Following the success of his first book, The Tourist Killer, FC Etier has released his second, The President’s Club, in installments on Venture Galleries. When completed, the author will self-published it in digital book form. A good serials does not always a good book make, but in this case, it works out pretty well. Julian… Read More Book Review: The President’s Club by FC Etier
What happens when your boyfriend of six months stages a bizarre fight with you one evening, then disappears, leaving behind evidence that incriminates you for his murder? Jillian Keating finds the answer to this question when her boyfriend, whom she knew as Ryan Cornell, does exactly that. Sounds like a terrible nightmare that makes for… Read More Book Review: The Disappearance, by Susan Berliner
As some of you have gently reminded me over the last few weeks, I have not posted anything here since 20 November 2013. That’s a 24 week absence, a portion of which has been spent reflecting on writing in the context of the advancement of the individual and the community. As long time readers of… Read More Does Writing Fiction Contribute to Personal and Community Development? (I hope so…)
Being a teenager is no simple task. One suddenly goes from being a child with simple needs, to having an increasing awareness of the world that shifts everything around, sometimes painfully so. Needless to say, it’s a complicated time of one’s life, even if nothing out of the ordinary happens. Like your mother disappearing. Many… Read More Book Review: Misplaced, by Lee Murray
I am extremely unhappy with author Ripley Patton, for I am forced to wait another couple of months before the third and last installment of the PSS Chronicles. She hooked me with the first installment, Ghost Hand (read my review here), got me addicted with Ghost Hold, the second installment, and now, I have to… Read More Book Review: Ghost Hold, by Ripley Patton
Mild Spoiler Alert! Far Forward, a book by independent author C. F. Waller, was published last month on Amazon. I noticed a post about it in a Facebook group, and one sentence in the description captured my attention: “Awakening on a lazy Saturday morning, Anna Katz is greeted by an older version of herself making… Read More Book Review: Far Forward, by C. F. Waller
When Michael Jackson passed away in 2009, I was captivated by the outpouring of grief that I both witnessed and felt. Yet again I was intrigued four months ago by the expressions of sorrow after the passing of Cory Monteith from a drug overdose during what seemed to be a successful Glee summer hiatus (during… Read More The Perhaps Not So Surprising Grief at the Passing of an Artist
Having myself just published a collection of creepy short stories, my interest in this book seemed inevitable, as it brings together “bite-sized” stories one can read in a matter of minutes. A mixture of horror, terror, disturbing, paranormal, and just plain weird, the stories are, for the most part, well written. The strength of this… Read More Book Review: Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror, Edited by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray
Contributing to the betterment of our communities requires understanding experiences that are sometimes completely different from our own. In this regard, it is so important for people lucky enough to come from happy, stable homes, to know what it is like to come from abusive homes, and what a child from such a home can… Read More Book Review: Amelia’s Destiny, by D.G. Torrens
As a self-professed, proud nerd, I find it thrilling how understanding constantly evolves. This means that there is always something more to learn! A friend and I had a wonderful moment last week when we felt our brains expand a little bit more around our newfound understanding of the meaning of community. We were discussing… Read More Out of Our Silos: Becoming a Community