Becca 
Status: QueryingWord Count: 119,000~Genres: Dark Fantasy / HorrorComps: Sorcery of Thorns, A Marvelleous Light, Venom, In the Ravenous Dark Pitch: A historian of magic, a wayward heir to a magician dynasty, and a spiteful demon are forced to work together to stop a diabolical cult.
Status: QueryingWord Count: 112,000~Genres: Science Fiction / Super HeroComps: We Could Be Heroes, Hench, Arcane, Orphan Black, Firestarter Pitch: A young man flees a failed superhero project after his super-family literally explodes. One sister seeks revenge, the other absolution. A tired government agent and his partner dodge fate. A young woman picks up a mask.
Status: QueryingWord Count: 80,000~Genres: Fantasy, Post-ApocalypticTarget: AdultComps: The Road, Cloud Atlas, American Gods Summary: An angry girl breaks god, heaven, and then the world. Centuries later, a little boy grows up in broken world full of monsters. Their meeting spills into an interwoven narrative of myth, the past, and maybe a way to fix a Read more
This book was a meditation on grief, unfairness, and how absolutely stupid it all is. I laughed at the initial chapters (“Richard” especially), but the moment I reached the final sentence of page 197, I stopped and cried and couldn’t pick it up again until the next day. I have never been able to explain Read more
What. A. Ride. I was recommended this book by one of my favorite authors on Twitter, so I went in expecting it to be a dark narrative, with plenty of fantastical elements, and I wasn’t disappointed. In fact, I found myself going, “Wow. WOW.” as I read, particularly as the unfolding plot grew larger and Read more
I’m not a science fiction reader. Yes, an odd statement to make when I’m writing sci-fi regularly as well as watching it. Truthfully, I find it hard to connect to a lot of the classic sci-fi heroes and the often convoluted styles of the original sci-fi masters. They’re amazing stories, don’t get me wrong, but Read more
Typically I’m not a horror genre reader (despite being a horror movie fanatic), but I know a good ghost story when I read one. After working with Mr. Johnson in publishing classes in 2018, I knew he had an eye for the macabre, in the best of ways. Shy Grove: A Ghost Story has an insidious Read more
There is a lot happening within the pages of this novel and many of them very thought-provoking. We embark with characters in the midst of what seems like a simple mission for a highly advanced society–colonize untouched parts of the galaxy–but the plot quickly escalates when sabotage and murder lead to the upheaval of plans Read more
In a world where governments continue to grow in both power and size, the body of a citizen of a state is subject to the powers that maintain their society. In societies where governments lead to the creation of a need-based relation with its constituents’ bodies, this is a crucial element to the success of their society’s security and stability. However, in the course of this goal of maintaining order, individuals become fodder, and this can be seen with great clarity in the works of fiction…