Steven Van Belleghem, a successful entrepreneur, business professor, and managing partner of the firm InSites Consulting, wants companies to pay close attention to communication—not traditional, one-way, top-down, paid and owned... Read More
“I don’t have to be happy,” realizes the hero of Pavel Kostin’s It’s Time: Writing on the Wall, a novel recently translated from Russian into English by James Rann. The story details the meanderings of an acutely introspective... Read More
This isn’t a book about grammar, punctuation, rules, or even about getting anything “right” on the page; as the author points out, there are plenty of those books around. Rather, what Plotnik is concerned about—no, make that... Read More
Spiked with a sensible dose of realism and spiced with a jarring dash of melodrama, Sebastian Cole’s "Sand Dollar" is a literary-quality mainstream novel that explores the meaning of love. This well-crafted book is a romantic fantasy... Read More
In the early years of science fiction publishing, writers were often coaxed into publighing fix-up novels, composed of two or more short fiction works which were combined with connecting material to form a novel. For example, Gordon... Read More
Lil Falcon may need help with her physics homework, but when it comes to battling unseen evil forces, she gets all A’s. In Awakened, the prequel to Betrayed, Lil discovered that she is not an ordinary teenager, but a nephilim—a... Read More
Coming home after his night shift before a holiday weekend, police officer Rhodes discovers that his three young daughters were left unattended for the entire night when their mother failed to return after going out. The episode is the... Read More
James Stuart is in deep trouble. Though only a teenager, he shows great promise of becoming a powerful sorcerer, perhaps even the prophesied “Anointed One,” but it seems the entire wizardly community is aligned against him. Unfairly... Read More