Tired of all the violence occurring in today’s fantasies, I wrote a cozy fantasy involving a protagonist who cannot use violence of any kind. Heavy responsibility falls on the shoulders of a young girl as she faces an invasion of a spider like people from another planet who don’t follow the rules. An invisible black…
The End of Time, by author Sharleen Nelson, completes the Time Tourists Trilogy, featuring The Time Tourists and The Yesterday Girl (GladEye Press), which follow the continuing adventures of time-traveling private investigator Imogen Oliver as she unlocks secrets from the past while navigating her own complicated life in the present. Author Sharleen Nelson (GladEye Press)…
Join us at the Corvallis Book Bin on Monday, Sept. 30th from 5-7 p.m. for this FREE EVENT, an in-depth conversation about the various paths to publication. Award-winning indie author Julie Mathison joins Liddy Detar of OSU’s College of Liberal Arts to explore the power structures that underlie traditional and indie publishing, and how these…
The Water Factor, a Rightfully Mine Novel, is a 2024 International Firebird Book Award winner for best dystopian novel and a Literary Titan Gold Medal recipient for best thriller. It is a confronting eco-thriller showing environmental devastation in an age of water scarcity. The book opens dramatically in 2039 with James Hokama Byrne, grandson of…
Travel through the depth of loneliness and the grace of caregiving. Coping is not a conventional “how-to” guide with medical insights; instead, it astonishes readers with the vivid portrayal of human kindness amidst tears, anger and unexpected laughter. Coping is a book of true stories about a diverse group of caregivers where caring and conflict…
The first in a new Pacific Northwest-set mystery series inspired by the real “”Halloweentown!”” Bailey Briggs adores her year-round Halloween-themed town of Elyan Hollow, Oregon. But when she takes over her grandfather’s beloved bookshop, Lazy Bones Books, she accidentally discovers the town’s secret dark side . . . Normally, spooky season is Bailey Briggs’ favorite…
Chanticleer Ashland Writers Retreat: Crafting Personal Essay for Publication “Join veteran workshop presenter Melissa Hart for an inspiring four-day retreat, Aug 29th through Sept1st. Learn to craft personal essays for publication in beautiful Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Through daily exercises and insightful craft talks, identify topics, craft essays for magazine and…
In this psychological thriller, a mysterious vigilante abducts powerful abusers and exposes them in a twisted “Show Game.” “Show Game is not only a high-octane thriller, it’s an urgent and timely reckoning for the sins of the past. A thriller crackling with heart and soul.” —Jahmal Mayfield, author of Smoke Kings You can find Show…
Louise Barden’s poetry chapbook “What Hummingbirds Do,” a semifinalist in the New Women’s Voices competition, is now on sale at Finishing Line Press). Calyx Senior Editor has said that with these poems “rich in the details of nature and memory, she will guide you gently back to awe, to wonder, to the small moments that…
Kay Jennings Releases Book 7 in Series Cold Rock Island, book 7 in Kay Jennings’ crime fiction series set on the Oregon coast, published on May 15. By noon on May 16, the new release had entered Amazon’s Top 100 New Releases in the Murder category, coming in at #33 (later rising to #25!) This…
