https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-gkI5yuogw Books That Make You Immerse Yourself in a Tolkien-Level Fantasy World Nothing gets our imaginations going like living in a fantasy world that feels so real, you know the locations, the societies, cultures, the countryside as well as (or maybe better) than real world geography. Enter the award-winning The Vorelian Saga, from author C.D. … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C9gtLHvjMc Books That Make You Join Up With Aliens to Face a Common Enemy—With Maybe Some Romance on the Side Let’s bend some genres, shall we? Award-winning author and BookFest Bellwether Beth Freely is also a businesswoman and publishing industry professional, and while raised in upstate New York who spent some time in Great Britan, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k7DUkyfN68 Books That Make You Mix Ancient Artifacts, Cultures and, of course, Aliens KG Maw has returned to talk with us today about his latest book in his KV 66 series, The Lazarus Project. A lot has happened since his visit, in both his literary world and the real one. We continue to be intrigued … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsSMxBRL4T8 Books That Make You Curl Up With a Fun, Fast-Paced Mystery Nothing beats a book that makes you want to pour a cup of something warm and cozy up by a rainy window while the fireplace crackles. And that’s what author Donalee Moulton delivers in her mystery novel, Hung Out to Die. The story … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTPaEi84Nlw Books That Make You Think About What It Means to be Human, and to Write Like so many arts, writing has been a talent and skill—emphasis on skill, since lots of folks still think that writing is merely natural talent or that storytelling is easy, and reserved for humans since time immemorial. No other … Read more
Books That Make You Enter A Dark Fantasy World with Politics Like Our Own We all love villains we love to hate, and a spoonful of satire. Wrap this up in a dark fantasy world, and political commentary, and you might have something like The Amber Menhir, the first book in “The Shadows of the … Read more
https://youtu.be/eZnNC0LrfSc?si=PlkYmnpdcbC_9R3B Books That Make You Brave-ish What happens when you feel like a failure? When you’re pushing fifty, getting divorced and moving back into your parent’s home to start from scratch? Well, if you’re like Lisa Niver, you start by taking one “braveish” step at a time. Each step took her away from her old … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zxA83CbJJo Books That Make You Discover Your Cranky Superpowers We all get cranky. We all grind each others’ nerves, have moments where we snap, lash out, and generally be a pain in the butt to the ones we love, or who are around us and have to put up with us. But what if you … Read more
Books That Make You Walk New York Streets with Madwomen—Then, Perhaps, Become Rich As a Woman Like many types of creatives, authors have many facets. Sometimes they write books that cross genres which, while appearing different from one another, actually possess a thematic and philosophical through-line—if you look hard enough. Sara Connell is a bestselling … Read more
Books That Make You and Your Kids Practice Connecting with their Inner Greatness, Potential and Overall Resilience It’s important to let kids learn to recognize their truest potential before they start hearing, believing and internalizing the world’s “limiting stories” that are out there. Bestselling author Sarah Vie returns to talk about her children’s book, Let … Read more