James Grimsby | Self-Publishing Review

Self-Publishing Success Story: Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter (full name Helen Beatrix Potter) was the author and illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and over 20 other stories about the fictional anthropomorphic animals of the woods. Influenced by her conservationist and scientist background, as well as her life taking her of her children, she began creating books around 1900, which she quickly made a business of.

Beatrix Potter has since become a household name, renowned for her beautiful, whimsical stories and illustrations. A film depicting her life starring Renée Zellweger was released in 2006, titled Miss Potter.

What books has she written?
While most […]

James Grimsby2017-02-20T09:14:47+02:00August 11th, 2014|Categories: Success Story|

The Automation: Vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero Series

The Automation: Vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero Series The Automation: Volume 1 of the Circo del Herrero Series is a surreal Greco-Roman clockwork fantasy written through the seemingly-omniscient personalities “B.L.A.” and “G.B. Gabbler” about the life and occurrences of the unfortunate Odys after his encounter with a gory suicide that links him to the victim’s Automaton, a divine and complex being of unknowable machination that work in tandem with a human soul.

The book is very intricate in the ways it is written, shifting narrative gears between multiple levels of storytelling and perspective at times. Like any story based on Greco-Roman sensibilities, both the abstract and tangible divine […]

James Grimsby2014-08-13T17:37:09+02:00August 7th, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Bird Room by Chad Hofmann

“It’s too late for him too, said the man in a high-pitched voice, drooling in anticipation, like a dog with a bone. Eli stood frozen, his brain issued a hundred different commands that his body would not obey. The man let out bone chilling cackle and, with lightning quickness, sunk the blade of the scalpel into Eli’s left thigh. The pain hit Eli like a train and he was instantly brought back to reality. He looked over at the parrot, who was now calm and quiet. Its mysterious gray eyes connected with Eli’s, and he felt as if […]

James Grimsby2014-08-04T09:25:51+02:00August 4th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Short Stories Book Reviews|

Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home by Mike Tapscott

Written from an inside perspective, Homeless Hero: Understanding the Soul of Home aims to explore the issue of homelessness, not ‘what went wrong’ in the decisions and events that lead to becoming homeless, but instead what differences – and similarities – there are between the way those who have and have not experienced homelessness think. Tapscott does this partly through his own exploration into work with homeless clients and his first real interactions with homeless people in general, and partly through his interviews and conversations with those around him.

Journaling his experiences, Tapscott questions the ideals of those who live […]

James Grimsby2014-08-01T13:52:53+02:00August 1st, 2014|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Tesla by Mark Lingane

Tesla A thousand years in the future, we follow Sebastian, a young teenager living in the quiet and rural remains of a pocket of civilization after an ancient nuclear apocalypse. As a strange sickness takes his father and consumes his mother, he is left in servitude of his selfish aunt and cut off from the brilliant mind of a teacher, sharing with him a love of near-legendary clockwork and steam power of the past. His luck changes – not all for the better – on finding an envelope addressed to him in a locked jewelry box, and a group of black-suited […]

James Grimsby2022-04-28T07:33:54+02:00August 1st, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Crow Creek by Thomas Drago

Crow Creek Review Apart from a few suicides over the past couple years, the small North Carolina town of Crow Creek is of little note to anyone outside of its residents – friendly, well-acquainted – and while sad news will always rock a community, life goes on for the people within it. That is until the day a sinkhole swallows up a mother and child along with half a football pitch of land, and some residents suddenly have a reason to think that their private suspicions might have common ground, as strange as it may be.

Starting out slow and small, Crow Creek[…]

James Grimsby2018-11-08T13:14:52+02:00July 7th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Crime Fiction Book Reviews, Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: 30 Days by G.R. Case

30 Days by GR Case is a dark vengeance thriller following ex-military Marcus Freling, an honorably discharged young veteran, enjoying a quiet life in his Harlem neighborhood with his beloved sister Diane and teenage niece Tonisha, both of whom he has dedicated himself to looking after as their only other family. Their peaceful lives are shattered when Troy, a local drug dealer, lets an execution remorselessly claim the fourteen-year-old Tonisha as collateral damage. Ripples spread through their fear-stricken community as Detective Steve Rodgers takes on the case, falling short of each snuffed-out witness and missing leads. Marcus’s anguish turn to […]

James Grimsby2019-01-23T12:53:19+02:00June 26th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Crime Fiction Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Mintaka by Brian M. Brownrigg

Mintaka, the first book of the Road in the Sky Saga by Brian M. Brownrigg follows a young boy named Orion, joined by his friends including his loyal dog Sirius and a strange magician named Isis. They soon discover the plans of the Gods and what Orion must do to ensure the world stands against an evil conqueror whose seal may be breaking, gathering alliances and facing the inevitability of loss during their adventure.