TOUGH TRAIL HOME By Marie W. Watts Women’s Literary / Small Town & Rural / Contemporary Women’s Fiction Publisher: Black Rose Writing Pages: 253 Publication Date: March 27, 2024 SYNOPSIS “Tough Trail Home is a delightful read about a family coming to terms with each other and their new lives.” –Pamela Stockwell, author of A Boundless Place The […]
IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS by Joe Lansdale Fiction / Horror Publisher: Tachyon Publications Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 15, 2024 SYNOPSIS “Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones―and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror.” ―Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series Eleven-time […]
HOLLOW OUT THE DARK by James Wade Literary Fiction / Southern Gothic / Rural Fiction Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Pages: 328 Publication Date: August 20, 2024 SYNOPSIS Award-winning author James Wade blends atmospheric prose with soul-stirring themes in Hollow Out the Dark, a gothic adventure set against a Depression-era landscape where a whiskey war threatens to […]
Author Interview What’s your best advice about being a parent? It’s the greatest, hardest, longest job you’ll ever have. Unlike most jobs, the hours are unusual and sometimes the people you think you are the boss of are in fact, the boss of you, but the pay is incredible. You […]
LETHAL STANDOFF by DiAnn Mills Contemporary Fiction / Christian Mystery & Suspense / Christian RomancePublisher: Tyndale House PublishersPages: 368Publication Date: September 3, 2024 SYNOPSIS Hostage negotiator Carrington Reed faces her most dangerous challenge yet in Lethal Standoff. Called to a tense situation in South Texas, Carrington must save fifteen hostages held by the armed Kendrix […]
DEUS TEX MACHINA: The Second Calamity of QED Morningwood by Rob Witherspoon Science Fiction / Humor / Satire Pages: 163 Publication Date: June 13, 2022 SYNOPSIS QED “Kid” Morningwood is back with big plans to create a death tourism industry. Working with his old Metaphysics professor from Texas Alchemical and Metaphysical University, he delves the […]
A CHOCOLATE IS ANNOUNCED Bean to Bar Mystery, #7 By Amber Royer Cozy Mystery / Culinary Mystery / Women Sleuths Publisher: Golden Tip Press Pages: 277 Publication Date: June 25, 2024 Scroll down for giveaway! SYNOPSIS Felicity Koerber is finally getting her life together. She has a fiancé, her bean to bar chocolate shop on […]
SUGAR ON THE BONES By Joe R. Lansdale Private Investigator Mystery / Noir Crime / Hard-Boiled Mystery / Lawyers and Criminals Humor Publisher: Mulholland Books Pages: 317 Publication Date: July 16, 2024 SYNOPSIS In this holy mess of a case for the “perpetual bad boy” (New York Times) sleuths in the beloved Hap and Leonard […]
JUST A HAT By SHANAH KHUBIAR Young Adult / Coming of Age / Jewish Fiction / Small-Town Texas / 1970s Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Page Count: 254 Publication Date: July 18, 2023 Scroll down for giveaway! Action-packed, humorous, and bittersweet, this 1970s-era coming-of-age novel is more relevant than ever–exploring how a second-generation immigrant kid in a […]
THIS FAMILIAR HEART: AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY by Babette Fraser Hale Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface impressions can be. Leon Hale, author of Bonney’s Place, was sixty […]