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I’m Right Behind You by Rose Talitha is a chilling, suspenseful thriller that keeps you guessing until the end. Candice and her husband Dr. Max Kilbourne become the center of a murder mystery when one of his patients is murdered, and he’s a prime suspect. Isolating themselves in remote woods, they are led to dig into each other’s pasts and reveal secrets that are better left buried. Talitha unfolds this mystery through a collection of well-drawn characters who will do anything to protect their own version of “good,” with their stories intertwining in a chorus of internal monologues that show, […]

A spellbinding sci-fi adventure, Alien Son by G.S. Kenney time travels between Earth and the planet Aran and across eras in search of answers to a great mystery. When doctoral candidate Aiana Kim sees herself in a hologram in a time and place no historian has ever accessed, she knows that although her research threatens dangerous heresy, she must get there. Meanwhile, Mikel, Earth’s only interstellar half-breed, is on Aran with his own story to tell. Though the digressions into history and backstory sometimes slow the pace, this space opera is exceptionally well-written and expertly plotted with a complex series […]

Artist and writer Beatriz M. Robles combines her passions in Artwords, an astoundingly imaginative collection of calligrams, found poetry, and photographs that meld print and visual imagery. Nearly every calligram and photograph feature a simple object, such as a kite or a piggy bank, rendered in childlike, brightly-colored images with text embedded in each that describes an experience with the object, for a wholly innovative work. Some of the pieces are quite risqué, even when describing seemingly ordinary activities – such as putting on a pair of socks – but the combination of words and images is uniquely expressive, […]

James Gardiner’s All in With Love: My Journey to the Hero Within is a life story filled with pride and regret as narrated by three versions of the man who lived it: Little Jimmy, whose asthma-plagued childhood never stopped his dreams, adult Jim, who sought and fought for fame and glory, and author James, who concludes with a screenplay-version of his inner child rescuing him from rock bottom. Switching between third person and first person, the perspective shifts seem somewhat arbitrary in terms of which persona tells what stories, but the stories themselves are emotive and relatable, given Gardiner’s open […]