Author Interview: Carolyn Watson Dubisch
An interview with YA/Children’s author, Carolyn Watson Dubisch
Curses of Scale awarded DragonFly Awards 2018 Honorable Mention
S.D. Reeves’ 2017 fantasy novel, Curses of Scale, keeps racking up the awards. In addition to last year’s Wishing Shelf and Chanticleer Ozma awards, it has been selected as Royal DragonFly Book Award (Young Adult Fiction) Honorable Mention 2018.
2018 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners Announced
2018 Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winners Announced ADULT FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) ADULT NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Doubleday) See the rest by clikcing the link below….
Best books of 2017: indie publishers on their favourite books of the year
Sarah Davis Goff The book that made my year: We spoke last year about Mike McCormack’s wonderful Solar Bones, which garnered rave reviews and a rake of prizes including the Goldsmiths and two BGE Irish Book Awards. We suspected it was only gathering speed – and we were so delighted when it was longlisted for…
Curses of Scale
Sixteen-year-old Niena wants nothing more than to attend an elite bardic college, but when the dragon that shattered the empire awakens again she finds herself on the run, through the fey realm of Fairhome, to the city where she was born. On her trail are her army veteran grandfather, thrown into a commander’s role he…
To and Fro Upon the Earth: A Novel
The debut novel from author Markus McDowell, this literary work is a re-imagining of an old-fashioned story of grief and the search for meaning in a world that seems not only uncaring, but vindictive. To and Fro Upon the Earth is a captivating (and disturbing) story about a man who rejects the common answers to…
Hottest New Fiction Books of Summer 2017
Bookbub gives us a gigantic list of books to read for the summer. Here is a sampling. For the full list, with descriptions and categorization, click here to view full article at media.bookbub.com 16th Seduction by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane Testimony by Scott…
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (book review)
To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf This novel is considered a masterpiece by many. I can see why: beauty of the prose, the gentle meandering narrative, and the characters are familiar in their everyday life. Though I usually enjoy the literature from this period, with its stream-of-consciousness style, I was slightly frustrated throughout. I felt…