Ask any romance writer what is the secret to writing a compelling love story and the answer may shock you. It’s not love or passion. It’s not beautiful, wealthy characters or exotic locales. The secret is misunderstanding. It’s... Read More

“You too would be a little peculiar in thy habits if you had snakes growing out of thy head,” sighs the sister of the girl a spiteful Greek goddess turned into the famous monster with the reptilian hairdo. The title character of P.E.... Read More

Nasr Saad is a man who asks weighty questions: How was the universe created? Is there life after death? Most importantly, he asks, Why have the disciplines devoted to such issues—religion, philosophy, and science—failed to provide... Read More

It’s not uncommon for a woman to find love in the autumn of her life, but when that woman is a Roman Catholic nun committed to living in solitude as a hermit, and the man is a Roman Catholic priest, their story becomes a rare spiritual... Read More

Reality television has nothing on the modern romance novel. Hidden passions and family secrets can provide as much drama on the printed page as they do on the small screen. In Kateisha Shekila Minors’s Revisited Feelings: From a... Read More

Obscurity is a hard fate to escape, something the author of "Lament in the Night" knew all too well. But nearly one hundred years after his stories were first published in Japanese-language newspapers in California, Shoson’s work is... Read More