Tag: Featured
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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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The Memoirs of ‘I’ by Yolanda De Iuliis
To make one think is to change a generation, to build one thought is to grow a better world. In The Memoirs of ‘I’, De Iuliis covers the years 2014 to 2015, providing a daily encounter with her writings, visions, dreams and thoughts, allowing you to see the world from a different perspective. Philosophical and […]
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Writing Prompt Contest Winner: Stevie O’Connor
The prompt: When Jean saw the man in the black business suit, she stopped, held her breath and prayed that he would not look up from his cell phone. Not wasting another moment, she hurried and ducked out of sight behind the garbage dumpster. Jean hadn’t opened her letters for weeks now, she didn’t […]
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Meet Sci-Fi Author, Kelly B. Johnson
When and why did you begin writing? [Smiles.] When I think about it, I began writing in the 7th grade, when my best friend (at the time) and I wrote, illustrated and made a book for a class project. Two Men and Two Planes it was called. As we were the artists of our class […]
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Grendel’s Mother by Diana Stout
It’s mid-6th century Denmark, and a 15-year-old girl–the only girl in a large family of boys–dreams of freedom and marrying her secret first love, a young farmer. She fights her father’s decision that she must wed an older widower who has young children. Then, a horrific event changes her life forever. Pregnant and discarded, having […]
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