The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster… Continue reading Book Seventy-Two of 2014: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
I know, you guys are probably wondering where I've been. I should have had the internet well before today. After all, it was planned that we would be home last Sunday. Well, let's just say that Branson, Missouri doesn't like us. On our way to Iowa through Branson, the RV broke down. Luckily, my father… Continue reading Just an Update
Eighteen year old Callista Price has learned the hard way that life doesn't always turn out the way we expect. Four years ago she witnessed the murder of her family in Chicago. Almost a victim herself, Cally was saved by a man she had never met, who disappeared immediately and left her with only… Continue reading Book Seventy-One of 2014: The Traveler: The Amulet of Life by Melissa Toppen
A YA Sci-Fi Action Thriller It's nothing short of the end of the world. Someone has weaponized the broadcast spectrum – gazing upon the transmission is enough to steal your mind. Kaylee Colton faces a technological Armageddon when suburbia shatters into civil war. All alone, and unable to speak, Kaylee will need to fight to… Continue reading Book Seventy of 2014: Transfixion by J. Giambrone
I'm going to see my in-laws soon! This is going to be a fun time because Bug really hasn't gotten to meet that side of the family yet. Most of my siblings and my parents live in this state with me. Bug knows his uncles, aunts, and his grandparents here, but he's only met his… Continue reading Getting Ready!
Lieutenant Colonel Nik Zhukov is just like any other desensitized seventeen-year-old living in the year 2076. At least he likes to think he is when he isn’t busy eliminating threats to national security, breaking up terrorist organizations, and trying not to get blown up. It’s all in a normal day’s work for one of… Continue reading Zhukov’s Dogs Cover Reveal!
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills… Continue reading Book Sixty-Nine of 2014: Soulless by Gail Carriger
So, for a while I was on a serious writing roll. I had submitted many short stories and poems to contests as well as finished a chapter a day on my second draft. And then I hit a wall. This happens sometimes. It's never fun, but it's a way of life. It took FOREVER to… Continue reading On a Roll
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a Cloak of Invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny cupboard under… Continue reading Book Sixty-Eight of 2014: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
It turns out that a real alien invasion is nothing like the Sci-fi shows 14-year-old Gracie loves. Not when it’s your own family who are swallowed whole by those big silver ships. Not if it could be you next. In her search for her family, Gracie meets Brandon, a high school dropout who would… Continue reading Untaken Cover Reveal
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