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Review: Pride and Perjury by Alice McVeigh

Pride and Perjury by Alice McVeigh

Exploring and expanding the already rich world of Jane Austen and her unforgettable cast of characters, Pride and Perjury: Twelve Short Stories inspired by Pride and Prejudice by Alice McVeigh is a freshly imagined collection of blushing stories from the lives of the Bingleys, Darcys, Bennets and more. From sisterly scheming and lovestruck lads come courting to golden-tongued gossip and eminently polite betrayals, these narrative offerings are classic examples of Regency romance.

“One Good Sonnet” is a particularly charming tale, detailing the obsessive devotion of one Paul Perkins Esq. – a suitor for Miss Jane Bennet. Brimming with sharp banter […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2024-10-24T11:37:14+02:00September 16th, 2024|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews|

An Interview with Jeff Lee: Author of Karl Myers

Jeff Lee Jeff Lee, a retired educator and once avid sailor, currently divides his time between Chester County, Pennsylvania and Lewes on the Delaware Bay, where he now directs his creative energies to his life-long love of writing.

Tell us about your book.

Set in 1955 in Lewes on the Delaware Bay, the novel Karl Myers meets James Ellroy’s characterization of Noir as “the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance … it canonizes the inherent human urge toward self-destruction.”

Former Marine and small-town police chief Karl Myers is one of four principal characters, each of whom hurtles headlong toward […]

SPR2023-07-18T15:48:32+02:00July 18th, 2023|Categories: Interviews|

Review: Sweet Baby Mine by Maria Daversa

Sweet Baby Mine by Maria Daversa

A dramatic, dialogue-driven portrait of an imploding marriage, Maria Daversa’s Sweet Baby Mine intimately depicts the impact of mental illness and secrets on a partnership.

From the outside, Ana Storm and Tony DiSalvo might seem like the perfect American couple living in Paris. Caring, compassionate Ana runs a psychotherapy practice, while success-driven Tony teaches economics at a university. In reality, Ana suffers from borderline personality disorder, which clashes with Tony’s narcissistic tendencies. Their fraught marriage is overwhelmed by lies and bitterness, particularly surrounding their estranged eldest daughter, Chloe. When Chloe reaches out to Ana after seven years of silence, the […]

Michelle Hogmire2022-12-15T14:11:55+02:00October 27th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: No. 7: The Date by Nandita Banerjee

No. 7 The Date by Nandita Banerjee

Author Nandita Banerjee delivers yet another tangled knot of family drama with No. 7: The Date, the second installment of this eerie and thoughtfully crafted series.

Still reeling from her newly upended life, and the consequences of her husband’s sinister cabal activities, Priya must muddle through the aftermath of ghostly encounters, controlling relatives, natural disasters, unwanted advances, and even her son’s marriage proceedings in an endless quest to find peace. Armed with quiet perseverance, she must hold her family together on opposite sides of the world, all while juggling a dangerous and growing list of secrets – about her husband, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-01-04T11:45:16+02:00November 17th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews|

An Interview with C.T. Au-Yang: Author of Entanglement

C.T. Au-Yang C.T. Au-Yang is an entrepreneur, a coder as well as an analyst. He never imagined to be an author of novels, but films crafted by him, along with 2 novellas and 1 novel based upon, represent the fourth of his eight projects.

Tell us about your book.

Entanglement is the novella that one can finish reading in 2 hours and may find loveful for a lifetime, the first of three of the series Understanding & Endeavour. So many quotations, songs, novels, movies and tears after, there is still no definitive answer to the almost perpetual mystery, what is love? […]

SPR2020-08-12T03:29:57+02:00August 12th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

Review: A Family Affair and Other Stories by Joseph E. Fleckenstein

A Family Affair and Other Stories by Joseph E. Fleckenstein

A Family Affair and Other Stories by Joseph Fleckenstein is an engaging collection of fictional and non-fictional stories that span the globe.

Many of these stories have been previously published in literary journals, which speaks to the quality of the writing throughout, which includes those that have not been published before. Written in bite-sized portions, with some stories only two pages long, this is a collection that you can breeze through quickly, in part because of the eclectic variety of Fleckenstein’s storytelling. The stories travel to Egypt, India, Germany, and more, acting as a kind of travel diary, as well […]

Cate Baum2019-09-16T08:54:26+02:00August 13th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction Book Reviews, Short Stories Book Reviews|

Writing a Book Through Ill Health

We all face a bout of sickness in our lifetime at some point. But what if this hits as we are writing a book?

“I was literally in the middle of a three-month sabbatical to write my book when I was diagnosed with Lupus. Plagued with fatigue and nausea, as well as insomnia, I had no idea how I was going to finish what I had started,” says Pam, a self-published author from London, UK. “And I had a deadline of less than two months. After that, I’d have to go back to work.”

Cathy had planned her time off […]

SPR2019-07-24T10:53:06+02:00July 22nd, 2019|Categories: Features|Tags: Writing Tips|

Review: The Scream Behind Her Smile by Athena Daniels

The Scream Behind Her Smile by Athena Daniels

In The Scream Behind Her Smile, author Athena Daniels takes readers into the dark heart of emotional turmoil, and into the devastating picture of a toxic marriage, but also offers a slice of hope.

The novel centers around Claire, a woman who suffered too much at too young an age, and found herself locked in a loveless marriage following the loss of a child – a marriage where psychological manipulation and dangerous games were the norm. As Claire feels control in her life spinning away, she chooses to make a change, leaving Derek and his mistress behind. However, this […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-08-22T06:11:41+02:00July 17th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

An Interview with Sylvia Mulholland: Author of A Nanny for Harry

Sylvia Mulholland Born and raised in Canada, worked as a lawyer and partner in a mega-law firm for many years then chucked everything and made a break for L.A. to pursue a (pipe) dream of being a working screenwriter. A couple of years later, I went crawling back to that jealous mistress THE LAW, and have been practicing law in my own solo firm, in the US and Canada, and writing novels and short pieces since.

I have two great and very creative kids, and a really cool and supportive husband, who encouraged me to pick up those early books of mine, […]

SPR2018-09-20T02:31:29+02:00September 20th, 2018|Categories: Interviews|

What Your Therapist Is Really Thinking by Mirel Goldstein, MS, MA, LPC

Though the title may not suggest it, What Your Therapist Is Really Thinking is a work of fiction that aims to answer questions patients may have when entering into therapy.

Shira, a single mom, begins therapy with Dr. G. after the breakup of her marriage to an abuser. The doctor observes Shira’s different moods and aspects – sometimes open and affable, at other times silent, hostile, or frozen. Shira’s parents, with whom she lives, are overbearing, immediately seeing the negative “what-ifs” in every situation. Dr. G helps her see that she is accustomed to feeling guilty and inferior, and Shira […]

Barbara Scott2018-04-17T11:49:04+02:00April 17th, 2018|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Psychology Book Reviews|