Young Explorers Adventure Guide is an annual collection of science fiction stories for children. I asked for the ARC from NetGalley because science fiction for middle grade readers seems to be in short supply. Judging from the number of authors
Book Review | Equus – anthology edited by Rhonda Parrish
Equus was a book I received from LibraryThing, as part of their first reads initiative. It is nothing to do with Equus the play. But it is Latin for ‘horse’. Equus Ed. by Rhonda Parrish There’s always something magical about
#Flashback Friday | 100 Words
100 words isn’t much for a flash fiction story. I’ve tried it a few times, and as you know, I attempt Fiction in 50 each month. Today I’m doing #Flashback Friday with a very short story I did a long
Book Review | Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time-Travel
Thirteen stories containing time travel that are all so different from one another and yet not a dud among them. Even the one that slid towards horror gripped me with its mystery. Some travel to the past deliberately, some to
Book Review | Tails of the Apocalypse by Chris Pourteau et al
I think I got an ARC via Jennifer Ellis, who is one of the wonderful authors in this anthology of dystopia, or rather apocalypse, short stories. The twist is that they all feature a ‘companion animal’ or a would-be one
The BookElves are returning
Just before I went to camp, I contacted the MG BookElves about plans for the coming winter holiday season, to see who would be interested in contributing to another Anthology. I also gave them some updates on our sales figures (free
Book Review & Giveaway | BookElves Anthology Vol. 1
Seven stories, seven situations threatening the festivities. Will the holidays be a disaster? Will families be left out in the cold? Will there be tears before bedtime, or will there be happy endings all round? The MG BookElves group brings
A Book Elves Anthology?
A few weeks ago I got in touch with the authors who’d ganged together last December to put together a Christmas-linked giveaway. We styled ourselves the Book Elves, since we all wrote for middle grade audiences (although some of us
A Pinch of Salt
My good friend Judi Walsh is now a published author! You may remember she guest posted for me during the A to Z Challenge with her lovely story Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year. She prefers writing short
Lost City … what next?
The third book in the trilogy, the Princelings and the Lost City, should be published for kindle readers on Amazon by mid-July. Just need to finish the chapter illustrations, get the cover, do the final edit and away we go.