Tag: Featured
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The Brede Chronicles, by P.I. Barrington
Half-human Alekzander Brede is a law unto himself…or so he thinks. Elektra Tate, the street orphan who loves him has other ideas. When she betrays him for no apparent reason, he vows to punish her one way or another. Taking the one thing she treasures most—their son—begins a cat and mouse relationship spanning two planets…
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The Villa, by Maureen Bukhari
After her husband’s violent death on the rocky shores of their quiet fishing village home, Hannah is plagued by horrifying and confusing nightmares that make her question everything she knows about herself and the night that changed her life forever. When she decides to befriend an outsider to the town, in the hopes of shaking…
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The Haunting of Delavere Hall by Amy Flint
Paranormal investigator Dr. Porter Biggleswade is settling into her new life in York. While pensioners caught up in a ghostly battle, and civil war soldiers haunting a local pub are keeping her busy, a call from a friend takes her to a crumbling estate on the Yorkshire coast. Rumours are rife at Delavere Hall, with…
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An Interview with Stacie Eirich, Author of Space to Dream
When and why did you begin writing? I began writing as a young teenager, as a way to express my emotions and make sense of the world around me, the experiences I was having. I had journals full of free-verse poems and short stories – they were both an escape from everyday life and a…
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Gray Widow’s Walk by Dan Jolley
“The only thing in this world you can truly control is yourself.” Janey Sinclair’s ability to teleport has always been a mystery to her. She tried for years to ignore it, but when tragedy shatters her life, Janey’s anger consumes her. She hones her fighting skills, steals a prototype suit of military body armor, and…
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A Blue Horizon by M.R. Darling
The economy teeters on the edge of ruin as strange events invade the last metropolis capable of maintaining the balance. An early rainy morning brings the inexplicable destruction of two metro trains, leaving nothing but questions behind for reporter Beau Bradley. Was it a terrorist attack or just an unfortunate accident? The answer could tip…
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Stevie O’Connor, Author of In a Mirror City
Stevie O’Connor, science fiction author and recent winner of Waking Writer’s Writing Prompt Contest, sat down to discuss writing and her latest novel. When and why did you begin writing? As a young child, I started writing ghost stories, and the teachers would read them out to the class. Then, I won the Edward Burne-Jones…
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Shadows in the Mist by Amy Flint
Nicknamed ‘The Shadow Reader’ for her ability to see ghosts, Dr. Porter Biggleswade is a straight-talking paranormal investigator. While Porter’s work takes her to the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, ghostly feuds are the least of her worries. A woman haunted by her living mother, a farmer plagued by spectral ewes, and a developer desperate to evict…
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Interview with Assaph Mehr, Author of Murder In Absentia
When and why did you begin writing? I started to write only recently. I had my nose in a book since I was a child, and whilst seeing my name in print was on my bucket-list, I never thought to actually go and do something about it. I had the idea for a fantasy detective…
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Meet Julie Anderson, author of Reconquista
When and why did you begin writing? I wrote my first ‘novel’ while I was still at school. It was a couple of hundred pages of drivel, an appalling rip-off of lots of ‘school stories’ I had read at that point. My English teacher waded through it and was encouraging (while suggesting that I might…
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