Hooked: A True Faerie Tale Michaelbrent Collings CreateSpace Paperback $12.79, eBook $4.99 302pp. 2012 Review by Andrew Byers I wasn’t sure I was the right target audience for Hooked when I first received my copy. After all, Hooked bills itself as young adult...
Milton’s Children Jason V. Brock Bad Moon Books, 2012 Review by Michael R. Collings I don’t know whether Jason Brock wears a hat or not. But if he does, he must have been kept busy tipping it while writing his singularly effective novella, Milton’s Children. The story...
The Collector Book One: Mana Leak Daniel I. Russell Dark Continents, 2012. 344 Pages Review by Matthew Tait In the craft of writing, there are many things to love. One of them is that no matter when a story is composed during a writer’s career, it can always be taken...
The Wildman Rick Hautala 2008, Los Angeles: Omnium Gatherum, 2012 Reviewed by Michael R. Collings It all begins with the death of a twelve-year-old boy at a summer camp. Or perhaps not. The Wildman opens with a warning against facile preconceptions about beginnings...
Ink Damien Walters Grintalis Samhain Publishers 2012, Trade Paperback, $16.00, 297pp Review by Wayne C. Rogers Ink is Damien Walters Grintalis’ first novel, and it’s an excellent horror story with precision writing, a different kind of concept from vampires and...
Into The Woods: Tales from the Hallows and Beyond Kim Harrison Harper Voyager, 2012 Review by Michael R. Collings I requested the opportunity to review New York Times Bestseller Kim Harrison’s recent collection of short stories and novellas. The advance information I...