When I first approached American Dirt, I assumed it was a story I’ve read and viewed in movies, one of the brutal hardships of those who...

You have seen my blog review of Cloud Cuckoo Land by the very talented Anthony Doerr. His previous masterpiece was All the Light We...

I was honored to be a judge for Beach Holidays ‘Beach Holidays’ anthology to be published in late 2022 August 17, 2022 Cat & Mouse Press...

Denouement the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or...

Jake Needham takes you to Thailand on another Jack Shepherd adventure. This time around, we get to know a young DEA lawyer, Lucas Ryan,...

One of my favorite books is All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. So, when Doerr came out with his next work, Cloud Cuckoo Land,...

When I first encountered The Immortality Key, I was skeptical. Proving that the earliest religions used psychedelics? Was this written by...

You may have seen my book review of Nightmare Alley. Since that review, I’ve seen the recent movie version starring Bradley Cooper. I...

Is it just me, or do the details matter when enjoying fiction? As a citizen of the Washington, DC, area, it annoyed me when the character...

James Paterson’s collaboration with celebrities is an interesting exercise in guessing where one collaborators' work ends and the other...

I was born in North Carolina and went to N.C. State, therefore basketball is my heritage. North Carolina has four traditional powerhouses...

A few months ago, while my wife and I prepared for a signing in our local bookstore of my latest novel, we saw on a nearby rack Nightmare...

A friend thought The Lincoln Highway at 592 pages was too long, but for me, I didn’t want it to stop. I knew Amor Towles could deliver...

I’ve used YouTube for many years. I like making videos and sharing with my friends. At the beginning of December 2021, one of my videos,...

I became interested in the Roman emperor Nero in researching my novel The Fire Starters and touring his buried Golden House in Rome. The...

A.G. Riddle’s Extinction Trials begins with a man inviting leading industrial leaders to a private meeting in which he poses an...

You can judge a book by its cover. Not so with A Family Man. As I write this, author Anna Willett may have changed the cover from the one...

The Madness of Crowds, the latest novel from Louise Penny, was my first exposure to this author’s series of Inspector Gamache mysteries,...

New York puts history in context. It is a family saga with roots in the earliest settlement of Manhattan Island by the Dutch, when it was...

Spoiler Alert: There is nothing to spoil. This installment of the Jack Noble series resolves nothing. Tune in to the next book in the...