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Dawn and Beyond: Embark by Gary W. Burns

Poet Gary W. Burns pours out his destiny-driven heart in his latest collection, Dawn and Beyond: Embark. The majority of the pieces are short, but the language across the collection is carefully chosen and meditative. Despite their apparent simplicity, each poem can be examined with a close-read microscope, as the language often has multiple layers and potential meanings to unpack. Burns demonstrates his powerful observational eye, as well as his critical and analytic nature, without losing a palpable longing for mysticism, whimsy, and wonder. All told, this is an original and comforting selection of poetry that offers a rewarding […]

SPR2023-03-10T12:15:29+02:00March 10th, 2023|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

This May Be Difficult to Read by Claire N. Rubman, PhD

Author Claire N. Rubman, PhD presents a revolutionary new take on a fundamental facet of childhood development in This May Be Difficult to Read: But You Really Should (for your child’s sake). Calling out some of the most destructive myths and ineffective teaching methods related to reading and literacy, this is both a persuasive thesis and a friendly guidebook. Rubman does an excellent job of maintaining the accessibility of the book, without compromising her role as an academic authority and expert in the field. This May Be Difficult to Read is a tremendously helpful read for parents, teachers, and […]

SPR2023-02-07T17:14:09+02:00February 7th, 2023|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

An Interview with Sebastien Taveau: Author of The Delivery Man

Sebastien Taveau Sebastien Taveau is a puzzle solver and beyond-the-horizon watcher.

Seb’s technical and professional experience spans over 25 years in various industries. He has shaped ecosystems and products around FinTech, mobile payment, mobile security, mobile identity, and consumer solutions even when he was told it was impossible.

He has provided expert opinions for and has been quoted in the WSJ, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Reuters, Mashable, USA Today, CNN, CBC, Forbes, Dark Reading, Digital Transactions, Newsweek, etc. on topics ranging from mobile payments to mobile identity, and consumer biometrics and […]

SPR2023-01-24T16:04:29+02:00January 24th, 2023|Categories: Interviews|

A Date with Lima by Dr. Michael Abraham

A Date with Lima by Michael Abraham A sensational and gripping memoir, A Date with Lima: Dreams Not Surrendered by Dr. Michael Abraham recounts the author’s tireless efforts to find his two young daughters when he discovered that their mother abducted them.

In July 1997, Brigitte Abraham told her ex-husband, a doctor and recovering alcoholic twenty years her senior, that she was taking their two children – Stephanie, age 9, and Lia, age 7 – on a vacation to her native Germany. What she did not tell him was that with the help of her boyfriend, a Peruvian foreign diplomat, she planned to disappear with the girls […]

SPR2023-01-24T17:44:01+02:00January 24th, 2023|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews|

Southern-Fried Woolf by Drēma Drudge

A mixture of academic intrigue and romantic torment, Southern-Fried Woolf by Drēma Drudge is a clever and intelligently written work that is part essay and part fiction. While dealing with yet another scandal around her rockstar husband Michael, Briscoe also has to write her thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Healing through her literary work, sassy band manager and country music lover Briscoe attempts to make sense of her husband’s infidelity in a way one only can through art. A celebration of how books and music can help one transcend life’s daily trials, Southern-Fried Woolf is a quick-witted […]

SPR2023-01-24T12:53:48+02:00January 23rd, 2023|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

An Interview with Manson, Anthony Perconti, and Jason Duke: Authors of The Hell Bound Kids

Hell Bound Kids Group Photo Manson loves and hates everyone equitably. Though she’ll read just about anything, she enjoys weird shit like Hunter S. Thompson. She also likes crime fiction, the occult, horror, transgressive, science fiction, and dark fantasy.

Anthony Perconti lives and works in the hinterlands of New Jersey with his wife and kids. He enjoys well-crafted and engaging stories from across a variety of genres and mediums. His articles have appeared in several online venues as well as some indie press magazines such as Three Crows Magazine, Grimdark Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and Pulp Modern. He can be found […]

SPR2023-01-16T15:49:02+02:00January 16th, 2023|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with D.M. Wozniak: Author of Temberlain’s Ashes

D.M. Wozniak Born and raised in the west suburbs of Chicago, D.M. Wozniak discovered his passion for software at St. Lawrence High School, where he joined the computer lab as a ploy to get out of gym class. By the time he graduated in 1993, D.M. knew that he wanted to code for a living. But his senior year honors English teacher took him aside on graduation day and said, “Never stop writing. It’s your true calling.”

Four years later, D.M. graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Science from the College of Engineering. After that, […]

SPR2023-01-13T13:47:50+02:00January 13th, 2023|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with E.J. Wedge: Author of The Noble Exiles

E.J. Wedge Edmond Joseph “E.J.” Wedge is a resident of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and lives with his wife, Tina. Both of them have a shared love of the ocean and traveling.

Why did you choose to self-publish?

Book publishing is suffering from the same thing as television and movies. Everything is “bundled” at the executive level to drive maximum profitability and appeal to major investors, e.g. massive hedge funds. Everyone wants the biggest payout; advancing a company, let alone a huge one, by small steps, is very unfashionable right now.

I believe that’s wrong-headed, and so I’d rather strike out my own […]

SPR2022-11-28T11:23:20+02:00November 22nd, 2022|Categories: Interviews|