Emlyn Chand has always loved to hear and tell stories, having emerged from the womb with a fountain pen grasped firmly in her left hand (true story). When she’s not writing, she runs a large book club in Ann Arbor and is the president of author PR firm, Novel Publicity. Emlyn loves to [...]
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FARSIGHTED, by Emlyn Chand, Blue Crown Press, 226 pp., Kindle 99 cents.
Alex Kosmitoras’s life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead-broke and insanely overprotective, and to complicate matters even more, he’s blind. Just when he [...]
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A DEATH FOR BEAUTY, by Alberto Rios Arias, Freedom River Books, Kindle Edition, $7.95.
Set during the Civil War, a troubled young woman struggles with her conscience after the suspicious death of her unfaithful husband. When her dreams of a new life seem hopeful, she ventures across the western plains with her sickly [...]
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THE PUB ACROSS THE POND, by Mary Carter, Kensington, 336 pp., $10.95.
“Sometimes leaving home is the only way to find where you belong….”
Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The [...]
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John Banks was born in Asheville, NC. His storytelling is very much in the Southern tradition, with a special affinity for humorists such as Mark Twain and the Old Southwest school of writers. Though entirely imaginary, much of the material in Glorify Each Day must have come from his many years as a teacher in [...]
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About Mary Carter
MARY CARTER is a freelance writer and novelist. The Pub Across the Pond is her [...]
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HOMECOMING – OSGUARDS: GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE, by Malcolm Petteway, Rage Books, 300 pp., $14.50.
For centuries the planets of Kulusk and Chaktun have battled in the heavens above Earth. In 1860, twin Chaktun princesses, Laurona and Nausona Osguard, fled to Earth and were beaten and raped as slaves in the United States’ [...]
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WHEN STARS ALIGN, by Carole Kosoff, Author House, 412 pp., $17.95.
In an excerpt from Carole Kosoff’s new book, When Stars Align, we get to read about a place and time where mixed-race relationships are both illegal and unacceptable. The time is a crucial period in American history–the Civil War and the years of [...]
YOU NEVER KNOW: TALES OF TOBIAS AN ACCIDENTAL LOTTERY WINNER, by Lilian Duval, Wheatmark, 354 pp., $16.02.
In an excerpt from Lilian Duval’s new book, You Never Know: Tales of Tobias an Accidental Lottery Winner, we get to see what could happen in one split minute that will change our lives forever. But it does [...]
Where I’m planning a wonderful 3 day trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina next week, I thought wouldn’t it be really neat if I could work on my next book (ahem…The Soul Mate Triangle: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Soul Mate Relationship) while I’m there? Sure, I could move the doc over to [...]
