DEADLINE: Thursday, April 10, 12:00 a.m. EDT Writer’s Relief is currently accepting new clients! They’ll manage your submissions to literary magazines and/or literary agents with only the strongest applicants being offered a spot. They’re considering: Poetry Short stories and essays Books (memoirs and novels) Consideration is free, confidential, and incurs no obligations. If you know someone who would be interested, please tweet it.

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Creepsin Hardcover edition on October 22, 2013 and has 336 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Third and last in the Samuel Johnson vs. the Devil urban fantasy series for, technically, middle-grade readers, and based in Biddlecombe, England. My Take Oh, oh, oh, oh…I so loved this series. It was so incredibly funny with everything a middle-grade boy could adore with fart jokes, poo jokes, and squashy eyeball jokes interspersed with quite intelligent jokes poking fun at most of the social conventions. That Connolly cracks me up left, right, and center! Although, ahem, I think Connolly cheats. By making this a middle-grade novel, it doesn’t have to make any sort of sense in an adult world, and he definitely veers off, doing loop-the-loops as he soars through this silly and ridiculous world in which friendship and loyalty are so very important. Almost as important as taking the piss. Read everything. The chapter titles, the footnotes, and oh yeah, the words between the chapter titles. If you aren’t chuckling every few […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Here and Nowon April 8, 2014 and has 256 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo A romantic thriller for Young Adults revolving around time traveler Prenna James and an insightful Ethan Jarves just outside New York City, which I received as an ARC from the publisher. My Take A very good story, it all takes place at a mid-level depth; enough to pull you in and almost bring you to tears, but not deep enough to bring about nightmares. Well, unless you consider the environmental damage we keep inflicting. It’s part of the realism Brashares brings in, and it starts with Ethan’s trip to the creek, a place to which he’s always followed his dad. At first it irritated me. How could he not know how to get there? But then I thought of the number of times I’ve gotten lost going to a place I’ve been many times before, but had always followed someone or been driven. And this level of realism follows throughout with only the occasional blip. […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Infernalsin Hardcover edition on October 18, 2011 and has 309 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Second in the Samuel Johnson vs the Devil urban fantasy series for kids and revolving around Samuel and his dog, Bosworth, who aren’t in Biddlecombe anymore. Technically, I know The Infernals (first published in the U.K. as Hell’s Bells) is aimed at children, and adults should not allow this labeling to prevent their enjoying the Hell out of it! My Take This was great fun, although not as fabulously funny as the first one, The Gates. Still, it’s the book to read when you’re feeling low and need a good laugh as we go on our tour of Hell. Bits and bobs of lessons learned and friendships treasured emerge here and there amidst Connolly’s rolling snark. There is so much of life that Connolly pokes fun at that you’ll wish you knew other readers with whom you could share whole sections, LOL. Connolly still makes me ROFLMAO with his chapter titles; his footnote asides […]

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Dangerous Groundin Paperback edition on April 4, 2006 and has 464 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo First in the Jerry Mitchell thriller series revolving around Lieutenant jg Mitchell. My Take I barely got started, only up to page 37, and I can’t read anymore. It’s driving me bats with all the information dumps, all the telling, and worst of all, Bond is treating me like I’m six years old and need to be informed of every frigging little detail. Gawd. Spare me. Bond is writing up this latest mission as though it were some heavy-duty, top secret, way dangerous adventure that has to be on the hush-hush. Well parts of that are true…-ish. I assume that if I were to persevere and struggle further, I’d finally find a reason for the melodrama, but I don’t want to waste my time. The final straw was Mitchell’s heading down to meet up with Richards, and Bond is talking about how little space there is onboard. As if Mitchell is aboard a submarine […]