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Review: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Lois Ann Nicolai

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Lois Ann Nicolai

In the vibrant chronicle, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: A Memoir of One Citizen Activist, author and activist Lois Ann Nicolai demonstrates how an apparently “ordinary” person can have a profound impact on the world at any age.

Nicolai was raised on a farm in rural America, imbuing her with a sense that all of us have a mission to perform. She married and had six children, feeling that raising them well was her personal purpose, but at age forty-six, she suddenly and unexpectedly became a widow. Dealing with grief and the need to forge a new life for herself, […]

2022-03-04T02:18:13+02:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

An Interview with Mharlyn Merritt: Author of The Actor

Mharlyn MerrittMharlyn Merritt has an MFA in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she served as an editorial fiction reader for The Literary Review. Mharlyn’s interests include the intertextuality between literature and film (especially Classic Hollywood cinema/Film Noir) and its impact on contemporary culture. Mharlyn is also a renowned Jazz vocalist and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Jazz Performance. She lives and writes in her hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tell us about your book.

The Actor is a homage to Classic Hollywood with a nod to film noir and screwball comedies. It’s also a […]

2020-11-13T08:36:19+02:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with T.K. Wolf: Author of Fatal Decision

T.K. WolfT. K. Wolf is a former Army brat who now lives in Green Camp, Ohio. In addition to trips to the gun range and local bookshop, he enjoys spending time with his Golden Retriever and German Shepherd, Charlotte and Artemis. Fatal Decision is his debut novel.

Tell us about your book.

Fatal Decision is a thriller and suspense novel with a strong female protagonist at the helm. Sam Harker is a ruthless assassin with a unique motivation which makes her instantly sympathetic to a vast majority of readers, both male and female. While my plot line is perhaps not entirely […]

2020-11-10T08:05:08+02:00November 10th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

Review: 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks by Mirza Barlas, MBA

6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks by Mirza Barlas, MBA

Successful entrepreneur Mirza Barlas shares his affirmative philosophy with parables, positive reminders, and “specks of gold” to maintain happiness and sustain achievement in 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks: Maximize Your Life Satisfaction, Experiences, and Results.

Barlas begins with a brief illustrative vignette from his own life: after attaining great success as an expert in the field of business transformation while still in his twenties, he found he was not happy. To become happy, he realized, required that, as Thomas Aquinas asserted, he would know what he ought to believe, desire, and do. Based on this personal revelation, he began a […]

2020-11-18T04:42:02+02:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

An Interview with Kaylin McFarren: Author of Soul Seeker

Kaylin McFarrenMy real name is Linda Yoshida but I write under the pen name of Kaylin McFarren — my grandmother’s name, a writer who was never published.

Kaylin McFarren has received 50 national literary awards, in addition to a prestigious RWA Golden Heart Award nomination for Flaherty’s Crossing – a book she and her oldest daughter, New York Times/USA Today best-selling author Kristina McMorris, co-wrote in 2008.

Prior to embarking on her writing journey and developing the popular Threads psychological thriller series, she poured her passion for creativity into her work as the director of a fine art gallery in the […]

2020-11-10T07:53:07+02:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

Review: The Art of Influencing Project Success by Nicholas Ferguson

The Art of Influencing Project Success by Nicholas Ferguson

Nicholas Ferguson, a successful technical advisor, suggests new, innovative, and at times radical ways to view one’s work life in The Art of Influencing Project Success: Positively Accelerate Project Outcomes Working from Home or the Office.

A uniquely wide-ranging self-help guide, Ferguson’s book examines the way that project management can be successfully achieved through broadened perspective. He recounts that from childhood he had an innate belief that the universe from its smallest particle was charged with energy. In the same way, our work and the projects we undertake are imbued with energies that need to be recognized and channeled. […]

2020-11-03T07:55:25+02:00November 2nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: Soul Seeker by Kaylin McFarren

Soul Seeker by Kaylin McFarren

When a corrupted child grows into an unrepentantly evil young man, he must be stopped, and that will require the investigations of a horrified father and the services of a dedicated demon, in the colorfully complex fantasy by author Kaylin McFarren, Soul Seeker.

Firefighter Benjamin Poe is fed up with his lazy, complaining son Gabe, but those feelings amplify when there’s a fire at Gabe’s workplace, killing the three co-workers he particularly despised. Poe can’t help but try to learn more until he is confronted by a strange man with bright flashing eyes. Crighton is so well acquainted with […]

2020-10-27T08:10:47+02:00October 27th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

An Interview with Amanda Dodson Gremillion: Author of Just Buy Her a Dress and She’ll Be Fine

Amanda Dodson GremillionAmanda Dodson Gremillion was born in Anniston, Al. She now lives in Calera, AL with her husband and high school sweetheart, Jay, their daughter, Aubrie and their two dogs Honey Girl and Cooper. Amanda graduated from Auburn University in 2003 with a Business/Marketing degree and has since worked mainly in Human Resources and Payroll after working in Inside Sales for a short time. She is now a preschool teacher.

She published her first book in 2012 about her personal experience with severe postpartum OCD, Anxiety and depression. In 2020, she had the book professionally edited and she republished it under […]

2020-10-21T02:43:33+02:00October 21st, 2020|Categories: Interviews|
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