Between the changing leaves and the excitement of Halloween, there's plenty of reasons to love October. But, of course, between all the hustle and bustle of the year drawing to a close, time must still be made to get some reading done.
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Parodies have been around for as long as literature existed, and even early Greek philosophical texts were not above using parody to illustrate their points. Parodies typically exist to provide to comment on or criticize prevalent work.
Jennifer Monroe is totally average in every teenage girl way - in the dragon-slaying and energy-wielding warrior ways though - she is extraordinary. Even by the standards of a world where dragons and energy-wielding warriors are fairly normal.
Records of prisons date back as far as the 1st millennia BC and incarceration as punishment for a crime has continued to this day. The harsh conditions inside prison have also inspired numerous movies, television shows, and novels.
In Around the Cul-de-sac by Christina De Paris readers get to ride along and experience slices of a young Florida girl’s life in the 1990s.
Whether it is material gain or social value, some people can never have enough. Greed has been the downfall of many, so it stands to reason that both art and literature are filled with examples of avarice.
The Bunny Trail, by DJ Tombe, is a warm and surprising story of found family and personal discovery, with an unusual friendship between Michael and Bunny at the center.
With two-thirds of the year already in the rear-view mirror, September is always a month to reflect on what has happened and look forward to what is still to come.
From The Shining to Psycho, there's no shortage of horror novels that take place in hotels and motels. There's just something inherently creepy about checking into out-of-the-way establishments for temporary lodging.
Love for a Deaf Rebel is an intimate and raw memoir of Derrick King’s deep but doomed love for Pearl, a woman who spent a lifetime fighting the known disability of deafness and unacknowledged devil of schizop
FEATURED AUTHOR - Thad Diaz is a retired Tampa Bay firefighter who cut his teeth on Sci-fi and Fantasy. He now spends his days writing the Cigar City Case Files, a gritty, hard-boiled detective series set in Tampa. He still lives in the Tampa Bay area with his wife and kids. As our Author of the Day, he tells us all about his book, "Tampa Heat."