Spotlight: Forecast by Elise Stephens

Spotlight: Forecast by Elise Stephens

Synopsis: Calvin isn’t a teenager, not really; instead, he’s spent his life trying to protect his mother and sister from his alcoholic father. Calvin keeps a knife close and sleeps with one eye open, even years after his father has left the family. A summer vacation...

Gale Martin Reviews Forecast by Elise Stephens

Calvin isn’t a teenager, not really; instead, he’s spent his life trying to protect his mother and sister from his alcoholic father. Calvin keeps a knife close and sleeps with one eye open, even years after his father has left the family. A summer vacation spent at...
Spotlight: Forecast by Elise Stephens

Tightrope by Elise Stephens

Synopsis: On his first summer home from college, Thomas’s quest for an interesting job leads him to the striped tents of a touring circus where he enters a chaotic world of stunning lights and magical performances that mask a terrifying darkness beneath. As he...
Spotlight: Forecast by Elise Stephens

Editor’s Pick: Moonlight & Oranges by Elise Stephens

Synopsis: A timeless tale of young romance. Lorona Connelly is ready for a change from her carefully planned, bookish life. When sparks fly at a costume party, she embraces a chance for romance with the handsome Kestrin Feather. However, she quickly realizes that even...

The Druid’s Doorway (The Reese Brother’s Series)

Jake Reese thinks he’s just a screwed-up high school kid living in a small town isolated in the Arizona desert. Traumatized at an early age by his mother’s sudden death—and believing he might have had something to do with it—he’s allowed his guilt and lack of...

Eileen Maksym on Tolkien

Over Christmas break, my husband and I took our two kids to see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.  Both my husband and I had a few issues with the movie: he’s a Tolkien purist, so his were mostly textual (in the books the Ringwraiths never had any tombs,...
Interview with Booktrope author Eileen Maksym

Interview with Booktrope author Eileen Maksym

1. What inspired you to write your first book?  NaNoWriMo!  The National Novel Writing Month is a yearly challenge for people to write an entire 50,00 word novel in the month of November.  Anybody can sign up on their webpage and connect with an incredible community...
Spotlight: Haunted by Eileen Maksym

Spotlight: Haunted by Eileen Maksym

Synopsis: Tara Martin – exceptionally accomplished neurobiology major with a troubled past. Steven Trent – confident political science major with an irresistible attraction to Tara. Paul Stratton – history major who is able to hear spirits. Together, they make up the...

Haunted by Eileen Maksym

Tara Martin – exceptionally accomplished neurobiology major with a troubled past. Steven Trent – confident political science major with an irresistible attraction to Tara. Paul Stratton – history major who is able to hear spirits. Together, they make up the Society...
Interview with Booktrope Author Greg Michaels

Interview with Booktrope Author Greg Michaels

1.  What inspired you to write your first book? Well, not to get too personal about a whole generation of folks, but for those of us who lived through the wild and crazy ‘70’s and 80’s—basically—well—I’ll talk about just me: it was apparent I wanted a bit of...