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Excerpt+Giveaway: Reel to Reel by Isla Grey

Reel to Reel - Movie Mistakes from Hollywood's Favorite Filmsby Isla Grey

Lights, Camera, Action! From the very beginning, the world of cinema has captivated us. We have found ourselves laughing at our favorite comedies, crying when love finally comes to fruition, being beamed to other worlds or battling in the midst of action sequences. While movies might be the perfect entertainment, most have slight imperfections, mistakes, which go unseen, until they’re released and caught by the movie audi...

Review+Giveaway: The Virus of Beauty by C.B. Lyall

The Virus of BeautyA YA fantasy by C.B. Lyall

Ugliness is power, and the Virus of Beauty is spreading causing panic throughout the witch population.

Wilf Gilvary is a teenage wizard who is terrified of using magic. When his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Wilf is plunged into the middle of a political struggle between the witches and wizards in the Magical Realm. He’d rather play soccer than practice magic, but he’s forced to make a choice between the life of a normal Hong Kong tee...

Excerpt+Giveaway: Realm of Dragons by L.C. Conn

Realm of Dragons: Fight for the CrownA fantasy novel by L.C. Conn

The Realm of Dragons is in peril from hidden plots and conspirators, which threaten not only the crown, but the dragons that are at the very heart of it.

Teagan Loinsigh, long ago banished from her magical home of dragons now lives on Earth. Her dreams and memories of the great creatures are put down to fantasies and an overactive imagination, until one day she comes across a creature so unlike any other in the land she lives in...

Review+Giveaway: Catch it Spinning by Claudia J. Severin

Catch It SpinningA historical romance by Claudia J. Severin

Yvonne Edison thought she was so lucky, dating a hunky high school football hero. She was proud to be wearing Dick Dunn’s class of 1968 ring. She thought their future was college, marriage, and a family together. Dick thought his future was adding her V-card to his growing collection before moving on to corrupting college coeds.

She supposed all innocent girls had rude awakenings. New-boy-in-town Randy Sparks made her forget her unfai...

Interview+Giveaway: Murderous Envy by C.J. Carson

Murderous EnvyA Paranormal mystery by C.J. Carson

Allie Callahan had her whole life mapped out - run her family's marketing firm, make her first million, and get that next big contract. Destiny had another plan. After a catastrophic event forces her to rethink her life's path, Allie discovers that the heritage she's tried so hard to deny is about to lead her in an entirely new direction.

Unable to ignore her grandfather's Native American heritage, Allie embarks on a journey that will test her ...

Interview+Giveaway: Finding George Washington by Bill Zarchy

Finding George WashingtonA historical time-travel thriller by Bill Zarchy

On a freezing night in 1778, General George Washington vanishes. Walking away from the Valley Forge encampment, he takes a fall and is knocked unconscious, only to reappear at a dog park on San Francisco Bay—in the summer of 2014.

Washington befriends two Berkeley twenty-somethings who help him cope with the astonishing—and often comical—surprises of the twenty-first century.

Washington’s absence from Valley Forge, howe...

Interview+Giveaway: The Salty Rose by Beth Caruso

The Salty RoseA historical fiction by Beth M. Caruso

Marie du Trieux, a tavern keeper with a salty tongue and a heart of gold, struggles as she navigates love and loss, Native wars, and possible banishment by authorities in the unruly trading port of New Amsterdam, an outpost of the Dutch West India Company.

In New England, John Tinker, merchant and assistant to a renowned alchemist and eventual leader of Connecticut Colony, must come to terms with a family tragedy of dark proportions, all the...

Content Warnings: What They Are & Deciding Whether to Use Them

To content warning or not to content warning? That is the question.
Let’s take a stab at the answer.
Image credit to Barry Weatherall on Unsplash.
Content Warning: content warnings

If you’ve ever looked up a movie online before going to the theater (you know, back in the day), you probably saw a rating: G for “General,” “PG13 for “Parental guidance suggested for kids under 13,” and so on. Those ratings may also be accompanied by a word or two telling you why the movie is rated that way (for e...

Interview+Giveaway: Luka by Dianne Hartsock

LukaAn MM fantasy romance by Dianne Hartsock

Luka makes a desperate wish and the earth shifts to his will. Regretting it immediately, he tries to undue the sorcery, but it is too late. He asked for hope, and to his horror, all the hope in the world is given into his keeping. He desires nothing more than to return this gift to the world.

Aethan wants to get his hands on the Well of Hope in Luka’s keeping. If he can ransom out hope to others at his whim, the world will be at his feet. Where it b...

Audio Excerpt: Ever Alice by H.J. Ramsay

Ever Alice by H.J. RamsayNarrated by Caroline Holmes, 11 hrs 2 mins

Alice’s stories of Wonderland did more than raise a few eyebrows - it landed her in an asylum. Now at 15 years of age, she’s willing to do anything to leave, which includes agreeing to an experimental procedure. When Alice decides at the last minute not to go through with it, she escapes with the White Rabbit to Wonderland and trades one mad house for another: The court of the Queen of Hearts. Only this time, she is under order...