Interview with Booktrope Author A.J. Aalto

Interview with Booktrope Author A.J. Aalto

1. What inspired you to write your first book? I was all of thirteen, and had just finished reading David Eddings’ Belgariad series. I’d been up late every night for weeks putting myself into the story in my pre-sleep fantasies. I decided to write. I didn’t realize at...
No Shelter From Darkness by Mark D. Evans

No Shelter From Darkness by Mark D. Evans

Synopsis: “Her hands began to shake as she looked down wide-eyed at the blood-soaked cotton that covered her.” London emerges from the Blitz, and every corner of the city bears the scars. In the East End—a corner fairing worse than most—thirteen year-old Beth Wade...

No Shelter From Darkness

“Her hands began to shake as she looked down wide-eyed at the blood-soaked cotton that covered her.” London emerges from the Blitz, and every corner of the city bears the scars. In the East End—a corner fairing worse than most—thirteen year-old Beth Wade endures this...

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,...