Author Mark Shaiken delivers a character-driven battle between history and finance in Automatic Stay, the second installment of his 3J Mystery series, a nuanced legal thriller that is also a love letter to Kansas City, celebrating the diversity of history, architecture, [...]
A recovering addict attempting to rejoin society is swept into the mysterious world of an eccentric sculptor in Oblivion Black by Christa Wojciechowski, a shadowy meditation on art, lust, fame and its ensuing destruction. From the first explosive, mind-rattling pages, this [...]
Author Jonathan Carreau sends readers on an over-the-top journey into madness in his novel, Mundanity, an alien satire of human life as we know it. When green-skinned Vince Patelo moves to the city of Mundanity for a new job, he isn't [...]
Wielding a wickedly original pen and a universe-shattering imagination, author Stella Atrium delivers a tour de force of sci-fi fantasy in her sprawling novel, Seven Beyond. Presenting an unseen world of immortals and powerful beings, as well as alien races that [...]
A thrillingly entertaining novel from author Derek Dubois, Miss Diagnosis is a crime thriller that slowly devolves into a nightmare tale of modern science gone terribly awry. Kate White is struggling to find her place as a soon-to-be doctor, constantly measuring [...]
An intricately plotted YA adventure novel about a group of unlikely heroes, K.N. Smith’s Discovery of the Five Senses is a fresh take on the classic good versus evil story. The peaceful, idyllic small town of Danville Heights is a perfect [...]
A momentous and impressive display of carefully crafted poetry, The Humbling and Other Poems by Robert J. Tiess is a complex yet accessible collection. Balancing experimental rhyme schemes and free verse poems with traditional patterns and melodic bursts of language, the [...]
A dark magical adventure into the far-flung future of humanity, Heretic by Chris Mayne is a bold, creative mixture of dark fantasy and dystopian fiction. An explosive disaster rocks the city of New Tartarus, leaving countless dead in its wake, except [...]
With a reverent pen and an enlightened mind, Renhui delivers a restorative collection of poetry with Song of a Lotus Leaf. As the title implies, this is classic meditative poetry about the inherent and simplistic beauty of the world, but there [...]
An emotionally astute short story collection about characters confronting relationship difficulties, Lata Gullapalli’s Three Loves and Other Stories is an intelligent book about the essential nature of spirituality and the process of making tough decisions. Gullapalli’s narrators are mostly women of [...]