Book Review: Rayne Hall’s Writing Fight Scenes

Rating: 3/5 Knowing how to write a good fight scene for a fantasy author is the equivalent of knowing how to write a love scene for a romance writer. We are constantly told to write what we know about, and yet most of us have never really been in a fight or had some kind […]

Book Review: Disconnect (Divided Worlds #1), by Imran Siddiq

Rating: 3/5 A boy from the wrong-side of the tracks falls in love with the daughter of an Ambassador, on-board a space-station sent to colonize Europa, kept apart by social and physical boundaries. Zachary Connor, a teenaged scavenger who lives with his father in a shanty-town located in the bowels of space-station Galilei. He discovers […]

Book Review: Quit Your Day Job, by HP Mallory

Rating: 4/5 HP Mallory is one of the big success stories of the self-publishing world, having masterminded her own ascent to becoming a Kindle Bestselling Author. In this book, Mallory shares some of the secrets that helped her increase her reader base exponentially. The book features chapters on how to list your book properly […]

Book Review: Kim Howard Johnson’s The Last of the Time Police (The Time Authority#1)

My rating: 3 of 5 stars Send the two dumbass timenauts you have back in the past to retrieve a bar of chocolate; what’s the worst that can happen? Oh, only a chronological apocalypse that will wipe out the world as we know it. Kim Howard Johnson is the author of True Brit, a unique […]

Author Interview: Jade Kerrion

Today’s author interview features Jade Kerrion who’s here to talk about how she got into writing and her latest novel, Perfection Challenged. 1. Do you recall how your interest in writing originated? I started writing at the age of thirteen when my school essays were returned to me with a bunch of ‘A’s scrawled over […]

Book Review: Juggler’s Blade

My rating: 2 of 5 stars If I was to say that Juggler’s Blade is like Push (movie starring Chris Evans)crossed with The Lies of Locke Lamora, I would mean only that the plot resonates with those two works. Ross’s Juggler’s Blade features a bunch of people who have ESP (extra-sensory perception), that have been […]

Book News: Perfection Challenged Cover Reveal

Perfection Challenged, the thrilling conclusion to Jade Kerrion’s multiple award-winning, bestselling DOUBLE HELIX series, will be released on September 17th and will be available in paperback and all electronic formats. Beta readers have declared Perfection Challenged “the best of the four books…the perfect ending to an amazing series.” If you’ve never picked up the DOUBLE […]

Book Review: Rage of the Old Gods, by Tyler Edwards

My rating: 3 of 5 stars Gamers and movie-goers are probably now going to be familiar with mechs and giant robots, especially in content from the sf genre. Think Pacific Rim and Transformers, or Armoured Core and Zone of Enders. But how many times have you come across giant robots trying to wipe out humanity […]

The Long Road: The Truth About Self-Publishing

Are you ready to hear the truth? Are you sure? It’s quite simple. For many of us writers out there, the only way we are going to see our work in print is through self-publishing. The problem is that only a few of us writers out there are suited to the rigors of self-publishing. This […]

Book Review: Max Brook’s World War Z

Its very rare to find a peice of creative writing that goes beyond just being a clever use of words, structures and gimmicks that is worthy of commercial and literary success; and yet World War Z is just such a work. A great many people will be put off by the oral history (interview) format […]