Valerie Hardin
Valerie Hardin is a gothic poet, writer, artist, children’s ebook writer, a nonfiction writer and whatever the mood strikes her. Her hobbies include sleeping and collecting dust. She loves accordion based rock music and has…
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Varieties of Vampires by Margaret L. Carter
Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, in his 1951 classic nonfiction book On the Nightmare, labels the vampire the most “overdetermined” of monsters in terms of its psychological roots–and, we might add, in terms of its richly…
Vicki McElfresh
Vicki McElfresh is an overworked single mom living in the midwest. She makes her living fixing computers and spends as much time as possible writing. Her work has appeared in Dragonlaugh and The Mid Rivers…
Victoria Heckman
Victoria Heckman is a writer, actor, director, and teacher with over 30 short stories and articles published. Her first mystery novel, K.O.’d in Honolulu, originally came out in 2001. K.O.’d in the Volcano, the second in the…
Video Book Trailer: Commonwealth Universe
https://youtu.be/vI2qg-PNQ60 Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization referred to by its descendants/survivors simply as “First Civ”. Due to the combined effects of a too-aggressive policy of expansion, civil unrest, the inequality…
Video Book Trailer: Gypsy Road Series
https://youtu.be/ZMMrFqsK2x8 Four gypsies on a solitary road…until love throws a fork in their paths. Learn more about the entire series: Gypsy Road Series by Karen Wiesner
Video Book Trailer: Max Overton’s Various Ancient Egypt Series
Learn more about all Max’s Egyptian series: Max Overton
Video Book Trailer: Outcast Trilogy
For hundreds of years, the Eastern Zoners have slaved for the Megas–the technologically advanced beings living behind the walled city of Megalopolis. Each eighteen-year-old scavenges a living in the deadly Arid Zone until they…
Video Book Trailer: Ring Realms Universe
https://youtu.be/haSzp4l0eFo Impossible battles. Unconquerable enemies. A hero with one mission: to win in order to take back his life. Learn more about the entire universe: Ring Realms Universe by Will Greenway …
Video Book Trailer: Sterling Lakes Series
Spiritual malaise permeates the hearts of the residents of a scenic small town with a troubled past, tenuous present, and an uncertain future. Learn more about the entire series: Sterling Lakes Series by Regina Andrews…
Wallace F. Brown
Wallace Brown’s first novel, The Shepherd Sleeps, was published by Writers-Exchange in 2008. It is set in New Orleans at the height of the Vietnam war and the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s. As with his second…
Watership by Jenna Whittaker
To save their dying world, scientists and a race of benevolent aliens worked to create a safe haven in the centre of the planet, hollowing it out for future generations to live safely. Creatures were…
Wayne Winkle
Wayne Winkle is a board-certified family psychologist with thirty years’ experience in the field. He earned his doctorate at Texas A&M University at Commerce where he wrote the major portion of a National Institute of…
We are Tam by Patricia Bernard
Tamarisk Woodward is an ordinary high school student living an ordinary life…until the day she’d contacted by her mirror image in the twenty-fifth century. Tameron’s father is dying and only Tamarisk and her sceptical brother…
We Came From Konigsberg by Max Overton
Based on a true story gleaned from the memories of family members sixty years after the events, from photographs and documents, and from published works of nonfiction describing the times and events described in the…
Wendy Laing
Wendy Laing is one half of the pseudonym or pen name “Dalziel Laing” of Dianne Dalziel and Wendy Laing, the co-authors of Mirror, Mirror. She is also a multi-published author in her own right. A writer,…
Wendy Nichols
As a child, Wendy wanted to be a nurse. Then she discovered that she felt queasy at the sight of blood so she forgot that idea and thought about becoming a ballerina or an actress….
What are “Mystery”, “Thriller” and “Suspense” Genres?
Mystery The essence of a mystery lies in the intellectual exercise of piecing together clues. The genre hinges on the ‘whodunit’ question, engaging the reader in a cerebral pursuit to solve the puzzle before…
What do you think of?
Do you immediately think of a detective trying to solve a crime? Or a murderer chasing you in the dark? Is it a puzzle you want to figure out, or an emotional rollercoaster of fear,…
What is a “cozy” Mystery? By Christine DeSmet
The “cozy” mystery features an amateur sleuth who is usually a woman. The sleuth is likeable, smart and earnest, and they go about life with a good sense of humor. She’s rarely a detective or…
