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The Path of Destiny (The Cremelino Prophecy #1) by Mike Shelton

The Path Of Destiny (The Cremelino Prophecy #1) by Mike Shelton is an exciting and character-rich young adult fantasy novel following the life of Darius, son of a councilor of the King of The Realm, who discovers he has the ability to create fire. Magic is forbidden in The Realm after a wizard rebellion a century before, so Darius is at risk of being banished from his home. Darius must choose whether or not to use his new powers, but finds he may have no choice at all.

Author Mike Shelton is expert at world building: both the world the […]

Henry Baum2016-08-12T07:45:57+02:00May 25th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

An Interview with Chand Svare Ghei: Author of Prasvapa

Chand Svare Ghei Chand Svare Ghei (1976) is a leading IT and telecommunications engineer. He has an extremely broad experienced background including time spent in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia.

He has written his books in more than twenty countries and he uses reality as his main inspiration as he feels that reality provides even better stories than fantasy. This is the reason why the world he pens is close to ours, but contains various mysterious deviations.

In his early years, his mother introduced him to the world of fiction. This was the beginning of his love for creating short stories. For much of […]

Henry Baum2016-05-23T04:54:27+02:00May 23rd, 2016|Categories: Interviews|

The Jellyfish Monster by Bryan Kwasnik

The Jellyfish Monster by Bryan Kwasnik, with illustrations by Jackie Hahn, is a sweet good-natured children’s book about Billy, who’s playing at the shoreline and comes upon a jellyfish creatures with arms and legs who he dubs the Jellyfish Monster. The Jellyfish Monster takes Billy on a journey through the undersea world, where sea life acts a lot like humans, and Billy gets to participate in things like a shark race, and getting swallowed by a whale.

The illustrations are professionally-done and full of detail, though they could have done with a splash of color to make them as lively […]

Henry Baum2016-05-18T04:43:24+02:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Children's Book Reviews|

Astronomical by K.G. Bethlehem

Astronomical by K.G. Bethlehem Astronomical by K. G. Bethlehem is a science fiction novel in which Earth is separated into two separate provinces run by the X-Police and Space Core who attempt to keep the peace. Colonel Harrison is given the mission of exploring the outer reaches of space to find allies in the war against Jupiter, and attempt to locate his predecessor, who is missing. While on the mission, his craft travels through a wormhole and comes upon a civilization in the midst of an uprising, putting the entire crew in danger. Meanwhile, back on Earth, things are disintegrating in a similar fashion, […]

Henry Baum2024-05-15T22:37:40+02:00May 17th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Devon’s Blade by Ken McConnell

Devon’s Blade by Ken McConnell is a short novel companion to McConnell’s Starforgers series. Commander Devon Ardel is sent to a planet that’s mainly comprised of water to head a struggling starfighter squadron. The squadron is no match for their much better equipped adversary, especially since they are utilizing a newer and deadlier fighter. Devon has to rally the troops and adapt new inventive strategies if her squadron isn’t going to be wiped off the map.

The interesting conceit in this novel is just how much it veers away from science fiction to a present day story about fighter pilots […]

Henry Baum2016-05-10T05:52:37+02:00May 10th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Golden Notes by Samuel Joeckel

Golden Notes by Samuel Joeckel Golden Notes by Samuel Joeckel is a love letter to music. Starting in 1981, it follows the life of young Cali Sky, a musical prodigy on the piano, and then guitar, which she discovers in her bedroom closet, unleashing an odyssey of musical exploration. The child of hippie parents, Cali Sky branches out to the punk movement of the moment – first covering Agent Orange, and moving on from there. Through her broadening horizons on the musical front, she begins to explore deeply her friendship with her musical cohort, Brodie, and further understand her parents’ past.

As Joeckel was formerly […]

Henry Baum2016-05-06T06:49:52+02:00May 6th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Music Book Reviews|

Quiescence Terminated by Allan Greenbrier

Quiescence Terminated by Allan Greenbrier is a harrowing terrorist thriller, following the life of Sam, desperate to make his mark on the world to free himself from a life of desperation, leading to a chilling culmination of his distorted beliefs.

The novel is exceptionally well-researched, weaving its way through Islamic culture, Catholicism, the halls of American government, and more, so the reader know they’re in the hands of an author who knows every element of his story’s environment.

A weakness in the book is that the narrative voice doesn’t change dramatically enough between characters. When it’s switching from an Islamic […]

Henry Baum2016-05-05T09:41:32+02:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: International Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Goodreads Giveaways Now Include Kindle Books

Goodreads Kindle Giveaway Good news on the marketing front. One of the limitations of the Goodreads Giveaway program is that it was only available for print books. Given that a growing number of authors are e-only – or at least start as an ebook before moving on to print – this offers a new way to reach Goodreads’ huge pool of readers. Via Goodreads:

Last year, Goodreads helped authors and publishers give away more than 300,000 print books in our popular Giveaways program! Thanks to this success, authors and publishers have been clamoring for the option to run ebook giveaways with Goodreads.

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Henry Baum2016-05-05T07:08:53+02:00May 5th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: Goodreads Articles|