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 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 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…
https://youtu.be/7duqkxpvgTo Are creatures of the night and all manner of supernatural beings drawn to certain locations in the natural world? In the Midwestern village of Beth-Hill located in southern Ohio, the population is made up…
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…
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
Best friends Melanie Honeywell and Karen Aimee share adventures, hardships and heartaches, and the growing pains of Christian faith. Learn more about the entire series: Karen and Melanie Series by Kathleen Paul
Learn more about all Max’s Egyptian series: Max Overton
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…
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 …
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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 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,…
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….
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…
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,…
