Toxic Soup by RR Rowley is a new environmental thriller set in the Columbia River Gorge. Toxic waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been poisoning for more than six decades. When her brother dies working at Hanford, Casey swears revenge. But, how can she take on the fortress of a facility? After confiding in…
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Essay Publication — The Letter
New Release — Reaping the Whirlwind
Robert E. Boertien has signed a contract with Two Gun Publishing to produce five western novels. The first novel, Reaping the Whirlwind, set in Oregon, is available in either paperback or ebook format. Gold coins minted to commemorate the Lewis and Clark Exposition have been stolen, and it is left to Special Deputy Jennie Palmer…
New Website — Joe C Smolen
New Release — The Yesterday Girl
GladEye Press is excited to announce its latest title, The Yesterday Girl by Eugene, Oregon author Sharleen Nelson, available March 21, 2022. A stand-alone sequel to The Time Tourists, The Yesterday Girl features the continuing adventures of time-travelling investigator Imogen Oliver. Nelson weaves a nuanced exploration of fatherhood within a well-paced adventure packed with fascinating…
New Release — Greater Vegas Bleeds into The Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber
Kenneth M Cale’s third chapbook, Greater Vegas Bleeds into The Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber, was published through Steel Incisors on March 5th 2022. Building on the style and approach of Cale’s two previous chapbooks, Midnight Double Feature and elsewhen, Greater Vegas… is a full-color mix of collage and poetry, and is described by Zak…
New Release — The Third Man
Two families whose lives intersect, two refugees who travel far-flung paths: from Vienna in the 1930s to England in the 1940s—and back—The Third Man is a novel about dispossession, refuge, and the morally complex search for justice and humanity. Randolph Splitter’s novel The Third Man will be published in early March by Golden Antelope Press.…
Essay Published — Hanna’s Heart
Writing Retreat — Writer Craft
The Writer Craft Writer’s Retreat may very well be the world’s first and only socially-distanced, in-person, ALL-INCLUSIVE writing retreat and workshop, with COVID precautions in place. Registration closes April 2, 2022. Tipi Village Retreat Center is a unique resort with meadow, forest, and river areas. It’s very special to me because I was married here,…
Magazine Publication — Becoming Art Deco
Newly published in Occult Detective Magazine Issue #8, “Becoming Art Deco” by Cristina L. White is a story of transformation. Occult Detective Magazine describes itself as “…the home of determined meddlers.” Solas Bierman, a registered psychic investigator with the Leon Institute of Psychic Phenomena, is one of those determined meddlers. He is called in to…