By the 1980s, Emer Morrissey has lived a long and difficult life. During the mid-1600s, in her original incarnation, she watched as her parents fought and died to protect their Irish village from Oliver Cromwell’s army. Emer is forced... Read More

Veteran sci-fi writers Eric Flint and Dave Freer present a mechanical engineer/biologist named Kretz who’s investigating a gargan-tuan craft transporting planetoid-sized artificial habitats through deep space in "Slow Train to... Read More

Brooklyn-born actress Theresa Saldana appeared in Raging Bull and on the TV series The Commish; she founded the Victims for Victims support organization. Her fiction debut, "The Almost Murder and Other Stories" (Piñata Books,... Read More

Quintuple winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Norah McClintock profiles a teen struggling and failing to regain normalcy after incarcera-tion for burglary and assault in "Dooley Takes the Fall" (Red Deer Press, 978-0-88995-403-8). Dooley is... Read More

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson looks at the American Revolution from a unique vantage point. When the embattled British governor of Virginia Colony,... Read More

“Christophe slid closer to his brother, and when his arm slid along the length of Joshua’s forearm, for a second it was as if Christophe had touched himself, crossed his own forearms: toucher and touched.” Strengthened by each... Read More

“There is always a moment when the night threatens to go aground. A closing-time moment, when the bar lights go bright and you can see who you’ve been drinking with, yelling your personal details to over the noise of the band. It... Read More

During World War I, the Turkish government abandoned Armenians in the Syrian Desert. More than one million died from malnutrition and other causes. "Daughter of War" describes the circumstances of three characters struggling to reunite... Read More