An Interview with Tamara Smith: Author of Coming Into Power
In 2021 during Covid, Tamara had her second child and was on maternity leave when she had a dream that her […]
An Interview with Dave Tabler: Author of Delaware Before the Railroads
Tabler’s father encouraged him to try his hand at taking pictures with the family camera. With visions of Rockwell dancing in his head, Tabler press-ganged his younger brother into wearing a straw hat and sitting next to a stream barefoot with a homemade fishing pole in his hand. The resulting image was terrible.
Dave Tabler […]
An Interview with Susan Diane Black Blackmon: Author of Celey
When she isn’t writing, she works as an Income Tax preparer. In the off-season, she teaches a genealogy […]
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 […]
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 […]
An Interview with Sebastien Taveau: Author of The Delivery Man
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 […]
A Date with Lima by Dr. Michael Abraham
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 […]
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 […]