Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
When the snow falls, and goes on falling, Sam and Bridie discover a strange life-form living amongst the snow. Are there more of them? Are they all as friendly as the first one, or will they bring great danger to the quiet town of Upperworth? It may be up to just four children to prevent a permananet and catastrophic freeze. . . .
Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
Every year since he was five Andrew has been forced to spend the summer at his Aunt Jenna’s farm. This year he’s about to discover his family is anything but normal, and that he has an important duty. Is he ready for such a weighty responsibility? Does he even believe any of this is happening to him? . . .
Follow Petunia the backyard hen, in a weekly web-series, through a hazardous world as she discovers hidden talents, meets a mischievous cat named Macy, and encounters all things feathered and furious. . . .
Eight friends gather for a reunion vacation, but go missing after a hurricane strikes along their plane’s flight path. While friends and family mourn their loss when the crashed plane is found, the impossible happens: they appear in public claiming to have been in a cave in the mountains. Missing for months, they have no memory of the interval. What . . .
It is the story of a nearby future, not too dark but neither too bright. A world ravaged by economic failure and a drastic solution, slavery. Follow the trials of Jonathan, a 12 years old, a bright student and a slave of a Scientific Institution . . . . . . which works to upgrade the intelligence of dolphins. And his unlikely . . .
Space & Time takes place in a galaxy where space travel is common, The Galactic Mutuality governs alliances, Humanity is a minority, and a little girl from an alien race tries to overcome the stigma of being a slave. Life moves along as it usually does until a small group of strangers arrives, bringing news of impending destruction and a . . .
On her way home for the Christmas holidays, Dora is given a mysterious box by her father. She also discovers that there’s a boy she’s never seen before in the back of the car—but he vanishes when she tries to tell her Dad about him. Then her Dad vanishes too: has he gone to work in London, or has he . . .
Arthur is living in an alternate North America in which the USA never broke away from Britain. The technology level is mid-1970s. One day, Arthur wakes up and finds an ancient wizard sharing his brain. It is a growing-up story, at least for now, and meant to be episodic rather than tightly plotted. . . .
In a world full of dangers . . . In a forest grown men fear to tread after nightfall . . . Running away from home in the middle of night might not be the most reasonable thing to do. Reason, however, has never been a strength of eight year old Laiva. She feels wronged, she feels humiliated, she feels like the whole world is against . . .
A dark brotherhood that was once thought long dead has resurfaced. After tirelessly searching for elements to a spell that could end a terrible curse they have endured for centuries, they find their way to the sleepy village of Blakeby. Meanwhile, a brother and sister move there from the city to start a new life in the country, but what . . .
When I review, I don’t like to critique the work while I’m at it. So, I’m just going to say this:
Against the Current does not allow me to suspend my disbelief.
I am faced with incredible circumstances, with deus ex machina [more . . .]
So I decided to do a little light reading before getting around to some writing work.
Six hours later, I am still reading.
I consider this a sign of brilliant fiction off the bat, and the very definition of a page-turner. Each [more . . .]