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Gripping Finale Seething Storm Concludes The Patrons of Earth Trilogy By A. N. Jones

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

A. N. Jones spent a decade writing her way back to the trilogy she started with her late mother. Seething Storm, the final book in The Patrons of Earth series, is words woven with love, grief and strength."

Gabrielle Pelayo, author of Fractured, Never Shattered

A Debut Novelist Writes a Man's Trauma to Say What Men Rarely Get to

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Gabrielle Pelayo's debut psychological fiction, Fractured, Never Shattered, follows a composed man whose memories stop staying buried, built from real conversations about what men do not say out loud.

Urban noir street at golden dusk, cinematic illustration for Citiscape novel feature by Beverly Schloendorf

Citiscape: The Magical Realism Novel Asking Readers to See the People Cities Forget

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Beverly Schloendorf's debut weaves Death, a ghost-turned-guardian and a homeless girl into eighteen interconnected tales about urban invisibility.

Ancient hominin skull on a laboratory table, illustrating the fossil at the center of Genes of the Past

A Biochemist's Novel Imagines the Sense Humans Lost When Speech Began

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Biochemist Christer Jansson's Genes of the Past uses a fictional 550,000-year-old Moroccan fossil to propose a sense ancient hominins lost when spoken words began replacing mental images.

Katrina Bills, author of Prayed Up

Katrina Bills Wrote an Award-Winning Daily Prayer Devotional That Doubles as a Spiritual Growth Manual

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The Chicago-born author and publisher built Prayed Up around real seasons of loss, love, and faith, then watched it win a NYC Big Book Award.

Cindy Divine by Shafter Bailey book cover

Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics

Darie Nani··1 min read

Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.

John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Hollywood, Ending. Photo: johngreenbooks.com

John Green's New Book Ends a Nine-Year Silence

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Fault in Our Stars author announces Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and his first work of adult fiction.

James C. Clemens Jr, author of Echoes of Strength

Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God

Darie Nani··1 min read

In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.

Glen Alex, licensed clinical social worker and author of Living Boundaries

Therapist Glen Alex Says the Entire Boundary Conversation Is Wrong

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Licensed clinical social worker Glen Alex spent 25 years watching clients fall short of healthy boundaries, not because they lacked willpower, but because the advice was wrong. Her new book Living Boundaries makes the case against "just say no."

Emma Hartwell, author of the Pixie Littlefield series

Emma Hartwell Wrote Pixie Littlefield for Children. The Mothers Who Read It Had Other Ideas

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Author Emma Hartwell's neurodivergent heroine Pixie Littlefield has sparked an unexpected wave of adult readers, women who recognise their own undiagnosed neurodivergence in a children's picture book.

Karen Lawrence, author of The Last Midwife

Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.

Jane Dugan, visual artist and co-author of Hope For The Future

How a Dream About a Polar Bear Became a Children's Book on Climate and the Food Chain

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Artist Jane Dugan and author Esther Meerschaut created Hope For The Future after a vivid dream led Dugan to First Nations polar bear legends — and a mission to teach young readers about ecological responsibility.