J.M. Hofer delivers another epic tale accented with the flavor of Welsh legend, in her follow up to Islands in the Mist. Following the wake of The Battle of the Crossroads, Bran has become king of the warrior clans and united them under the [...]
At one point in Deadlands: Ghostwalkers, main character Grey Torrance proclaims, “Demons now? We have the walking dead and screaming storms, and now you want to add demons to this stew?” This is one of many self-aware comments the characters in [...]
A bare-chested man stands silhouetted in the light of a setting sun. His face is downcast and in shadow, but his muscles are visible even in the weak light, as is the grim splash of blood across his chest. Is the blood his? No wounds are [...]
A man who has everything, except the ability to bring his child back to life. A teenager who will do anything to get his female classmate to notice him. A family trying to share a concert with their dementia-afflicted mother. A lawyer fearing he [...]
In 2007, an acclaimed investigative reporter for the BBC became an internet phenomenon in the worst way possible. No press is bad press, the saying goes, but its hard to imagine the YouTube video of reporter John Sweeney (screaming in a rage so [...]
From the moment you read its title, Moriarty makes a lot of promises that are hard to live up to. First, it promises to be a story set in the world of Sherlock Holmes, a world of both literary acclaim and historical acclaim (as a glimpse into [...]
Clean out your attic once in a while, you never know what you will find. Walter Elliot, a Scottish historian, found a previously unpublished Sherlock Holmes story, over one hundred years old. It has now been made available for free online, both [...]
Welsh fantasy meets gritty realism in J.M. Hofer’s Islands in the Mist, the first in a planned trilogy of novels. The first book focuses on the plight of four powerful tribes being targeted by the sorceress Cerridwen, who has created an army of [...]
By 2010, they had started to be noticed. By 2015, America had a name for them. The next step was deciding what to do with them. This issue of labeling and determining fate makes up the central dilemma of The Silent History, a historical fiction [...]
Crow grabs a piece of bread for his dinner. But Fox is hungry, too, and has a plan to get the meal for herself! The Fox and the Crow is a adaptation of Aesop’s fable. The message of the original fable was “don’t trust flatterers.” This [...]
The Opal Crown is the second in a duology which began with the Princess in the Opal Mask. It is the better-told tale of the two, solving the problems of the original while building satisfactorily on its plot lines. The story opens with Elara and [...]
Elara and Wilha have a secret even they don’t know about. They are twins, separated at birth and sent into wildly differing lives. Wilhamina is ushered into the strict world of nobility as the Masked Princess, her face hidden behind a mask so [...]
The Kingdom of Jerusa is in disarray. The king continues to raise taxes for a war no one remembers starting. Mothers starve in the streets, leaving their children to die scared and alone or to be dragged off to be sold into slavery. The Saints [...]
