Q: How did you get started in writing horror and suspense?I’ve always been a reader of the genre, but it took me a while to find my footing in horror. Ithought I wanted to write literary fiction, and it wasn’t until I was about age thirty that I realizedOH I’m a horror writer! Everything I… Continue Reading →</a
Category Archives: Urban Book Reviews
Review: Death Warrant
Synopsis: Death Makes Great TV. Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie—a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big—agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she signs her life away, her memory is wiped clean of… Continue Reading →</a
Author Interview with Nzondi
Q: When did you first begin writing horror stories?First, I’d like to thank you for having me!When I was eight or nine years old. A friend named Johnny Bryant and I used to makecomic books back in Elementary School. At the time I made King Kong and Godzillastories. It didn’t get serious until after 1995,… Continue Reading →</a
Guest Post from Paradise Cove Tour
“Extra cheese, please,” Leslie (Double L) said. I used to refer to her as Lovely Leslie, butshortened it to simply Double L many years ago. Francisco smiled and made a note on his order pad. “Sure, no problem.” Leslie looked at me and shrugged. “I’m on vacation.” She took a swig of her Amstel Bright.No… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Journey to Freedom
Synopsis: This book is written especially for those seeking a way out of bondage. It allows all to be free, regardless of where you are. The Journey to Freedom has answers that allow peace and solace from the very first page. Get started on the road to health, peace of mind, and success in the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: My Best Genealogy Tips-Quick Keys to Research Ancestry
Synopsis: My Best Genealogy Tips: Quick Keys to Research Ancestry will assist beginners and researchers who feel they need to start over. This is the first in a series of books that will walk you through getting an oral history interview, using historical records rather than family trees for proving research, and making sure you… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Meet This Author!
Q&A with Author J Lynn Else Q: When did you first begin writing stories?I’ve always loved stories and books. I must have started writing more seriously in middle school, ‘seriously’ meaning that people started noticing, as a friend gifted me with a blank book “for all the future stories I would write.” I never really… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Paradise Cove
c Paradise Cove by Davin Goodwin April 1-30, 2022 Virtual Book Tour Synopsis: Every day is paradise on Bonaire—until something unexpected washes ashore On the laid-back island of Bonaire, every day is paradise until a seaweed-entangled human leg washes ashore. Combing the beach, retired cop Roscoe Conklin examines the scene and quickly determines that the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Trigger Point
Synopsis: When the CIA recruited him… …they said he would need to make sacrifices for his country. Did he understand they meant he’d give up everything? Growing up in the Midwest, Nicholas, a farm boy, knew how to work hard and understood the importance of friends and family. It’s 1985 and his old coach just… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Last Dance with a Cowboy
Synopsis: Can this wandering cowboy convince his first love that he deserves a second chance in a charming contemporary romance for fans of New York Times bestselling authors Jennifer Ryan and Maisey Yates—with a bonus novella by Carolyn Brown! Leila Valentino will do anything to keep her grandparents’ Colorado winery afloat. Even partner with August Harding, the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: The Bucharest Dossier
Synopsis: Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Scattered Legacy
Synopsis: To outsiders, the relationship between Manhattan antiquities assessor Annalisse Drury and sports car magnate Alec Zavos must look carefree and glamorous. In reality, it’s a love affair regularly punctuated by treasure hunting, action-packed adventure, and the occasional dead body. When Alec schedules an overseas trip to show Annalisse his mother’s birthplace in Bari, Italy, he squeezes in the… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Summer at Stallion Ridge
Synopsis: “Clear off space on your keeper shelf, Fossen has arrived.”—Lori Wilde, New York Times bestselling author Can two old friends rekindle the spark that brought them together when their pasts are littered with land mines? The chance to be near his young son is the only thing that could entice former SWAT commander Matt Corbin back… Continue Reading →</a
Review: The Last Grand Duchess
Synopsis: This sweeping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Woman Before Wallis takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the last Tsar. Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe…. Continue Reading →</a
Review: Trust Me
Synopsis: When Delaney Broward finds her best friend stabbed to death a decade after her brother suffered the same fate, she must confront her painful past in order unmask a killer who isn’t done yet. How can this be happening again? Delaney Broward has spent the last ten years rebuilding her life after finding her… Continue Reading →</a
Q&A with Author Richard H. Stephens
Meet Author Richard H. Stephens Q: How old were you when you first started to write? What was the names of that first story?I was 9-years-old. Because of my love of Hardy Boys’ books, I decided to write something similar. I combined my last name with my best friend’s last name and called the book:… Continue Reading →</a
Q&A with Dr. Teresa Cody
Q: How did you get into dentistry? My undergraduate degree was biology and from there I continued my education at the University of Texas Dental Branch and received a doctorate degree in 1992. My husband and I bought a dental practice in 1993 in Sugar Land, Texas and we have been in private practice since… Continue Reading →</a
Review: Song Girl
Synopsis: Detective Marc Allen is ready to leave the Raleigh, North Carolina, Police Department. Two murders that happened on his watch have apparently been solved thanks to a suicide note confession written by a distraught father. But Allen isn’t buying it. He’s convinced that the man’s adopted daughter, Teri Hickox, is the one responsible for… Continue Reading →</a
Meet Author Emma V.R. Noyes
Q: When did first come up with the idea for your novel, The Sunken City? I’ve always had an obsession with the water; I grew up in Chicago, next to Lake Michigan, and I was a competitive springboard diver for a long time. The idea for this novel was born over twenty years ago, when I wrote… Continue Reading →</a
Review: The Sunken City
Synopsis: Amare Bellamy is not a witch. Orphaned as a child and raised on a ship by the most dangerous men in the Caribbean, Amare is one thing and one thing alone: a pirate. And pirates hate magic. After a fateful storm plunges her to the depths of the ocean, Amare wakes to find herself… Continue Reading →</a