Tag: fiction
member name: Janelle Martin
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June 12, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
"Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink." Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fred Pearce has been writing and consulting on environmental issues for decades. . . .
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October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
I wrote this article in August for an online publication which did not end up publishing it. So, even though it is already early October I thought it was worth posting here.
2006 has been a year of . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
March is the month to celebrate all things small press. From the organization's website: "Now in its 11th year, this is a nationwide promotion highlighting the valuable work produced by independent . . .
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August 19, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --
The Piggly Wiggly in Second Creek, Mississippi, supermarket cum community center and town hall, is about to close its doors for good. The Mega-Mart across town has been drawing away customers and Mr. Choppy . . .
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December 15, 2006 01:34 AM EST --
Vida Winter, one of Britain’s best-loved novelists, is known for her reluctance to share the truth of her life story. Having spent the past six decades creating outlandish stories, Vida is facing . . .
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August 27, 2006 04:05 PM EDT --
Few adults who had young children in 1996 will forget the Elmo fever that swept the nation as Tickle Me, Elmo become the "must have" toy of the Christmas season. Anyone who unfamiliar with the . . .
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September 01, 2006 01:34 AM EDT --
I just finished reading Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema and this is an incrediblely moving book. I don't know how to write most of my reaction without giving away a lot of the plot so all . . .
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March 22, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
The longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction has been announced, with 20 books on the list. (None of which I've read, although I have two in my possession.)
* Half of a Yellow Sun . . .
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May 07, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
The Seas, Samantha Hunt's debut novel, relates the coming of age story of a nameless 19-year-old young woman as she struggles to free herself from small town life and a terrifying destiny. Branded . . .
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June 01, 2006 09:33 AM EDT --
The fourth entry in Katie MacAlister's paranormal romance series featuring the Dark Ones is sure to satisfy her many fans and earn her some new ones. Full of her trademark sense of humour and kooky . . .
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June 20, 2006 12:55 PM EDT --
William Wilson, a down-at-the-heels conjurer, is engaged as the warm-up act to a pair of "dancers" at Inspector James Montgomery's retirement party. Put up for the job by his friend Sam, . . .
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July 05, 2006 11:12 PM EDT --
In 1956, Canadian Anne Innis Dagg set sail for Africa, pursuing her dream to study giraffe. One of the first zoologists to study African mammals in Africa, Dagg broke many stereotypes undertaking behavioural . . .
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July 18, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
On a cold winter's night in 1964, Norah Henry goes into labour. Unable to reach the hospital in time, her husband David, an orthopedic surgeon, and his nurse Caroline, assist Norah with the delivery. . . .
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July 26, 2006 01:09 AM EDT --
"Kristallnacht was the prelude to the destruction of a whole people, and an indication of what happens when a society falls victim to its baser instincts." Sir Martin Gilbert
On November 9, . . .
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September 22, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Judging solely on the cover of this new paranormal romance anthology, Just One Sip should have been a summer release. All three stories are fun romps filled to the brim with sexy paranormals that, . . .
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September 26, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
After decades spent living a bohemian lifestyle spanning four continents, painter Carl Larson has finally returned to his hometown of Jamestown, New York. Expecting to spend only a few weeks there while . . .
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October 07, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
Sasha Salter is on the fast-track to success. She has her own hit children's TV show Please Pass the Salter, she's being profiled as one of the "20 under 30-Ones to Watch", and she's . . .
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October 10, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
Most people are familiar with actress Tracey Ullman for her zany sense of humour and the eccentric characters she created over many years. What most people won't know is that she is an avid knitter . . .
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December 27, 2006 03:55 PM EST --
Josephine Pickering has grown up on the highways of the United Kingdom, in her father Bobby's rig. Abandoned by his wife shortly after Jo’s birth, Bobby took to the road with his baby daughter. . . .
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March 03, 2007 03:06 PM EST --
Mallory, on “unofficial” leave from the NYPD, has disappeared from New York at the same time a dead woman is found in Mallory’s apartment. Several states away a dead body is found pointing . . .
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