after Kate turns eighteen and leaves Bayshore Psychiatric to start a normal life, her old friend Cor returns, transformed from the boy she loved into a handsome but ...

Interview+Giveaway: The Rewired Series by Alexander Mukte

Interview with Alexander Mukte, author of The Rewired Series (scifi thriller-mysteries)

This is a fantastic, genre-bending series that weaves together the best mystery, visionary, and speculative fiction elements. With characters that span across books and time, The Rewired Series explores what plagues humanity and the impact each person can have while leaving you with the promise of a better tomorrow. Alexander Mukte wraps all of these themes inside edge-of-your-seat, engaging mysteries ...

Excerpt+Giveaway: The Hotel Series by Michael James

Interview with Michael James, author of urban fantasy The Hotel Series

No one has ever escaped from the Hotel at the End of Time. Until now.

Vain only wants to be left alone, but the Hotel has other plans. Forces will align against her: a group of multi-dimensional felons collectively named The Wyatts; and their leader, Trick, a mild-to-medium psychopath with a fondness for impractical jokes.

The only way forward is to go back. Back to the one place in the world she swore she’d neve...

Review+Giveaway: Never Say Chai by Kirsten Weiss

Review of cozy mystery Never Say Chai by Kirsten Weiss

It’s Halloween season in small town San Borromeo, and Abigail and Hyperion are determined to make Beanblossom’s Tea & Tarot spooktacular. But when Hyperion’s boyfriend, Detective Tony Chase, is arrested at Beanblossom’s for murder, the duo is certain someone’s playing a nasty trick. And when the official investigation turns into a witch hunt, the stakes to unearth the truth are raised…

But a clever killer has plans to squash th...

Review+Giveaway: Relatively Normal Secrets by C.W. Allen

Review of middle-grade mystery adventure Relatively Normal Secrets by C.W. Allen

Like most siblings, Tuesday and Zed don’t always get along. Unlike most siblings, their arguments are over things like whether their parents are hiding a life of crime, or are simply the weirdest adults on the planet. When they decide to go on the hunt for some solid evidence, things get weirder than ever: two thugs with shape-shifting swords show up, their dog shows off some tricks she definitely didn’t ...

Review+Giveaway: She’s the One Who Doesn’t Say Too Much by S. R. Cronin

Review of historical fantasy She’s the One Who Doesn’t Say Much by S. R. Cronin

Olivine, the fourth of seven sisters, has been hiding a secret as she travels to K’ba to meet her artist friends. Others assume she has fallen in love with another artist, and it’s not a match Mother would consider suitable. But it’s much worse that. For on the way to K’ba is the dirt poor nichna of Scrud, a place scorned by all other Ilarians. And in Scrud is the one man who understands her.

However, B...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Death’s Curses by Becca Fox and Martha Agundez

Featuring Death’s Curses, an urban fantasy romance by Becca Fox and Martha Agundez

After one screw up too many, Esmeralda Barnes is shipped off to Seattle to start her first semester of college while living under the strict guardianship of her great aunt. She’s prepared to serve her time in simmering silence when she meets Charlie Campbell, the only person worth talking to at the tiny community college she’s being forced to attend. His efforts to scare her away don’t work, not even wh...